Sergei Bobrovsky was the first Russian to win the Vezina Trophy, a prize awarded to the best goalie at the end of the season in the National Hockey League (NHL). Bobrovsky, together with the Columbus Blue Jackets, had an excellent season, claiming to be in the playoffs until the very end.

The police did not find any weapons in the cars of the wedding convoys detained earlier on June 16 on suspicion of shooting in the air while driving along the Moscow Ring Road. reports this Interfax with reference to the press service of the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Law enforcement officials are considering a false call as one of the versions.

The Russian government will allocate 300 million rubles for additional security measures during the Unified State Exam in 2014, ITAR-TASS reports citing Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets. According to her, more versions of the Unified State Exam will be prepared, and if questions are leaked, compromised versions will be replaced with new ones.

The winner of the annual competition for the title of “Miss USA” was a representative from the state of Connecticut, reports the Associated Press . The final stage of the competition took place on the evening of June 16 in Las Vegas. Miss USA 2013 was crowned 25-year-old Erin Brady from South Glastonbury. As a prize, the winner of the competition received a crown and an apartment in New York for a year.

Star Wars creator George Lucas won an Emmy Award for his animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. BBC News reports this. The cartoon won in the Outstanding Special Class Animated Program category. This is the first Emmy Award of Lucas's career. The prize was presented to him by Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy.

American billionaire Robert Kraft's story that Russian President Vladimir Putin stole his Super Bowl ring in 2005 was a joke. This was reported on the evening of June 16 on the website of the National Football League of the United States with reference to the official representative of the New England Patriots football club, Stacy James, owned by Kraft.

BBC Türkçe has stopped broadcasting television in Turkey due to local broadcaster NTV's interference in its editorial policies. The official statement from the BBC was published on Friday, June 14. The BBC has stopped cooperating with NTV, which broadcasts BBC Türkçe, due to NTV's decision not to broadcast the Dunya Gundemi (World Agenda) program.

Over the weekend, a culinary championship called the “Pilaf Summit” took place at the Dorogomilovsky market in Moscow. Guests of the competition were treated to pilaf and entertained with songs, dances and an oriental bazaar. The jury, who was also not left without refreshments, had to choose the best pilaf in the city based on the voting data. Read about how it all went in the Lenta.doc report.

The acting head of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, has been nominated for mayor of the capital. He submitted the documents to the Moscow City Election Commission, Interfax reports . Sergei Sobyanin invited the remaining candidates to sign a kind of “memorandum on fair elections.” The document is not ready yet. Its development is being carried out by the acting headquarters. mayor.

In the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the nuns who visited it disappeared, reports Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine. Information about the disappearance of women - the 52-year-old abbess of the Holy Protection Monastery and her 31-year-old assistant - appeared in the media on the morning of Monday, June 17. The police and rescuers were involved in the search for the nuns.

Publisher Electronic Arts has closed the Danger Close studio, which developed the last two games in the Medal of Honor series. This was reported by the Videogamer portal. As company representatives noted, some employees have currently left EA, and some have been transferred to other branches of the publishing house. Thus, even earlier it was reported that several developers from Danger Close moved to the Los Angeles branch of the DICE studio.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a new case regarding the theft of money allocated for the implementation of the GLONASS program. This was reported on the UK website on June 17.

The Chui Valley is a place no less legendary than, for example, Baikonur, although it is associated primarily not with the cities that are located in it, and not with the achievements of local agricultural producers. In the popular consciousness, this area, divided between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, is associated primarily with the wild hemp growing here, which has pronounced psychotropic properties.

In the Canadian city of Regina, Saskatchewan, veterinarians came to the aid of six baby squirrels who were locked in their tails and could not untangle themselves. This incident, which occurred in early June, was reported on the Yahoo! News. At the clinic, the squirrels were given a sedative and the fur from their tails was trimmed where it was particularly matted. The whole procedure took approximately 20 minutes.

In Ukraine, they proposed introducing criminal liability for “political pimping.” Such a proposal, as Kommersant-Ukraine writes, was made by deputies from the opposition party Batkivshchyna. The oppositionists have already registered the corresponding bill in the Verkhovna Rada (at the time of writing this note, its text had not yet been published on the parliament’s website).