Photos from Minsk’s Victory Day parade On May 9, despite a lockdown across much of the world, Minsk went ahead with its Victory Day Parade to mark the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender to the USSR. Belarus was the only former Soviet republic not to cancel its full holiday celebrations in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. “We simply couldn’t have done otherwise; we had no other choice.

On May 9, Russian Facebook users began to massively complain about the removal from the social network of publications containing a photo of Yevgeny Khaldei “Victory Banner over the Reichstag”. As users said, after uploading photos, publications were deleted with a note that they "violate community norms regarding dangerous people and organizations." “Your post is hidden from others. These rules are designed to prevent harm to anyone in the real world,” Facebook said in a post.

In the north of Moscow, a fire broke out in one of the buildings of the Spasokukotsky hospital. It is reported by Interfax. “The fire on the first floor of the urological building, where patients with COVID-19 are being treated. The reason is the ignition of personal belongings, ”a source from the agency said. The fire has now been extinguished. The Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed that one person died as a result of the fire. According to Baza, three more people were injured.

In Yekaterinburg, a court fined Aleksey Malinkin, head physician of the City Clinical Hospital No. 24, for sending several coronavirus patients to be treated at home. Znak.com writes about it. In total, it was about five patients whom Malinkin sent for outpatient treatment from April 20 to May 2. TASS notes that at two of the addresses where the patients went, an outbreak of the disease occurred a few days later.

Sven Simon / Imago / Scanpix / Leta In the United States, at the 88th year of his life, the singer and pianist Richard Wayne Penniman, who spoke under the name Little Richard, died. He was one of the pioneers of the classic rock and roll, starting his career as an adolescence in the late 1940s. Popularity to Richard came in 1955 with the release of the song “Tutti Frutti”-the innovative vocal technique used in it and a characteristic rhythm almost immediately became a new rock and roll standard.

Living outside the place of registration in the conditions of self-isolation is not a basis for a fine. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow. “If citizens follow the procedure for moving around the city of Moscow established by decree, the difference between the actual place of residence and registration does not constitute an administrative offense [self-isolation regime],” the press service explained.

"Jellyfish" In Minsk on the morning of May 9, the Victory Parade was held. Belarus became the only post -Soviet country that did not cancel a full -fledged event, despite the pandemic. “We simply could not otherwise, we had no other choice.

Singer and pianist Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) has died in the United States. The musician was 87 years old. Little Richard was one of the pioneers of rock and roll. The heyday of his work came in the 1950s, when the style was just beginning to gain popularity. Little Richard's most famous compositions, now considered classics of rock and roll, are "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally", "Lucille", "Keep A-Knockin" (But You Can't Come In)".

The Ministry of Defense announced the completion of the construction of the main temple of the Armed Forces in the Patriot park in Kubinka near Moscow. It was originally planned that the temple would be consecrated on May 6, and opened on May 9, on Victory Day, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, both the consecration and the grand opening were postponed indefinitely.

Seoul authorities have announced an emergency closure of all nightclubs and bars in the city after a new outbreak of the coronavirus emerged in the city. Renhap writes about it. The measures were taken after 18 new cases of the disease were detected in South Korea over the past day, 17 of which were infected from the same person. It was a 29-year-old resident of the city of Yenin, who visited several clubs and bars in Seoul's Itaewon district on May 1.

What happens to the Pandemia of Coronavirus in Dagestan - the Russian region, where a wedding for 500 people is considered a modest event Evgeny Kostin City Beach Makhachkala. April 14, 2020 Dagestan traditions of weddings and funerals, for which hundreds and even thousands of people gather not only from the whole republic, but also from different parts of Russia, are clearly not adapted to the conditions of the Pandemia of Coronavirus.

Several deputies of the Moscow City Duma and their assistants were detained on Tverskaya Street in the center of Moscow for attempting to hold an uncoordinated rally.

Meduzacare talks about the struggle for drugs laid down from the state Max Kerzhentsev / "We will save hell!" On May 6, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Russia to ensure the treatment of a six -month -old girl Ade Keshisants with a rare disease - spinal muscle atrophy (SMA). Ada needs Spinraz - one injection of which costs about 8 million rubles.

Readers of Medusa talk about their relatives - doctors and orderlies who saved people in the war North-Western Front. Sanitar A.F. Bogdarin provides medical assistance to the wounded sergeant F. L. Lisrat. 1942. Efim Kopy / TASS This year, the celebration of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War due to coronavirus will not be as usual. Because of him, like 75 years ago, doctors became one of the main characters of what was happening.

Norway's Global Government Pension Fund - the largest sovereign fund in the world - will sell its assets for the first time in history to cover the country's budget deficit. It is reported by Bloomberg. The budget deficit, according to government estimates, will be 201 billion crowns ($20 billion). This is due to both the restrictions due to the coronavirus and the sharp drop in oil prices. The Global Government Pension Fund was founded in 1990 and is funded by oil windfalls.