Ilya Varlamov “In 1944, the country was getting back on its feet. The year began with the first time the national anthem of the Soviet Union by Mikhalkov was heard on the radio. The Red Army gradually liberated almost the entire territory of the USSR from the enemy, with the exception of western Latvia. In the summer, after the landing of the allied troops in Normandy, a second front opened in Europe. Peaceful life returned to the capital in full.

The show of the film "Brest Fortress" (2010) directed by Alexander Cotta in the Geneva Palace of Nations - the UN European headquarters - a festival of Soviet, Belarusian and Russian films about the Great Patriotic War opened on Monday, TASS reports. The event dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory is held on the initiative of Russia and Belarus.

South Ossetia can quarrel Armenia with Georgia: in Tbilisi, they sharply reacted to the informal meeting of the speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Galust Sahakyan with the chairman of the South Ossetia parliament Anatoly Bibilov. The Armenian ambassador to Georgia was called to the Foreign Ministry, and his Georgian colleague in Yerevan expressed "extreme concern" to the leadership of Armenia.

In Kaluga, on the eve of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, a very unusual congratulation of the townspeople with an approaching anniversary date appeared on the fencing of one of the shopping and office centers, the Kaluga24.TV portal reports. “Today, Crimea is Rome tomorrow,” the inscription reads on a multi -meter banner. Further, on stretching, the main, according to the authors of the banner, historical victories of Russian weapons are listed.

The Flight Management Center (TsUP) gave the crew of the International Space Station the recommendation to more economically spend the interchangeable elements of life support systems after the loss of the Progress M-27M cargo ship, Interfax was told on Tuesday in the space industry. Progress did not carry 2.5 tons of various cargoes to the ISS, including almost a ton of consumables for crew life support systems. There were, for example, interchangeable elements for various devices and systems.

The first trailer for the film “All Want” (Absolutly Anything), the fantastic comedy of the Honored Montipayton, appeared, the main role in which is played by Simon Pegg, reports The Hollywood Reporter Russia . Pegg plays the school teacher, which was disappointed in the life of a school teacher, who suddenly discovered the magic abilities that the aliens endowed him with.

The Valaam Monastery until 16 hours on May 8 will be accepted by e -mail for prayer commemoration of the dead during the Great Patriotic War. With the blessing of the abbot of the Valaam Monastery, the bishop of Troitsky Pankrati, all notes are accepted to the email address Victory.valaam@mail.ru.

The Russian government is preparing a new mechanism for supporting foreign car concerns that localized production in the Russian Federation, the Kommersant newspaper reports. Due to the sharp devaluation of the national currency, a number of car concerns were faced with the fact that their level of localization has fallen markedly, which is why they may lose their right to duty-free import of auto components.

The Petrozavodsk City Court arrested for two months the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Ivan Romanov (the United Russia faction) and the deputy director for educational work of the local branch of the State University of the Sea and River Fleet Oleg Semenov, who are accused of the rape of adolescents, the portal "Capital on the One" reports. Both is charged under paragraph "a" part 3 of Art.

Human rights activists calculated how many people died and suffered from the beginning of this year in Russia from attacks on the basis of national hatred. According to the Owl Center, at least three dozen people were injured, of which three were killed. About the same number of attacks was recorded in the first trimester last year.

On Tuesday, in the metropolitan Danilov Monastery, chaired by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', Cyril, a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church was opened. "The agenda consists of 30 points, a sufficiently tense ... For today we must deal with it, " RIA Novosti quoted the words of the patriarch, quoted by his press service. The meeting of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church is traditionally held in a closed format, the agenda is not announced in advance.

In Mexico, as a result of an accident, a well -known entrepreneur from the United States, a member of the Board of Directors of the Hollywood company Walt Disney David Goldberg, who is married to Cheryl Sandberg, who is the executive director of Facebook. The 47-year-old businessman was playing sports and, while on a treadmill, lost consciousness. In the fall, Goldberg received a deadly traumatic brain injury, writes CBS News .

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Austria Sergey Lavrov and Sebastian Kurtz will discuss topical international problems on Tuesday, as well as practical issues of bilateral relations. The Austrian Minister arrived on Monday to Moscow on a working visit at the invitation of a Russian colleague, TASS reports. In negotiations, special attention will be paid to the situation in Ukraine and the role of the OSCE in the settlement of the crisis in this country.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened another criminal case related to the situation in the Donbass. In Moscow, they suspected incitement to kill and incite hatred or enmity (part 4 of article 33 and paragraphs, “A”, “B” of part 2 of article 105, part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) Ukrainian political scientist Yuri Romanenko, according to the SK website .

The first batch of passports was awarded in the self -proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) to 10 schoolchildren who have reached 16 years old, TASS reports. “The hand -handing document was complied with in accordance with all the requirements of international law,” Igor Markov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the LPR, said during the presentation ceremony.