The acting President of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov removed the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Mikhail Bolotsky from his post. The corresponding decree is published on the website of the head of state on Saturday. Bolotsky was appointed head of the Lugansk Regional State Administration on March 2. Prior to this, he headed the public service for extreme circumstances, recalls Interfax .

Russian hockey players believe that the directorate of the 2014 World Cup should amend the protocol of the starting match of the group tournament with Switzeria (5: 0). According to the Russians, the third washer should be recorded to the account of the striker Evgeny Kuznetsov, who, together with the center forward Vadim Shipachev, set the club under the sketch of the defender Maxim Chudinov.

The police detained nine participants in the picnic organized in the suburbs by the "Corruption Fund" Alexei Navalny. It was supposed to hold an action next to the chic dachas of the deputy of United Russia Sergey Neverov and the first deputy head of the administration of the President of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin. However, the police actively interfere with this.

The aircraft of the Chisinau - Moscow, on board of which are deputies of the State Duma and Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, landed in the capital of the Russian Federation, reports Interfax with reference to the head of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Leonid Slutsky. “They just landed,” Slutsky told the agency.

After the victory in the starting match of the World Hockey Championship , the head coach of the Russian national team Oleg Znarok noted Alexander Ovechkin, who abandoned the puck and made a productive program, and said that in the next game his team was going to take revenge from the Finns for defeat at the Eurotour. “We all hoped and knew that Ovechkina would break through. Once it should have happened, because he always had enough moments.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin, whose plane from Moldova refused to miss both Ukraine and Romania, nevertheless returned to Moscow.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Dmitry Rogozin, who celebrated Victory Day in Transnistria the day before, reports on Twitter that his plane is not released from an unrecognized republic. According to him, after Ukraine, the airspace at the request of the United States closed Romania. The deputy chairman threatens the next time to fly on a strategic bomber.

The Olympic champion of London in the height of Russian Ivan Ukhov became the winner of the first stage of the series of the Diamond League in Athletics in the capital of Qatar Doha. The first place in the Russian athlete was guaranteed by a line of 2.41 meters. The second was the silver medalist of the Olympics in London American Eric Kinard (2.37), and closed the top three of the best Canadian Derek Druen (2.37).

The opening date of doping tests of the former WBA world champion in the first heavy weight of Guillermo Jones, whose sample A before fighting with the current champion Denis Lebedev , gave a positive result in Moscow, was set, Boxko reports. An autopsy in the Swiss anti -doping laboratory, which should be held in the presence of the boxer himself or his representatives, will be held on May 20. Reserve date - May 22.

The Ukrainian National Guard, which repulsed the police department in Mariupol (south of Donetsk region) the day before, reported the withdrawal of units from the city. Data on the victims of the confrontation still differ significantly. According to the Donetsk regional administration, on the eve of seven people were killed in shootouts. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Avakov reported on the destruction of 20 terrorists who attacked the city police department.

More than 14 million people throughout Russia took part in mass events on the occasion of Victory Day, reports on the Saturday of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. There were no significant violations of public order, reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, despite the mass fight in Moscow .

The Ukrainian authorities banned the entry into Ukraine of the head of the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Hilarion. The reasons are not specified, and a year ago, in Ukraine, the Metropolitan was awarded the Order of Merit on the occasion of the celebration of the 1025th anniversary of the baptism of Kievan Rus in Ukraine.

The Bank "Russia", which fell under the sanctions of the United States and stopped work abroad, will open a network of departments in Crimea, the Minister of Crimea Oleg Saveliev said at a press conference in Simferopol, Interfax reports. Now, due to the fears of international sanctions, most banks in Crimea do not work, and the local population has problems with both non-cash and cash calculations.

Already in the summer, the Portuguese will have to make a number of complex decisions: according to Ashley Cole veterans, John Terry, Frank Lampard, whose contracts expire with the current season, at the position of the main goalkeeper and to update the attack line. Chelsea had a fantastic team that lasted ten years. This team came to an end. It no longer exists, ” Sky Sports quotes Mourinho. - “Chelsea” you need to build another team with some similar features.

The authorities of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic reported that information about the early beginning of the referendum on the status of education is not true. This was reported by the ITAR-TASS agency, which previously argued that the head of the Central Election Commission of the DPR Roman Lyagin announced the early vote.