U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would not be involved in any investigations related to the 2016 election campaign. He made the announcement following press reports of his meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak ahead of the election, which he did not mention under oath at the Senate hearing when he was appointed Prosecutor General. The US Department of Justice officials advised him to recuse himself, Sessions said at a press conference .

In the summer of 2017, new “duck stories” will be released on the Disney XD channel. And we can finally see the first shots from the animated series. Oh yes. The same song sounds there! Disney XD Ducktales First Look | Ducktales | Disney XD

Police have raided the Paris home of right-wing and centrist French presidential candidate Francois Fillon. It is reported by AFP, citing sources. According to Le Parisien, the searches were carried out on the morning of March 2 as part of an investigation against Fillon and his wife Penelope. François Fillon is suspected of appointing his wife, Penélope, as an assistant, as a deputy of the National Assembly, who received a salary without doing almost any work.

The Kostroma Regional Court sentenced the former mayor of Sergiev Posad, Viktor Bukin, to eight years in prison in a strict regime colony in the case of extorting a bribe on an especially large scale. The court considered the appeal of the prosecutor's office against the verdict of the previous instance, which imposed a fine on Bukin. The prosecution considered the sentence too lenient.

In the Forbes rating, Arkady Rotenberg overtook little -known businessmen Photo: press service of the regional branch of the party for justice / TASS Co-owner of Peton Vladimir Zaitsev Businessman Arkady Rotenberg lost the leadership in the annual rating “Kings of the State order” , compiled by Forbes magazine, owners of the little -known Bashkir holding “Paton” - Igor Mnushkin, Oleg Polyakov and Vladimir Zaitsev. The special correspondent of Medusa Ivan Kolunov briefly tells who they are.

The Office of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Astrakhan region opened a criminal case on attempted suicide of a 16-year-old girl from Astrakhan. The person involved in the case, as follows from the message, is a person who used the pseudonym Philip Lis. In the spring of 2016, Philip Lis sent messages to the girl on VKontakte with calls for suicide.

Bitcoin has become more expensive than ounces of gold. One triple ounce of gold at the time of writing a note costs about $ 1237 , bitcoin - approximately $ 1250 . In early January 2017, the price of bitcoin exceeded one thousand dollars. Bitcoins are the most popular convertible virtual currency in the world. All operations are carried out without the participation of the regulator, directly between users.

In Grozny, the first fashion collection of the daughter of Ramzan Kadyrov was a show Photo: Elena Afonina / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On March 1, in the Grozny Moda Palace Grand Hall Firdaws, a debut collection of daughter Ramzan Kadyrov Aishat was showing a debut collection - she heads the Firdaws fashion house.

The author of the text for the "Total Dictation" in 2017 was the writer Leonid Yuzefovich. This was announced by the organizers of the event. “Each part of the text is a small essay about one of the author’s hometowns: Perm, Ulan-Ude and St. Petersburg,” the project’s website says. The next Total Dictation will be held on April 8, 2017. According to the organizers, residents of 800 cities in Russia and other countries will take part in it.

Russian system politicians - about how the investigation of the FBC will affect the position of Dmitry Medvedev Frame from the FBK investigation On March 2, the Foundation for the fight against corruption (FBK) of Alexei Navalny published an investigation dedicated to the "Secret of the Empire" of the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev.

The Stephen Irving Zoo of Australia showed animals that we (and you) have never heard of - binturongs. Their names are Pip and Jaya! The binturong is a mammal of the viverrid family. Its closest relatives are the civet and marten. The binturong looks like a small bear or an overgrown cat, which is why it is often called the "cat bear" According to zookeepers, Pip and Jaya are the most unusual animals in the zoo. They love to interact with visitors and when they are treated to fruit salad.

In the first seconds of trading shares of Snap, which owns the Snapchat service, investors raised the price of securities by 44 percent. The first transactions were in the region of $24 per share. Snap completed its initial public offering on March 1st. Each security during the IPO was valued at $17, and the entire company was valued at approximately $24 billion. The Snapchat IPO is one of the largest tech IPOs in history.

In Yekaterinburg, the police began a check in connection with the fact that two schoolchildren entered the office premises of the Temple-on-the-Blood, built on the site of the execution of the royal family, in order to be photographed with church paraphernalia.

Photo: Evgeny Feldman for the FBK. The Corruption Foundation has published a large-scale investigation about Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. From the material it follows that people and charitable foundations associated with Medvedev own several luxurious residences in Russia and abroad, agricultural lands and two yachts.

Interview by Georgy Alburov, one of the authors of the investigation about the property of Dmitry Medvedev Photo: Evgeny Feldman for FBK George Alburov and quadrocopter On March 2, the Foundation for the fight against corruption (FBK) of Alexei Navalny published an investigation into residences and yachts used by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (here is his short version ). All this property is recorded on funds and companies that control people associated with Medvedev.