The Cypriot authorities will announce a new economic rescue plan. The government of the republic has prepared another scheme for bringing the banking system out of the crisis. President of the Russian Financial Corporation bank Andrei Nechaev discussed the situation with presenter Oksana Barykina. Photo: Yorgos Karahalis, Reuters According to some reports, “Plan B” involves the creation of an investment fund in order to raise a sufficient amount required by international creditors.

South Korean authorities said on Thursday that the hacker attack that disabled the internal computer networks of leading South Korean TV channels and banks was carried out from China, Reuters reported, citing the country's regulatory authorities. “We were able to identify a Chinese IP address associated with the affected organizations,” said a representative of the South Korean Communications Commission.

A substation caught fire in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk. Due to the emergency, several residential buildings and one socially significant facility were left without power, RIA Novosti reports . According to some reports, the substation is maintained by the regional energy company. “At 17.24 Moscow time, information was received about a fire at a substation in the city of Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. According to preliminary data, there are no casualties or injuries,” the statement says.

The North Korean armed forces, presumably as part of a training exercise, announced an air raid alert on March 21, Yonhap news agency reported. According to Reuters , the alarm signal was transmitted at 04.32 Moscow time on North Korean radio, and military units were ordered to be on alert. South Korean authorities assume that the signal was given as part of North Korean exercises, but North Korean authorities have not yet confirmed this.

The leader of the Kurdish separatists, Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence in Turkey, called on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) led by him to stop confronting the Turkish authorities, withdraw combat troops from the country and begin peace negotiations to resolve the long-term conflict, RIA Novosti reports.

Samara region will cooperate with ASI The government of the Samara region and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives signed a cooperation agreement aimed at improving the investment climate in the region and supporting small businesses. The agreement was signed by the Governor of the Samara Region, Nikolai Merkushkin, and the General Director of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, Andrei Nikitin.

Minister of Finance of the Territory Olga Antipina today presented information on budget execution for January-February 2013 to deputies of the Legislative Assembly. As of March 1, the regional budget received 10.1 billion rubles in revenue, expenses amounted to 12.3 billion rubles. Thus, the deficit amounted to 2.2 billion rubles, which was covered from the balances of last year’s funds.

In 2012, the number of protests reached its peak The Society Research Center presented the results of monitoring protest and repressive activity in Ukraine in 2012 and early 2013. Last year, a record number of protests was recorded - 3,636. The largest number of protests took place in July and October, which is associated with the adoption of the language law and the holding of elections.

Ukraine has introduced a temporary ban on the import of pork from Brazil since March 20 due to its inadequate quality, the press service of the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service reported.

The shopping center will be commissioned in two stages Rosevrodevelopment LLC, which is building the Planeta shopping and entertainment center in Ufa, the largest in the city, has decided on the stages of commissioning the facility. In August, the developer plans to commission a shopping gallery and a water park, and six months later to commission the second Leroy Merlin hypermarket. Total investments in the complex are estimated at 7 billion rubles.

The Committee of Civil Initiatives of former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin proposes to introduce a fundamentally new system for Russia for the formation of regional executive power.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted a search at the office of the Internet provider One of the largest Internet providers in the capital, Freenet, is accused of violating the copyright of the Media Group Ukraine company. A criminal case was opened into this fact, during which on Tuesday evening the police conducted a search and seized one of the servers. It will not be easy to prove the involvement of the company's management in violations, experts say.

The Party of Regions blocked the work of the committee until it received the post of its head Today, the European Parliament officially notified the Ukrainian side of the cancellation of the meeting of the Ukraine-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (CPC), which was planned to be held on April 3-5. The culprit for the cancellation was the Ukrainian side - the Verkhovna Rada did not form its half of the KPS personnel.

Ukraine's gross external debt at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012 amounted to $135.049 billion, according to the report of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). Thus, external debt increased by 2% compared to $132.446 billion at the end of the third quarter. The debt of the public administration sector increased by 2%, to $27.333 billion, and that of banks decreased by 4.6%, to $21.553 billion. Based on materials from RBC-Ukraine

As Konstantin Domnin, chief engineer of the Vodokanal municipal unitary enterprise, told yesterday at the board of the mayor of Khabarovsk, the construction of the second launch complex of water treatment facilities continues in the city. Currently, builders have begun dismantling the outdated equipment of the water ammoniation workshop. Work on this project started in August 2012. It was considered inappropriate to modernize the old equipment, since it had completely exhausted its service life.