Fires in Chile, terrorist attack in Nigeria, MTV Movie Awards. The brightest photographs of the passing day are in the Kommersant photo gallery.

The Crimean leadership decided to shorten the period of simultaneous use of the Ukrainian hryvnia and the Russian ruble in the region due to the depreciation of the hryvnia. “This decision has been made. We will make efforts to reduce as much as possible the period of circulation of the hryvnia on the peninsula and completely replace the hryvnia with the ruble,” Interfax quotes First Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Rustam Temirgaliev as saying.

The prosecutor's office linked the shooting of the founder of the Party to fraudsters As Kommersant learned, the first deputy prosecutor of Moscow, Alexander Kozlov, decided to combine two high-profile criminal cases - the murder of the founder of the Party and Domino retail chains, Alexander Mineev, who was shot with a machine gun in January of this year in Korolev, near Moscow, and the largest in the history of the capital's law enforcement agencies, a scam - a raider takeover of two dozen

The Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Armed Forces, Corps General Andre Blattmann recommended that citizens of the traditionally neutral country have a supply of drinking water, firewood and food at home. “For two or three years now I have been particularly attentive to new threats. Our society has become very vulnerable and is not prepared for new risks,” Mr. Blattmann emphasized, citing cyber attacks and mass power outages among such threats.

Homeowners in new buildings are often forced to spend substantial sums on repairs. According to analysts' calculations, the price of preparing an apartment for occupancy is about 22 thousand rubles. per sq. m. Andrey Voskresensky talks about which houses will have the most economical renovations.

Loans and deposits become more expensive without external assistance Following several large private banks, Sberbank is transparently hinting at an imminent increase in interest rates on loans and deposits. If this happens, the rise in prices for loans and deposits will become massive, bankers point out.

The world began to spend less on weapons: countries' spending in this area decreased by 2% in 2013. Meanwhile, Russia increased spending on defense by 5%. However, the authorities will be forced to cut funding for the country's rearmament due to the events in Ukraine and the economic depression, experts say. Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov, Kommersant / buy photo Global military spending fell by almost 2% last year.

The regional Ministry of Health abandoned plans to merge the Heart Institute and the Regional Clinical Hospital. The head of the regional Ministry of Health, Anastasia Kruten, told reporters about this today. “It would be better for the cause to unite, and everyone understands this. The Heart Institute is located in one of the hospital buildings; they have an angiograph, which was purchased with regional money.

Correspondent of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” Vsevolod Boyko entered the territory of Ukraine, the radio station’s editor-in-chief Alexey Venediktov said on his Twitter . “Echo of Moscow correspondent Vsevolod Boyko entered the territory of Ukraine on his second attempt. Now he will get to Donetsk,” he wrote on his microblog. It was previously reported that Mr. Boyko was denied entry due to lack of funds.

In the province of Guizhou in southwest China, the country's law enforcement agencies conducted an operation during which they seized 15 thousand firearms, as well as 120 thousand bladed weapons. “As a result of the operation, the activities of a criminal group engaged in the production and sale of weapons were suppressed.

In the Far East, 87 forest fires were registered per day, 51 of them were extinguished, the forestry department for the Far Eastern Federal District reported on April 14. “More than 36 forest fires remain active, 18 of which are in the Primorsky Territory, seven each in the Amur Region and the Jewish Autonomous Region (JAO), four in the Khabarovsk Territory,” the report says. It is specified that 20 of the active outbreaks have been localized.

"Interros" left the capital of Rosbank by selling a 7% stake in the French Societe General. The latter consolidated 99.4% of the shares. According to Kommersant, Vladimir Potanin’s share in Rosbank was pledged to SG via repo. Interros and SG do not comment on this. According to a representative of Interros, the transaction for the sale of the stake was completed on market conditions, the price was not disclosed, and “partnership relations” with Rosbank are maintained.

The Saratov administration reminds that from tomorrow traffic on the Saratov-Engels bridge will be closed for personal transport. From April 15, 2014, the old bridge across the Volga will be inaccessible to all types of transport, except for public transport and special service vehicles. During the period of repairs on the Saratov-Engels bridge, transport communication between the cities will be carried out along the bridge over the Volga River in the area of ​​​​the village of Pristannoye.

The police are looking for a 14-year-old girl who went missing in Tolyatti, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Samara Region reported on Monday. “On April 12 at 20:20, the duty station of the OP No. 21 of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Tolyatti received a message from a local resident who said that his minor daughter had disappeared,” the message says. On April 12, at about 16:00 Moscow time, the girl went to see her friend.

For the first time since 2012, Vladimir Putin increased the salaries of himself and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Salaries of top officials increased 2.5 times. However, experts believe that even after the increase, the president and prime minister receive too little. Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin, Kommersant / buy photo Vladimir Putin raised his salary. According to his decree, the salaries of the president and prime minister increased two and a half times.