Russia will provide in May of Belarus a loan of $ 2 billion, and in 2015 another 500 million was announced on Friday by President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, Interfax reports. According to Lukashenko, an agreement on the provision of a loan was previously reached and the Russian side will simply fulfill its promise. These funds will be aimed at replenishing the gold and capital reserves of Belarus. “The questions that excited us managed to take off.

In the village of Kamenka, the Noginsky district of the Moscow region, Rotweieler caused fatal injuries to a five-year-old girl, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Rottweiler bit a girl who died of damage. The operational-investigation group is working at the scene.

The freelance correspondent of the Russian television channel Russia Today received a gunshot wound during the coverage of the assault on the Ukrainian security forces of the Mariupol police building, which is controlled by supporters of federalization. “Our freelance was wounded during the filming in Mariupol. The wound in the stomach, although there was, according to doctors, in the body armor. Now he is in the hospital, ” wrote Margarita Simonyan, editor -in -chief of Russia Today.

Alexander Suvorov won the Name of Victory competition, which was held by the Russian Military Historical Society and the VGTRK with the support of the Ministry of Culture. For Suvorov, who, as it is believed, did not lose a single battle, 559,900 Russians cast their votes. According to the residents of the country, it was he who made the greatest historical contribution to the military glory of Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin turned to the peoples of other countries with a request to respect the right of Russians for self -determination. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the performance of the head of state at a festive concert in Sevastopol.

Ilya Karpyuk Konstantin Remchukov and Mikhail Kuzovlev Photo: Moscow 2014.rf Already almost 600 people were registered to participate in the “preliminary selection of candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma” as part of the “My Moscow” initiative - in other words in the “primaries”, which is formally conducted by a public organization, but clearly not without the support of the city authorities. Registration is not finished yet, it will continue until May 15.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fog Rasmussen called the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin in a military parade on Victory Day in Sevastopol "Inappropriate". He spoke about this on the air of Estonian television . FOR Rasmusen said that Kyiv did not invite Putin to Crimea, which “within the framework of international law, NATO considers part of Ukraine.

The former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi began to carry out public works, to which he was sentenced by the court in the case of financial fraud, RIA Novosti reports. As previously reported , Berlusconi should take care of the patients of Alzheimer syndrome in the nursing home "Holy Family" in the suburbs of Milan. The former Italian leader is obliged to devote this to at least four hours once a week within a year.

The first event from the beginning of the events in Ukraine, at which Russian President Vladimir Putin and the American leader Barack Obama will face a face in honor of the 70th anniversary of the allied landing in Normandy, which will be held on June 6. Nevertheless, a bilateral meeting of politicians in France is not listed in their schedules, Interfax reports with reference to Washington Times.

In the capital of Denmark on Thursday evening, the winners of the second round of the Eurovision Song Contest-2014 are named, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the results of the audience vote, the finalists of the Pan -European competition were representatives of Switzerland, Sliss, Poland, Romania, Norway, Greece, Malta, Belarus, Finland and Austria. The order in which they are listed does not reflect the places in the rating of the audience sympathies.

The military parade on Red Square in honor of the 69th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War ended under the composition “Farewell of the Slavs”, Interfax reports. Representatives of the leadership of the Russian Federation represented by President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev took part in the traditional solemn event. The parade was taken by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu.

The traditional daily poll “Polit.ru” on Victory Day was dedicated to the choice of an event that most contributed to the triumph of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War. According to the Polit.ru subscribers on the VKontakte social network, the Battle of 1942-1943 was such. 43.2%voted for this option. The answers “Battle on the Kursk Bulge” and “The opening of the second front” - 18.2% and 20.5%, respectively, were scored approximately equally votes.

The United States is preoccupied with the decision of France to bring to the end the contract with Russia to the supply of two helicopter carriers of the Mistral class of the Mistral class, contrary to the development of new packages of sanctions against Moscow due to events in Ukraine. This was announced at the hearing in Congress by the official representative of the US State Department Victoria Nuland, Interfax reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Sevastopol to participate in celebrations dedicated to the 69th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Interfax reports. This is the first trip of the Russian leader to Crimea, after the peninsula join the Russian Federation. In the morning, Putin was present at the solemn parade on Red Square, after which he flew to Sevastopol, where by that time the land part of the parade dedicated to the ninth of May had already ended.

Already almost 600 people were registered to participate in the “preliminary selection of candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma” as part of the “My Moscow” initiative - in other words in the “primaries”, which is formally conducted by a public organization, but clearly not without the support of the city authorities. Registration is not finished yet, it will continue until May 15.