On May 10, the 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship kicked off in Slovakia. The tournament began a week later than it usually would, landing after the second round of the NHL playoffs. Because most of that tournament’s favorites dropped out of the playoffs unexpectedly early, a late start to the World Championship means the competition will be packed with an unprecedented number of strong players.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is considered one of the most effective hockey players of the country. On average, he throws 3.6 goals per match - more than Alexander Ovechkin! Mikhail Klimentyev / Press Service of the Government of the Russian Federation / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin during the Gala Match Night Hockey League, May 10, 2019 On May 10, Putin played in Sochi for the Hockey Legends team against the Night Hockey League team.

Director Pavel Lungin speaks on his new Afghan War film and the public push against it Patrick Baz / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Russian director Pavel Lungin’s new film Brotherhood is out in Russian theaters today, but its journey to this point has not been easy. The pacifist film, which depicts the withdrawal of Soviet troops at the close of the brutal Afghan war, struggled to attract funds despite approval from prominent veterans.

The current President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko came for questioning to the Prosecutor General's Office as part of the investigation into the deaths of people on the Euromaidan in 2014. This was reported by the head of the special investigation department of the Prosecutor General's Office Serhiy Gorbatyuk. "As I was informed, investigators are already interrogating. Perhaps they have already finished interrogating the president," Gorbatyuk said on the ZIK TV channel.

Sergey Dorenko, Moscow, March 1, 2018. Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images On May 9, television and radio journalist Sergey Dorenko suffered an aortic rupture while riding a motorcycle and fell to his death. He was 59 years old.

The Russian national ice hockey team beat the Norwegian team in the first round match of the group stage of the World Championship with a score of 5:2, the Russian Ice Hockey Federation tweeted. The Ice Hockey World Championship kicked off in Slovakia on May 10. The Russian team in the group stage will also play against Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Latvia, Switzerland and Sweden. The World Cup final will take place on May 26.

Updated . A spokesman for Chad Stahelski stated that his words in the interview were incorrectly quoted and he spoke only about the hypothetical participation of the Wachowski sisters in the project. American director and stuntman Chad Stahelski told Yahoo Movies that sisters Lana and Lilly Wachowski are working on a sequel to The Matrix. “I am very happy that the Wachowskis are not just making The Matrix, but expanding what we all loved,” said Chad Stahelski.

The Moscow police detained the activist and poet Alexander Delfinov, who went out with a single picket to the State Duma building, OVD-Info reports. He was detained a few minutes after the start of the rally and taken to the Tverskoy police station, the clarifies . Dozhd TV channel The activist spoke out against the arrest of 24-year-old Darya Belyaeva from Yekaterinburg.

WSOC-TV / AP / Scanpix / Leta suspect in the murder of the director 52-year-old Edwin Hiett after the detention, May 9, 2019 On July 5, 1985, director Barry Crane, who participated in the filming of the series “Incredible Hulk” and “Wonder Woman”, was killed in his house in Los Angeles. The housekeeper found Crane strangled on the floor of his garage. Why he was killed is still unknown. According to the police, the director’s car was sting from the house.

Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant In 1999, Zemfira Ramazanova was a 23-year-old budding musician with a growing collection of tracks she had recorded in the evenings after her day job at a local radio station. The previous year, her demos had reached a producer for the highly popular rock group Mummy Troll.

The site De Correspondent, which raised $ 2.6 million for launching in the United States, admitted that he misled his subscribers Harald Dunnink / The Correspondent members of the American team The Correspondent - the English -language project De CorresponDent The Dutch site De Correspondent advertises itself as the future of journalism and a medicine for clickbeat: there is no news and advertising on it, subscribers, not investors, finances it, and it is engaged only in serious journalistic

Russian Maria Butina, convicted in the United States, said that Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Alexander Torshin passed on materials received from her to the Russian Foreign Ministry. She said this in a telephone interview with National Public Radio, excerpts from which are cited by the Associated Press. Butina said she was honored to know that Foreign Ministry officials might find her "notes and analysis" valuable.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the family and friends of journalist Sergei Dorenko, who died on May 9, TASS reports with reference to Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. “The president has long been acquainted with Dorenko, he has always appreciated his contribution to the development of domestic journalism and his principled position,” Peskov said. TASS Sergei Dorenko, editor-in-chief of the Moskva Speaks radio station, died on May 9 at the age of 59.

Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations found in the mountains of the Altai Republic the body of the fifth of seven tourists who fell under an avalanche on May 6, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations. Rescuers continue to search for two more tourists missing after the avalanche. Searches are complicated by bad weather conditions, they say in the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos unveiled a prototype of the Blue Moon spacecraft for landing on the Moon on May 9, Reuters reports. The unmanned, reusable spacecraft will be able to deliver scientific equipment, satellites and up to four small rovers to the lunar surface, BBC News notes. In addition, Blue Moon will be able to launch satellites into lunar orbit.