Macedonia police used tear gas against hundreds of migrants and refugees that storm its border from Greece. According to eyewitnesses, the law enforcement officers sprayed tears in the crowd several times, which tried to break the metal gates on the border with Greece, and in migrants who sat on railway tracks in protest, demanding further travel to Macedonia, Reuters reports. The skirmishes between migrants and the police began after the refugees limited the movement through the Balkans.

The Bertelsmann Foundation with headquarters in Germany published a rating of transformation of political regimes in 129 countries of the world. The study studies democratic and market-economic trends in developed and transforming states. The experts of the fund concluded that in Russia over the past few years, autocracy has intensified. For four years, the country sank in the ranking of 21 positions.

The acting governor of the Trans -Baikal Territory Natalya Zhdanova, appointed to this post in mid -February, denied a message about increasing her wages. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the regional government.

On Monday, February 29, in the Mexican city of San Juan-D-Rio, unknown people stole the 2006 red picap of the Chevrolet Silverado red pickup, transporting radioactive Irididia-192, used in industrial radiography. The pickup was stolen at about six in the morning local time (about 15:00 Moscow time).

In Vorkuta on February 29, a farewell ceremony was held with four miners who died during the collapse of rocks at the North mine on February 25. The bodies of Maxim Khokhonov, Vitaly Lavrov, Andrei Pozdnyakov and Vladislav Furmanov were removed from the workings in the early days of the tragedy. The civilian memorial service, writes "My Vorkuta" , took place at the Olympus USZK. An hour before the start of the building, despite a strong snowstorm, a huge queue lined up.

The next Oscar award ceremony was marked by a new record for the Twitter microblogging service, according to a press release from the company, received by Newsru.com. "After it became known that Leonardo DiCaprio finally received the long -awaited figurine for the best male role in the film" Survivor ", Twitter users wrote more than 440,000 tweets dedicated to this event in one minute," the report said.

The federal judge died in a traffic accident in the Derbent district of Dagestan on the night of February 29, RIA Dagestan reports. According to the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, the frontal clash of the VAZ-21014 passenger car and the ZIL truck, which a person died, occurred at the Caucasus federal highway near the village of Arablinskoye.

“During the marathon in memory of Nemtsov on Dozhd, one thought came to mind. And, it seems, I threw the program hosts into some embarrassment. They did not feel very comfortable listening to these words on their air. But still, I’ll repeat here: this is my personal space, I bear sole responsibility for it. So, the question is: do you know many Russian politicians, a year after whose death a thirty thousandth march of memory will take place in Moscow?

The 88th Academy Award Ceremony became triumphant for actor Leonardo DiCaprio - he received a reward in the nomination "Best Actor" for his role in the film "Survivor" Alejandro Gonzalez injarrit. The broadcast of the ceremony was conducted by ABC. The rivals of DiCaprio for the victory were Matt Damon, who played in the Martian, Eddie Radmein ("Girl from Denmark"), Brian Cranston (Trambo) and Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs).

The Raspberry Pi Foundation, which develops cheap single -pay microcomputers, announced the Raspberry Pi 3 computer, which received a number of improvements compared to predecessors, reports The Verge . The main feature of the Raspberry Pi 3 is the built-in support for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, which has long been asked by users of previous versions of the microcomputer, forced to use external wireless adapters.

The number of victims of the terrorist attacks carried out the day before in the eastern suburbs of Baghdad has reached 73 people, The Washington Post reported on Monday, February 29. Several people died on the night from Sunday to Monday, and another 112 wounded remain in hospitals, police officials said. In addition, five people are still missing. The latest death toll was reported by doctors on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to the press.

In Lviv, the sappers neutralized a suspicious object similar to an explosive device found at the entrance to the public reception of the regional department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the website of the Main Directorate of the National Police of the Lviv Region reports.

The President of AvtoVAZ Bu Andersson may resign, the Vedomosti newspaper reports. As three people close to the car factory told the publication, the owner of the AvtoVAZ blocking package - the Rostec State Corporation - is looking for a replacement for Anderson. Andersson wants to change not only Rostec, but also Renault-Nissan, which owns the control package of the plant’s shares, says one of the interlocutors of Vedomosti.

At 04:30 Moscow time, the 88th Oscar Award ceremony was launched, which traditionally takes place at the Dolbi Theater in Hollywood. The main intrigue was traditionally connected with the nomination for the best film, but among the moviegoers in the first place was another question: whether the actor Leonardo DiCaprio would be awarded the figurines.

The Japanese Corporation Toshiba stops selling personal computers in the European market, reports The Register . Currently, European retailers will sell Toshiba PC warehouse reserves, and after their exhaustion they will stop receiving orders and fired part of the employees. At the same time, Toshiba intends to continue working in the PC markets in the United States and Japan, but will focus on the corporate sector.