The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the full list of films nominated for the 2019 Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The list includes paintings from 87 countries. Among them is Konstantin Khabensky's film "Sobibor", put forward by Russia, as well as the film "Donbass" by Sergei Loznitsa, put forward by Ukraine. Andrey Zvyagintsev's film "Loveless" was nominated for the 2018 Oscars from Russia.

Maxim Buev explains why they gave the Nobel Prize Joan Estee / EPA / Scanpix / Leta today Paul Romer is a classic of economic science. The Nobel Prize was given to him for the work written more than 30 years ago On October 8, the Nobel laureates in the 2018 economy were declared in Stockholm. They became the Americans Paul Romer and William Nordhaus - they were awarded for discoveries in the field of macroeconomic analysis.

Google has decided to close the Google+ social network for individual users. This process will take 10 months. The blog highlights that the reason for the closure is the extremely low popularity of Google+: recently, 90% of user sessions last less than 5 seconds. The company also reported a leak that could have affected 500 thousand accounts: due to a software failure from 2015 to early 2018, external developers could see their hidden data.

The real name of Alexander Petrov, whom the UK suspects of poisoning Sergei Skripal, is Alexander Evgenievich Mishkin, found out by Bellingcat and The Insider. Like Anatoly Chepiga, he is an employee of the Main Directorate of the General Staff (formerly the GRU). Mishkin was born in 1979 in the village of Loiga in the Arkhangelsk region and received his medical education at the military academy.

Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS Update. On the morning of October 9, it became known about another incident with the participation of football players - before the fight in the cafe, they allegedly beat the driver of the leading Channel One Olga Ushakova. 33-year-old Viktor Soloviev is in the hospital. Football players Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev staged a fight in one of the cafes of Moscow . The incident occurred on the morning of October 8.

On October 6, the Russian Defense Ministry held a meeting to discuss the latest incidents involving the exposure of GRU agents abroad. Journalist Sergei Kanev, citing sources, reports the “disappointing” results of the meeting: its participants came to the conclusion that the agents “did not observe the basic principles” of working abroad.

October 8th. Pavel Mamaev and Cristiano Ronaldo in one episode! Self-destructing picture. On Friday at Sotheby's in London, Banksy's Girl with a Balloon was destroyed by a shredder built into the frame seconds after the canvas was sold for a million pounds. We tell in detail what kind of picture it is, who made it, what will happen now and why the action turned out to be so cool (not all of these questions have answers). Self-destructing documents.

On October 2, Russia celebrates the Day of Professional Technical Education. Regional and federal education bodies annually publish congratulations to students and teachers dedicated to this professional holiday. From year to year, the same phrase appears in these texts.

Explains the sociologist Mikhail Mishchenko Alexander Sinitsa / UNIAN PIKHKENT by the Verkhovna Rada building in Kyiv in support of the law on the state language, September 3, 2018 The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the first reading the bill "On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state". He makes the Ukrainian language a mandatory use in all areas - including in culture, medicine and service sphere.

Football players Pavel Mamayev and Aleksandr Kokorin got into a fight with a federal official in a Moscow cafe. The police are currently investigating the incident, Interfax reports, citing an informed source. According to the Mash Telegram channel, the victim is Denis Pak, director of the Department of Automotive Industry and Railway Engineering of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. He made a remark to the football players, who were behaving very loudly.

The main questions about the "Girl with a balloon" Sothebyʼs / AP / Scanpix / Leta On October 5, at the auction of the Sotheby= auction house in London, a picture of the street artist Banksy “Girl with a balloon” was self -destructed. This happened as soon as the canvas was sold for 1.04 million pounds: the Schroeder built into the frame simply cut it into long stripes (but not to the end).

The writer Oleg Pavlov died at the age of 49, RIA Novosti reports citing publicist Plato Besedin. The cause of Pavlov’s death, according to Besedin, was a heart attack. Valery Sharifulin / TASS In the mid-1990s-early 2000s, Pavlov received the prestigious literary awards of the New World and October magazines. In 2002, his story “Karaganda Nine” was awarded the “Russian Boker”. In 2012, Pavlov became the laureate of the award of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

The risk forecast compiled by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation assumes a decline in world oil prices to $35 per barrel and tougher sanctions against Russia in the next three years. This was stated by the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Ksenia Yudaeva, speaking in the Federation Council. Under the risk scenario, Yudaeva said, inflation is expected to accelerate and the country's GDP growth to stop.

The Investigative Committee has allocated materials for separate proceedings against an investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Krasnodar Krai who refused to open a case against a 17-year-old schoolboy, after which the teenager, according to investigators, killed a woman. This was reported by the human rights organization "Zona Prava". In April 2018, a teenager stole a jacket from a peer, but the police officer refused to open a robbery case, considering the incident insignificant.

The blogger of Republicattak living in France for 14 years gathered and modified LEGO on Star Wars and eight more - posted a video with his work on Yutuub. In early October, he returned home and discovered that someone had broken to his house, broke and scattered the designer on the floor and stole several valuable copies from his collection: for example, a model of the Khan Solo Millennium Khan Solo, the AT-T-T and the scenery of Cantina Mos-Eshley from the “New Hope”.