The Russian team took first place in the group D of the preliminary round of the World Hockey Championship in Moscow, defeating the Finnish team with a score of 5: 4 in a difficult match. This means that our team will begin a qualification round with six points. With approximately equal forces of rivals, the game in unequal compositions became the decisive factor. Six out of nine goals in this meeting flew into the grid as a result of a skillful implementation of numerical advantage.

In the city of Palencia, in northeast of Spain, a five-story building was completely destroyed by a strong explosion at dawn. According to the latest report, Reuters with reference to local media, as a result, five people died. A fire is raging on the ruins, the inhabitants of the surrounding houses are evacuated. "The explosion occurred on Tuesday at 5:45 (7:45 Moscow time) in a building in the city center at the address of Gaspar Arroio, 4.

The leader of the “Our” movement Vasily Yakemenko in response to the transfer of a bronze soldier offers to dismantle the embassy of this country and transfer it to the suburbs of Moscow. According to Interfax, Yakemenko made such a statement at a press conference at the walls of the Estonian diplomatic mission. “We believe that in the suburbs of Moscow there are enough sites for the embassy to be located there.

The mass death of seals on the Caspian coast in Kazakhstan continues. 819 carcasses have already been found, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic. "The total number of dead seals as of the evening of Monday amounted to 819, of which 639 are young, 180 - adult individuals. Bypassing the coastal zone continues," the agency’s interlocutor said.

Work on the exhumation of the remains of Soviet soldiers buried on the Tallino Tallinn hill, where the bronze soldier was previously stood, are completed. This was reported by the website of the Estonian newspaper Postimees with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Estonia. "As of Tuesday evening, 12 burials were found at the excavation site," the statement said.

The bodies of two people were discovered in the service machine of Zhiguli near the village of Morozikha, Trosnyansky district of the Oryol region, a source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax. "In the forest in the salon of the burning service machine" Zhiguli "owned by the Stroyindustria production and construction plant, the burned remains of two people were discovered. According to preliminary data, they are the head and deputy chief of the specified enterprise," he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert refuses to resign, motivating this with the need to maintain political stability. His decision is supported by senior representatives of the Kadim party, among which there are ministers and deputies. The fears of the political crisis are associated with the publication of the critical report of the Grape Commission on the actions of the military and political leadership in the Second Lebanese War.

American Oscar de la Hoya can go down in history as the most profitable boxer. On May 5, in Las Vegas (USA), a battle will be held between one of the brightest modern boxers - de la Hoya and his compatriot Floyd Mayuezer. At the stake in this duel will be the title of the WBC world champion in weight up to 69.9 kg. The views of the entire boxing community will be riveted to this fight, in which the legendary de la Hoye will have to try to inflict the first defeat in the career to Mayuzer Jr.

Political gestures can go back to the signals that our ancestors-primates for the first time, American scientists say. This is evidenced by the study of the methods of communication between chimpanzees and bonobo with each other. During the study, it turned out that both chimpanzees and bonobo, use the movements of the limbs for communication, writes the British newspaper The Independent .

The May Day demonstrations and processions in the southern regions of Russia are held organized and calm. Even in Chechnya, where about 20 thousand people gathered in Grozny in Ahmad Kadyrov Square to listen to his son Ramzan. He promised that by the next spring, the inhabitants of Grozny would not recognize their city. 20 thousand Chechen demonstrators went through a column with slogans and banners from the Friendship of Peoples to Kadyrov Square.

The second race of mankind for conquering the moon clearly acquires the features of the Cold War, when the Russian space agency accused its old rival - the American agency NASA - of refusing a joint project of research of the moon, writes The Daily Telegraph .

Olga Pyleva Olympic champion in Biathlon, who is currently serving a two-year disqualification time for the use of the forbidden drug of the Corfhedon, decided to return to great sport. The illustrious athlete sent a statement to the International Union of Biathlonists (IBU) with a request to reduce her sentence. “Olya really decided to return to Biathlon,” the husband and coach Olga Polueva, the Olympic champion Valery Medvedtsev, confirmed the entire sport agency.

To declare a boycott to everything that is connected with Estonia, the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov proposed, speaking at a rally dedicated to the Moscow City Hall on May 1 on Tuesday. The rally was organized by the capital's trade unions - the largest action of the present day, which gathered up to 25 thousand people. "When we see what is being done in Estonia, what decisions are made in Poland and the governments of other states, we must not only protest.

Poland and the Czech Republic increase rates in negotiations with the Americans, demanding, in exchange for placing elements of the system, to provide them with missiles to protect against Russia, as well as give legal guarantees and security guarantees, reports The Guardian .

Participation in the qualification round of the World Hockey Championship, which has been held these days in Moscow, have already secured eight teams. These are national teams of Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, the USA, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia and Finland.