The mayor of the Somali capital Mogadishu has offered a $500 reward for each killed militant from the extremist movement Al-Shabab, the local affiliate of Al-Qaeda. “From now on, consider that every Al-Shabab militant is a “commodity” from which you can make money,” the media quotes today the statement of the head of the Mogadishu administration, Mohamud Ahmed Noor. The government is ready to pay $500 to everyone who “captures or kills a terrorist,” the mayor emphasized.

The trial of the second case of former head of the government of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has begun in Kharkov. She is accused of abuse of power and financial crimes in the 90s. Then she headed the Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine corporation. Correspondent of the Kommersant Ukraine newspaper Sergei Sidorenko told the details to presenter Alexey Korneev.

Teodor Currentzis and Mahler's Second Symphony in Perm Classic concert The concert season is just approaching its zenith, but one of its key events has already happened: under the direction of Teodor Currentzis and with the participation of soloists Anna Nechaeva and Maria Forsström, the MusicAeterna orchestra and choir performed Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony “Resurrection” on the stage of the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. With details from Perm - DMITRY RENANSKY.

Ildar Khalikov will again head the board of directors of Tatspirtprom The government of Tatarstan is once again taking charge of Tatspirtprom. After a one-year break, the Board of Directors of the OJSC will be headed by Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov. The company reduced its net profit by almost three times last year.

Christian Latman, Jaquet Droz Vice President of Jaquet Droz Christian Latman began his watch career in 1989 with the Longines brand, then worked for seven years at Omega before ending up at the thoroughbred house of Breguet in 2006. Today, Mr. Latman is the vice president of two high brands of the Swatch Group - Breguet and Jaquet Droz. — A classic question: how do you combine work in two brands? I'm not talking about whether you have enough time. The brands themselves are just very different.

Gazprom Neft is seeking FAS consent to the completed purchase of a local network of gas stations The Nizhny Novgorod subsidiary of Gazprom Neft had to go through the courts to seek the consent of the Federal Antimonopoly Service to purchase the local network of gas stations Oil-Optima 7.

The governor of the Smolensk region, Sergei Antufiev, submitted his resignation, a source in the Smolensk administration told RIA Novosti on April 19. “He wrote a letter of resignation, but it has not yet been satisfied,” the agency’s interlocutor said, without specifying the date of writing the letter.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered an internal audit of the investigator for particularly important cases of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Volga Federal District, Aslyam Khalikov, said the official representative of the department, Vladimir Markin.

Auto industry As part of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in June, city authorities will sign a memorandum with Fiat on the construction of the plant, Chairman of the Smolny Investment Committee Alexey Chichkanov told Interfax. The Italian manufacturer, which also owns a controlling stake in Chrysler, plans to build a plant in the south of St. Petersburg for assembling Jeep cars, with a capacity of 120 thousand cars per year. Investments will amount to about 40 billion rubles.

The bank invests $50 million in the Elbrus Capital fund The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) may invest up to $50 million in a new fund of Elbrus Capital, which previously invested in Mail.ru Group. By the summer of this year, the volume of the fund should reach $200 million; it is planned to use its funds to finance projects, in particular, in the consumer sector and infrastructure companies.

Nizhny Novgorod International Airport served 117.28 thousand passengers in the first three months of 2012, which is 2.2 times more than in the same period last year. This is stated in the official statement of the airport. From January to March, 77.55 thousand passengers on domestic Russian routes (an increase of 2.6 times) and 39.73 thousand passengers on international routes (an increase of 1.8 times) used the airport’s services.

Stanislas De Quersis, head of Van Cleef & Arpels Stanislas de Quersis has headed the Parisian jewelry house Van Cleef & Arpels since 2005. During his twelve years with the Richemont Group, he worked for Alfred Dunhill, Montblanc and Cartier. Under Stanislas de Quersis, the concept of “poetic complications” was created (and patented) - complex watches with unusual mechanisms, designed not so much to tell the time as to tell stories.

In Sweden, there is debate about the appropriateness of the performance "Torment Cake" In Sweden, a scandal is erupting around the work of the Afro-Swedish artist Makode Linde “Painful cake”, shown last Sunday at the opening of the World Art Day exhibition at the Stockholm Museum of Contemporary Art. Makode Linde staged a performance whose purpose was to draw attention to the problem of female circumcision, which is still practiced in many countries in Africa and the Middle East.

On April 19, the Tagansky Court of Moscow extended the detention of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the alleged members of the punk group Pussy Riot, accused of hooliganism in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Thus, Judge Elena Ivanova granted the investigation’s request, leaving the girl under arrest until June 24. In her decision, the judge noted that only on March 4, solely thanks to investigative actions, Ms. Tolokonnikova was detained, RIA Novosti reports.

Australian dollar 30.6217 English pound 46.9074 Belarusian ruble** 36.8262 Danish krone* 51.9309 U.S. dollar 29.4978 Euro 38.6716 Indian Rupee*** 57.1718 Kazakh tenge*** 19.9694 Canadian dollar 29.8108 CNY* 46.7915 Norwegian krone* 51.2827 HAPPY BIRTHDAY 47.1488 Singapore dollar 23.5869 New Turkish lira 16.4562 Ukrainian hryvnia* 36.7688 Swedish krona* 43.4648 Swiss frank 32.1397 Japanese yen*** 36.2938 *For 10. **For 1000. ***For 100. According to Reuters.