Vadim Gaevsky - About Maya Plisetskaya Photo: Bettmann / Corbis / Vida Press On Saturday, May 2, in the 90th year of life, the outstanding ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, Prima of the Bolshoi Theater, who served in it for almost half a century, died. The theater critic and ballet historian Vadim Gaevsky first saw Maya Plisetskaya on the stage of Bolshoi in 1944. At the request of Medusa, he spoke about the legendary dancer, whose time will never end.

London football club "Chelsea" for the fifth time in history became the champion of England. On May 3, Chelsea beat Crystal Palace 1-0 at home and thus secured an early victory in the English Premier League three rounds before the end of the championship. The only goal of the match was scored by Eden Hazard. Giving instructions before the match, coach José Mourinho limited himself to a short phrase, preferring it to a detailed statement: "Three more points, let's do it all together" (English).

An activist of the Solidarity movement Stanislav Pozdnyakov, who was monitoring the elections in Balashikha, was diagnosed with a ruptured spleen after an attack by unknown persons in front of a polling station. According to OVD-Info, the man's spleen was removed. Initially, it was reported that Pozdnyakov had a traumatic brain injury.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has decided to lift the city's curfew after protests against police violence in the city escalated into riots. According to Rawlings-Blake, she would not want the ban on citizens to appear on the streets of the city in the evenings to remain in force longer than necessary. The decision to lift the curfew shall take effect immediately. It is also planned to gradually withdraw from the city the forces of the National Guard, introduced to ensure order.

Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, in her will, asked that her body be cremated and her ashes scattered over Russia along with the ashes of her husband Rodion Shchedrin. According to the general director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, Shchedrin himself informed him about Plisetskaya's last will. The farewell ceremony with Plisetskaya will be held in Germany, where she lived in recent years with her husband, in a narrow family circle.

Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far-right National Front party, has said she no longer wants her father Jean-Marie Le Pen to make statements on behalf of the party. According to Marine Le Pen, her father, who founded the National Front, behaves provocatively and takes revenge on the party and on her personally. “I have a feeling that he cannot bear the fact that the National Front continues to exist without his leadership. I regret this,” Le Pen told reporters (English).

Photo: @mkruminsh / Twitter In Riga on the night of May 2, police officers conducted an operation to detain two wild boars that reached the central regions of the city. Two police patrols went to capture - one for each boar. Pigs, which chose the outskirts of Riga back in April, at the May holidays reached the city center, including the parks of the historical part of the Latvian capital.

The head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Novorossiysk, Vyacheslav Artyukov, was relieved of his post in connection with an accident that his subordinate arranged in Anapa. The deputy chief of the Novorossiysk police for the protection of public order and the commander of the battalion of the patrol service were also fired.

The Russian national ice hockey team beat the Slovenian team in the preliminary stage match of the 2015 World Championship with a score of 5:3. SKA hockey player Yevgeny Dadonov, who was recognized as the best player of the match in Russia, scored a double in the Russian national team.

In the Polish city of Knuruw, on the evening of May 2, clashes broke out between police and football fans. As a result of clashes, 14 police officers were injured. Several fans were detained. Whether any of them were injured has not been reported. The clashes occurred after a football fan died in hospital after being shot in the neck by a police officer with a rubber bullet. About 200 people participated in the riots.

In Anapa, a Novorossiysk police officer was detained, who on May 2 shot down six people. He is in isolation. Investigators will petition for his arrest.

Ukraine and the authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic accused each other of shelling in the Donbass. As Kiev assures , starting from the evening of May 2, pro-Russian separatists fired at the positions of Ukrainian troops two dozen times, including from Grads. The soldiers did not die as a result of the shelling. At the same time, two dead civilians are reported, whose houses, according to Kyiv, came under fire from the DPR forces.

Online of the second match of the Russian team at the Ice Hockey World Championship Russia's second rival at the Ice Hockey World Cup was Slovenia - not the strongest team, in which only Anze Kopitar from the Los Angeles Kings and Jan Murshak from CSKA Moscow can be noted. The Russians approached the match with changes in the composition - Evgeni Malkin, Vladimir Tarasenko and Nikolai Kulemin, who arrived from the USA, will play, Danis Zaripov dropped out before the end of the tournament.

The Finnish Ministry of Defense has sent letters to all 900,000 reservists in the country, reminding them of their role in the event of a "crisis situation". The letters also ask reservists to clarify information about their place of residence. Letters were received by reservists aged 20 to 60. They do not contain any information about a specific threat to the security of Finland.

Compare the actors of classic films with their doubles from remakes Russian cinema is very fond of remakes: nostalgia for the Soviet Union makes such films at least some kind of cash register.