In European countries and the USA on Friday, May 8, commemorative measures begin on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, the Air Force reports. European leaders gathered in the Polish city of Gdansk. President of Poland Bronislav Komorovsky, Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko, UN General Pan Gi Moon, as well as the presidents of Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Lithuania and Romania, arrived at the commemorative event on the Westerplatt Peninsula.

In Belarus, they announced a prepared amnesty project for convicts dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The development of the bill was announced by the BelTA correspondent for the last Thursday, the head of the DIN of the DIN of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Zhanna Baturitskaya. "Today, the president sent the draft law to the House of Representatives.

The Spanish "Seville" coarsely defeated the Italian Fiorentina in the first match of the semifinals of the European football league and is very close to its second rocket and the fourth for 10 years, the final of the European Cup, and the Ukrainian "Dnieper", having survived the onslaught of the Italian "Napoli", scored the most important ball away. Aleix Vidal (17 ', 52') became the hero of the match at Ramon Sanchec-Pisuan in Seville.

Ten European football clubs, among which were the Russian Lokomotiv, Krasnodar and Rostov, went to a settlement with UEFA regarding accusations of violating the financial Fair Play (honest game), informs the organization’s official website . As the UEFA Investigative Chamber for financial control of clubs (IFCK) announced on Friday, all the teams in respect of which investigations were conducted individually approved settlement agreements in exchange for monetary compensation.

The main investigative department of the IC of Russia opened a criminal case against Ukrainian Vladimir Katryuk, who is now living in Canada. A 93-year-old man is suspected of committing a crime under Art. 357 of the Criminal Code ("Genocide"), the official statement of the head of the department Vladimir Markin, published on the website of the IC of the Russian Federation, said.

On Friday, the Soviet District Court of Kazan extended the term of detention of still to three defendants in the resonant case of a fire in the Admiral shopping center. Deputy Director of the Arrandus of the Building Center of Zarya LLC Nikolai Kaekin and two workers, Nail Gabdulkhaev and Albert Khalikov, who on the day of the tragedy, will remain in custody until August 9, Interfax told in the Soviet District Court of Kazan on Friday.

In the north-east of Pakistan on Friday, the Mi-17 military helicopter crashed, on board of which there were foreign diplomats and journalists. As a result of the incident, six people were killed, including the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines, the Air Force reports. According to Reuters, the spouses of the ambassadors of Malaysia and Indonesia also died.

The Presnensky court of Moscow on Friday recognized the former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Evgeny Vasiliev and four more defendants in the resonant case of Oboronservice guilty of eight episodes of the twelve -imputed investigation, TASS reports. At the same time, the court partially withdrew from Vasilyeva of theft of shares for 2 billion rubles.

The Pelastaka Lapset Ry charitable organization, which is engaged in the adoption of children from Russia in Finland, said that this procedure will no longer be carried out due to the actions of the Russian authorities. According to representatives of the organization, the authorities of the Russian Federation are dissatisfied with the adoption of the law on gender-neutral marriages in Finland.

By the 15th anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s stay in power, the German newspaper Die Zeit once again reminded the alternative version of his biography, according to which the Russian president grew up in the family of adoptive parents, while his biological mother still lives in Georgia. As the main witness, the publication calls a certain Chechen, who appears in the material under the fictional name of Rustam Dauds and currently lives in Western Europe.

The GlasStress Gotika exhibition, on which you can see the works of contemporary artists, accompanied by knightly armor and decorative arts from the collections of St. Petersburg museums, opened today in the Venice Palazzo Franette, reports TASS. “Gothic is a style that has begun and will never end.

Investigators conducted searches in one of the departments of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, said the representative of the capital's department of the Investigative Committee, Julia Ivanova. Employees of the ministry refuse to call the past investigative actions by searches.

For the 1st quarter of 2015, the mortality of the population of Russia increased by 5.2% compared to the same period last year. Such results were published by Rosstat . From January to March, 507 thousand people died, which is 23.5 thousand more than a year ago. Among the causes of death, the first place in respiratory diseases (22%), the number of people who died as a result of blood circulation diseases (5%, but 100 thousand is the maximum share - 718 people), including coronary heart disease.

The head coach of the Russian national football team Fabio Capello is extremely outraged by the words of the President of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Nikolai Tolstoy that the issue of the debt of the Union to the Italian specialist was raised on the eve of Victory Day. On Thursday, the son and agent of the mentor of the Russian national team Pierfilippo Capello said that the RFU did not pay with the coach for April, and paid an eight -month salary debt at an underestimated euro rate .

After four hours, the entry of the Emergency Russian Progress-M-27M cargo ship in the dense layers of the atmosphere east of the Kuril Islands can occur, quotes the most recent calculations of the strategic command of the US Armed Forces, the portal N2yo.com , which tracks the movement of space objects in orbit. According to the new forecast of the Pentagon, the destruction of "progress" may occur above the North-West Aquatoria of the Pacific Ocean.