On Facebook, members of one of the communities are discussing plans to hold a flash mob on Red Square on April 1. They propose coming there with white ribbons to protest against the detentions of people with the symbols of the "white movement", which they consider discrimination. The time of the action has not yet been announced so that the square is not closed to visitors. According to the organizers of the action, more than 24,700 people are ready to take part in it, Interfax reports.

"I just went on a trip to the Middle East with [VEB Chairman] Vladimir Dmitriev, where one of the leading local sovereign funds wants to invest in all RDIF deals – in the automatic co-investment model," said Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the RDIF management company, at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. For "this large sovereign fund," this will be "the largest investment in the fund," Kirill Dmitriev specified. He declined to say which fund he was talking about.

The placement of Russian Eurobonds has caused a stir among foreign investors: yesterday afternoon, demand exceeded $10 billion, by evening it had already approached $17 billion, sources close to the organizers (BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Troika Dialog and VTB Capital) said. The last time Russia borrowed in dollars was in 2010, when it managed to attract $5.5 billion. Last spring, Eurobonds worth 90 billion rubles were placed.

Pieter Hugo, courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery, New York and Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town Africa needs more of its own Gogols and Saltykov-Shchedrins – the place is conducive to satirical phantasmagorias. Photographers perform the tasks of writers – they capture the absurdity of everyday life and the existential melancholy of understanding its immutability.

JSC Mosnefteprodukt sales company. revenue (RAS, 9 months of 2011) – 1.27 billion rubles; net loss – 309.6 million rubles. The fact that Tatneft is no longer a shareholder of Mosnefteprodukt is stated in the company's RAS financial statements for 2011, published yesterday. A year ago, Tatneft owned 14.72% of the Moscow company's capital (19.64% of ordinary shares). The sale of the package brought in 362.9 million rubles, according to the document.

Inflation in Russia, after eight weeks at 0.1%, accelerated to 0.2% for the period from March 20 to 26; since the beginning of the year, prices have grown by 1.3%, Rosstat reported on Wednesday. "For the period from March 20 to 26, 2012, the consumer price index, according to Rosstat, was 100.2%, since the beginning of the month - 100.5%, since the beginning of the year - 101.3%," the statistical service said in a statement.

March 28, 2012, 00:02 / Management Employers are ready to rehire quit employees Only 18% of HR managers believe that you cannot step into the same river twice: they will not accept into the company those who have already worked in it.

Annual inflation in Germany in March 2012, according to preliminary data, slowed in annual terms to 2.1% from 2.3% in February, according to data from the Federal Statistical Office of the country. These data diverged from the forecasts of analysts polled by the information and analytical Internet portal dailyFX.com, who expected the inflation value in March at the level of 2.2%. In monthly terms, consumer prices in Europe's largest economy grew by 0.3% in March, compared to 0.7% in February.

Rosalkogolregulirovanie reported on its website that it is giving three more months to prepare for a new procedure for retailers to declare alcohol sales. According to amendments to the law regulating the alcohol industry adopted in July 2011, from January 1, 2012, retailers must report on alcohol sales (what and how much they sold) not only to local authorities that issue them a license, but also to Rosalkogolregulirovanie.

The head of the Defense Ministry's Housing Department, Olga Kharchenko, has been dismissed from her post, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday. "Olga Aleksandrovna vacated her office on Monday, and the department's employees have not yet been informed of the name of the new head," the source said. Kharchenko served as acting head of the Defense Ministry's Housing Department (HDD) from July 2011, replacing Mikhail Kolychev, who had temporarily replaced her.

March 28, 2012, 15:56 / Politics The Shuvalov trust has been linked to a deal with Gazprom shares The family trust of the current first deputy prime minister bought Gazprom shares before the restrictions on foreign investors were lifted, and sold them after a significant increase in quotations, says WSJ Sergei Smirnov M.

Net profit of the Nomos-bank group in 2011 increased 1.6 times to 12.1 billion rubles. Profit for the fourth quarter of 5.2 billion exceeded analysts' expectations. The result was significantly affected by foreign currency income – 2.3 billion rubles in the fourth quarter, notes Uralsib analyst Leonid Slipchenko.

President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered that proposals be prepared by June 1 to simplify the visa regime for tourists entering Russia, including those arriving on cruise ships and yachts. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been appointed responsible for implementing this order. The order was published in the list of presidential orders approved following a meeting on the development of a tourism cluster in the North Caucasus. The meeting took place on March 11.

The BMW Group and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) have signed an agreement to jointly develop new generation lithium-ion batteries. Research has already begun to improve the performance and capacity of lithium-ion batteries by using new combinations of materials for cathodes, anodes and electrolytes. The agreement is a continuation of the memorandum of understanding that was signed on December 1, 2011.

Taiwanese corporation Foxconn Technology Group, whose factories assemble Apple products, is buying 10% of new shares of Japanese company Sharp Corp. and 46.5% of shares of Sharp and Sony joint venture Sharp Display Products Corp. Foxconn will pay 133 billion yen ($1.6 billion) for these shares, according to a press release from Sharp. Sharp will issue an additional 121 million shares. The deal also includes the supply of 50% of Sharp Display Products' displays to Foxconn's factories.