Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin said that Meldonium used only at a time when he was not included in the list of prohibited drugs. “I do not plan to complete my career, on the contrary, this whole situation cheered me up, ” Interfax quotes the words of Povetkin. “I intend to prove my innocence because I did not accept anything forbidden, Milronat only accepted when he was allowed. As soon as he was forbidden, I stopped using it. Moreover, what is mildronate?

The Minister of Sports of Russia and the President of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko negatively refers to the idea of ​​replaying a reciprocal butt match for going out in the Premier League between Tomu and Kuban. Earlier, the Krasnodar fans turned to the head of the RFU with a request to appoint a replay due to a rough judicial error.

Dagestan wrestlers are not going to continue to participate in the Russian championship, which takes place in Yakutsk. According to the first vice-president of the Russian wrestling Federation Omar Murtuzaliev, this Demarsh is connected with the judicial scandal in the battle between Viktor Lebedev and Ismail Musukaev, in which the victory was awarded to the native of Yakutia. The curator of the team noted that on Saturday the athletes intend to fly home, RIA Novosti reports.

In the National Basketball Association, the first finalist of the playoffs was determined. They became Cleveland, who won in the sixth match with Toronto with a score of 113: 87 and 4-2 in the semifinal series. The club from Ohio, for which the Russian Central Timothy of Brains stands, enters the final of the NBA playoffs for the second year in a row. The most productive player of the meeting was the defender of Raptorz Kyle Loury, who scored 35 points.

The Pilot "Red Bull" Daniel Rickyardo won the qualifications of the Grand Prix of Monaco, ahead of the two pilots of the "Mercedes" Niko Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, who showed the 2nd and 3rd result, respectively. For the Australian, this is the first pole in a career.

Fans of the Kuban football club turned to the Minister of Sports of Russia and the head of the Russian football union Vitaly Mutko with a request to appoint a response butt match with Tomu for the right to participate in the Russian football Premier League.

Children's Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov proposed to tame pedophiles with "long sharp scissors." So he reacted on his Twitter account to the detention in Veliky Novgorod, deputy head of the administration Vadim Fadeev, who is suspected of spreading children's pornography. "The exposure of the pedophilian teacher Fadeev, who worked as vice mayor of Novgorod is a serious victory of fighters for the safety of children ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, while visiting the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Mount Athos, sat in a chair that only Byzantine emperors could have previously occupied. Putin announced the need to "strengthen the spiritual forces of all the Orthodox" and declared the Greek mountain "a source of well -being and grace" for the Russian Orthodox world.

The son of the ex-Minister of Sports of Russia Boris Ivanyuzhenkova shot down two people at a stop in Podolsk in the Moscow Region, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti . According to Life.ru , the shot down woman was hospitalized in intensive care, and the police detained the 22-year-old Anton Ivanyuzhenkov.

The last large oil field of Russia, located in Siberia, was put up for auction: Order of the auction for the Ergin site in the Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug published on the government website. The initial price is 5.35 billion rubles. According to RBC , among the applicants - Gazprom Neft and Rosneft. The Ergin deposit is located in Western Siberia, and this is the last of the largest explored deposits in the mainland of Russia, a license for which is located in a retained subsoil fund.

In Pakistan, a complete ban on advertising contraceptives and products for family planning on television and radio is introduced. Local residents complained that the videos aroused unhealthy interest in children, the Russian Air Force service reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at Athos. The head of the Russian state is in Greece on a visit and on his second day arrived in the Athos Monastic Republic. The visit is dedicated to the millennium of the presence of Russian monasticism there. Negotiations with the leadership of Greece were held the day before - on the first day of the visit. Putin will visit Karey - the capital and the administrative center of the Holy Mountain, where the Protata temple will visit.

In Moscow, an unknown shot fired from pneumatics on people, a woman was wounded, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The emergency occurred in the south-west of the capital on Teply Stan Street. "At 15:50, the service" 02 "received a message that an unknown in the area of ​​house number 23 on Teply Stan Street was shooting at passers -by, presumably from pneumatic weapons," the department said.

The son of the top manager of Lukoil, Shamsuarova, whom the police were looking for race at Gelendvagen, detained and delivered a court to bring to administrative responsibility, reports on Saturday Interfax . The day before, the police opened a criminal case, but against the driver of the SUV: it is known that Shasuarov Jr. was not at the wheel of his car. "Ruslan Shamsuarova is planned to be brought to administrative responsibility. The court will be appointed to the court.

Supporters and opponents of the applicant for the post of US President from the Republican Party Donald Trump staged a brawl during demonstrations in the California city of San Diego (California) near the border with Mexico, the Russian Air Force service reports. According to the police, more than 30 people were detained. According to the AR, in the action near the conference center in San Diego, where Trump spoke at the rally to voters, more than a thousand people took part.