On February 28, the annual ceremony of the Academy Award was held. The specificity of this event this year is that two weeks before it a scandal erupted: all the actors nomineed up for the prize turned out to be white, and for the second year in a row. Some representatives of the film industry - in particular, the director Spike Lee - in connection with this announced their intention to boycott the ceremony. The English -language media commented on this moment.

The Russian businessman, the son of billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, Igor, received permission from the FAS for the purchase of the Northern Construction Management company, follows from the message of the Federal Antimonopoly Service. We are talking about a package of 90% of the shares in the company where Rotenberg Jr. already belongs to 10%. The Northern Construction Administration is part of the Titan-2 holding, which is the general contractor of the construction of the Leningrad NPP-2.

Frame from the movie "Survivor" Kinopoisk Digest "Polit.ru" is a brief selection of the 10 most important news per day. Today, Oscar winners became known, in Moscow a woman killed a child and threatened to blow herself up, it became known about a new explosion at the Severnaya mine in Vorkuta. DiCaprio received an Oscar for his role in the film "Survivor" The star of Hollywood Leonardo DiCaprio finally received his first Oscar in the nomination “Best Actor” for his role in the film “Survivor”.

The main asset for savings this year is gold, investors prefer precious metal currencies and securities, reports Bloomberg . At the same time, back in December, the price of gold has been at the minimum mark over the past five years. Since January, gold prices rose by 9.3% to $ 1220 per ounce. For a month, this is the most noticeable growth since February 1979. At the same time, the fastest growing world currency - Japanese yen - rose by 5.5%in a month.

After the brutal murder of a child in Moscow, Pavel Astakhov, an authorized manner in the President of the Russian Federation for Children's Rights, advised his parents who hire a nanny for his children, check her mental state, wrote about this at his village on the Twitter social network. It was repeatedly turned out that the nannies hired to care for the child actually beaten children. Now it came to the murder.

The head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of the warring parties to the SAR, Lieutenant General Sergei Kuralenko, said that the tightening of the Turkish military armored vehicles in the districts bordering with Syria is a provocative step, TASS reports. According to Kuralenko, the current tactics of Turkey can turn into a breakdown of the ceasefire and the ceasefire.

Due to the failure of electrical equipment in Japan, the fourth reactor of Takahama NPP has been stopped, Kyodo reports. According to the agency, its restart took place on February 28, but after a signal about a malfunction in the electricity system, the work was stopped automatically. Japan continues the gradual resumption of the work of 48 nuclear reactors after they were frozen throughout the country due to an accident at NPP in Fukushima in 2011.

Vitaly Klitschko in an interview with the Catar television channel Al Jazeera gave rather strange answers. So, when asked about whether he knows about the existence of the international human rights organization Amnesty International, the Kiev mayor said: “Excuse me, I am from Ukraine”, quotes the interview. About the same way, he commented on the reports of human rights activists from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch about the crimes of the Ukrainian military in the east of Ukraine.

Researchers have discovered special microstructures in the feathers of the Penguins Humboldt ( SPheniscus Humboldti ), which prevent icing their plumage. Perhaps the opening will help create new materials resistant to icing. Humboldt's penguins live on the coast of Chile and Peru, along which a cold Peruvian current passes. They are able to swim in water at temperatures below zero, and their feathers are extremely rarely covered with ice.

In March and April 2016, as part of the Public Lectures Polit.ru, a cycle of lectures of the Doctor of Medical Sciences, the President of the Society of Evidence Medicine, Professor of the Higher School of Economics Vasily Vlasov will be held. The theme of the lecture on March 10 is “Diagnosis: a terrible miracle of recognition”, March 24 - “Screening: towards dreams of eternal health”, April 14 - “are they treated correctly? Who knows? How to help? " And April 21 - “Dangers everywhere!

The organization of oil exporting countries (OPEC) in February reduced the export of this raw materials, REUTERS was told by oil traders. In addition, according to their data, OPEC countries for February slightly reduced oil production by 280 thousand barrels per day. The main decline fell into three OPEC countries: Iraq, Nigeria and the UAE. Minus and exports there decreased for a number of reasons.

The Yabloko party held the second part of its 18th congress last weekend. The delegates managed to agree on an election strategy for the Duma elections and their own presidential candidate - the founder of the party, Grigory Yavlinsky. Some political scientists believe that Yavlinsky's persona has become quite boring and is unlikely to excite the minds of voters. Others believe that it is recognition that gives him a chance to win.

In order to get subsidies from the federal budget for the construction of new facilities, the regions will have to complete those that the money allocated earlier. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, Interfax reports. “It is not allowed to provide [subsidies] for newcomers, if they [regions] have incomplete construction, similar objects that were financed by subsidies from the federal budget,” Kozak said at a meeting in the government.

The AvtoVAZ shareholders are looking for a replacement for the general director of the High Gigant Bu Andersson, they told Vedomosti sources close to the car factory. According to them, the company was offered to lead the company to the KamAZ general director Sergei Kogogin, but he refused. In March, the Board of Directors of AvtoVAZ should be held, at which “certain decisions” will be adopted, one of the interlocutors of the publication said.

The Federal Chamber of Lawyers of Russia, which includes regional lawyer chambers, proposes to introduce fines for refusing to become a candidate for jury. This was announced by the President of the Chamber, Yuri Pilipenko, reports TASS . “We offer an introduction for jurors in administrative responsibility for failure to appear to the court for the selection of college (provided that there is evidence of the receipt of a judicial invitation),” Pilipenko said.