The Brazilian national team in their first match in Group E at the World Cup in Russia played a 1-1 draw with the Swiss team. The meeting took place in Rostov-on-Don. Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho scored the first beautiful long-range shot in the 20th minute. At the 50th minute of the second half, Swiss midfielder Steven Zuber equalized with a header from a corner. Coutinho was named Man of the Match.

Director Terry Gilliam has lost a copyright lawsuit on his film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. According to Screen Rant, the Paris Court of Appeal found the production company Alfama Films and its head Paolo Branco the holder of the rights to the film, upholding the contract signed in 2016 between the director and producer. In addition, the court ruled that Gilliam must pay Branco 10,000 euros. Terry Gilliam began work on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in 1998.

The reigning World Cup champions Germany lost their opening match in Group F at the 2018 World Cup. In a duel with the Mexican team at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, the German team lost with a minimum score of 0:1. The only goal in the 35th minute of the meeting was scored by Mexican midfielder Irving Lozano. He was also recognized as the best player of the match. Mexico topped Group F with three points.

Commentators on Channel One, during a live discussion of the World Cup match between the national teams of Germany and Mexico, called Navalny's name live. Speaking about the course of the fight, journalist Kirill Dementiev said that the players of the German national team need to "show bulk football." In response, his colleague, former coach of the Russian national team Leonid Slutsky joked: “Navalny plays football?

Moscow authorities presented a ticket to the 2018 World Cup match between the national teams of Germany and Mexico to 70-year-old German fan Hubert Wirth, who came to Moscow on his own tractor, TASS reports. To get to the Russian capital, the football fan traveled more than two and a half thousand kilometers from Forchheim, Germany. How many days his route took is not specified. Published by Moscow parking space on June 13, 2018. Published by Moscow parking space on June 13, 2018.

John Cogill / Bloomberg / Getty images On October 27, residents of Ireland voted at a national referendum with the exception of the concept of “blasphemy” from the country's constitution and the abolition of criminal punishment, which provides for a fine of 25 thousand euros. Medusa journalist Dmitry Kartsev talks about how an article about blasphemy appeared in the Irish Constitution, and for which they tried to fined actor Stephen Fry. Attention.

HBO / YouTube Since June 3, on the HBO channel and on June 4, the series “Heirs” has been on the “Amediak” - a drama about the children of the media Magnate fighting for the throne of the father. The role of the Patriarch in it is played by Brian Cox, among the producers - comedian Will Ferrell and the director of the “Reducing Games” Adam McKay.

Two intruders opened fire at the Art All Night festival in Trenton, New Jersey, according to Fox News. As a result of the incident, 20 people were injured. Four of them were hospitalized in critical condition. One of the suspects in the shooting, a 33-year-old man, was shot and killed by police. According to the Associated Press, a second suspect has been detained. At the time of the shooting, about a thousand people were present at the festival. Panic broke out among the audience.

More than a million people signed a petition to the Russian authorities demanding not to raise the retirement age in the country. The document was posted on the website change.org by the Confederation of Labor of Russia, which is the second largest all-Russian trade union association. The petition received a million votes in three days.

Greek and Macedonian Foreign Ministers Nikos Kotzias and Nikola Dimitrov have signed an agreement on a new official name for the former Yugoslav Republic, Reuters reports. The ceremony of signing the agreement took place on June 17 in the resort area on Lake Prespes on the border of Greece and Macedonia in the presence of the prime ministers of the two countries. According to the agreement, the new official name of the Balkan state will be the Republic of North Macedonia.

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Former football player and coach of Argentina’s national team Diego Maradona apologized for smoking at a sports event. On the evening of June 16, he was seen with a cigar at the Spartak stadium in Moscow during the match of the World Cup between the national teams of Argentina and Iceland. Meanwhile, FIFA rules prohibit smoking at football matches. The corresponding warning was broadcast on the Palace of the Spartak stadium during the game.

A passenger train on the Astana-Almaty route crashed on the afternoon of June 17 in the Zhambyl region in southern Kazakhstan, Interfax reports. As told in the Department for Emergency Situations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, during the movement, eight carriages of the train derailed. Three of them rolled onto their side. According to preliminary data, one teenager died as a result of the incident. Three more people were injured. The injured have been hospitalized.

Midfielder of the Russian national football team Alan Dzagoev, who was injured in the opening match of the World Cup, will miss the meeting with the Egyptian team. Dzagoev will not fly with the team to St. Petersburg and will remain in Moscow to continue rehabilitation, according to the official twitter of the Russian team. The decision on further treatment tactics for Dzagoev will be made after the second match of the national team. On June 17, Alan Dzagoev turns 28 years old.

The police of Kyiv detained 56 people who intended to interfere with the LGBT action “March of Equality” in the city center. According to law enforcement agencies, on the morning of June 17, more than 150 people went to the intersection of Volodymyrska Street and Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, blocking the road on the route of the march. After unsuccessful negotiations, the police began to push the protesters out of the way. Some of them resisted and used gas canisters against the police.