Six police officers were injured at the checkpoint in Grozny during the attack of two armed people, Interfax was told in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Chechen Republic. Earlier, the agency’s source announced the death of one policeman, but officially this information was not confirmed.

The concert dedicated to Victory Day, which was organized by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Russian Radio, was held on Monday, May 9, at the Russian air base of Khmeimim in Syrian Latakia for Russian troops, RIA Novosti correspondent from the scene. For the personnel of the base, singer MakSim, the Earthlings and Umoturnaman groups performed.

Two trucks with illegal migrants from Syria and Afghanistan over the past weekend were fired by police in Iran and Slovakia. The Iranian police shot six and injured 18 illegal migrants from Afghanistan, and the Slovak border guards wounded the 26-year-old Syrian, firing a truck with refugees from Syria and Afghanistan, who tried to cross the border with Hungary.

The founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange acquired a new friend in his forced refuge at Ecuador Embassy in London. The 44-year-old Australian, hiding in the building of the diplomatic mission from British law enforcement officers, started a kitten, reports Reuters. According to the agency, the animal is only 10 weeks from the genus. Assange received it as a gift from his children. The kitten has no nickname yet.

During the next stripping of the "People’s Memorial" on the bridge where Boris Nemtsov was killed, held on the night of May 8 to 9, two activists were detained, the OVD-Info website reported. The detainees were up to 10 a.m. in the Chinese Gorod police department. The publication assumes that the detention is due to the fact that one of the employees of the Hormost, which dismantled the portraits of Nemtsov and flowers, accuses activists of applying a gas spray against him.

Austrian Chancellor Werner Fayman retires from the post of head of the coalition government and from the post of leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, Reuters reported on May 9. The politician announced this at a press conference. The head of the government had to make this decision against the backdrop of the migration crisis and the unsatisfactory results of the elections that passed two weeks ago. Fayman explained his step by losing his support support inside the party.

A man accused of killing two children in Podolsk committed suicide to the Sailor Silence pre -trial detention center, law enforcement source told Interfax . The fact of suicide was later confirmed in the Investigative Committee. The 31-year-old resident of Podolsk Dmitry Milovanov was accused of killing a four-year-old son and a nine-month-old daughter in October 2015. He also wounded his wife with a knife, and then tried to commit suicide.

In some Ukrainian cities, the celebrations on May 9 overshadowed the brawls. So, in Kyiv, during the Immortal Regiment campaign, tear gas sprayed, in Kharkov there were clashes during the laying of flowers to the Glory Memorial, 14 people were detained in Odessa in the skirmishes of the participants in the embroideries and the "immortal regiment".

The Minister of Defense Iran Khosein Dekhgan denied the statement of the deputy chief of the Iranian General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ali Abdollahi on the tests of a medium -range ballistic missile conducted by the military countries.

The Sports Arbitration Court (CAS) established the fact of violation by the President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Michel Platini Articles 19 and 20 of the Ethics Code of the International Football Federation (FIFA), and therefore only partially satisfied its appeal .

In the Ukrainian city of Cherkasy, during the celebration on May 9, a conflict arose due to the Red Banner of Victory, which veterans brought to the central square. The National Police Cherkassy forced to remove the flag and opened criminal proceedings on the fact of "public use" symbolism prohibited in Ukraine by the law on decommunization .

The Council of Ministers of Finance of the Eurozone countries (Eurogroup) agreed to create an emergency mechanism for additional assistance to Athens, "which can be involved if reforms in Greece do not give a sufficient economic result." This was stated on Monday following an emergency meeting in Brussels of the Eurogroup in Greece, its chairman Yerun Deisselblum.

The International Consortium of Journalists (ICIJ) on Monday, May 9, published the full database of "Panama Documents", which provides information about the owners of offshore companies from around the world. First, in Russia, there were 2229 offshore owners in Russia, and 7319 companies, but then the list was updated. Now the base includes 6285 Russians. 11516 offshore companies related to Russian citizens also appear, and 5534 addresses in Russia are mentioned, RIA Novosti notes.

Bikers of the Russian motorcycle club "Night Wolves" arrived in Berlin, reports the German agency DPA with reference to the police. Thus, they completed the Victory road - to Berlin, to commemorate the end of the Great Patriotic War. According to the police, a group of 200 bikers plans to lay flowers at the Russian military memorial near the Brandenburg Gate and visit other Soviet memorial complexes in Berlin.

The organizer of the Immortal Regiment held in Estonia Dmitry Linter was detained in the republic, said TASS adviser to the Russian Embassy, ​​Stanislav Makarenko. “There are no details yet,” he said. At the same time, the press service of the Estonian Security Police (CAPO) said that the Linter was not detained, but only called for interrogation. As Makarenko specified, Linter is an Estonian citizen and did not seek help from the Russian diplomatic mission.