Russia and Georgia could not reach an agreement on the deadline for the withdrawal of Russian bases of Georgia, said the head of the Georgian Foreign Ministry Salome Zurabishvili after a meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. In connection with these, said Zurabishvili, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili will not come to Moscow for celebration on May 9 And to the CIS summit, reports "Gazeta.ru" with reference to Reuters.

Anatoly Chubais, ex-minister of defense and former director of the information and security service of Moldova Valery Pasata, was charged with the adviser to the head of the UES of Russia, the damage was charged with the treasury of damage in especially large sizes. Pasat’s lawyer George Amikhalakioe said today that Pasata was transferred to familiarize the materials of the criminal case. " The charges have a new damage amount.

The European Commission, in connection with the 60th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War, issued a statement emphasizing that the fall of the Berlin Wall contributed to the “elimination of dictatorships in Europe” more than the victory over Nazi Germany. This was reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Reuters. “We honor the innocent victims of past conflicts and those who paid the ultimate price to defend freedom and democracy,” the statement said.

The leadership of the Italian football club "Parma" intends to appeal the reciprocal semifinal match of the UEFA Cup with CSKA due to the injury received by the goalkeeper of the team Luke Buchchi. The goalkeeper was stunned by a firecracker abandoned from the stands. After the match, the Executive Director of Parma Luka Baraldi reported this intention after the match by the Italian media.

Former Minister of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Adamov called all the charges against him. He does not consider himself guilty. This was announced today by the press attache of the Russian Embassy in Switzerland Igor Petrov after a meeting of Russian diplomats with Adamov, who was in prison in Bern and expects extradition to the United States.

Gazprom announced an increase in the value of assets from 2.511 trillion rubles. up to 3.521 trillion rubles. as of the end of the first quarter of this year. According to Gazprom press secretary Sergei Kupriyanov, this fact will not affect the change in the company's capitalization and will not lead to an increase in shares. Experts predicted growth in shares, but this afternoon Gazprom was slightly declining on Russian stock exchanges.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his colleague Salome Zurabishvili, who is in the Russian capital with a one -day working visit. Zurabishvili intends to coordinate the text of the project of a joint statement of the presidents of Russia and Georgia, including the units regarding the withdrawal of the Russian military bases, RIA Novosti reports.

During the day on Thursday, 11 people were killed in Bangladesh with lightning, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Ar. The victims of the elements were the inhabitants of three provinces located in the east of the country. Lightning categories also destroyed about 300 straw huts, rice fields were injured, about 1,500 people lost her bed.

Today the official visit of the delegation of the Federation Council, headed by the chairman of the upper house of the Russian parliament, Sergei Mironov, begins in Belarus, RIA Novosti begins.

Robert Shekeli - an American science fiction writer - came into consciousness, talking, and asked him to turn it off from the apparatus of artificial respiration. According to NTV , he is in the Kiev clinic "Boris". Earlier, given the difficult condition of the writer, the doctors put him into an artificial sleep. The master of science fiction, which recently suffered a heart attack, arrived at Ukraine 3 weeks ago at the international assembly of writers and suddenly fell ill.

Two military personnel were injured in a fire in an artillery warehouse near the village of Zvitokha, Slavyut district of the Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine due to an ammunition explosion. According to the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, a military service soldier was seriously wounded during the localization of the fire. In addition, one of the officers received a slight injury to the leg.

On Friday, the vice-president of Russian Railways OJSC will hold a meeting on the integrated development of the North-Western transport hub in St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reports. According to the department of Russian Railways, the meeting participants will discuss the development of the infrastructure of the transport hub, the seaports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga, the volume and main directions of cargo flows with export-import cargoes in the region.

QUESTION: Mr. President, what does this day, May 9, 1945, mean to you? V. PUTIN: This is the memory of the sacrifices that Russia, our people, and the people of all Europe, including the people of Germany, suffered as a result of the Second World War. This is the first and I think the most important thing.

The party of the leader of the Palestinian National Administration of Mahmoud Abbas Fath, according to unofficial data, won the municipal elections, gathering 60% of the vote in Palestine, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Associated Press Association. At the same time, a source in the Palestinian centriezberkom, which provided the agency with this information, did not report anything about the results of other election participants.

In the premises of the central house of the entrepreneur, a awarding ceremony of the winners of the VI All -Russian competition of historical research work of high school students "Man in history. Russia - XX century" will be held. At the beginning of the ceremony, the chairman of the jury, academician RAO historian Sigurd Schmidt will summarize the contest. The names of the winners of the competition will be named.