American judge Martin Jenkins, the leading case of the ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavel Lazarenko in the court of the Southern District of California, removed a number of accusations against the former head of the Ukrainian government. This was reported to the Interfax agency on Saturday by the Ukrainian lawyer Lazarenko Marina Dolgopolai, noting that the judge issued such a decision on May 7, having heard the charges and the testimony of witnesses to the prosecution.

In Moscow, on Saturday, in the 83rd year, the oldest Russian playwright Valentin Ivanovich Yezhov passed away. This was reported to "Interfax" by the first secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia Klim Lavrentiev. One of his first major works - the script for the film "Ballad of a Soldier" - was awarded the Lenin Prize, and in total this picture received about a hundred international awards.

As part of the celebration of the 59th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, a number of solemn events will be held. On May 9, at 10:00 on Red Square, a military parade will be held in honor of the 59th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. At 9:00 from the Belorussky station, a memory train will go to the Poklonnaya Mountain, whose passengers will be veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

The French actors-world workers prevented the sending of films that should be shown at the Cannes Film Festival, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Coordination Committee of the Actors-Cossacks on Saturday, on Friday the evening of about a hundred participants in the action blocked the film Archive building located in the Paris region, where copies of the films are stored, and prevented them from sending them to Cannes.

In a festive atmosphere, Russian President Vladimir Putin entrusted wreaths at the grave of an unknown soldier in the Alexander Garden in honor of Victory Day.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, along with the acting Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov on Saturday evening, after the concert in honor of the Victory Day in the Kremlin, went to the Alexander Garden, where tables were set for the guests for the performance of veterans and field kitchens were installed. The president congratulated those present on the upcoming holiday and offered a toast for veterans. Putin asked if the veterans liked the concert, and received an affirmative answer.

The former player of the Omsk Vanguard, and now the Hamilton Buldogs hockey player Alexander Perezhogin is disqualified by the leadership of the American Hockey League for the remnant of this and the next season. This is a record disqualification in the history of the AHL, which is the main farm league of North America.

The Supreme Court of Spain sentenced to 4.5 years in prison by the municipal police officer Arnedo Pedro Ochoa for the fact that he was illegally fined the same driver. According to RIA Novosti , in all three cases, the policeman of the city of Logrono fined the priest of the local seminary, from whom his son used to study, excluded two months earlier for poor performance and poor behavior.

The Chechen village of New Atagi, located near the Argun River, is at risk of flooding. This was announced by Interfax on Saturday the head of the administration of the Shali district of Chechnya Sharip Alikhadzhiev. "The water in the River Argun River is at a critical mark. We are afraid of a repetition of the year before last, when almost half of the village was flooded," said Alikhadzhiev. In the village of New Atagi, more than 10 thousand people live.

The militants of the Iraqi Resistance belonging to the so-called Shiite "Al-Malady Army" left Basra after they showed their combat effectiveness to the British military, RIA Novosti reports According to reported reports, the order is gradually restored in the city, units of the Iraqi police are introduced into all quarters, and British soldiers took the approaches to the Basra.

The act of vandalism is committed in Vladivostok. On Saturday night, attackers defiled a square near the House of Fleet officers and flower beds near the memorial to soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War, the press service of the city administration said, Interfax reports. Vandals, in particular, destroyed flowers, which, in the form of the number "9" were planted for the day of victory in the flower beds near the memorial.

The acting Minister of Defense of Russia Sergey Ivanov said that the modern military-political situation in the world requires maintaining Russia's defense capability at the proper level, Interfax reports.

Festive events dedicated to Victory Day will be held in Grozny on May 9, the First Deputy Mayor of the Grozny Abdulkakhir Israilov told Interfax. "On May 9, at the stadium of Dynamo's hand games, a festive parade of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, as well as a festive concert with the participation of the artists of the Chechen Philharmonic," Israilov said. According to him, 420 veterans of war living in Grozny will receive gifts for the holiday.

The action in the Irkutsk investigative isolator was organized by a criminal group, the head of the Main Directorate for the Penalization of Punishment (Guin) of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the Irkutsk Region Pavel Radchenko told RIA Novosti . He denied rumors about the mass hunger strike of the under investigation, located in pre -trial detention center N 1 of Irkutsk.

For the first time, the French oil giant Total officially confirmed the interest in buying a part of Sibneft shares, but stated that this will happen only after Sibneft would come out of the merger of Yukos and oil prices will decrease. “We have been conducting a constant exchange of views with Sibneft since 1998.