In the east of Ukraine, an international group of inspectors began to work, according to Facebook ATO. Specialists began their work with Kramatorsk. The group is headed by experts from Denmark. They are helped by military representatives from Canada, Moldova and Poland. As noted in the message, within two weeks, experts will study the socio-political situation in Ukraine to assist in finding ways to get out of the crisis situation that has developed in the region.

On the eve of Victory Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the assignment of military titles of senior officers by six military personnel of the RF Armed Forces. The document is published on the portal of legal information . According to the decree, Vladimir Benediktov and Andrei Kholzakov were increased to the title of Lieutenant General, and Oleg Makovetsky, Timur Trubienko, Oleg Chesnokov and Alexander Shulepov-to the title of Major General.

Deputies of the City Duma Perm spent 160 thousand rubles from the budget on the draft photo collage “Cosplay. All together for the homeland! ”, In the framework of which the faces of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War were replaced, in particular, by portraits of the deputies themselves. About this writes Properm.ru . According to the author of the idea and the head of the project Tatyana Sosnovich, his goal is to popularize the heroes of the war.

The Spanish Barcelona defeated the Munich Bavaria in its field in the first semifinal match of the UEFA Champions League, R-Sport reports. The game held on Wednesday in the capital of Catalonia ended with a score of 3-0 in favor of the "blue-granat". The first two goals with a difference of two minutes were scored by the striker of the Catalans Lionel Messi at the end of the second half (77th and 80th minutes).

The administration of the Zoological Garden Takasakiam in southern Japan called the cub Makaki Charlotte, in honor of the newborn British princess, reports Associated Press . The name of Charlotte became the winner of the public vote, gaining 59 out of 853 votes. However, after the announcement of the voting results in society, disagreements broke out about the ethics of using the name of the British princess.

The head of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia Alexei Ulyukaev will take part in the tripartite ministerial meeting on the implementation of the economic part of the Association of Ukraine and the European Union. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the assistant minister Elena Lashkin. On the agenda, a meeting of Ulyukaev is planned with a member of the European Commission for Cecilia Malmstrom, which will discuss the current issues of Russian-European cooperation.

The State Commission, investigating the causes of the accident of the Progress M-27M spacecraft, made preliminary conclusions, TASS reports citing a source in the rocket and space industry. According to the interlocutor of the news agency, the State Commission explains the accident with problems in the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier confirmed information about the resumption of contacts on the “hot line” between NATO and Russia, Interfax reports. “We are now resuming an exchange of military information, and it seems to me that this is important for both parties,” the minister said at a press conference following negotiations with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Volgograd.

In the traditional poll “Polit.ru” on the VKontakte page, readers were invited to answer the question: “For whom would you vote in the presidential election if they took place on the next Sunday?” The results of the survey: Mikhail Khodorkovsky - 38.1% Alexey Navalny - 29.1% Vladimir Putin - 16% Alexey Kudrin - 11.2% Gennady Zyuganov - 1.7% LDPR candidate - 1.7% Igor Girkin (Strelkov) - 1.6% Alexey Gordeev - 0.6%.

US President Barack Obama has already appealed to Congress with a request to amend the program for collecting metadata about telephone conversations of Americans. Obama suggests that private telephone companies, not the government are engaged in storage of these data. This was announced by the representative of the US National Security Council Ned Price, reports USA Today .

Moscow and Beijing are preparing to sign an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the field of information security. According to the Kremlin, the source of Kommersant , the agreement will be “epoch -making”.

In Vladivostok, a criminal case was opened against the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Territory Artush Khachatryan, who tried to cross the Pervomaisky procession on his SUV, the press service of the regional parliament reports. The official document on initiating a criminal case against Artush Khachatryan was submitted at an extraordinary meeting of the Committee of the Legislative Assembly on Deputy Ethics.

In one of the areas of Makhachkala, a regime of a counter -terrorist operation (someone) was introduced, the security forces blocked an apartment building, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the operational headquarters in the Republic of Dagestan. A multi -storey building, in one of the apartments of which participants in illegal armed groups are hiding, was blocked on May 7 at about 6:00.

On May 7, 1946, director Vladimir Bortko was born Personal business Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko (69 years old) was born in Moscow. His father was theatrical director Vladimir Bortko, his mother was Marina Zakharchenko, an actress of the Kyiv Theater named after Ivan Franko. Later, the parents divorced, and Marina Zakharchenko married the famous writer Alexander Korneichuk. After school, Vladimir Bortko graduated from the Kyiv exploration college.

The leader of the Communists of Russia party Maxim Suraykin made a letter asking the musician Andrei Makarevich to abandon Russian citizenship. Before sending the message, Suraykin introduced the Izvestia newspaper. The reason for the appeal was that, according to Suraykin, Makarevich admits provocative statements to the Russian state. In addition, the musician is positive about the Ukrainian authorities and is removed in Ukrainian agitation and educational videos, the communist noted.