Hockey players of the Russian national team in a series of shootouts beat the Sweden team in their first match at the World Cup , which started on Friday in Cologne and Paris. The main time of the game and overtime ended with a score of 1: 1. The meeting of Group A on Lanksess-Arena in Cologne ended with the victory of Russians with a score of 2: 1. As part of the winners, in regular time, the puck was abandoned by Sergey Andronov (43:58).

On May 4, Roskomnadzor included WeChat.com of the Chinese WeChat Chinese Messenger with a note of Restricting, which involves the blocking of all service IP addresses and technical domains of the service. Some Internet providers have already begun to block access to WeChat. According to users, access to the messenger himself is also limited, reports vc.ru.

At the London airport, Khitrovo was detained a suspect in the preparation of terrorist attacks, the Air Force reports. According to police, a 30-year-old man was detained immediately after the flight from Istanbul arrived on Thursday evening. The British television and radio broadcasting corporation reports that the detainee is suspected of preparing terrorist attacks and training their performers.

The number of Venezuela citizens who turned to the authorities of Brazil with a request to provide asylum in the first four months of the current year, more than twice as much as a similar indicator for 2016, reports TASS with reference to data published on Friday by the Ministry of Justice and on issues of citizenship of the country. From January 1 to May 2, 2017, the Brazilian authorities received 8231 appeals from Venezuelan citizens with a request for asylum.

The disease of unknown etiology, from which 12 people died in the African Republic of Liberia, is associated with food poisoning or drinks and is not a viral infection, reports on Friday, May 5, the World Health Organization (WHO), confirming three more new cases of the disease, writes the RAppler website with reference to AFP. The number of cases has grown to 28. Mysterious disease is accompanied by fever, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

The Appeal Committee of the International Football Federation (FIFA) shot a four -match disqualification in international matches from the Argentine striker Lionel Messi for insulting the judge. According to the organization’s press service on Friday, the verdict was canceled due to insufficient evidence of the Argentine guilt. A fine of 10 thousand Swiss francs, written out by the football player after the incident, was also withdrawn.

The Central Command of the US Armed Forces (CentCom) conducted an investigation and confirmed that on March 16, American aviation inflicted a blow to the building in the north of Syria, which was part of the mosque.

On Friday, on an American initiative, a telephone conversation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was held, Interfax reports with reference to the Russian Foreign Ministry. "The subject of the Syrian settlement was in the focus of the Syrian settlement.

Due to the attack on the opposition, the police became interested in the participants in the SERB organization, said activists of the pro-Kremlin movement of RBC . This, in particular, said Alexei Kulakov - one of those who, on the basis of personnel from the scene of an emergency, is considered a participant in an attack on Alexei Navalny, because of which he may lose his eyes in one eye.

Lawyers Olga and Dmitry Dinze complained that the investigation did not allow them to protect the brothers Akram and Abror Azimovs accused of complicity in the preparation of a terrorist attack in the subway of St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reports. “Olga Dinze and I have concluded agreements with their relatives. However, the investigation simply ignores us.

The head of the Patriarchal Commission on Family, Protection of Maternity and Childhood, Rector of the Church of St. Mitrofan Voronezh on the Khutorsky (Moscow) Archpriest Dimitri Smirnov portends a fast end of Christian civilization. “There is very little left - when the whole Christian civilization simply perishes. There are several decades left, 30, well, maybe in Russia it will last 50, no more,” the priest said on the air of the Soyuz television channel.

A possible restriction on charter flights from Russia to Turkey will only concern flights from Moscow to Antalya Airport. This is stated in the telegram of the Federal Air Transport Agency signed by the deputy head of the department Oleg Klim, sent by domestic airlines, TASS reports.

In Kazakhstan, the main imam of the Khazreta mosque in Kokshetau Kanat Koyanbekuly Kydyrmin distinguished himself with generosity. Having received a car as a gift from local entrepreneurs, the clergyman immediately transferred it. The car went to a large mother working as a cleaner in the mosque, whom Imam heads. An unexpected event occurred during the wires of the clergyman in Astana, the correspondent of Interfax, the correspondent of Interfax, said among the parishioners.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova lost in the first round of the Tie Break Tens exhibition tournament, which was held in Madrid in front of the tournament of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). In the starting match, Maria, who occupies the 262nd line of the WTA rating, lost to the Olympic champion Rio de Janeiro and the 42nd Purtorikanka Monica Puig with a score of 6:10.

The financial side of the issue for the striker of St. Petersburg SKA Vadim Shipachev turned out to be secondary, when moving to the National Hockey League Club (NHL), Vegas Golden Knights, the player will significantly lose in money. This was stated by TASS Member of the Board of Directors SKA and the first president of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) Alexander Medvedev.