An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 occurred in Abkhazia on the night of April 12. The tremors were recorded around 02:31 Moscow time, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Krasnodar Territory told RBC. Photo: Global Look Press The epicenter of the earthquake was located southeast of Sochi, between Sukhum and Sochi, 45 km north of the capital of Abkhazia. There were no reports of casualties. The earthquake did not cause major damage in the area.

Photo: RBC As RBC daily has learned, the White House will soon be able to offer the head of state several solutions on insurance premiums for individual entrepreneurs (IP). Based on the results of a closed government meeting with representatives of the business community and relevant departments, at least two solutions were found. According to a government source, we are talking about possible partial subsidies and the so-called categorization of individual entrepreneurs.

Photo: doroga.mos.ru In March, the number of requests received from residents of the capital to the mayor’s office electronically exceeded “offline” complaints, said Natalya Kataeva, deputy chief of staff of the mayor and government of Moscow. Experts independent from Tverskaya, 13 admit that the city authorities managed to create an effective system of portals for citizens. Natalya Kataeva told reporters about the work of gorod.mos.ru, dom.mos.ru and doroga.mos.ru.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin proposed maintaining Roscosmos as part of the reorganization of the rocket and space industry. He stated this today during a meeting in Blagoveshchensk. A special interdepartmental group decided to abandon the idea of ​​​​creating a state corporation in this area. Photo: ITAR-TASS “The first option involved the creation of independent holdings in the form of a joint-stock company and the preservation of the Federal Space Agency.

Financial mechanisms for determining the size of pensions should be clear to people, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting of the extended board of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection. “We need financial mechanisms that are understandable and accessible to people. That is why a new pension formula is being discussed,” he said.

The American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Company plans to cut about 30% of the company's workforce in the United States. We are talking about both employees working on a permanent basis and those who work with Eli Lilly on the basis of a contract, Reuters reports. Photo: RBC About 1 thousand sales representatives may be fired, which will allow the company to reduce costs and gain additional resources in competition with generic drug manufacturers, the American press reports.

A strong solar flare, which was recorded on Thursday, April 11, will lead to a powerful magnetic storm over the weekend. This was reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda with reference to the Space Weather Forecast Center of the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism (IZMIRAN). Photo: Global Look Press An M6.5 class flare was detected in the center of the solar disk. Scientists have not observed such large-scale emissions of solar energy since November last year.

"A Just Russia" proposes to make Cosmonautics Day, April 12, an official public holiday and a non-working day. The corresponding bill has already been submitted to the State Duma, the party’s press service reports.

The US authorities will publish the “Magnitsky list” on the evening of April 12. The Associated Press reports this, citing its anonymous sources. According to the agency, the document will be published around 14:00 US East Coast time or around 22:00 Moscow time. Previously, President Barack Obama transferred the authority to formulate the “Magnitsky list” and the adoption of sanctions against its defendants to the US Treasury and State Department.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has ordered modernization kits for the T-72 and T-90 “field” tanks, which should protect combat vehicles from shelling on city streets, allowing them to overcome rubble and barricades. A representative of the military department told the Izvestia newspaper about this. Photo: ITAR-TASS The publication's interlocutor noted that to overcome the rubble, the city tank will be equipped with a bulldozer bucket-blade.

The number of workers at the construction site of the Zenit Arena stadium is being doubled. According to the press service of the general construction contractor, 1,200 people are currently employed at the site. In May, this number will increase to 1,500 people, and in July-August it will double to 2,500.

The Pentagon and the South Korean Ministry of Defense have cast doubt on claims that the DPRK has nuclear weapons that can be delivered to a target by a ballistic missile.

The famous non-state clownery theater "Litsedei", based in St. Petersburg, may lose its stage area on the Petrograd side. The artistic director and director of the theater, Viktor Solovyov, appealed to the authorities with a request to sort out the situation. Photo: RBC According to the press service of the St. Petersburg administration, in 2002.

Consolidated net retail revenue of X5 Retail Group NV for the first quarter of 2013. compared to the same period in 2012 increased by 8.1% and amounted to 126 billion 296.2 million rubles. This was said in a statement. “In general, the growth in net retail revenue was due to the increase in retail space, inflation, positive results from stores opened over the past two years, as well as constant promotional campaigns,” noted X5 Retail Group.

Hugo Chavez's successor, acting President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, announced the arrest of Colombian militants who intended to destabilize the situation in the republic on the eve of the vote, the BBC reports. Photo: Global Look Press Weapons and explosives were confiscated from the attackers, dressed in Venezuelan military uniforms.