The Finnish pilot Kimi Raikkonen from the McLaren-Mercedes team became the winner of the Grand Prix of Spain-the fifth stage of the World Championship in Formula 1 races. The Spaniard Fernando Alonso from Reno was divided with Raikkonen on the podium on the results of the race, which became the second, as well as the Italian rider of the Toyota team Yarno Truly, who rose to the third step of the podium, RIA Novosti reports.

Russian tennis player Nadezhda Petrova was unable to win the first title in her career in the tournament of the first category of the WTA German Open women's tennis association, whose prize fund is 1 million 300 thousand dollars. In the final of the Berlin tournament, Petrov, sown under the sixth number, lost to the former first racket of the world to Belgian, Justine Enen-Ardenne with a score of 3: 6, 6: 4, 3: 6.

On Sunday, at 17:00 Moscow time, a meeting of the Crowne Plaza hotel will begin a meeting of the Control and Disciplinary instance of the Union of European Football Associations, at which the official protest of the Parma football club will be considered following the results of the UEFA Cup in the Moscow Army Cup in Moscow. The basis for protest was the incident at the beginning of the match , when the false floods flew on the field of the Lokomotiv stadium.

The result of the reciprocal semi -final match of the UEFA Cup between the Moscow CSKA and the Italian "Parma" was upheld. Such a decision was made on Sunday at a meeting at the Geneva Hotel Crowne Plaza, the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Union of European Football Associations, having examined the incident with abandoned fans of the Russian club on the firecracker.

On the day when Lithuania celebrates the 60th anniversary of the victory over fascism, local bikers made a political provocation. The column of motorcyclists, dressed in the uniform of the SS men, defiantly proceeded past the headquarters of the Lithuanian Jewish community in Vilnius, chanting Nazi slogans. It was at this time that an event dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust took place at the headquarters of the community.

At least 40 people were killed and 18 were injured as a result of a major accident in Peru, reports AP. According to the representative of the police, the car accident occurred about 390 kilometers north of the capital of Lima. The bus fell into the gorge to a depth of 300 meters. The causes of the incident are investigated. The wounded were delivered to the hospital. Accidents involving buses take place quite often.

Representatives of the heroic cities called on the heads of Europe to prevent the decision of the decisions of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. The signatures under the document were made today in Volgograd by the leaders of delegations of the heroes of the Moscow, Minsk, Odessa, the scuba cities of Volgograd-Celna, Hemnitz (Germany), Liezha (Belgium), Ostrava (Czech Republic), Russia (Bulgaria).

A relative of Boris Nemtsov was killed in Nizhny Novgorod, a suspect in a crime was detained. According to RIA Novosti in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, in the evening of May 7, in Nizhny Novgorod, the corpse of Aidman Clara Yakovlevna born in 1931, who died from numerous stab wounds, was discovered.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, Muscovites and guests of the capital, celebrating Victory Day, are hiding from heavy rain in the lobby of the city metro. “The metropolitan subway during the war years was a bomb shelter,” the veterans recall, “and today again serves us with a cover not from the enemy, but from the bad weather,” recalled one of the veterans at the Pure Pond metro station.

At the representative tennis tournament of the first category of WTA German Open, which these days are held in Berlin, a scandal erupted. In the section of the programs dedicated to the history of the Rot-Weiss tennis club, on the courts of which the tournament matches are held, a photograph of one of the Nazi leaders of Herman Gorring, sitting on an honorary rostrum, is placed. Behind him, the military in Nazi uniforms settled in the photograph.

The Russian capital today will accept the leaders of the leading countries of the world all day. The triumphs on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Victory will come to US President George Bush, Chancellor Germany Gerhard Schroeder, French President Jacques Shirak, Japanese Prime Minister Dzyunyitiro Koizumi, President Hu Jintao, Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh. In total, the leaders of 53 states of the world will gather at the celebrations, ITAR-TASS reports.

The bodies of three children are found on Sunday in Krasnoyarsk. The police will take time to identify them, a source in the regional police department told RIA Novosti . According to him, the bodies of three children were found in one of the collectors in the Leninsky district of Krasnoyarsk 300 meters from the house where the children lived.

The first CIS summit this year, which was supposed to begin at noon in Moscow, opened with almost half an hour late and went behind closed doors without the presence of the press. All the heads of the CIS countries came to the summit, with the exception of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

The lessons of World War II for all mankind, in particular, should never be forgotten for the Jewish people. This was stated by Israeli President Moshe Katsav on Sunday in Moscow at a meeting with representatives of the Jewish community in Russia. "We want the lessons of war and that disaster to be never forgotten. These are lessons for all mankind, for the Jewish people," he said.

The Moscow authorities will check how the owners of outlets comply with the law on the restriction of retail sale and beer consumption, and fine violators. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the head of the state regulation of the production and turnover of alcohol products of the Department of Consumer Market and the services of Moscow Valentina Suchkova. She added that from May 8, when the law comes into force, a special city commission will take care of inspections.