The net loss of Gazprombank in 2014 according to international financial reporting standards amounted to 13.7 billion rubles. against a profit of RUB 33 billion. a year earlier, the credit institution reported . Stable income from core commercial banking activities, including net interest and net commission income, increased by 14.4% compared to 2013, amounting to RUB 111.0 billion. compared to RUB 97 billion. a year earlier.

A convoy of trucks from the Ministry of Emergency Situations will deliver more than 50 tons of humanitarian aid to Khakassia. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the department, Vladimir Puchkov. He clarified that basic necessities, medicines, and food will be delivered to residents of the region. It was previously reported that problems arose with sending humanitarian aid to Khakassia . According to activists of the “Spring” movement from St.

Most EU ambassadors agreed to take part in a meeting with State Duma deputies, where the Minsk agreements, as well as relations between Russia and the European Union, will be discussed. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to a diplomatic source. The agency's interlocutor clarified that the meeting will take place on the afternoon of April 22. The source added that the meeting will be informal.

The Polish government has approved the recommendation of the country's Ministry of Defense to purchase Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems for the national missile defense system from the American manufacturer Raytheon. The Polish Ministry of Defense announced this on Tuesday, Reuters reports . According to Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, the cost of the tender for the supply of weapons for the missile defense system is about $5 billion.

The Ministry of Education and Science can be divided into two departments, but to do this, the situation needs to be seriously analyzed. This statement was made by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, answering a question from Chairman of the Science Committee Valery Chereshnev during a speech in the State Duma.

The net profit of the American computer equipment manufacturer IBM in the 1st quarter of 2015 fell by 2.4% and amounted to $2.328 billion compared to $2.384 a year earlier. This was reported in the company's published reports . In the reported quarter, revenues in the Americas were $9.3 billion (-3%). Revenues in Europe, the Middle East and Africa amounted to $6.1 billion (-19%). Revenues in the Asia-Pacific region decreased by 18% to $4.1 billion.

OJSC KamAZ will employ about 16.5 thousand of the company's employees in temporary jobs, reported on Tuesday. the automaker's press service The press service report notes that if previously KamAZ paid for temporary work from its own funds, now they will be financed from the federal budget as part of anti-crisis measures. The period of temporary work will last from April 1 to September 30, 2015.

The number of deaths from fires in Khakassia has increased to 32 people. Two men died from their burns in the Krasnoyarsk burn center, press secretary of the Krasnoyarsk regional hospital Irina Kochetkova told Interfax. Earlier it was reported that 30 people died. According to her, both victims were in extremely serious condition. One of them was delivered on April 17. One woman is currently in intensive care in a stable and serious condition.

Ukrainian security forces claim that on the evening of April 20, the militia violated the ceasefire 17 times. This is stated in a message from the press center of the “anti-terrorist operation”. At the same time, positions of ATO forces were fired at eight times from mortars, including five times from 120 mm mortars. “During the armed provocations, the enemy intensified the use of heavy armored vehicles - tanks and infantry fighting vehicles,” the report notes.

A tank on a heavy tracked platform "Armata" during a rehearsal for the Victory Parade in the Moscow region (Photo: RIA Novosti) The Russian Ministry of Defense for the first time published photographs of new Russian equipment on the Armata platform. Pictures of “Almata” are posted on the website of the Ministry of Defense, in the section “Victory Parades in Russian Cities.” The photographs show a tank and an Armata infantry fighting vehicle.

The leadership of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory informed deputies that the issue of Governor Alexander Tkachev’s transfer to the post of head of the Ministry of Agriculture has been resolved. He will be replaced by Deputy Presidential Administration Manager Veniamin Kondratyev Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev (third from left).

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin explained his comparison of the pace of production of submarines in Russia with “baking sausages.” “Well, it was not I who said this, but Khrushchev, speaking about the volume of missile production in the USSR. I just quoted this “classic,” he wrote on his account .

Italian authorities have arrested two survivors of a migrant boat that sank in the Mediterranean. They are suspected of human trafficking, Reuters reports citing Infrastructure Minister Graziano Delrio. A ship carrying refugees from Libya capsized on April 19. Presumably the cause of the incident was that the migrants moved to one side of it, resulting in a tilt. Most of those on board the ship died.

Members of the government of St. Petersburg disclosed information on income for 2014 Photo: gov.spb.ru According to the document, the head of the governor’s administration, vice-governor Alexander Govorunov, earned the most in a year, but his income was halved compared to 2013, when he still served as an adviser to the president, chairman of the board of Sberbank of Russia OJSC, and amounted to 16.6 million rubles.

The American corporation General Electric is negotiating with Wells Fargo & Co. on the sale of its commercial lending and leasing division for $74 billion, reports Reuters , citing a source familiar with the situation. Negotiations with Wells Fargo are at an early stage: they began only last week and other interested parties may be involved in them, the agency’s interlocutor noted. He admitted that the package could be sold in parts. Representatives for GE and Wells Fargo declined to comment.