Thousands of people on Saturday already visited the cemetery in the village of Centor to honor the memory of the former president of the Chechen Republic Akhmat Kadyrov, who tragically died five years ago as a result of the Dynamo stadium during a parade dedicated to Victory Day.

In the capital of Latvia on Saturday, on May 9, by noon, thousands of people came to the Victory monument to build flowers and take part in festive events. They began with the laying of flowers by the ambassadors of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. By noon, the foot of the monument was already covered with a carpet of thousands of flowers.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) accepted Kosovo into the ranks of its members, Reuters said on Saturday with reference to the organization’s statement. "The Executive Committee of the International Monetary Fund today approved the decision of the Administrative Council to provide the Republic of Kosovo in the IMF to the Republic of Kosovo," the organization said.

The Russians evaluate the results of the Great Patriotic War quite clearly: the majority (77%) of citizens are sure that the Soviet Army liberated the countries of Eastern Europe from the fascist occupation and gave them the opportunity to live and develop. Those who are of the opinion that the USSR had imposed there the pro -communist regime and deprived these countries of independence - only 11%. Such results of the All -Russian survey were informed by Interfax, sociologists VTsIOM.

A group of students of the Vladimir Polytechnic Institute, the search for which lasted two days in Abkhazia, was found in the town of Kuchba Iashta in the Bzybsky Gorge of the Gagra district, said the Minister of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia Otar Khzia. “All members of the group are alive and healthy. No emergency happened to them,” said Khodia on Saturday Interfax .

Ilya Bryzgalov, who returned to the goal of the Russian national team in the semifinal match of the World Hockey Championship with the Americans, proved his high class in this game. This opinion after the match, ending with a score of 3: 2 in favor of Russians , was expressed by striker Ilya Kovalchuk. “Maybe this choice seemed ambiguous for someone, but for us he was an unequivocal choice, because he was our first number,” Kovalchuk emphasized, answering RIA Novosti.

On Saturday, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced to two months the preliminary imprisonment of the former Attache of Georgia in NATO, now - the head of the Department for the combat training of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Colonel Irakli Batkuashvili. “He was charged with disclosing state secrets,” lawyer Onisa Mebonia told Interfax . Batkoashvili worked as a Georgian attache in NATO from 2004 to 2006.

The number of British armed forces reached an almost maximum level of staffing in the history of the current generation in 2008. According to the data published here today, the United Kingdom of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom, last year the number of people who want to serve in the army increased by 7.1 percent, or 20 thousand people compared to the previous year.

The leader of Los Angeles Lakers Kobi Bryant, gaining 33 points in the victorious match of the quarterfinal series of the NBA playoffs with Houston (108: 94), bypassed the famous Boston sniper Larry Berda in the number of points scored in the playoffs. Now on the account of Bryant 3928 points and by this indicator he went to sixth place in the history of the association.

According to the results of the second semi-final of the World Hockey Championship, where the Canadians won the Swedes with a score of 3: 1, the national teams of Russia and Canada will meet in the final, Vesti-24 reports. The ancestors of the hockey opened an account in the 7th minute, when Derek Roy grabbed the puck behind the gates of Junas Gustavsson and sent her in a corner by the goalkeeper who did not have time to shift.

Today, an individual race in ski-valpinism and the first All-Russian Ski-Alpinism among the military personnel "Victory Cup" starts on Elbrus as part of the Fox Elbrus Race. Ski-alpinism consists of two stages-lifting uphill and a descent from a mountain on skiing. When climbing the skis, kamus is attached (something like a sticky tape), thanks to which the skis do not slip. Despite the fact that ski-alpinism appeared in Russia recently, every year it acquires more and more fans.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Olympic sports complex on Saturday, where he checked preparations for the Eurovision Song Contest. At first, the prime minister decided to check the conditions created for the work of journalists, and went to the press center, which is designed for 500 jobs. In total, more than 2.5 thousand journalists are accredited at the competition, RIA Novosti reports. Then he visited a press conferen that journalists were preparing for the next event.

In the fourth match of the quarterfinal Stanley Cup Pittsburgh, Washington beat Washington on its ice with a score of 5: 3 and equalized the chances of getting into the final of the Eastern Conference. The first puck at the Penguins was abandoned by Sergey Gonchar, who was already forced to leave the site in the first period.

In Abkhazia, there is an active search for the missing tourist group from Vladimir. The operation is led by the Deputy Head of the Department of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Abkhazia Leo Quitsinia. According to ITAR-TASS, a press secretary of the Alhas Manargia department, helicopters were raised into the air, a search is being conducted both in the Kodor Gorge and in the Bzybsky, where, according to preliminary information, tourists intended to make a kayaks.

On the fact of the murder in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in the Ingushetia of the Aliyev spouses, a criminal case was opened under paragraph 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of two or more persons) and Article 222 (illegal turnover of weapons and ammunition), Interfax reported in the press service of the Republican Directorate of the SCP of the Russian Federation.