The Russian national ice hockey team defeated the Norwegian national team with a score of 6:2 in the first match of the World Ice Hockey Championship. Forward Viktor Tikhonov was recognized as the best player in the Russian team. In the first period, the Russians scored four goals, in the second the teams exchanged two goals, the third 20-minute ended without goals.

The Russian national team won the first match of the Ice Hockey World Championship The Ice Hockey World Championship in the Czech Republic begins for Russia with a meeting with the Norwegian team. The favorite in the match is obvious - the task of Norway in the tournament will be to stay among the 16 best national teams in the world, while Russia has no other goal than gold medals.

The Canadian national ice hockey team defeated the Latvian team in the opening match of the World Championship, which takes place in the Czech Republic. The meeting ended with the score 6:1. Jason Spezza scored two goals for the Canadians, Nathan McKinnon, Matt Duchene, Dan Hamyus and Sidney Crosby scored one each. Kaspars Daugavins had the only goal in the Latvian national team. In the second match, the US team defeated Finland 5:1.

Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who is on board the International Space Station, photographed on the night of April 30 a Progress emergency truck flying by. This was reported to Interfax by a source in the space industry. Progress flew 170 kilometers from the ISS. According to the source, the photos turned out to be of poor quality.

The Maryland prosecutor's office has charged six police officers in the death of 25-year-old African American Freddie Gray, who died in hospital after being detained. One of the policemen is charged with murder in the second degree, three more with manslaughter, and two more with assault on a person. In addition, among the charges brought - wrongful imprisonment and improper performance of duties. If found guilty, police officers can receive between 20 and 63 years in prison.

Actor and screenwriter Ivan Okhlobystin denied rumors that he was killed in an attack near his home in the Moscow region. The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow also refuted the rumors about the assassination attempt on Okhlobystin. “Police officers made sure that he was alive and well,” said . the police Rumors about the attack on Ivan Okhlobystin spread in some media and social networks on the afternoon of May 1.

'Monstration' overtakes the streets of Novosibirsk. A photo series Photo: Anton Karliner / Meduza Since 2004, a growing group of creative youngsters in Novosibirsk has held a strange parade on May Day called Monstration , where demonstrators dress up in odd costumes and carry deliberately absurd slogans. This year, city officials refused to allow the carnival to march through downtown Novosibirsk.

The Russian Embassy in Germany sent a note of protest to the German Foreign Ministry in connection with the refusal of the German authorities to let three Russian bikers into the country.

The Russian Embassy in Tehran has confirmed that a Russian citizen, assistant captain, is on board the merchant ship Maersk Tigris, which was detained by Iranian authorities. His name has not yet been released by diplomats. The embassy's press attache Maxim Suslov assured that no restrictions were imposed on the ship's crew. According to him, sailors are free to disembark on land and seek consular assistance if necessary.

The Crimean prosecutor's office announced the arrest of a suspect in the preparation of a terrorist attack near the prosecutor's office. The ministry said in a statement that the detainee took part in the hostilities in the Donbass as part of the Azov volunteer battalion. The name of the suspect was not named.

The Novosibirsk Monstrans took to the streets not only with absurd slogans. Photo gallery Photo: Anton Carliner / "Medusa" The Pervomaiskaya "Monstand" in Novosibirsk in 2015 turned into a spontaneous procession. The city authorities refused to coordinate the action in the city center, and when the audience tried to join the column of the Yabloko party, the police blocked the road to them.

At a May Day parade in St. Petersburg today, police prevented city councilman Vitaly Milonov from disrupting a group of LGBT rights demonstrators. Milonov is considered the author of Russia’s controversial laws against “gay propaganda” in the presence of children. According to the news website Fontanka.ru , Milonov arrived at today’s May Day parade with a group of his supporters that included several children.

New bestsellers or not: a review of Galina Yuzefovich A weekly literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the main book novelties issued by domestic publishers. The new review includes detectives (or almost) of three incredibly popular writers in Russia in the early 2000s: “The colorless Tskura Tadzaki and the years of his wanderings” Haruki Murakami, “Planet Water” by Boris Akunin and “Patient Sniper” Arturo Peres-Reverte.

Photo: NASA NASA received the last photo from the Interplanetary automatic station Messenger, which fell on Mercury on April 30. Photo: Carnegie Instition of Washington / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / NASA Messenger crashed at 22:26 April 30. At a speed of 14 thousand kilometers per hour, the device weighing half a ton crashed into Mercury. As a result, a crater with a diameter of 16 meters was formed on the surface of the planet.

Vladimir Putin’s press secretary has denied a report by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s office saying that Putin consented to the potential deployment of international peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine. According to Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, “the Russian side has never contested the idea of peacekeepers, but neither the Russian side nor any side that signed the Minsk Agreement as a guarantor can consent to peacekeepers.