TV presenter Ivan Urgant apologized to the direct television before the “Communists of Russia” for comic statements about Vladimir Lenin. Apologies sounded in the release of the “Evening Urgant” program on Channel One on the evening of March 14. Recall, on the eve of the same TV show Urgant and his co -host Dmitry Khrustalev spoke about Lenin, including the restoration of his monument in the Krasnodar Territory.

The mayor of Lviv Andrei Sadovy, whom the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called one of the candidates in the premiere, it was no coincidence that he refused to nominate to the post: the situation in which he could be in case of success could cost him a further political future.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government Dmitry Kozak instructed the Ministry of Energy and Construction by March 17 to evaluate the damage caused by the authorities of the Tyumen and Chelyabinsk regions, where long-term heat supply schemes were not adopted. This was reported on Tuesday by Kommersant with reference to its own sources. The discussion is also participated in the Ministry of Economy and the Prosecutor General.

A group of scientists from the USA and China has created a new method of combating malignant tumors metastases. So far, he was tested only on laboratory mice and showed high efficiency. Researchers believe that over the next year they will be able to move on to tests in public. The new method uses the drug, known since the late 1960s, which was previously used for chemical therapy of various types of tumors. Doxorubicin affects DNA of tumor cells, preventing their further division.

The last seven days in Seoul took the match for the game of one of the best modern professional players Lee Sedol and the Alphago artificial intelligence system developed by Google Deepmind. In the first batch, Lee Sedol had an advantage in the beginning, but, having made an unexpectedly strong move, Alphago managed to turn the situation and win. The victory of Alphago ended in the second and third parties, in the fourth defeated Lee Sedol.

The Norwegian court began consideration by Anders Breivik’s complaint that he was kept in “inhuman” conditions and torture, BBC reports. Breivik complained to the court that he spends most of his time in a single chamber, handcuffs were put on him too often, and also subjected to searches. According to the convict’s lawyer, Breivik intends to mitigate the conditions of detention: he wants to start communicating with other prisoners and get the right to correspondence.

The Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications of Russia criticized the bill on the work of news aggregators, writes Vedomosti with reference to the review of the department. Experts of the Ministry of Communications came to the conclusion that the requirement prescribed in the bill is preoccupied with all news materials is not fulfilled technically.

The restoration of the Novodevichy Monastery and work in ancient Izborsk became the reason to initiate a criminal case and detain the FSB by Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov. Vladimir Medinsky, who brought Pirumova to the ministry in 2012, hesitates with a reaction, but the Ministry of Culture’s press service said that in recent years the restoration industry under the leadership of Pirumov has achieved significant success.

At the Russian air base, Khmeimim in Syria began to prepare aircraft for flight in the Russian Federation. This was reported in the press release of the press service and information of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which received the Polit.ru editorial office. On military transport aircraft began to load equipment, material and technical means and property.

The Anonymous hacker group declared a “total war” to billionaire Donald Trump, running for the presidency of the United States, and threatened to destroy his election company, this is stated in the video posted on the group of groups on YouTube .

Free from vegetation areas of a characteristic shape, previously noted only in southern Africa, are now found in Australia. The find confirms the hypothesis that explains their appearance. For several decades, environmentalists tried to explain the appearance of witch circles (Fairy Circles) on the pastures of South Africa. Circles are sections devoid of vegetation, on the boundaries of which grass usually grows higher than in the rest of the space.

Withdrawing troops from Syria, Russia escaped retraction into the “Afghan version” of the development of events, while retaining the possibility of participating in negotiations. This was stated by Polit.ru Alexei Makarkin, the first vice-president of the Center for Political Technologies and the Chief Editor Politkom.ru, commenting on the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Syria. “I think that the development of the situation in Syria had two options: maximum and minimal.

Law enforcement agencies do not see a four -year -old girl in Moscow, who suspect her nanny, communications with extremists. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. According to the interlocutor of the agency, a suspect mentally unhealthy. From Uzbekistan, a native of which is a woman, a confirmation was obtained about her schizophrenia. The source said that the nanny changed testimony several times.

The maternity capital program did not know the fertility in Russia, Kommersant writes with reference to the results of the study of the Higher School of Economics (HSE). As the publication explains, families in which the second child appeared for the payment of maternity capital. In total, since 2007, when the program began to operate, more than 6 million people used it, the costs of the program exceeded 1 trillion rubles.

One of the leaders of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia Abu Umar Ash-Shishani died after the injury received as a result of the airier of the international coalition forces in Syria, CNN reports with reference to sources in the US government. The interlocutors of the publication could not report any details, and also did not specify how they knew about the death of the field commander.