Billionaire George Soros said that he has specific investment ideas regarding Ukraine and could invest $1 billion in the economy of this country.

The personal data of a number of G20 leaders, which were leaked due to an error by the Australian authorities, have not been published. This was announced by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. “I know that these data were not published, so, probably, the fact that they [the Australian side] declassified them is probably a very loud statement. Because in the end they did not become available to the general public,” Interfax quotes Peskov.

Journalist Elena Tregubova testified in the case of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Tregubova’s testimony was read out in court, but Tregubova did not appear at the hearing, RIA Novosti reports. Tregubova said that she saw Litvinenko once in her life - at Boris Berezovsky’s birthday party. The testimony concerned her acquaintance with Andrei Lugovoi.

Based on AvtoVAZ's forecast, in 2020 the total volume of car sales in Russia may be less than 2.3 million units. This is less than last year’s result and 20–30% lower than current analyst forecasts Concept car company AvtoVAZ (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev/RBK) AvtoVAZ published its IFRS financial statements for 2014, in which it updated its forecast for its own share in the Russian market.

Shots were heard at the headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA), located outside Washington. Authorities reported one death and two injuries The incident occurred near one of the gates leading to the intelligence agency's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, reports CBS Baltimore . The investigation is being carried out by police under the NSA. The entrances to the complex of buildings where almost 40 thousand people work are blocked.

Denmark has applied to join the China-led Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). reported this on Monday Reuters . On March 28, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said that Russia intends to join the international financial organization, which was created last year as the Asian analogue of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. According to Shuvalov, the corresponding decision was made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Ministry of Culture of the Novosibirsk Region recommended changes to the play “Song of the Motherland” by the Globus youth theater. This is reported on the theater's website. “Dear viewers! Changes were made to the play “Songs about the Motherland” on April 1 in accordance with the recommendations of the Ministry of Culture of the Novosibirsk Region. In this regard, the duration of the performance on April 1 will be 1 hour 40 minutes,” the message says.

The Federal Customs Service has introduced a fee on small exports from Russian legal entities. For sending goods worth up to €200, you will now have to pay from 750 rubles. up to 1 thousand rubles Photo: TASS The Federal Customs Service has changed the rules for duty-free export by legal entities of goods worth up to €200. From now on, for sending such goods you will have to pay a fee of 750 rubles. up to 1 thousand rubles newspaper about the new rules .

The Australian government introduced a requirement on March 30 that the country's airline aircraft must have two crew members in the cockpit at all times as a precaution, Reuters reports . The decision was made after a Germanwings pilot, left alone in the cockpit, directed the plane downwards while over the French Alps. The crew commander, once outside, could not break down the door. 150 people died in the disaster.

Naftogaz sent a letter to Gazprom with a proposal to extend the “winter package” for another year, citing the proposal of the European Commission.

State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein filed a lawsuit in the Presnensky Court of Moscow for the protection of honor and dignity against former member of the Federation Council Lyudmila Narusova. about this The deputy wrote on his page on the social network Twitter. “In the @EchoMskRu blog, Lyudmila Narusova wrote that I publicly demanded to “put liberals and democrats against the wall,” Khinshtein wrote and added that he did not say these words. The amount of the claim is 1 million rubles.

The Russian government will decide the fate of the funded part of pensions in April or early May, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets told reporters today, RIA Novosti reports. Olga Golodets She added that the next meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on the issue of maintaining the mandatory funded part of the pension or its complete transfer to a voluntary format has not yet been scheduled.

Aeroflot - Russian Airlines OJSC has begun reducing staff, the airline's general director Vitaly Savelyev said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel, TASS reports . He explained that Aeroflot is responding to the crisis in this way. Personnel optimization is taking place at Donavia, Orenburg Airlines, Rossiya Airlines and has begun at Aeroflot.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov refused to give any comments “based on some announcements of the report” of the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov on the participation of Russian military personnel in the conflict in Ukraine, Interfax reports. Journalists asked to comment on the message of oppositionist Ilya Yashin about the work on the report that Nemtsov was going to present.

The Moscow Arbitration Court approved a settlement agreement in the case of the claim of AFK Sistema against the company Ural-Invest for the recovery of 70.7 billion rubles, RIA Novosti reports. The settlement application was submitted to the court by the companies on March 19. Under the terms of the agreement, Ural-Invest’s debt, amounting to 70.7 billion rubles, is fully repaid in the amount of the company’s assets—approximately 47 billion rubles.