The Association of Kinocademikov announced the nominees of the Oscar-2017 film award. The broadcast was carried out on the twitter of the movie academy. The leader in the number of nominations was the film "La La Land"-it is presented in 13 categories. In the nomination for the best song, two compositions from the film are presented at once, so there are only 14 nominations.

The US Senate approved Mike Pompeo as director of the Central Intelligence Directorate (CIA). It is reported by Reuters . Of the 100 senators, 67 voted for - 30. The agency noted that the majority of those who opposed the proposed candidate are members of the Democratic Party.

The Prosecutor General’s Office and experts of the Far Eastern University (FEFU), in whom the Constitutional Court (KS) requested a review of the complaint of convicted activist Ildar Dadin, recognized the need to change the legislation on mass events. “Kommersant” got acquainted with their conclusions.

US President Donald Trump signed a decree that involves the resumption of projects for the construction of Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines to Canada. It is reported by the BBC. “If the construction of the pipeline begins, this will create 28 thousand jobs,” Trump said. The President also signed a decree to accelerate environmental examinations for US infrastructure projects: airports, roads and bridges.

The amount of gratuitous revenues from the federal budget to the Crimean budget in 2016 increased by 20.5% and amounted to 79.7 billion rubles. This was in an interview with TASS was told by the Minister of Finance of the Republic Irina Kiviko. Thus, the volume of subsidies to Crimea from the budget of the Russian Federation for last year increased by 88.5% to 34.7 billion rubles, and the volume of other inter -budget transfers - by 64% to 4.1 billion rubles.

2016 brought the world many surprises, the consequences of which will fully appear this year.

The VTB’s net profit on Russian accounting standards (RAS) according to the results of 2016 amounted to a little more than 70 billion rubles. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the materials of the Central Bank. Over the past year, the profit of the State Bank increased by almost 1.5 times - in 2015 it was at the level of 48.6 billion rubles. The retail “daughter” of VTB - “VTB 24” - increased net profit by 94 times compared to 2015, from 461 million to 43.13 billion rubles.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg satisfied the lawsuit of the city’s residents who asked to recognize illegally the installation of a memorial plaque to Admiral Alexander Kolchak. It is reported by Interfax . “To recognize the Decree of the Government of St. Petersburg on the establishment of a memorial plaque Kolchak and assign the obligation to dismantle it to the Culture Committee on the Culture of the Government of St. Petersburg,” the court said.

Roskomnadzor, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and cellular operators, developed amendments to the Law “On Communications”, which propose to introduce the term “messenger” and oblige the organizers of the dissemination of information on the Internet to identify users. The document got acquainted with the “Kommersant”.

An ambulance will receive the right to interrupt messages from radio stations in cars to contact drivers demanding to give way. The representative of the Department of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Fire Security of Moscow Sergey Martyshkov told about this to Kommersant.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, offered President Vladimir Putin more than 500 billion rubles of taxes in case of cancellation of the Gazprom monopoly on gas exports. About this writes RBC. On December 13, 2016, Sechin sent a letter to Putin, which says that Rosneft is negotiating with British Petrolium on the conclusion of a long -term contract for exporting gas through Germany, the publication reports.

The source of most of the report on the alleged compromising evidence of the US President Donald Trump was the president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in the United States Sergey Millin. This is written by Wall Street Journal with reference to a source familiar with the situation. According to the source, a US citizen of Belarusian descent Milli did not share information directly with the author of the dossier, a former British intelligence officer Christopher Steel.

The Museum-Reserve "Tauride Chersonesos" will be transferred to the use of the Russian Orthodox Church subject to the transfer of premises for museums. This was told by the head of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church with society and the media, Vladimir Legoyd.

The administration of the ex-president of the United States Barack Obama a few hours before the inauguration of the American leader Donald Trump notified Congress of his decision to allocate $ 221 million to Palestine. The Associated Press official told the State Department and several congressmen. The agency noted that the former US Secretary of State John Kerry learned about Obama's intention "shortly before that.

The Russian economy “practically guaranteed low but positive growth rates” in the absence of new external shocks. Such a forecast is contained in the January “monitoring of the economic situation”, prepared by experts of the Russian Academy of National Economy and the Presidential President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA), which received on the Republic on January 24.