A dress rehearsal for the Victory Parade took place on Red Square, TASS reports from the scene. The parade rehearsal traditionally began after the words “Attention, Moscow speaks and shows, listen and watch Red Square!” and the striking of the Kremlin chimes. The rehearsal began at 10:00 Moscow time. It was attended by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who will host the Victory Parade on May 9. The commander in chief of the Ground Forces is Oleg Salyukov.

A fire in the village of Malinovka in the Amur Region occurred due to the carelessness of local residents who burned dry grass. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. “Due to the high threat of natural fires, a special fire regime was introduced throughout the Amur Region, prohibiting the burning of dry grass. Despite this, local residents, due to their carelessness, with the connivance of the village leadership, burned dry grass.

The head of the Transcarpathian region Gennady Moskal, who previously wrote a letter of resignation, will remain in his post, follows from the statement of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, which he made on his Facebook. “I had a constructive meeting with the chairman of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration (regional state administration. - RBC ) Gennady Moskal. He will continue to implement my decentralization program and resolutely fight smuggling in Transcarpathia.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presented Vladimir Putin with a plan for economic cooperation, the implementation of which depends on “progress in reaching an agreement” on the Kuril Islands, writes NIkkei Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, presented an eight-point plan for economic cooperation, Nikkei reports .

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow arrested activist Vasily Nedopekin, who was detained on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, for five days. This was reported by OVD-Info. The court found the man guilty of disobedience to police officers (19.3 Code of Administrative Offences). In addition, another activist, Viktor Kapitonov, was fined 150 thousand rubles by the court.

The income of the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko for 2015 amounted to more than 7.1 million rubles, as follows from his declaration published on the city administration website. Over the year , Poltavchenko managed to increase her income by 2.1 million rubles. — at the end of 2014, she earned just over 5 million rubles. The income of the governor’s wife over the past year amounted to almost 199 thousand rubles.

Ukrainian border guards have strengthened security measures at Odessa airport, according to the website of the country's State Border Service. The report notes that control was strengthened during the Victory Day celebrations. “The measures are being carried out to ensure order and prevent terrorists or provocateurs from entering the territory of Ukraine,” the department emphasized. increased security measures in Odessa also announced Local police .

In the Optina Monastery (Kaluga region) they started making Camembert cheese. A half-hour video with detailed production technology is posted on the monastery website. It takes the inhabitants of the monastery two weeks to prepare the cheese. Vvedenskaya Optina Pustyn is a stauropegial monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church, located near the city of Kozelsk, Kaluga region, in the Kaluga diocese. The main suppliers of blue cheese to Russia were France, Germany, Denmark and Italy.

In early May, the court sentenced Tver resident Andrei Bubeev to two years and three months in a penal colony for reposting on VKontakte. Real sentences for posts on social networks are increasingly being given, human rights activists and lawyers say. Andrey Bubeev (Photo: from personal archive) On May 6, the Zavolzhsky District Court of Tver sentenced mechanical engineer Andrey Bubeev to two years and three months in a penal colony for two reposts on his page on the VKontakte social network.

The King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, by his decree removed the head of the Ministry of Oil, Ali al-Nuaimi, from his post. His place will be taken by the head of the kingdom's largest oil company, Khalid al-Falih. Former Saudi oil minister Ali al-Nuaimi (Photo: Reuters/Pixstream) According to the decree of the Saudi King Salman, Ali al-Nuaimi, who served as Saudi Arabia's oil minister since 1995, will leave his post, reports Reuters .

The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, said that the authorities awarded 220 thousand rubles to each Great Patriotic War veteran living in the republic for Victory Day. According to him, the widows of war participants received assistance.

Two Russians, who were forcibly returned to their homeland from the territory of Ukraine, jumped out of a train in the Sumy region. This is stated in the message of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. The Russians were discovered early in the morning on May 7 by local border guards and police. The men were found near the railway track at about 07:00 Moscow time. The Russians were first discovered by a local resident.

The Armenian military discovered two necropolises from the ancient period in Nagorno-Karabakh. this to the Artsakhpress agency . reported The deputy director of the state service for the protection of the historical environment of the tourism department of the Ministry of Economy of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Dianna Miridzhanyan, In particular, a cup, four fragments of a plate and a vase with a trefoil were found in the tombs.

In the village of Malinovka, Amur Region, where several residential buildings caught fire due to fire, the fire was localized. This is stated in the message of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The fire in the village of Malinovka started after dry grass in the vicinity caught fire. Due to wind gusts of 18–20 m/s, the fire spread across the road onto four residential buildings, as well as six non-residential buildings.

The new US Ambassador to Ukraine will be Marie Yovanovitch, who has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Asian Affairs since 2012. about this The Ukrainian newspaper Den writes , citing sources in the Foreign Ministry. From 2008 to 2011, Yovanovitch was ambassador to Armenia, and earlier, from 2005 to 2008, to Kyrgyzstan. In addition, as reported on the State Department website, she was the deputy head of the US diplomatic mission in Kiev.