The Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in the sixth game of the final playoff series of the National Hockey League and won the Stanley Cup. The meeting ended with a score of 2:0. Photo: Reuters The goals were scored by Duncan Keith in the 38th minute and Patrick Kane in the 55th. The score in the best-of-five series was 4-2 in favor of the Blackhawks. Chicago won the Stanley Cup for the sixth time in history. Illinois previously won the trophy in 1934, 1938, 1961, 2010 and 2013.

shelf LUKOIL's offshore fields are becoming one of the main factors in the company's production growth in the medium term. The total volume of investments in all offshore projects of the largest domestic private oil and gas company, as of the end of 2014, amounted to 178 billion rubles, and in the next ten years LUKOIL estimates its investments in this direction at another 700 billion rubles.

The information department and press service of the head of the Republic of Crimea announced the resignation of the Minister of Economic Development of Crimea Nikolai Koryazhkin. “Nikolai Koryazhkin wrote a letter of resignation, after which the head of Crimea Sergei Valerievich Aksenov signed a decree of resignation. It is assumed that Demidov will take the post of Minister of Economic Development,” the press service told RIA Novosti . .

Volgograd budget expenses increased by 600 million rubles Deputies of the Volgograd Duma have adjusted the city budget for the current year. As reported by the press service of the city parliament, the deputies supported the draft decision to amend the main financial document of the regional center at the last meeting of the legislative body. Thus, the expenditure and revenue parts of the budget have been increased by almost 600 million rubles.

OJSC Interregional Grid Company of Center and Volga Region (IDGC of Center and Volga Region) reduced the payment of dividends at the end of 2014 by 1.8 times compared to 2013. Shareholders at the annual meeting decided to pay dividends in the amount of 0.0031 rubles. per ordinary share, Interfax reports. At the end of 2013, payments amounted to 0.00563 rubles. for each ordinary share. A total of 1.4 billion rubles are distributed. net profit.

AFK announced negotiations between SSTL and RCOM AFK Sistema is negotiating the merger of its Indian subsidiary, the mobile operator Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd. (SSTL) with its competitor Reliance Communications (RCOM). In an optimistic scenario, AFK will receive up to 10% in the merged company. The Federal Property Management Agency's stake in SSTL, which currently stands at 17.14%, may be diluted to 3%.

57% of Russian entrepreneurs believe in economic development. This data is provided by the consulting company E&Y. 73 managers of Russian enterprises took part in the survey. The biggest concerns among businessmen are the growth of political instability and the high volatility of the currency and commodity markets. Chairman of the public organization Business Solidarity Yana Yakovleva spoke with Kommersant FM host Svetlana Tokareva.

The candidates received party lists rather than districts Voronezh United Russia members are trying to prevent a conflict around the results of the primaries for the selection of candidates for deputies to the city duma of the regional center. In several constituencies, the losers complained of bribery and organized transportation of electors.

Context Even on the eve of UN-mediated negotiations on a settlement in Yemen that started yesterday in Geneva, few believed in their success. The consultations were supposed to take place at the end of May, but were postponed several times due to the fact that the parties to the conflict either refused to participate altogether or put forward mutually unacceptable preliminary demands. On Monday evening it became known that the Houthi delegation had not arrived at the start of the negotiations.

The police are immediately checking eight RIO shopping centers in Moscow after receiving calls about explosive devices, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti . According to him, according to preliminary data, all calls about mining came from the territory of Ukraine. Yesterday, an unknown person also anonymously threatened to blow up RIO stores in Moscow, as well as in Yaroslavl. Police evacuated people from shopping centers.

Moscow will host the European Figure Skating Championships in 2018, according to the official website of the International Skating Union (ISU). The tournament will take place from January 15 to 21. Previously, Moscow hosted the European Championship only once - in 1965. In 2015, the European Championship was held in Stockholm (Sweden), next year the tournament will be held in Bratislava (Slovakia), and in 2017 the competition will be hosted by Ostrava (Czech Republic). "R-Sport"

The defendants in the high-profile theft case were sentenced The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow yesterday handed down a verdict in a high-profile case of the theft of 39.5 million rubles allocated from the budget for the preparation of the APEC summit, as well as the attempted theft of another 60 million rubles.

The Pervomaisky district department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Rostov region has completed the investigation of a criminal case initiated against two natives of Uzbekistan who are accused of crimes of a sexual nature, the department’s press service reported.

Kazan can host the 2016 World Curling Championship in the mixed discipline, said the President of the Russian Curling Federation (RFC) Dmitry Svishchev. The world championship is scheduled to be held from October 15 to 22. In April, the World Double Mixed Curling Championship was held in Sochi. “I think we have every chance to get the world championship in the mixed discipline in 2016. This discipline is not an Olympic event, but it is interesting and exciting in its own way.

Amur communists were left without a candidate for governor Yuri Fokin On Saturday, at an extraordinary conference of the Amur regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Communists planned to officially announce the nomination of the former head of the regional Internal Affairs Directorate, Major General Reserve Yuri Fokin, as a candidate for governor of the Amur region. Early elections for the head of the region are scheduled for September; Mr.