The Canadian ice hockey team defeated the Russian team in the final of the World Championship with a score of 6:1. The first period ended 1-0 in favor of the Canadians - Cody Ekin scored. In the second period, the Canadians scored three more goals, including a goal scored by Canadian captain Sidney Crosby. As part of the Russians, Evgeni Malkin scored the only goal in the end of the match. Team Canada won the World Cup for the first time since 2007.

The LPR said that two prisoners captured by Ukrainian soldiers near the city of Shchastia serve in the militia of the unrecognized republic. Sergey Kozlov, deputy commander of the LPR militia, claims that they were captured on May 16 during an attack by Ukrainian servicemen on a police observation post. The Lugansk information center published photographs of the certificates of the prisoners - Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeny Erofeev.

Barcelona won the Spanish Football Championship. In the penultimate round, she won an away victory over Atlético Madrid and secured first place. The match ended 1-0 in favor of the Catalan club, the only goal in the 65th minute was scored by Lionel Messi. Based on the results of 37 rounds, Barcelona scored 93 points. It is four points ahead of second-placed Real Madrid. For Barcelona, ​​the title of champion of Spain became the 23rd in history.

The Russians lost to the Canadians in one gate. Online In the final of the World Cup, Russia and Canada finally met. However, it would be better not to. May 18, 2015 00:02:56 I don't want to say anything. They lost large and in the case, there are a lot of very mistakes, questions with the composition, but our fought as they could. May 18, 2015 00:00:13 Thank you very much to our hockey players, in fact they are well done, they reached the final, but now there are no touching words, sorry.

How a scandal developed with a wedding of a 17-year-old girl and the head of the Chechen police department Photo: Sergey Ponomarev / "Medusa" On May 16, a wedding of the 17-year-old Head (Louise) Goylabieva and 47-year-old Nazud Guchigov took place in Grozny. Her guests were many high -ranking Chechen officials, including the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov.

A plane carrying businessman Sergei Polonsky, who was deported from Cambodia, landed at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that Polonsky would be taken from the airport to a pre-trial detention center. “At about 19:00, a Vietnam Airlines plane landed at Domodedovo Airport, carrying a businessman deported from Cambodia among other passengers,” a source familiar with the situation told TASS.

Continued: LPR called the captured GRU soldiers their policemen Representative of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Andriy Lysenko announced the detention of two servicemen of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces in the conflict zone in Donbass. The senior lieutenant of the medical service of the Aidar battalion, Grigory Maksimets , said that Russian servicemen were wounded and taken prisoner.

Pablo Picasso's granddaughter Marina, who decided to sell the artist's villa near Cannes, received an offer for the house - about $ 173 million. She also plans to sell his collection of ceramics, which Sothebyʼs estimates will sell for more than $9.3 million. Marina Picasso inherited the house at the age of 22, but she has repeatedly stressed that she does not have good memories associated with this place.

Zenit became the champion of Russia in football two rounds before the end of the championship. The St. Petersburg club guaranteed itself the first place by drawing 1:1 with Ufa. Hulk opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. A few minutes before the end of the meeting, Ufa managed to bounce back thanks to an accurate shot by Haris Khandzic. In terms of points scored in the championship, the St.

The Syrian army pushed the Islamic State militants out of the ancient city of Palmyra, part of which the Islamists occupied on May 16. Ancient monuments included in the UNESCO World Heritage List were not damaged. The Syrians have fully regained control of the city, but the Islamic State still occupies a village north of Palmyra. Palmyra is an important strategic point, as it is located at the intersection of roads leading to Homs and Damascus (English).

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, speaking on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repressions, called the GPU and the NKVD related structures with the Gestapo and the SS. "The plague is the plague, whether it's brown or red!" - said Poroshenko, who visited the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Bykivnyansky Graves".

CSKA won a crushing victory over Spartak Moscow in the match of the next round of the Russian Football Championship. The meeting, held at the Otkritie Arena stadium, ended with a score of 4:0. The score in the match was opened in the 11th minute - a goal was scored by the defender of "Spartak" Serdar Tashchi. Until the end of the first half, midfielders Roman Eremenko and Zoran Tosic brought the score to devastating. Ahmed Musa scored the fourth goal in the 63rd minute.

Photo: Ilya Koval / Deutsche Welle On May 17, a monument to Vladimir Putin was erected in a pair of tens of kilometers from St. Petersburg in a pair of tens of kilometers from St. Petersburg: the Russian President was represented in the image of the Roman emperor. Deutsche Welle correspondent Ilya Koval visited the ceremony. According to him, the bust should have been bronze, but in the end was cast from less valuable alloys.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was sentenced to death in the case of the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, a victim of American intelligence services. “I don’t believe that the Tsarnaevs carried out this terrorist attack without the knowledge of the US intelligence services, if they did it,” Kadyrov wrote on his Instagram.

The Islamic State militants have captured part of Palmyra, an ancient city included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The director of the human rights organization Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdel Rahman said that the Islamists occupied the northern part of the city. The Islamic State launched an offensive against Palmyra on Wednesday. At least 49 civilians were killed in offensives Thursday and Friday, according to human rights activists.