A festive parade was held in Chicago in honor of the winners of the Stanley Cup of the National Hockey League of the local Club Chicago Blackhouks. According to Chicago police, more than two million people gathered to celebrate the champions, ESPN reports. On the head bus with a cup in the hands of all the audience, the captain of the hawks Jonathan Taves welcomed. “This parade showed how incredible this city is. It is simply incredible. Thank you!” Taves said, addressing the fans.

Four latest radar stations of the Air Defense and Air Defense Forces entered the service of the aerospace defense forces. The system is called the "Almighty detector", and after setting up on combat duty, these radars will "cover" the sky of Moscow from four directions. “These intelligence agents allow you to detect air targets, including winged missiles at high range.

The Internet portals of the publication of the Wall Street Journal and the American Spanish-speaking Univision television channel intend to publish the intercepted electronic correspondence of representatives of the Ecuador leadership regarding the provision of the ex-employee of the CIA Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks said. Earlier, the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange reported that the authorities of Ecuador back in Hong Kong issued Snowden's documents so that he could move around the world.

The Barcelona midfielder and the Spanish national team Andres Iniesta preserved a residence permit for his native Albaset club in the third largest division of the Spanish championship. A team, which has an unusual nickname "Clothing cheese", threatened from "Segunda to" because of the salary arrears to the players. There were a few hours to the "X -EX" when the transfer from personal funds of the Iniesta in the amount of 240 thousand euros was received, reports Eurosport .

The famous French actor and Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu at a press conference after showing the film "Rasputin", where he played the main role, said that he was friends with Putin and believes that "this is a very strong personality, it is such a leader now that Russia needs." During the press conference, Depardieu once again noted that, having accepted Russian citizenship, he did not cease to be a Frenchman.

More than 22 million people signed a petition calling for the resignation of President Egypt Muhammad Mursi, the organizers of the Tamarrud movement said on Saturday. Activists reported that 22,134,465 signatures were collected for the resignation. As Interfax notes, this figure significantly exceeds the number of those who, in June 2012 in the presidential election, cast votes for Mursi - 13.23 million.

A resident of the city of Nizhny Tagil of the Sverdlovsk region appealed to law enforcement agencies with a confession, admitting a double murder, according to the website of the Investigative Committee. The day before, the bodies of a 62-year-old pensioner and her 34-year-old daughter with multiple stained injuries of the chest and neck were discovered in the apartment of the house on the Ural Avenue.

The United Russia faction nominated three candidates for the President of the Russian Federation for the post of chairman of the Accounts Chamber: assistant to the head of state Tatyana Golikova, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes of Andrei Makarov and Chairman of the Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin. Other parliamentary factions - behind Stepashin.

The Moscow police seized newspapers, campaigning in support of the candidate of Moscow, Alexei Navalny. On Saturday, pickets were held in support of Navalny, on which it was planned to distribute the newspaper. The police seized about 20% of the circulation, said Leonid Volkov on his Twitter headquarters of Navalny. According to him, the supporters of the opposition took agitmaterials, and the police stopped the car three meters from the printing house.

In Mytishchi near Moscow, some residents received shocking receipt for housing and communal services: payment for the so-called "common house" water suddenly grew from tens to thousands of rubles. In Moscow, the next indexation of tariffs by decree of Sergei Sobyanin was postponed to August 1, so the first receipts with new numbers will probably come after the election of the mayor of the city.

Russian Mikhail Yuzhny overcame the barrier of the third circle of the Wimbledon tennis tournament and reached the 1/8 finals, where he will meet British Andy Marrey. On Saturday, South, sown at the tournament under the 20th number, beat the three sets of Serb Viktor Troitski in three sets with a score of 6: 3, 6: 4, 7: 5. The meeting lasted a little more than two hours, reports R-Sport .

The men's team in Rugby-7 in the match of the second round of the group stage of the World Cup in Moscow lost Scotland with a score of 12-5 and lost the chances of exit from the group. Although in the first half the team did not open an account, in the second half of the meeting the superiority of the Scots became obvious. The Russian national team, however, escaped the defeat of the "dry" thanks to an attempt to perform Captain Vasily Artemyev.

The Ministry of Culture is satisfied with the work of Vyacheslav Polunin, who has been holding the post of artistic director of the St. Petersburg circus on Fontanka since January, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Minister of Culture of Vladimir Medinsky.

The US citizen died in Alexandria during the clashes of opponents and supporters of the President of Egypt Mohammed Mursi. The United States reacted immediately: the evacuation of diplomats has begun, the country's citizens are not recommended to visit Egypt. According to preliminary data, the American was stabbing, taking off the riots on the mobile phone camera, said the head of the security service of Alexandria Amin Hussedin.

About a thousand fans of the Sofia football club CSKA were thrown on Saturday with stones and smoke bombs, the building of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFS). The building caused significant material damage. Fans are protesting against a recent decision to declare their favorite team bankrupt, which for financial reasons refused to participate in the Europa League, ITAR-TASS reports. The police replaced the demonstrators from the street where the BFS office is located.