The vocalist of the British rock band Iron Maiden Bruce Dikinson the day before completed the course of chemo- and radiotherapy, which took place due to the detection of a malignant tumor of the tongue. This was reported on the website of the group. The tumor of a 56-year-old musician was discovered during a planned examination in December last year. After the analyzes and the biopsy confirmed the diagnosis, Dikinson underwent a seven -editing course of treatment.

The official representative of the US State Department Jen Psaki leaves the foreign policy in connection with pregnancy. According to AP , on April 1, Psaki will become the director of communications in the administration of the President of Barack Obama. The White House said that 36-year-old Psaki expects the birth of a child in July this year. After the transition to a new position, she will have the same status as the press secretary of the President Josh Ernest.

An employee of the Lawrence University of Technology, an algorithm of visual information analysis , Lior Shamir created a program that, according to him, is able to distinguish fake and real paintings by Jackson Pollock. The problem of fakes of Pollock paintings is very acute, since the “spraying technique” used by the artist can be easily mastered even by the child. This fact does not give rest to many critics of Pollock, who refuse his works in the right to be called art.

The VISA International Payment System has entered into an agreement on the provision of operating and clearing services in Russia from JSC JSC (NSPK) JSC. According to the agreement, the VISA cards in the country will carry out the NPC processing center, the Bank of Russia reported . In January, the regulator announced the conclusion of an agreement on the transfer of processing into the NSPK with the MasterCard system.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Energy and Gazprom to prepare proposals for gas supplies to the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics as humanitarian assistance. It is reported by Interfax .

Alexander Tushkin Russian Startup Tour logo In Nizhny Novgorod, the third stage of the All-Russian startup tour -the largest project in the country to search for startups that implement innovative projects in the field of high technologies ended. The key organizer of the event is the Skolkovo Foundation. The Polit.ru correspondent tells how it was . A mixture of innovative with Nizhny Novgorod Russian Startup Tour has been held since 2011.

US President Barack Obama, at the Summit in the fight against extremism in Washington, said that the American authorities are opposed not to Islam, but to the terrorists who perverted religion. It is reported by National Journal. According to Obama, the leaders of the Islamic State are not religious leaders. He noted that no religion is responsible for terrorism and violence, unlike people. Obama also emphasized the importance of preventing recruitment from the militants.

The GAZ group (included in the “basic element” of Oleg Deripaska) plans to contact the government in the near future to receive 25 billion rubles in the form of state guarantees. Forbes writes about this with reference to unnamed federal officials. According to them, the Vice President of Gaza Elena Matveeva spoke of the need for state support for the company during a meeting of the Government Commission for Economic Development and Integration.

Four troops of the Russian Navy were found guilty of state treason for the transfer of secret data. This was reported by Interfax with reference to an informed source. “The convicts are currently serving a sentence. In the framework of this case, senior officers of the Navy, Zakhary Agapishvili, Sergey Danilchenko and two more military personnel: Levan Charkviani and Konstantin Yashin, ”the interlocutor of the news agency, were sentenced to real terms of imprisonment.

The Krasnodar court sentenced to nine years and two months a colony, as well as a fine of 240 million rubles of a former official of the administration of the Krasnodar Territory Igor Zagreb, found guilty of receiving bribes for 4 million rubles, RIA Novosti reported. The regional prosecutor's office said that Zagreba headed the licensing, declaring and monitoring of alcohol turnover.

Ilya Karpyuk The Senate of Kazakhstan joined the Assembly of the people of Kazakhstan and officially sent an appeal to the head of state Nursultan Nazarbayev to resign ahead of schedule in order to hold early presidential elections in the country. Naturally, no one is going to remove Nazarbayev - it is assumed that he will take part in the elections and will win a confident victory.

Alexandra Bruther Grebnevik Derek Keats/Flickr A group of scientists from the United States traced the evolution of potassium channels - important elements of the nervous system, and concluded that many of them appeared almost in modern form about 600 million years ago, the common ancestor of almost all modern species of animals, except the most primitive. Among the animals living and living today, due to extreme primitiveness, the nervous system is absent in sponges and plate .

The head of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation on drug control Viktor Ivanov is sure that the department will retain his independence. This is reported by Interfax . According to Ivanov, FSKN in connection with the decisions of the Russian authorities prepared proposals for optimizing the number. “We are already working on it. Reducing by 10-15% is my optimization proposal.

Ukrainian Nadezhda Savchenko , accused in Russia of involvement in the deaths of VGTRK journalists near Lugansk, asked for examination by the international consultation of doctors. This was announced by her lawyer Nikolai Polozov, reports TASS . “Nadezhda Savchenko turned to the consul of Ukraine and in PACE to conduct an independent examination by an international independent consultation of doctors of various specialties, including a cardiologist and a gastroenterologist,” said Polozov.

Polit.ru conducts a traditional survey on the VKontakte social network. This time he is dedicated to the initiative of the Ministry of Labor about the phased increase in the retirement age for men and women to 63 years by six months a year. Readers are invited to answer the question of at what age they would prefer to retire.