The Kharkiv Regional Council will not make illegal decisions on holding a referendum on the issues of the federal structure of Ukraine and the state language. "The deputy corps of the Kharkiv Regional Council cannot include issues on the session agenda or make decisions that contradict current legislation," says a statement published on the official website of the Kharkiv Regional Council.

Read also: Schumacher's pneumonia cured Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has shown slight signs of improvement, his family have said. "We remain confident that Michael will recover," the BBC quoted him as saying. On the eve of his 45th birthday, the former racer suffered a severe head injury while skiing in the French Alps. It happened on December 29, 2013. Shortly after the fall, the athlete lost consciousness and was then put into a drug-induced sleep.

Capital users are being accustomed to ever higher internet access speeds / M. Sergeev Mobile result 90% Moscow was covered by 3G networks at the end of 2013 (excluding the districts that became part of the city limits on July 1, 2012), according to the DIT report. A year earlier, this figure did not exceed 80%.

The Ministry of Communications has developed amendments to laws that will allow companies to give employees options to purchase their shares or stakes. The text of the amendments has been published on the government website, which is intended for public discussion of bills. In November 2013, Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media Mark Shmulevich promised that such amendments would be developed.

Crimea has changed the referendum question: now Ukrainian citizens will have to answer whether they want to become Russians. Deputies postponed the plebiscite from March 30 to March 16. Moscow is hastily preparing a legislative framework that will allow Crimea to be accepted into Russia without Ukraine’s consent. 9 photos Japan paid tribute to the more than 18,000 dead and missing following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. At 2:46 p.m.

March 12, 2014, 16:57 / Finance Putin: 1.5-2% GDP growth cannot suit us The President believes that the situation in the Russian economy is stable, but it needs more dynamics Ekaterina Kravchenko Mikhail Klimentyev / RIA Novosti The situation in the Russian economy is stable, but it needs more dynamics, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on economic issues. Russia has good indicators compared to a number of leading European and world economies.

German carmaker Audi, part of the Volkswagen Group, expects its sales to rise to a record €50 billion in 2014. However, its profits will be affected by investments in the development of new models and the expansion of production capacity outside Germany. "Despite the high initial investment in our future, we want to remain within our target range and achieve an operating profit margin of 8 to 10 percent in 2014," said Audi CFO Axel Strotbeck.

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In 2013, the net profit of the largest German energy concern E.ON Group decreased by 4% to 2.51 billion euros. According to the company's report, the annual net profit attributable to shareholders decreased by 2% to 2.142 billion euros. Annual revenue decreased by 7% to 122.45 billion euros, EBITDA by 14% to 9.315 billion euros. The report calls these results expected.

Prolongation of the crisis around Ukraine could undermine the sustainability of funding and the rather low level of capitalization of Russian banks, according to a review by the Moody's rating agency, prepared on the basis of surveys of bank financial directors. “ We agree with the overall conclusion of the CFO survey that the business environment remains challenging for banks.

12 March 2014, 00:00 Payback for reorientation HKF Bank, which was the first to refuse to issue expensive loans and reduced rates almost to the level of Sberbank, saw its quarterly profit fall fourfold Natalia Biyanova S. Porter / Vedomosti The net profit of HCF Bank in 2013 decreased by almost half to 11.1 billion rubles, and in the fourth quarter the bank earned 1.7 billion - four times less than in the same period in 2012.

Ukraine cannot launch a military operation in Crimea because it would jeopardize the eastern border and the country would not be protected, acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov told AFP. There will be no military intervention by Ukraine in Crimea, even though Kiev considers the announced referendum on the status of Crimea a simulacrum.

The US Embassy building on Grosvenor Square / Bloomberg Chinese billionaires and Russian oligarchs have profited from the soaring prices of London property. Now, with prices per square metre in areas such as Kensington, Mayfair and Belgravia at record highs, governments around the world are realising that they have valuable assets in their embassy buildings in London.

On March 11, the Bank of Russia sent Art Bank ( North Ossetia) a request to submit a petition to terminate the right to work with deposits, the Central Bank said in a statement. This year, the Central Bank sent similar demands to the Makhachkala Esidbank, as well as to Pripolyarkombank and Link Bank. In February, the Central Bank revoked the license of Link Bank.

March 12, 2014, 04:10 / Business Mikhail Ivanov sold his stake in Mann, Ivanov and Ferber to Eksmo publishing house The publisher left the company due to moving to permanent residence in the USA Ksenia Boletskaya Eksmo increased its stake in Mann, Ivanov and Ferber LLC (MIF) to 84%. As Oleg Novikov, general director of Eksmo, said, the publishing house bought out 20% belonging to the co-owner and general director of the LLC, Mikhail Ivanov. Ivanov confirmed this.