A resident of the Quebec province in the east of Canada won 55 million Canadian dollars in the popular National Lotto Max National Lottery - almost $ 41 million. The draw was held on Friday evening. Night numbers: 11, 12, 25, 28, 33, 41 and 43. It is known that the ticket was purchased in a store near the town of Sherbruk, reports Montreal Gazette .

The South Korean court rejected the prosecutor’s request to arrest the daughter of a close friend of the ex -president of the Republic of Korea Choi Song Sil - the central figure of a large corruption scandal, which resulted in the impeachment of President Pak Kyn Hye. TASS, citing Yonhap, reports that Jung Yu Ra was released from custody. She was detained on May 31 on board the plane, which was following from Amsterdam to Seoul.

Negotiations regarding the rights to show the matches of the Confederations Cup 2017 and the 2017 World Cup in Russia-the country that will accept tournaments are still ongoing, the official response of the International Football Federation (FIFA) says to the corresponding request of the R-Sport correspondent.

Russian tennis players Elena Vesnina and Daria Kasatkina could not win in the third round of the French open championship of their rivals. Vesnina yielded in two sets Spanka Karle Suarez Navarro - 4: 6, 4: 6, and Kasatkina did not find arguments when meeting with Simone Halep, losing Romanian also in two batches - 0: 6, 5: 7. In the next round of the offender, Russians will play among themselves.

In the capital of Afghanistan Kabul, three explosions occurred during a mourning ceremony, at least 18 people died, Reuters reports. Explosions occurred near the mourning procession in the area of ​​Saraoi Shamoli. Interfax with reference to Tolo News reports that the explosions were heard during the funeral of the son of the deputy speaker of the Senate of Afghanistan, who died the day before during a demonstration of protest.

A resident of Nizhny Tagil died as a result of a hurricane: he was killed by a fallen tree. The speed of wind in the Sverdlovsk region reaches 25 m/s, almost 40 thousand people remained without light due to cliffs of power lines. On the eve of the Ministry of Emergencies, more than 20 regions of Russia warned of the strengthening of the wind of residents. According to investigators, in Nizhny Tagil "a powerful gust of wind brought down a tree on a man." The UK reported the start of the audit.

The UN Security Council on Friday, June 2, adopted a resolution that expands the sanctions list against North Korea in connection with the latest missile launches in this country. The project of the resolution gained 15 votes "for", that is, he was adopted unanimously, the chairman of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Bolivia at the UN Sasha Yorenti, announced.

The Green Patrol public organization has prepared an environmental rating of Russian regions in the spring of 2017. The most environmentally friendly region was the Tambov region, and the most dirty was Chelyabinsk. At the same time, Moscow entered the top ten leaders of the rating, and the Moscow Region became the third in the list of the most dysfunctional regions. The rating is completely published on the Patrol website .

Daria Klishina’s jump in length won the international tournament in the Golden Roof Challenge Innsbruck. The Russian woman, who spoke under a neutral flag, in her best attempt showed the result - 6.48 meters. “If we talk about numbers, then, of course, I am unhappy, because I still want to always improve my previous result,” Daria TASS quotes. “But here I have to refer to the path, I jumped on the street for the third time in my life, and this differs greatly by the sensations from the stadium.

The upcoming repairs of the Aviation Carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" again rose: the source of Interfax on Saturday said that modernization would cost up to 50 billion rubles. The media voiced new numbers monthly: in March it was 20 billion rubles, in mid -April - already twice as much . At the same time, sources argued that in order to save the only Russian aircraft carrier, they decided not to change the missile system.

The city hall of Novorossiysk was beaten by an activist who came to apply for a rally on June 12, Mediazon reports with reference to information in the Novorossiysk Online group on the VKontakte social network. Meduza in the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Krasnodar Territory said that the activist was detained and then arrested for 5 days for petty hooliganism. According to eyewitnesses, the incident occurred on June 2.

President Vladimir Putin said that he proposed to the former American leader Bill Clinton to consider the possibility of Russia's accession to NATO. He stated this during an interview with American director Oliver Stone for his new project - a series of conversations with the Russian leader. In the previously published passages from the conversation, Putin praised his bodyguards and talked about the fate of the ex-US man of USA Edward Snowden, about whom Stone shot the film.

The most popular and highly paid specialties were called the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. The head of Rostrud Vsevolod Vukolov said that engineers are needed to work in production. And the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichi said that among the graduates of the country's chief university, lawyers and specialists in the field of IT earn the most. However, the Ministry of Education and Science believes that there are already too many lawyers.

An elderly woman froze to death in St. Petersburg at a bus stop, a source in medical circles of the city said on Saturday on Saturday . The city in the early days of summer was in the power of a cold cyclone, according to the regional hydrometeorological center, frosts up to minus 1 degree are possible at night. A woman 70-75 years old was hospitalized from the stop of public transport on Zanevsky Prospekt, 71.

Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine are developing a bill on free weapon circulation in the country, said Sergey Pashinsky, chairman of the parliamentary committee on national security and defense. According to him, the document can be prepared by the fall. “I know that my colleagues are now writing the corresponding bill, I am ready to sign it. I think that we need to take the first step - to determine those categories of people whom we are not afraid to give short -barreled weapons.