Professor Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck is the first woman to receive the Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious international mathematical awards, and many consider the Nobel Prize in mathematics. The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters announced in Oslo that Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas at Austin has been named the recipient of this year's award. She received NOK 6 million ($704,000), according to HuffPost .

Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Batu Khasikov as Acting Head of Kalmykia. This was reported in the press service of the Kremlin. Previously, since 2010, the region was headed by Alexei Orlov, who today voluntarily submitted his resignation. Batu Khasikov is a multiple world professional kickboxing champion, since 2017 he has been an adviser to the head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.

On March 20, Prime Minister Theresa May asked for a three-month Brexit delay after she failed to get the UK Brexit deal ratified by Parliament. It is reported by Reuters agency . May sent a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk asking him to delay the UK's exit from the EU until June 30. “I am not ready to delay Brexit any longer than June 30,” May said at a parliamentary meeting.

The data department and Novaya Gazeta volunteers found 50,000 court decisions that match almost verbatim. As the publication notes , to describe theft, beating or murder, judges usually use standard constructions such as “on the basis of a sudden personal dislike”, “as part of an organized group” or “realizing the wrongfulness of their deliberate actions”, but almost the entire text of one court decision cannot coincide with another when it comes to different people and circumstances.

The head of the Republic of Altai, Alexander Berdnikov, submitted an application for voluntary early resignation to the President of Russia. He explained the filing of the application , among other things, by “transferring to another job.” Berdnikov emphasized that the resignation was voluntary. “As before, I am ready to continue serving my small homeland in any other capacity,” he said. , Boris Dubrovsky, resigned On March 19, the head of the Chelyabinsk region . O.

Official Moscow, on this occasion, one must think, froze on tiptoe for a long time. Such a vital experiment for Putin is not shown live every day! Kazakhstan has a new president. But even if the thirty-year era of Nazarbayev were not rolling today for fun, Tokayev’s first steps would still depend entirely on his predecessor: too much would have to be corrected (well, or taken on his political balance). • Kazakhstan. Political prisoners.

The capital of Kazakhstan was simply called "Capital", but everyone understood that this was the city of Nursultan Astana in Kazakh is simply “capital”. Historically, the place was called Ak Mola (white grave). In tsarist and early Soviet times - Akmolinsk (and there was the infamous ALZHIR - Akmola camp for wives of traitors to the motherland nearby), then the city was solemnly named Tselinograd (therefore, the airport is still TSE there, it seems).

Russia was ranked 68th in the list of the happiest countries in the world (World Happiness Report), which is presented by the UN unit for finding solutions for sustainable development. Compared to last year, Russia dropped by nine positions, and by 19 from the year before last, Meduza notes . This year, Russia was ranked between Pakistan and the Philippines. Finland topped the ranking for the second time in a row.

The prosecutor's office in Nice has again filed charges against Russian Senator Suleiman Kerimov. He has already come to the Côte d'Azur to familiarize himself with the new charge and pay a new bail, RFI reports , citing the Nice-Matin newspaper . This time, Karimov is accused of "complicity in tax evasion." The publication writes that Kerimov appeared at the call of the court investigators in Nice, who brought him a new charge. The amount of the pledge is set at €20 million.

On March 20, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin) and Vyacheslav Drokov in the case of organizing a criminal community. Barsukov was charged under Part 1 of Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Organization of a criminal community (criminal organization) or participation in it (her)”), he received 24 years in prison with a sentence in a penal colony with a fine of 1 million rubles, Interfax reports .

However, for Russia, it is not so much the full undercover intrigue alignment within Kazakhstan that is important, but the very fact of the voluntary resignation of the “otcanation” I keep reading what they write about the transit of power in Kazakhstan. Of course, I have no rosy illusions about Nazarbayev.

Falling rating trap: only dangerous ways to return the president’s high rating remain, says political strategist and publicist Vitaly Shklyarov Over the past few months, approximately since November 2018, the authorities have been actively "playing" with Putin's image. Obviously, some new (as well as "well-forgotten" old) solutions were being tested in order to stop and even reverse the long-term decline in the president's rating that began back in May-June last year.

The Tribunal in The Hague sentenced former President of the Republic of Serbian Bosnia and Herzegovina Radovan Karadzic to life imprisonment. This was reported on March 20 by the Associated Press . In 2016, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced Karadzic to 40 years in prison. Then he was found guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Parliament of Kazakhstan adopted a bill on renaming the capital of the Republic of Astana to Nursultan. It is reported by TASS . Earlier, the new president of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, came up with this initiative . He also proposed to perpetuate the name of the country's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, in the names of the central streets of large cities. Now Tokayev must sign the amendments to the Constitution adopted by the parliament.

The Center for Combating Extremism checks the performance of Theatre.doc "Kantgrad", which is based on the memories of Soviet special settlers. According to MBKh Media , on March 20, the artists were supposed to play a play on the stage of the theater studio "Children of Paradise". But the day before, a district police officer and two employees of the E center came to the head of the studio, Natalya Turovskaya.