February 29, 2016, 19:57 / Economy / News The government has frozen the tariff for Platon for an unspecified period undefined Vedomosti The government has published a decree extending the tariff freeze for trucks weighing more than 12 tons on federal roads. The tariff of 1.53 rubles/km will be maintained for an unspecified period, the resolution says. Previously it was planned that it would increase to 3.06 rubles/km from March 1, 2016.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said today that the European Union will not automatically extend restrictive measures against Moscow: this will be preceded by a discussion of Russia's implementation of the Minsk agreements. "At the end of the first half of the year, we can expect serious discussions by EU countries on the Minsk agreements," the media quotes him as saying at a meeting with the heads of Hungarian diplomatic missions.

The animated film "Bear Story" by Chileans Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala has won the Oscar for "Best Animated Short Film," the BBC reports . The film, which tells the story of family tragedies during the time of Augusto Pinochet, beat out the Russian cartoon "We Can't Live Without Space" by director Konstantin Bronzit, who previously made "Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmey." The nomination also included the animated films "Prologue", "Sanjay and His Team" and "World of Tomorrow".

February 29, 2016, 18:31 / Economics A bill has been introduced to the Duma to tighten the procedure for the seizure of unused agricultural land Vedomosti A bill on tightening the procedure for the seizure of unused agricultural land has been submitted to the Duma for consideration, TASS reports. The bill was prepared by United Russia deputies led by faction leader Vladimir Vasilyev, vice-speaker Sergei Neverov and chairman of the committee on agrarian issues Nikolai Pankov.

The current President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna" Yulia Tymoshenko and the leader of the Radical Party Oleh Lyashko make up the top three leaders in the electoral preferences of Ukrainians, according to the results of a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).

February 29, 2016, 12:12 / Finance Bank of America plans new cuts in investment division – FT Vedomosti Bank of America intends to cut jobs in the division that deals with capital markets operations and investment banking activities, reports Interfax , citing the Financial Times. According to the newspaper's sources, more than 5% of the employees traditionally laid off in this division may be fired.

Most Iranians approve of the country's emergence from isolation and the end of its standoff with the West. Voters, who felt their lives had improved since the lifting of sanctions, supported the country's leadership's course toward returning to the world community. Photo. Parliamentary Elections and the Council of Experts of Iran Politics / Photo On Friday, elections were held in Iran for the Majlis (parliament) and the Council of Experts (terms of office are four and eight years, respectively).

In Novosibirsk, the boom of a crawler crane fell on a residential building. As Interfax reports , citing the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, this happened at about 8:00 Moscow time in the Central District; house 63 on Krylova Street was damaged. The boom damaged the glazing from the fourth to the seventh floors. A car parked nearby was damaged. No one was hurt.

“West is West, East is East, and they cannot come together,” said Rudyard Kipling. And if everything is more or less clear to us with the West, then the East is much more diverse than one might imagine. And the differences between China, India, Japan, Central Asia and the Middle East are much greater than those of each of these regions with the generalized West, which includes Russia.

February 28, 2016, 23:12 / Business Rosseti may pay dividends for the first time in history The holding's management stated that the company is ready to return half of its net profit under IFRS to shareholders Ivan Peschinsky Rosseti brought in dividends / E. Razumny / Vedomosti “We are turning a profit,” Rosseti CEO Oleg Budargin boasted on Friday (quoted by Interfax). And he announced that the company was ready to pay dividends for the first time since 2013 if the government ordered it.

February 28, 2016, 22:28 / Economics / Investigations Will London be able to maintain its status as a global financial center? A possible exit of Great Britain from the EU will lead to a fall in the pound and an outflow of investors Mikhail Overchenko Leaving the EU will significantly increase the risk of a recession in the UK, economists warn / Toby Melville / REUTERS The UK joined the European Union more than 40 years ago. But on June 23, this decision may be revised.

Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin announced through his press service the beginning of compensation payments to the families of those killed in the accident at the Severnaya mine. According to him, a one-time insurance payment of 1 million rubles has already been made to the families of three deceased workers of OAO Vorkutaugol from the funds of the Social Insurance Fund of Russia.

February 28, 2016, 11:05 pm / Business The Federal Property Management Agency wants to sell a controlling stake in Bashneft and about 19% of Alrosa According to the Ministry of Finance, this will bring about 300 billion rubles Galina Starinskaya Vitaly Petlevoy Bashneft together with Alrosa will replenish the budget by 300 billion rubles.

February 29, 2016, 16:37 / Finance The Central Bank proposes to allow bank owners to participate in their reorganization Vedomosti The Central Bank of Russia proposes to allow bank owners to undergo reorganization and advocates the creation of favorable conditions for this. First Deputy Chairman of the regulator Alexey Simanovsky stated this in the Federation Council.

February 29, 2016, 00:31 / Technologies Drones are becoming popular entertainment devices In Russia, as well as throughout the world, their sales grow exponentially every year Valery Kodachigov Unmanned aerial vehicles are becoming an increasingly common device / Dean Hutton / Bloomberg Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) go beyond advanced toys or “flying tripods” for photography and videography.