The Moscow Mayor's Office postponed the start of hot water shutdown for maintenance work from May 10 to May 15. This was announced by the Deputy Mayor for Housing and Public Utilities and Improvement Petr Biryukov. This decision, according to Biryukov, was made because of the cold weather. Earlier, the Moscow United Energy Company announced that it would carry out preventive shutdowns of hot water in residential buildings from May 10 to August 25.

Zenit refused to hold the next match of the Russian Football Championship at the new stadium. The meeting with Krasnodar scheduled for May 17, as it became known to Fontanka, will be moved to the Petrovsky stadium. The decision to abandon the game at the new stadium, known under the unofficial name "Zenit-Arena", the club's management, according to the sources of the publication, took because of the unsatisfactory quality of the field.

How was the Immortal Regiment campaign in Moscow. Report "Medusa" Photo: Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On May 9, in many cities of Russia, as well as in several dozen countries around the world, the next action “Immortal Regiment” was held - a procession that people go with portraits of their relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic War. In Moscow, nine central metro stations were closed for the procession.

850,000 people took part in the Immortal Regiment action in Moscow, Interfax reports, citing Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk. Earlier, TASS was informed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs that the Immortal Regiment action in Moscow set a record for the number of participants. In 2016, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs recalled, the Immortal Regiment gathered more than 700,000 people in Moscow.

Non-state pension funds turned out to be holders of securities of Peresvet Bank, which is undergoing a reorganization procedure, for a total amount of 15 billion rubles, RBC reports citing sources. “Among these NPFs there are those owned by large private groups (with the exception of quasi-state ones) and many small funds that opened limits for several hundred million rubles,” one of the interlocutors of the publication said.

Nevada's Carter Wilkerson has set a new retweet record and will now be eating free nuggets at Wendy's for a year. On April 6, Wilkerson tweeted to Wendy's how many retweets his post would need to get in order to receive free nuggets for a year. Wendy's representatives responded that 18 million retweets were needed. Help me please. Man needs his nuggets The task set by Wendy's for Wilkerson was virtually impossible.

A group of students from Syktyvkar State University came to the Immortal Regiment rally in the city with a self-made portrait of Stalin, the 7×7 publication reports.

Alexei Navalny confirmed that he is in Barcelona. On his Instagram, the politician said that he had contacted one of the local ophthalmological clinics, where he was operated on for an eye injured as a result of an attack. “Vision, I was told, unfortunately, will be restored for several months,” Navalny wrote, adding that so far he sees only the first line of the table for checking vision with the injured eye.

Photo: Dmitry Feoktistov / TASS in Russia and abroad on May 9, shares of the Immortal Regiment were held - a procession with portraits of relatives participating in the Great Patriotic War. In Omsk, in the procession, according to local media , more than 50 thousand people took part. The most mass action became in Moscow, where more than 600 thousand people became participants in the Immortal Regiment, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Most of the tickets for the play "The North Wind" at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater during the preliminary sale went to resellers with the direct participation of the theater administration. about this A user under the pseudonym Tnargime Rǝnni wrote on his Facebook, supplementing his post with comments and videos of other eyewitnesses of what was happening. Pre-sale of tickets for the premiere screenings of "North Wind" was supposed to start on May 6.

Update : Moon Jae-in has announced his victory in the presidential election. “I will be the president of all South Koreans,” he said at a rally in Seoul. The candidate from the main opposition Democratic Party "Toburo" Moon Jae-in is gaining a majority of votes in the early presidential elections in South Korea. Moon Jae-in garnered more than 41 percent of the vote, according to exit polls conducted by the nation's three largest TV stations.

In April, fashion house Balenciaga released a $1,700 leather bag (about 100,000 rubles), which is very similar to the Frakta shopping bag for 49 rubles from IKEA. The inscription on the bag: "This is not Balenciaga" IKEA designers reacted to the expensive copy with humor and released instructions “how to determine that you have a real Frakta”. And also showed how else you can use the bag. For example, you can make an apron, a phone case or a picnic blanket out of it.

Dick Advocaat will take over as head coach of the Netherlands national football team. This was announced at a special press conference of the Royal Netherlands Football Association. Advocaat's main task will be to get the Netherlands national team to the final stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The contract with him is signed for a period until the end of the qualifying stage.

The sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union against Russia have not had a significant impact on the Russian oil industry, writes The Wall Street Journal. Despite the sanctions, the newspaper notes, Russia continued to increase oil production, bringing in 2016 this figure to a record level over the past few decades - 11 million barrels per day.

The Russian Ministry of Defense published a photograph of a pilot group flying over Red Square during a Victory Parade. On the morning of May 9, the Ministry of Defense announced the abolition of the air unit of the military parade in Moscow due to adverse weather conditions. A few hours after the publication, the ministry deleted Twit with a photograph. Twitter users noted that the picture was taken in 2013.