Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was late for the first meeting of the nuclear security summit in the United States. As Vesti writes, he accused the pilots and dispatchers of the Andrews airbase of this. He "terribly" apologized and said that his plane circled in the sky for about an hour before he was given permission to land. However, the Flight Radar flight monitoring resource indicates that this is not true.

In October 2016, Cybathlon will be organized in Switzerland-the first competition in history among people using devices: mechanized prostheses of the arms or legs, manipulators with the interface of the brain-computer. The initiator of the event was the professor of the Swiss Higher Technical School Zurich Robert Riener.

Fermopiles in antiquity were the only passage from Northern Greece to the middle. The commander, who wanted to get south, was forced to lead his army along the narrow path between the mountain slope and the Gulf of Maliacos. Having visited these places these days, you can evaluate the width of the passage, while it should be remembered that in ancient times it was already significantly already. Where the highway takes place in the title photograph, the sea had already begun before.

On March 31, he turns 75 years old as a wonderful researcher- a folklorist, an anthropologist, orientalist Sergei Yuryevich Neklyudov. Polit.ru and the OGA publishing house join the congratulations to Sergei Yuryevich and wish many years of happy life and work among relatives, students and colleagues. The main stages Sergey Yuryevich was born on the eve of the war, March 31, 1941, in Moscow in a not very long marriage of two writers - Yuri Nikolayevich Libedinsky and Olga Sergeyevna Neklyudova.

A petition appeared on the website of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, in which it is proposed to rename the country into Kievan Rus. The author of the petition was a certain Galina Yashan. To consider her initiative, it is necessary to collect 25 thousand signatures in three months, while 105 people signed under the petition.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office sent to Interpol “additional materials for the declaration of the [ex-head of the Yukos] Mikhail Khodorkovsky on the wanted list on the channels of this international organization,” Izvestia was told by the head of the Main Directorate of International Legal Cooperation Saak Karapetyan. What materials were sent, he did not specify.

In the Miami hospital, at the age of 65, the British architect of Iraqi origin, Zakha Hadid, died. The cause of death was a heart attack, reports BBC News . The architect got to the hospital with bronchitis. Hadid designed the Center for Water Sports in London for the 2012 Olympics, the National Museum of Arts of the XXI century in Rome and other buildings in the style of deconstructivism. Her last work was the Dominion Tower business center, opened in Moscow in 2015.

The Ukrainian version of Forbes magazine has compiled the next rating of the most wealthy citizens of the country. In the sixth place in it is President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, whose condition is estimated by sources of $ 858 million and in 2015 increased by $ 100 million.

On March 31 (19), 1872, an outstanding figure in Russian art Sergey Diaghilev was born. Personal business Sergey Diaghilev, 1916 Photo: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev (1872 - 1929) was born in the village of Selishchi of the Novgorod province, where the headquarters was located in which his father, captain Pavel Diaghilev , served. Shortly after the birth, his mother, Evgenia Nikolaevna, fell ill and died.

The United States will increase the military presence in Eastern Europe in response to Russia's aggression, said the Commander -in -Chief of the United NATO armed forces in Europe, Philip British, AFP reports. The general noted that the United States is planning the deployment of an additional armored brigade in Eastern Europe. It is clarified that in early 2017, three fully equipped teams of 4200 people will be sent to Europe.

On March 30, 2016, as part of the joint cycle of the University of KGI and Polit.ru-“KGI: Ideas and Persons” a meeting was held with the DIALIS Director with the Director of the NIFI and a member of the Committee of Civil Initiatives (KGI) Vladimir Nazarov on the “Economic Factors of the Future”. We talked with Vladimir Nazarov after the meeting. You say that under the influence of current trends, globalization will intensify.

At least 10 people were injured as a result of undermining a police car in the city of Diyarbakyr in the southeast of Turkey, Reuters reports citing a source in security services. According to the Habertürk TV channel, which the agency leads, the explosion crashed near the bus stop. Diyarbakyr is the largest city in the region, mainly inhabited by the Kurds, with which Ankara has tense relations. According to Dogan , 14 people were injured as a result of the explosion.

Ilya Karpyuk Nikita Isaev International Media Club "Format A-3" The Federal Organizing Committee of United Russia, for preliminary voting, refused Nikita Isaev in the right to participate in the primaries, TASS reports.

The leadership of the Turkish volleyball club Galatasaray, which is part of the Sports Society of the same name, accused the Russian media, the Dynamo-Krasnodar club and his specific player Tatyana Koshelev in slander. We are talking about a message that Kosheleva posted in her Instagram account immediately after meeting with Turkish volleyball players on their field, telling about the aggressive behavior of fans and indecent gestures of the judge.

The Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the need to resume cooperation with Russia to solve regional problems, AP reports. The Turkish President stated that after September 24, a “difficult period” began in bilateral relations between countries, and cooling was observed even before the incident with the Russian Su-24 bomber shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the territory of Syria.