The advertising income of Russian television channels in the first quarter of 2015 decreased by 22%a year earlier. About this, as the newspaper Vedomosti writes, said Sergey Vasiliev at a meeting with advertising agents, the head of the VI, one of the largest television and television sellers in Russia. According to Vasiliev, the market stabilized, and in the second quarter the decrease will be exactly the same.

In Simferopol, two minor students of the Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University (Kipu) were fined for trying to shoot a video in support of the Crimean Tatar television channel of ATR, the New Gazeta reports with reference to the initiator of the action by Alexei Efremov. According to him, both students were a fine of 10 thousand rubles. Efremov published a resolution on one of the affairs on his VKontakte page.

The ruble is strengthened against the background of the continuing fifth bidding in a row for increasing world oil prices, and the US dollar and the euro have significantly decreased on the Moscow Exchange. The US dollar fell below 50 rubles for the first time since the end of November and amounted to 49.931 rubles at 19:37 Moscow time, having lost 96.6 kopecks to the previous closure, Interfax points out. The euro at that moment amounted to 52.996 rubles, retreating 1.17 rubles.

The South Korean company Samsung does not exclude the reduction in the price of the new flagship of the Galaxy S6 by the time of its start of sales in Russia, scheduled for Thursday, CNews reports citing a company representative. "Samsung monitors the dollar and suggests by the time of start of sales, which will take place on April 16, 2015, a review of prices for the new flagship of Samsung Galaxy S6," the company noted.

UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon on Tuesday at the UN headquarters in New York officially announced the appointment of British actor Daniel Craig, known as "Agent 007" in films about James Bond, a global fighter for the elimination of mines and explosive ammunition. He will engage in the assigned case in the next three years, according to the organization’s website .

“They called from Slon with an unexpected question, what I would like to ask Putin. I replied that in recent months he had already answered more questions than I ever had for him. It’s scary to even think that he still has some sparkling answers to unasked questions in stock... But, in fact, I have a question for him. One, but very important. Why were you banned from Google and Wikipedia, Vladimir Vladimirovich?!"

Iran will receive Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems already in 2015, the country's defense minister Hossein Dekhkan said on Wednesday. He made an appropriate statement before departure to Moscow, reports with reference to the Minister Iranian agency IRNA . According to him, the corresponding contract for the supply of weapons from the Russian Federation to Iran will be signed by the Dehkan during a visit to the Russian capital. It will be held from April 15 to 17.

Israeli President Reuven Ravlin visited the Jerusalem Orthodox Patriarchate on April 14, where he met with the heads of Christian churches who came to congratulate Patriarch Feofil III on Easter Primate of the Jerusalem Church. The head of state, Israel was warmly welcomed by the Orthodox Patriarch Theophilus III, who introduced the Rivlin to other Christian leaders.

On April 16, a ceremony dedicated to the memory of Jews - heroes of resistance who died in the fight against Nazism will host the memorial synagogue on Poklonnaya Gora. The action is dedicated to the day of memory of the catastrophe and heroism, annually celebrated in Israel on the anniversary of the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto in April 1943.

The Bank of Russia forbade the Bank "Svyaznoy" reception of deposits. The Central Bank introduced from April 16 in a "Slosing" restriction of a period of six months for reception and replenishment of deposits from individuals, as well as to open new accounts, according to a message posted on the bank's website .

Hackers can attack modern passenger aircraft right in the air, warned the American Government Agency, examining the electronics of Boeing and Airbus airliners. The report is published on the US Accounts Chamber (Government Accountability Office, GAO). Experts indicated that the latest liners - the American Boeing 787 Dreamliner and European Airbus A350 and A380, could be most dangerous, CNN reports.

Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseev joined the interdepartmental discussion about raising the retirement age, TASS reports. The official linked this issue with the problem of import substitution.

Employees of the General Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, after five days of the search, found missing materials on a number of criminal cases against the former prime minister of the country Yulia Tymoshenko. This was announced on his page on Facebook by People's Deputy of Ukraine Mustafa Nayy.

The investigation, according to the press, managed to find out the circumstances of the disappearance of the documentary director Tamara Yakzhina. Journalists indicate that one of the suspects admitted to her murder and indicated where the body was buried. The corpse of an elderly woman has already found. The news of the detection of the body of the Yakzhina appeared on the website of the little -known Siberian Catholic newspaper.

Residents of the village of Raping in the Donbass presented the city of Yeuska of the Krasnodar Territory with a fragment of the Malaysian liner , presumably shot down in July 2014 in the sky above the Donetsk region, in gratitude for the delivered humanitarian aid.