Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin earned more than 6.2 million rubles in 2013. This became known from his declaration of income published on the website of the metropolitan government. In 2012, the mayor earned 5.32 million, so his income grew by almost a million rubles, RIA Novosti notes.

The meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the allied troops in Normandy is not planned, the representative of the State Department of Marie Harf said at a briefing. The Russian Ambassador to France the day before said that Putin accepted the invitation of French President Francois Hollande to visit the ceremony, where the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the US president will also be present.

The former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrived at the nursing home in the village of Cesano Boson on the outskirts of Milan on Friday morning, in order to start serving 10 months of public and useful work, according to the court verdict, the Air Force reports. The politician will help people with Alzheimer's disease. The 77-year-old Berlusconi was sentenced to four years in prison for tax evasion and financial fraud of his Mediaset company last year.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogs Rasmussen gave an interview with the Estonian newspaper Postimees , in which he stated that he considers Russia the purpose of Russia to restore its influence in the space of the former Soviet Union. "I think that the goal of Russians is to restore Russia's influence in the space of the former Soviet Union, and this violates the principles of free and living in the world of Europe," said NATO head.

Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who is serving in the United States, the 20-year term for imprisonment for trying to smuggle drugs, spent the last two days in the prison kartsere. "He was sent there on Tuesday shortly after a meeting with the representative of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in New York," ITAR-TASS said on Thursday evening Russian lawyer Alexei Tarasov.

European officials have reached fundamental consent to add about 15 names and five Crimean companies to the next list of persons and organizations that are distributed by EU sanctions, Reuters reports. Now, in order for the sanctions to enter into force, they must be officially approved by the Foreign Minister of the EU member states who will gather for a meeting on Monday, May 12, in Brussels.

On the Victory Day between the two groups of vacationers in the center of Moscow, a cricket occurred, poured into a mass fight. The police managed to stop a brawl, the circumstances of which are being clarified. As ITAR-TASS was informed in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, "at 17:45 Moscow time, a message about a mass fight at the address of Central Kalitnikovskaya Street, house 11" was received from citizens.

Western observers note that no other date in Russia is celebrated as the end of World War II, that the country has been drawing its identity from this event for almost 70 years, and advise you to stop making a cult from the Victory holiday and looking for a new identity. The fewer veterans remain, the stronger their authority increases, and with it pensions. The last veteran, some are joking, will probably be a millionaire ...

Vermont was the first of the US states to adopt a law that obliges manufacturers to label the packaging of food if they contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The signature under the relevant document was put on Thursday by the state governor Peter Shamlin. "Vermont residents have the right to know what is contained in the products that they buy," Shamlin said. The law must enter into force on July 1, 2016.

Russian hockey players defeated the Switzerland team in their starting match at the World Cup in Minsk. The meeting held on Friday at Minsk Arena ended with a score of 5: 0 (3: 0, 1: 0, 1: 0). The goals were abandoned by Sergey Plotnikov (1 '), Alexander Ovechkin (7'), Vadim Shipachev (18 '), Anton Belov (30') and Danis Zaripov (59 '). The goalkeeper of the "Columbus" and the Russian national team Sergey Bobrovsky defended to zero, reflecting 27 shots.

Almost a thousand military personnel, Air Force aircraft and military equipment take part in the Victory Parade, which takes place in the center of Sevastopol for the first time as part of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The political alphabet, proposed by a group of developers from Irkutsk, close to United Russia, found the Italian newspaper La Stampa , arrived at the Siberian schools. According to the publication, in the new primer 33 letters of the Russian alphabet correspond to the concepts taken from the news of the last time.

The President of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin arrived in the hero of Sevastopol, where he adopted the marine part of the Victory Parade in the water area of ​​the Sevastopol Bay. Putin on the boat went around the system of warships. Together with the president, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu and the Commander -in -Chief of the Black Sea Fleet Admiral Alexander Vitko reports, Interfax reports.

Yemen's government forces liquidated the head of the Yemeni wing of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization Muhammad Said al-Shabwani, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the AFP agency. The representative of the Security Forces Committee of Yemen said that Shabwani was killed on Friday night during a shootout with law enforcement officers in the dignity. “The wanted was one of the most dangerous leaders of Al-Qaeda,” the Silovik press secretary said in a statement.

The contest "Victory Name" was completed for the title of the most beloved by the people of the commander of the Russian army. The Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov won with significant superiority, who scored by May 9, 142 537 votes. Recall, starting on May 9 last year, the professional community, experts and lovers of history put forward the most outstanding military leaders on the list of one hundred great commanders of Russia.