The famous Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki will be awarded the Oscar Honorary for outstanding merits in the cinema. This was announced on August 29 by the American Academy of Cinema. Along with Miyazaki, the laureates of this prestigious award were the French director Jean-Claude Career and the Irish actress Morin O'Hara. The awards ceremony - special gold figurines - will be held in Los Angeles on November 8, ITAR -TASS reports.

“Note that in this case I do not blame anyone, I am simply stating a well-known fact. The main form of government in Ukraine over the past 20 years has been kleptocracy. The clans of Kuchma, Yushchenko and Yanukovych took turns successfully stealing national wealth (aka Soviet heritage). At the same time, no one built an army ready to kill and die for the right of these clans to the stolen goods. And by itself it was also in no hurry to arise.

The family of Moscow pensioners of the Scheudurovs in eight months traveled the globe in a car, according to a press release from the Russian Geographical Society.

The main prize of the IV Sakhalin International Film Festival "The End of the World" was won by the painting "The ship of the Thesa" of the Indian director and screenwriter Ananda Gandhi, ITAR-TASS reports. “Several days have already passed since the moment we watched this picture, but the jury is still under a strong impression of what we saw,” said Vadim Abdrashitov, chairman of the jury.

Support for the direct military participation of Russian troops in the events in Ukraine among our compatriots fell almost half in six months, RBC reports, referring to the surveys of the population conducted by the sociologists of the Levada Center.

Gazprom is ready to a decision on the price of Russian gas supplies to Ukraine to provide her with a discount of $ 100 per thousand cubic meters, the Minister of Energy of Russia Alexander Novak said at a press conference. The price of gas, thus, can amount to 385 per thousand cubic meters, while now Ukraine according to Gazprom, must pay $ 485. Novak emphasized that this proposal fits into the framework of the current gas supply contract and can be adopted by additional agreements.

The Tula and the election committee condemned the statement of the local representatives of Fair Russia, who called on Tulyakov to abandon Ukrainian goods, thus expressing their disagreement with the anti -terrorist operation that takes place in the east of Ukraine. According to the local portal "Tula Press" , a week ago the party distributed leaflets with bloody personnel from Ukraine in Tula and with the call of citizens to refuse to buy Ukrainian goods.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested until October 20 the former head of CJSC OPK Development, now the deputy head of the Federal Agency for Tourism Dmitry Amunts, accused of embezzlement of 28 billion rubles of Interprombank, thus satisfying the petition of the investigation. “Given the severity of the prosecution, the court does not find it possible to choose a softer preventive measure against the Amunz.

The social network Facebook has begun testing the search function for users, Bloomberg reports. At the moment, the function is available only to some users of the social network and only in the Facebook mobile application. With its help, you can look for old friends from keywords. According to representatives of the social network, the introduction of a new function will significantly improve a mobile search.

Foreign experts in Vaiming established that Russian student Alexander Sagiev died from an injury received in the fall, AP agency reports. The body of the 21-year-old Sagiev was found after three days of searching for the Golsier-Galch gorge. According to forensic experts, the young man died instantly from injuries received in the fall. In the conclusion of the judicial investigator, his death is recorded as an accident, RIA Novosti reports.

At the beginning of 2015, the European Union intends to propose a ban on the production and sale in its countries of smartphones and mobile phones that consume too much energy when charging batteries, writes the portal Onliner.by .

The German automaker Audi AG, part of the Volkswagen concern, calls about 70 thousand cars around the world. The reason is possible problems with the brake system, ITAR -TASS reports with reference to the company representative. We are talking about sedans A4, A5, A6 and A7, as well as Q5 and Q7 crossovers produced in March 2012 with TDI engines.

The Yaroslavl police are looking for robbers who stole a bag from a collection machine. The damage is estimated at 15 million rubles. The robbery was committed on Friday at about 7:55 on Rybinskaya Street in Yaroslavl, the official website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. "Unknown persons openly stole a bag with cash from a collection vehicle and disappeared.

Many social objects were privatized at one time with violations, but now it is impractical to re -return them to the state, such a “redistribution” will lead to chaos, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Unfortunately, in the 90s, even in the early 2000s, there are a lot of social facilities-sports, kindergartens and other institutions-were transferred to business. In the field of culture, many objects went to business.

Gazprombank received 4.8 times less net profit (IFRS) in the first half of 2014 compared to the first six months of last year. As follows from the data published on the site , this year the bank received 2.6 billion rubles of net profit against 12.4 billion in 2013.