The famous Georgian defender Kakha Kaladze decided to hang up his boots. After 18 years in professional football, Kaladze, who most recently played for Genoa, announced his retirement. The 34-year-old football player decided to quit sports in order to start a political career in Georgia. “This is an important and exciting day for me,” Kaladze wrote on his Facebook page. — I decided to end my playing career. Thanks to Genoa, Milan, my teammates and rivals, journalists and fans who supported me.

Japanese scientists from Tohoku University have created an arterial pump for an artificial heart that can be controlled remotely. Local media reported this. The arterial pump is activated using a special device that creates a magnetic field. Despite its small size (about the size of a C battery, only 50 mm long), the new pump is capable of pumping 5 liters of blood per minute, just like a real human heart.

In the new mobile operating system iOS 6, Apple will abandon Google Maps, replacing them with its own mapping application, reports the portal 9to5mac , citing “trustworthy sources.” The design of the program will be similar to Google Maps, which was used in the OS for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, but it will work faster, cleaner and more reliable, sources say. Most likely, Apple maps will provide a panoramic street view similar to Google's Street View.

12 May 2012, 13:25 Society Three shareholders were detained at an unauthorized rally in front of the Government House of the Moscow Region Three people were detained at an unauthorized rally of shareholders of the Noginsk region in front of the Government House of the Moscow Region in Krasnogorsk.

The IIHF Disciplinary Committee met in Stockholm on Saturday morning. The main issue on the agenda was the disqualification of Russian team defenders Dmitry Kalinin and Alexey Emelin . In the match against the Swedes, Emelin in the first period stabbed Johan Franzen with his stick, for which he received a minor fine, and Kalinin in the final third “carried out” the same Franzen from the “nickel”, for which he received a match penalty.

People who eat large amounts of fish have a lower risk of developing colon and rectal cancer, according to scientists from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (USA) in an article in the American Journal of Medicine , which is covered by Compulenta " . The conclusion was made based on the results of an analysis of 41 studies published from 1990 to 2011.

Sport “Ours endured the Swedes” Gazeta.Ru expert Andrey Pyatanov about the victory over the Swedes Oleg Koshelev (Stockholm) close Russian national team coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov Russians celebrate a goal Evgeni Malkin in attack Evgeni Malkin celebrates a goal Fighting on the Russian "pyatak" You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos Commenting on the victory of the Russian team over the Swedes at the World Championship, Gazeta.Ru expert Andrei Pyatanov said that our team

The opposition will nominate a single candidate in all regional elections. about this on the air of the State Department-2 spoke “Socialist Revolutionary” Dmitry Gudkov show . “Yashin and I are taking the initiative to create a permanent headquarters of the united opposition... We will do everything so that the opposition has a single candidate,” Gudkov said.

12 May 2012, 14:02 Politics 100 thousand rubles for charges of terrorist attack Yulia Taberio (Makhachkala) Abdulkhalim Abdulkarimov, who was acquitted in the case of a terrorist attack in the Dagestan Kaspiysk on May 9, 2002, will receive 100 thousand rubles from the state as compensation for moral damage.

The St. Petersburg distribution company Imperia-Pharma acquired one of the assets of Georgian billionaire Boris Ivanishvili - the Doctor Stoletov pharmacy chain - for $70 million, a source in the pharmaceutical market told the Prime agency . Imperia-Pharma bought the Doctor Stoletov chain. The transaction value is estimated at approximately $70 million,” the source said.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region at an extraordinary meeting on Saturday vested Vice-Governor Alexander Drozdenko with the powers of head of the region. reports this . RIA Novosti Drozdenko's candidacy was submitted by the Russian President to the regional parliament for consideration on May 5. The Leningrad region has been headed by Valery Serdyukov since 1998; his term of office officially expires on July 9, 2012.

Experts from Linköping University (Sweden) found that foods with a high amount of fat and low carbohydrate content lower blood sugar and lipid levels and may be useful for diabetics, reports Compulenta, citing a publication in the journal Diabetologia . The two-year study involved 61 people.

Hollywood stars raised $15 million for Barack Obama's presidential campaign , BBC reports . The Obama campaign dinner was hosted at the home of actor George Clooney . Those in attendance included Barbra Streisand , Robert Downey , Jack Black , Billy Crystal, Selma Hayek and designer Diane von Furstenberg. Many of the 150 guests invited to the dinner paid $40 thousand. In total, the charity dinner raised $15 million, which is a record for such events.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home after a course of radiation therapy in Cuba, where he was treated for cancer, reports Reuters . Chavez, who has spoken in public only once in the past month, told people in his country that he was feeling much better. “I can tell you that over the past few days we have successfully completed the course of radiation therapy as planned by the doctors,” the president said.

Moscow's Presnensky Court upheld the 15-day administrative arrest of blogger Alexei Navalny for disobeying the police during his arrest on Kudrinskaya Square on the night of May 9. As an Interfax correspondent reports, the court thus rejected the cassation appeal of Navalny’s defense. The judge rejected the defense's request to subpoena the police officers who detained the blogger.