On Friday, about 10 hours on the 25th kilometer of the Kyiv highway near St. Petersburg, a serious accident occurred: a foreign car lost control on a wet road and crashed at high speed into a completed bus of the Petersburg -Gatchina route. According to the Fontanka in the press service of the traffic police, due to the departure of the BMW to the oncoming lane on the wet road, it collided with the oncoming bus of route 100. Two people who were in a foreign car died.

In the Ivangorod of the Leningrad Region, on the banks of the Narva River, connecting Russia and Estonia, a ceremony of laying the monument to the Estonian heroes-antifaches took place. According to RIA Novosti , the initiators of the creation of the monument, the idea to erect a monument to the Estonian heroes who gave their lives in the fight against fascism, belongs to the State Duma deputy from the United Russia faction Vitaly Yuzhilin.

On Red Square in Moscow at 10 am a parade in honor of Victory Day was held. Half an hour before its beginning, the construction of ceremonial calculations ended - 7 thousand military personnel take part in it.

British scientists presented new evidence in support of the hypothesis that all people living on our planet are descendants of a small tribe who once lived in the territory of Southeast Africa. Researchers of Cambridge and England universities have established the presence of general DNA for Aboriginal Australia, New Guinea and the oldest inhabitants of Africa, AFP reports with reference to the National Academy of Sciences magazine.

On May 9, the Communists managed to equalize the number of their supporters participating in the demonstration with the number of policemen mobilized on the streets of the festive capital. Currently, about 10 thousand people take part in a rally of left -wing forces, which began on Lubyanskaya Square.

The Russian hockey federation in the near future will not join the transfer agreement between the National Hockey League (NHL) and the International Hockey Federation (IIHF). This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the department of public relations of the FCR . The position of the FHR is explained by the fact that the necessary documents under this agreement were granted to the Russian side only on May 5.

In Estonia in the city of Turi (TURI), the monument to the Red Army soldiers, who fell in defensive battles with the Nazis outside the city in 1941, was desecrated. On the chest of the sculpture depicting a standing height of the Red Army man, unknown by vandals, the swastika is painted with black paint, Interfax reports. The elder of the Tyurian volost, Toomas Marrandi, ordered the monument to clean the monument in the late evening, the local Jarva Teataja reported on Wednesday).

US Vice-President Richard Chaines, who arrived on Wednesday with an unexpected visit to Baghdad, met with President Iraqi Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri Al-Malika. “We discussed the joint efforts that we must make for the construction of a safe and stable Iraq, delivered from threats from the rebels and Al -Qaeda,” the Interfax quotes Cheney’s statement made after negotiations.

The number of victims of the explosion at the Krasnolimanskaya mine in the Donetsk region of Ukraine is growing. On Wednesday, early in the morning, at a depth of about a thousand meters during drilling operations, methane emissed with subsequent burning. As ITAR-TASS reported in the territorial department of the State Department of Mining and Industrial Supervision of Ukraine, not alone died of 28 miners working in Lava, as the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine, but two miners.

The Russian capital will turn into a giant concert platform on May 9. In Moscow, almost a thousand cultural actions will be held dedicated to the 62nd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. And although weather forecasters promise only 13-15 degrees of heat and rains at times, the aircraft of the Air Force of Russia in the morning began to disperse the clouds over Moscow .

The office of the Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair confirmed that on Thursday, May 10, he will make a special statement about the upcoming departure from the post of leader of the ruling Labor Party. It is planned that Blair will report his intention to colleagues in the office of ministers, but there will be no public statement in London.

Ukraine and Georgia recognized Estonia the right to transfer the monument to the Soviet soldiers and the remains of the dead. In the Georgian parliament, such a right was called part of the state sovereignty, and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry agreed that the necessary honors should be preserved. “The issue of transferring monuments is a sovereign right of any state. It is another matter that this should happen with all honors,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk quotes Interfax quoted.

Residents of Riga threw a wreath, entrusted with nationalists to the monument to the liberators of the city "in memory of the victims of communist terror," RIA Novosti reports. On Wednesday morning, people began to come to the monument to lay flowers. At 9:30 local time (10.30 Moscow time), supporters of the NSS nationalist movement came to the monument, who received official permission to lay flowers from the Riga Duma.

In Chechnya, for the first time after the murder of Ahmad Kadyrov, a military parade was held 3 years ago, in which both representatives of local and federal power structures took part. At the same time, mourning measures are held on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of the first president from the Kadyrov family. The military parade took place at the newly rebuilt Dynamo stadium.

On Wednesday, at the World Hockey Championship, playoff matches start. In the first game, the 1/4 finals on this day will meet the national teams of Russia and the Czech Republic, the game will begin at 16:15 Moscow time. Throughout the history of these teams, the Czechs have repeatedly become an insurmountable obstacle for Russian hockey players at the stage of matches for the release of world championships.