The World Hockey Championship kicked off with a Group A match between the US and French national teams. The Americans immediately began to attack the goal of the 2010 Stanley Cup winner in Chicago, Cristobal Hue. For the time being, the French managed to fight back; even two minorities passed for them without tangible consequences. And then the European team suddenly took the lead. The first goal of the world championship was scored by defender Nicolas Besh .

Sport Canada played well Team Canada beat Slovakia at the World Cup Ruslan Aliev close Ladd scores the winning goal Peter Hamerlik misses Jordan Eberle's shot Tavares fell under Christian Kudroc Cam Ward had a bit of trouble Belarusians defend with the whole team You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos In the opening match of the World Hockey Championship, the Canadian team beat the Slovak team with a minimal advantage. Andrew Ladd scored the winning goal.

The Rotenberg brothers won a major tender to supply pipes to Gazprom. During the tender for the purchase of large-diameter pipes (LDP), the results of which were summed up on April 19, the gas monopoly purchased about 780 thousand tons of pipes, paying more than 64.3 billion rubles (about $2.18 billion) for them. The main share (487.5 thousand tons) came from the products of the trader “Northern European Pipe Project” (SETP, controlled by brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg ).

04 May 2012, 14:10 Business The MICEX index fell below 1400 points index The MICEX fell below 1,400 points for the first time since the end of December last year, oil futures continue to fall. By 14.05 Moscow time, the MICEX fell by 3.05% to 1399.8 points. The RTS also decreased by 2.89%, amounting to 1515.02 points. Brent crude futures fell 0.83% to $115.12 per barrel. WTI fell 1.15% to $101.36.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed with the lists of candidates for the positions of heads of Buryatia, Stavropol, Perm Territory, Leningrad and Yaroslavl regions, which were presented to him on Friday by the leadership of United Russia, Interfax reports . According to a message on the Kremlin website, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Volodin sent a corresponding notification to the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia.

05 May 2012, 12:22 Politics “Any result will be a surprise” Interview with French political scientist Eddie Fougier about the prospects for the second round of presidential elections in France Alexander Artemyev close 100% The second round of the presidential election will take place in France on Sunday. Socialist Francois Hollande remained the leader in the polls the day before, several percentage points ahead of incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Swedish furniture giant IKEA used Cuban prison labor in the 1980s, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . According to the newspaper, citing archival documents from the GDR Ministry of State Security, furniture made in Cuban prisons was later sent to IKEA stores in East Germany. The corresponding agreement was signed in September 1987, when a delegation from the GDR flew to Havana to meet with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Cuba.

The RTS index on Friday fell by 2.86%, to 1,515.54 points by the afternoon, compared to Thursday’s close. Almost all liquid securities are becoming cheaper. Shares of Gazprom fell by 2.42%, Sberbank - by 1.71%, VTB - by 3.57%, Rosneft - by 3.12%, Norilsk Nickel is losing 2.79%, " RusHydro - 4.61%, Surgutneftegaz - 3.96%. The Russian market is leading the decline: world markets are losing no more than a percentage point, while Asian stock exchanges have grown.

Samsung Corporation presented the new Samsung Galaxy III gadget at a presentation in London. The South Korean company plans to double smartphone sales thanks to the new product, and also expects that the smartphone will not cause new patent disputes, since “new technologies” were used in its development. The smartphone has a more powerful processor than previous models - quad-core Samsung Exynos. The Super Amoled screen diagonal is 4.8 inches, the screen resolution is 1280 by 720 pixels.

Mail.ru Group , controlled by the richest Russian, Alisher Usmanov, and the DST funds created by Usmanov, Yuri Milner and their partners, will take part in the IPO of the social network Facebook, selling part of their shares in the world's largest social network. DST intends to sell more than 26 million shares, according to the Facebook IPO prospectus.

The cost of futures for American WTI oil fell by 2.54% and broke through the $100 per barrel mark for the first time since February, Bloomberg reports . By 17.40 Moscow time, the WTI price dropped to $99,940. London Brent crude also lost 1.71% to trade at $114,100. The fall in oil prices is due to the fact that in April its reserves in the United States reached a maximum in 21 years, Bloomberg notes .

Three Ufa residents who were going to the “March of Millions” in Moscow and were detained on Friday at the city’s railway station were each given three days of arrest. Activist Georgy Alburov reported this to Gazeta.Ru. Seven more oppositionists detained at the station were released without charges. According to Alburov, the detainees were arrested for petty hooliganism.

The UK Ministry of Justice is calling on the country's largest companies to hire more former prisoners, Sky News reports . This idea comes from Justice Minister Ken Clarke, with whom the heads of 40 major companies are due to meet this week. Clark said there was a need to help ex-offenders improve their living conditions after leaving prison.

The All-Russian Popular Front will hold a mass event in Moscow on Sunday dedicated to the anniversary of its creation, the ONF website informs, RIA Novosti reports . “In Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill, as part of the celebration of the Day of the Coat of Arms and Flag of Moscow, an event dedicated to the anniversary of the creation of the All-Russian Popular Front will be held.

The driver of a car with special signals, assigned to Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Kiryanov, was found guilty of an accident with a passenger car in the center of Moscow, told RIA Novosti a representative of the press service of the Main Directorate for Road Safety of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs on Friday . “Today a review of this incident took place.