Most Russians believe that the Soviet Union could have won the Great Patriotic War without the help of allies in the anti-Hitler coalition. These are the results of a sociological survey conducted by Yuri Levada's Analytical Center jointly with Bashkirova and Partners. According to the poll, 60-68 percent of Russians are sure that it was possible to win the war without the help of allies. However, the number of those who doubt this, according to sociologists, is quite large - about 30 percent.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov approved new building codes aimed at strengthening the safety of large catering establishments. As the newspaper GZT.RU writes on Friday, the norms, in the development of which the anti-terrorist commission of Moscow took part, come into force on May 20 and apply to catering establishments designed for more than 100 visitors. According to the new provisions, it is necessary to install a security post and a frame metal detector at the doors of cafes and restaurants.

The leaders of illegal armed formations planned to carry out a major terrorist attack in Grozny on May 9 using female suicide bombers. According to Gazeta.Ru, this was reported to Interfax on Thursday evening by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, Ruslan Alkhanov. According to Alkhanov, having received this information, the Ministry of Internal Affairs carried out an operation to detain the suicide bombers and their accomplices.

As a result of the flood in the Stavropol Territory, more than 2,000 people were affected, RIA Novosti reports. "As of the morning of May 6, as a result of the emergency caused by floods in the previous two days, 12 settlements in 4 districts of the region were affected," said a spokesman for the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Stavropol Territory.

In Moscow, on May 8, the movement of vehicles will be limited in connection with visiting cemeteries by residents and guests of the capital, RIA Novosti reports. Restrictions will apply from 6.00 to 18.00. According to the traffic police, traffic is closed along Sergei Makeev Street in the section from 1905 Goda Street to Zvenigorodskoye Highway and along Bolshaya Dekabrskaya Street from 2nd Zvenigorodskaya Street to Sergei Makeev Street.

Search for new Moon Saturn. Photo BBC News (Dave Jewitt) Astronomers found 12 new moons from Saturn, bringing the total number of its natural satellites to 46. Almost all new satellites (except for one) rotate around Saturn in the direction of the opposite rotation of the main large moons, and this indicates that these celestial bodies were free, and then captured by gravity of the giant planet.

The former head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy Yevgeny Adamov faces up to 60 years in prison in the United States and a $1.75 million fine. This was stated by federal prosecutor for the Western District of Pennsylvania Mary Buchanan. According to her, Adamov and his business partner Mark Kaushansky are charged with 20 counts of financial fraud and embezzlement of money allocated for the protection of Russian nuclear facilities.

Former Russian Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov called the charges against him a "provocation" and said he did not consider himself guilty. Igor Petrov, press attache of the Russian embassy in Switzerland, reported this to RIA Novosti on Friday. "In essence, the charges against Adamov said that it was a provocation and that he does not consider himself guilty in any way," Petrov said.

At least 70 people, including 40 police officers, were injured on Thursday evening during riots in Dresden. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the German media, the clashes had no political underpinnings. Groups of young people celebrated "Father's Day" and, in a state of drunkenness, began to throw stones, bottles and firecrackers towards the police. 50 hooligans, mostly under the age of 20, were arrested.

The Moscow prosecutor's office sent to court for consideration on the merits the case of Andrey Semigin, head of the police department at the Presnensky District Department of Internal Affairs, and Iosif Smereko, the senior shift on duty, who are accused of negligence, which negligently caused the death of former submarine officer Alexander Pumane. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported in the press service of the Moscow prosecutor's office.

Joseph Stalin. Photo from the site www.time.com In Krasnoyarsk, local communists have established a bust of Stalin. As the Echo of Moscow reports, he appeared in front of the building of the City Committee of the Communist Party. The bust was made and installed on party funds. Earlier in the same place there was a monument to Stalin, who was dismantled after the fall of the Soviet regime.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has put Volodymyr Shcherban, the former chairman of the Sumy Regional Administration, on the interstate wanted list, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax. Shcherban was put on the wanted list in accordance with the decision of the Sumy Regional Prosecutor's Office. He is suspected of extortion and abuse of power.

Representatives of left-wing parties and movements will hold a mass rally in the center of Moscow on May 9, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax. As reported on Friday, sources in the city administration, the action is allowed to be held on Tverskaya Zastava Square from 11.00 to 14.00.

Guuam. Photo from the site details.ua On Thursday, the President of Moldova received an official notification of the leadership of Uzbekistan on the withdrawal of this country from GUUAM, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the Grozny region of Chechnya, an riot policeman from Mari El committed suicide. According to Gazeta.ru, citing Interfax, a fighter of the OMON operational platoon under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Mari El, 25-year-old police foreman Alexei Ivashin, while on duty, moved a few meters away from the checkpoint and shot himself in the head with an AK-74. He died at the scene. This happened on Thursday evening at a checkpoint near the village of Goryacheistochnenskoye.