Pittsburgh Penguins National Hockey League Club suffered a guest defeat from Ottawa with a score of 1: 2 in the sixth match of the semifinal series of the Stanley Cup. The only puck at the Penguins was abandoned by the Russian striker Evgeny Malkin, for whom this goal was the seventh in the current playoffs. He continues to lead the best scorers in the dispute of the “goal plus pass” - 24 points (7 + 17) in 18 cup games. At the Ottawa, Bobby Ryan and Mike Hoffman were distinguished by goals.

In Moscow, the grandson of Joseph Stalin passed away, director Alexander Bourdonsky, Interfax reports with reference to the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army. “Alexander Vasilievich died tonight,” the theater reported on May 24. Theater staff said that for a long time Burdonsky was in the hospital due to heart problems. Burdonsky was a director of more than 20 performances at the Theater of the Russian Army.

Mikhail Pozharsky "Today, the theater director Kirill Serebrennikov, the idol of the progressive public and other hipsters, have been searches ," the publicist writes on Facebook . “And I just remind you how Kirill Serebrennikov became the head of the Gogol Theater. In 2012, the theater leadership was shifted by the directive order of the Moscow Department of Culture, and the new was appointed without any competition, discussion and other procedures.

The authorities of the Mexican state of the Kintana-ROO temporarily removed from the duties of 20 police officers of the Cancun, who allowed the fight, Russian Alexei Makeev with local residents. The representative of the municipal Ministry of Public Security and Transport reports this, as TASS reports on Tuesday, Alejandro Rodriguez. All police officers will be removed from work until the authorities determine the degree of their responsibility for the conflict that happened on May 19.

Businessman Alisher Usmanov recorded another video message , in which he again spoke about the accusations of opposition Alexei Navalny addressed to him. In the new video, the oligarch compares the policy with Polygraph Sharikov from Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “Dog Heart” and makes it clear that he is not going to go out on the debate with the head of the Corruption Fund (FBK). Usmanov is sure that he convincingly exposed Navalny’s lies about himself, and gives advice: “Tell me: I was mistaken.

The level of terrorist threat is increased in the UK from a significant to the highest - critical. This was stated by British Prime Minister Teresa May at the end of the evening meeting of the Extraordinary Government Committee Cobra. This happened in connection with the terrorist attack in Manchester , where the suicide bomb blew up during the concert of Ariana Grande.

A bill regulates the activities of messengers and, in particular, obliging them to limit them, at the request of Roskomnadzor, a massive newsletter, which contains information that violates the legislation of the Russian Federation, has been submitted to the State Duma. The text of the document submitted for consideration by deputies Marina Mukabenova ("United Russia"), Alexander Yushchenko (Communist Party) and Oleg Nikolaev ("Fair Russia") was published on the website of the State Duma.

The military-space forces of Russia has something to answer American plans to bring weapons into space, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu said at the "government hour" in the Federation Council on May 24. “I can assure you, we do not sleep,” TASS quotes his answer to the corresponding question of the senators. He promised to tell details to members of the upper house of parliament in closed mode, the agency reports.

“Strange people are still strange. Kirill Serebrennikov heads the State Theater, which receives state financing from this bastard state. Chulpan Khamatova calls on to vote for Putin and chooses North Korea,” the journalist on Facebook writes, commenting on the appeal of cultural figures in defense of the Gogol Center and its leader. "Evgeny Mironov Putinist. I am generally silent about Fedya Bondarchuk. For forty years old people. They live in Putin’s Russia.

Writer George Martin, the author of the Sague of the Ice and Flame, who stars the popular series “Game of Thrones”, refuted the media reports about the death of the dog, which played the role of a fiber -fuel -off ghost in the series “Game of Thrones”. Earlier, Martin himself wrote about the death of the animal, however, as it turned out, it was about a wolf, and journalists and fans simply misunderstood the writer.

The US Senate Committee sent two new summons to the ex-adviser of the National Security President Michael Flynn, who resigned due to suspicions of relations with Russia, Reuters reports. Last week, he refused to testify to the members of the committee. On Wednesday, May 24, the Supreme Representative of the US Democratic Party in the Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, announced new agendas.

The Supreme Court of Spain upheld the indictment of the Barcelona football player and the Argentine national team Lionel Messi, who was sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax evasion. According to the press service of the court , a decision on a fine of two million euros that the football player will have to pay is also confirmed. Meanwhile, the court reduced the term of the athlete, Khorge Orasio Messi, who also held in this case, from 21 to 15 months in prison.

The National Football League (NFL) simplified the rules governing the celebrations of the Tachdauns by players. League Commissioner Roger Guddell announced his intention to provide players "more space for fun after cool game moments." “We know that you like spontaneous expressions of emotions that happen after a bright touchdown.

According to the results of the first quarter of the current year, the world smartphone market increased by 9.1% compared to the beginning of 2016, and the growth in sales of Chinese companies has led to a reduction in the market share of the market leaders - Apple and Samsung, the newspaper Kommersant writes with reference to the data of the research company Gartner.

A decrease in mortgage rates to 6-7% is capable of increasing the demand in the housing market in Russia by 30%, but the Central Bank must double the current key rate, experts say, commenting on the statement of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. “We must go out (we set this task for us for a long time) on a credit rate of 6-7% throughout the country.