The speaker of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov will become the only candidate for the post of head of the Crimean branch of United Russia. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the representative of Crimea in the Council of the Federation of Sergei Tsekov. “This is an absolutely logical decision,” Tsecov said . Vladimir Konstantinov headed the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within Ukraine.

The mocking parody of the Kiev Maidan gives the events in the east of Ukraine not so much the political crisis as the cruel reality show like those that were fashionable to shoot fantastic cinema in the eighties of the last century. You have people in the square, and we have people in the square, you have tires, and we have tires, you have someone on your knees in front of the protesters-and they put us.

A referendum on the creation of the republic was decided no later than May 11 Removing the flag of the Donetsk region and replacing the flag of the Donetsk Republic. Photo: Twitter.com / Ostro_v Supporters of federalization of Ukraine announced the creation of an independent Donetsk People’s Republic. Such a statement was made by protesters who seized the building of the regional administration in Donetsk on April 6, reports UNN.

The average life expectancy in Russia over the past 20 years - from 1994 to 2013 - has grown by 9.36%. According to this indicator, we are in the 12th place in the world among 81 countries analyzed by the ITAR-TASS research center with the assistance of experts of the Center for Social Economy. What is the value of the rating of the growth of life expectancy, and not the very expectancy of life ? It shows where living conditions improve the fastest. This may partly be caused by external factors.

The head of state spoke at the expanded collegium of the special services. For example, he fears that Russian militants after Syria can turn a weapon against the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin during a speech at a meeting of the College of the FSB. Photo by ITAR-TASS/ Mikhail Klimentyev The head of state today spoke at the expanded college of the FSB. He thanked the security forces for a good job, and talked about the main existing threats, Interfax reports .

A group of climatologists of the Alfred Institute in Potsdam (Germany) made a discovery : it turns out that above the Pacific Ocean there is a hole in the lower layers of the atmosphere that play the role of a “washing machine” for the air surrounding our planet. Through this hole, pollutants enter the upper layers and contribute to the destruction of the ozone layer above the poles of the Earth. The lower layer, the troposphere, is saturated with hydroxide ions OH-.

- The State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Anatoly Lokot scored 43.75% in the elections of the mayor of Novosibirsk, overtaking 4% of the closest competitor - candidate from the United Russia party Vladimir Znatkov, the mountainizbirkoma testifies . The third result is in the self -nominated Evgeny Loginov (3.35%). Thus, an opposition candidate was the new mayor of the third largest city in the city.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will create a special group that will take care of private investment companies and hedge funds. It is reported by Reuters with reference to unnamed sources. The department refused to give comments on this.

Around the VKontakte, a war of claims begins. According to Forbes , Bulion Development Limited, which owns 11.9% of the social network and owned by Mail.ru Group, filed a lawsuit against two other VKontakte shareholders - Blesmir Development Limited and Palagon Limited. Both of them are controlled by the United Capital Partners (UCP) and Ilya Shcherbovich. Claims of the structure of Mail.ru relate to the transaction on the acquisition of the VKontakte shares, which took place about a year ago.

On Monday, April 7, the European University in St. Petersburg will take place the next lecture of the Physics Department of St. Petersburg State University and CFO of the Criminal Code of the Criminal Code of the Criminal Code of Fusion Asset Management (London) Kirill Ilyinsky from the QUUANTITATIVE METHODS in Financial Economics series. Start at 18:00. In this lecture, we will look at the task of managing assets in terms of the theory of derivatives of financial instruments.

Over the past evening on April 7, 200 Russians who were about to get to Ukraine could not do this: the border guards refused them at the entrance. This was reported by the State Border Service on their website. In total, almost 45 thousand people crossed the border during this time. “Within the framework of the border operation“ Border ”, about a thousand border outfits are involved in the service daily on this site, which operate on three border protection boundaries.

How to find Lenin Square? Lenin’s length is multiplied by the width of Lenin. But Lenin is not a rectangle! On the day of laughter, a lecture “5 ways to make a scientist” organized by the Polytechnic Museum was held in the ZIL cultural center. The main speaker was the associate professor of the Department of Higher Mathematics of the Higher School of Economics and the administrator of Wikipedia Ilya Schurov.

On Monday, the Board of Gazprom on April 7 recommended increasing the amount of dividends for 2013 to 7.2 rubles per share, reports Interfax - Agency of Gas Information. In 2012, shareholders received 5.99 rubles per share. Thus, over the year, shareholders' income increased by 20%. As analysts explain, Gazprom, apparently, applied amendments to RAS reports to increase dividends to increase the size of dividends.

Russia cannot be introduced by troops, including peacekeeping, into the territory of another country at the request of local authorities. This was recalled by the head of the Committee on Defense and Security of the Federation Council Viktor Ozerov.

Yahoo !! plans to enter the market online video with its own content. To do this, four series were launched at once. These are comedies, each in the season will have at least 10 episodes, and the budget of each series will be from $ 700 thousand to several million dollars.