The organizers of the celebrations on May 9 promise to take special care of journalists, Ekho Moskvy reports. Everyone who covers events within the framework of the anniversary of the Victory will be able to feel at work like at home, the organizers say. This year, journalists were invited "not just to work in the press center, but also to rent a room at the Rossiya Hotel." This provides a number of advantages: you won't have to overcome traffic jams and go around blocked streets.

In Nizhny Novgorod on Friday, a truck rammed several cars, Gazeta.ru reports citing Interfax. As a result of the accident, six people died, including two children, and four others were seriously injured. The accident occurred on the Myzinsky bridge across the Oka. According to preliminary data, the brakes of the MAZ vehicle with a semi-trailer failed.

In the south-east of Moscow, the Sickle and Hammer plant is on fire, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to the UGPS of the capital. The signal about the fire was received at 14.50. The area of ​​fire is more than three thousand square meters. There was a collapse of 400 square meters of the roof. 40 fire brigades and a fire helicopter take part in extinguishing the fire. The fire was assigned the 3rd level of difficulty.

Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Khloponin injured his leg while riding a motorcycle on Saturday, Gazeta.ru reports citing Interfax. According to the governor's press secretary Igor Astapov, on Saturday a friendly football match between the national teams of the administrations of the region and the city of Zheleznogorsk was held at the Sokol sports complex. The Governor attended as a fan.

State Duma deputy Suleiman Kerimov, whose fortune is estimated at about $ 2.6 billion, failed to agree with the owners of the Italian "Roma" about the purchase of the capital's club. According to Gazeta.Ru with reference to Tribalfootball, negotiations on the acquisition of the football club began at the end of January, but ended in failure. Kerimov offered $400 million for the club. "The fact of the negotiations took place. There was no bluff.

A car bomb explosion in Iraq has killed at least 58 people, Reuters reported. The explosion took place in the so-called "triangle of death" south of Baghdad, in the city of Suweira. A suicide car exploded in the Mojadar market in the city center. Another terrorist attack was committed on Saturday in Baghdad. A car bomb exploded at one of the busy intersections of the city, when a convoy carrying employees of foreign companies passed nearby.

Greek President Karolos Papoulias arrived in Moscow for the celebrations in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Victory, RIA Novosti reports. "It is a great honor for me that I am in Moscow these days. We bow our heads before the sacrifices made by the people of Russia in the fight against fascism," the Greek president said after arriving in the Russian capital.

Gerhard Schreder and Vladimir Putin. Photo AP Russia advocates strengthening the role of Germany at the UN, including as a permanent member of the Security Council, Vladimir Putin Vsordnoy with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder interviews the Bild newspaper, the second part of which was published on Saturday on the official website of the president.

The fire at the Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant in Moscow has been extinguished, RIA Novosti reports. "There are no victims of the fire. Now the pouring and dismantling of burnt structures is underway," a representative of the fire service said. He said that they managed to localize the fire at 17.45 Moscow time, and completely extinguish it around 18.30. The area of ​​fire was more than five thousand square meters.

French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin was rushed to the hospital on Saturday, Reutres reports. According to the doctors, today he will undergo an operation on the bladder. Raffarin is in the Val de Grasse hospital in Paris. Nothing is known about the prime minister's condition. It is only reported that he has a bladder infection. Jean-Pierre Raffarin has been Prime Minister of France since May 6, 2002.

In Moscow, on the Alley of Partisans of the Poklonnaya Gora memorial complex, a monument to the soldiers of the countries participating in the Anti-Hitler coalition was solemnly unveiled on Saturday, RIA Novosti reports. The opening ceremony was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, ambassadors of Great Britain, France and the United States, ambassadors of the CIS countries, and city officials.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced to six days of arrest another activist of the youth Yabloko, who was detained on May 4 during an unsanctioned protest near the Belarusian embassy in the Russian capital, NEWSru.com reports with reference to Interfax. "The fourth activist of the Yabloko youth party, Vitaly Reznikov, was sentenced to an administrative arrest for six days," Yabloko party spokesman Sergei Kazakov said on Friday evening.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will not come to Moscow to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Victory, RIA Novosti reports. This was announced by Salome Zourabishvili, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, on Friday at a press conference in Moscow following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "Mikhail Saakashvili will not be able to come either on May 8 to the CIS summit or on May 9," she said.

Gerald Ford. Photo from the site www.jfklibory.org The Russian Foreign Ministry responded to statements that the West, and above all, the United States never recognized the entry of the Baltic republics into the USSR.

Riga. Photo from the site www.ini.unizh.ch NBP activists tried to break into the center of Riga to meet with US President George Bush, RIA Novosti reports. The column of supporters of the Latvian cell of the National-Bolshevik party with flags and posters was moving to the center of Riga, where the meeting of US President George Bush and Latvia President Vike Vike-Frebergi hosts. The head of the cell, the head of the cell of Ayo Benes demanded a meeting with the American president.