The International Hockey Federation (IIHF) is investigating the situation with the possible surrender to two players in the Ukrainian national team of the 2017 World Cup in the first division of Group A with the South Korean team. “To be honest, I myself only recently found out about this,” said IIHF President Rene Fasel Tass. “We will certainly conduct an investigation, open the case, although the result of the match tells us the opposite.

The Chechen human rights activist Hed Saratova told RIA Novosti that information published in Novaya Gazeta about the beating of the inhabitants of the village of Krasnaya Turbin in Chechnya, who signed an appeal to the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, is not true. Earlier, Saratova in a radio interview justified the murder of gays and explained their persecution in the republic with ties with terrorists.

The Islamic State terrorist organization prohibited in Russia* took responsibility for the massacre in Surgut . This was reported by Twitter Site Group - an organization that leads the monitoring of the online activity of terrorists.

In Spain, the name of the main suspect in the attacks in Catalonia is named. The El Pais newspaper reports that this is a 22-year-old Moroccan of UNESE Abuyakub. Its search is underway, while law enforcement officers do not exclude that he managed to escape from the country. It is assumed that Abuyakub remains the only non -detained member of the terrorist cell, which organized terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils and prepared explosions .

The police in Spain detained the German writer of Turkish descent Ahanli on the request of Turkey, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Kopolner Stadt-ANzeiger. The writer was detained on Saturday morning in Granada, where he spent his vacation. It is reported that the police acted at the direction of Interpol marked about urgency. According to the writer’s lawyer, the basis for the detention was the criminal case that was initiated against him in Turkey, presumably politically determined.

The President of the Munich Bavaria Uli Heness does not exclude that in his actions, the 20-year-old striker of the Dortmund Borussia, Utman Dembele, is guided by instructions from Barcelona, ​​which is interested in his services. Earlier, the Frenchman of Mali descent was removed by the German club from training for the absence in one of the classes, after which it became known that the player intends to stay in France until his transition to the Catalan club will be issued.

Two hockey players of the National team of Ukraine consciously "drained" the match of the 2017 home championship against South Korea. At the disposal of the “observer” were the receipts of goalkeeper Eduard Zakharchenko and defender Vladimir Varivoda, who confessed to the deed.

The thirteenth world chess champion Harry Kasparov took eighth place in the chess tournament in the Blitz and Rapid Grand Chess Tour, which was held in the American St. Louis. The Armenian Levon Aronyan won the competition. On the final day of the competition, chess players played according to the rules of the blitz. Aronyan in nine parties won four victories at four draws and one defeat, Kasparov managed to win three parties, draw five and lost one.

The Brazilian police launched an investigation in the case of a criminal group that illegally received money from the Ministry of Sports of the country for non -existent athletes as part of a federal program, Globo Brazilian TV channel reports. "Big Athlete" is a federal program that was created in 2005 to finance athletes. It can receive athletes from 370 to 15 thousand Brazilian reais (from 7 to 280 thousand rubles, TASS notes) per month.

In the Duma, after a proposal to transfer the capital of Russia for the Urals, they called for more authority to regions. The proposal was voiced in an interview with RT by the head of the supervisory board of the Institute of Demography, Migration and Regional Development Yuri Krupnov. The message was replicated by RIA "Novosti" .

The actress Vera Glagolev was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. Farewell to her took place in the Central House of Cinema in Moscow, hundreds of people came to the ceremony. Glagoleva died at the 62nd year of her life in the United States after a long illness. Saying to her, they climbed the stage of the central house of the cinema, where the artist’s coffin decorated with wreaths stood.

In the starting match of the seventh round of the Russian Football Championship Tosno and SKA-Khabarovsk, they played in St. Petersburg a draw with a score of 0: 0. The team from the Leningrad region in this "bright" game struck the goal twice, the Far East of the goalkeeper of the hosts did not disturb. "A fighting draw. There was a lot of struggle on the field. In the first half we looked fresher, in the second were hooked, you can’t deceive the physiology.

The former chief strategist of the White House Stephen Bannon, who retired on Friday, only a few hours later became the executive director of the Breitbart News news portal, known for his ultra -right agenda, bordering frank racism. Before becoming Trump's adviser, Bannon worked on this site as an editor -in -chief. “Our portal received an executive director who is aware of everything that is happening in the White House,” said the current editor -in -chief of Breitbart News, Alex Marlock.

One of the seven victims after the attack in Surgut, for which the militants of the Islamic State* took the responsibility for themselves, is in extremely serious condition, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the governor of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Natalia Komarova. “One injured in extremely serious condition, for his life doctors are fighting special methods,” the governor said. According to her, three more patients are in serious condition, two are in a state of moderate severity.

The army of Lebanon announced the beginning of the attack on the position of the Islamic State terrorist organization* on the border with Syria, reports Reuters with reference to a source in security agencies. The military later confirmed that the operation was not coordinated with the Syrian army. It is noted that the Lebanese Armed Forces plan to attack militants near the village of Raas -Baalbek - a village inhabited by Christians.