Bikers from the Night Wolves club, who made the “Victory Road to Berlin” motorcycle rally, arrived in the capital of Germany, reports the German agency DPA, citing police data. Police explained that a group of 200 bikers plans to lay flowers at the memorial near the Brandenburg Gate and visit other Soviet memorial complexes in Berlin. “Night Wolves” began their motorcycle rally from Moscow on April 29. The night before, German police reported that the bikers had crossed the country's border .

UEFA head Michel Platini will resign, told Reuters the Frenchman's lawyer Yves Verly . According to him, this will happen “in the coming days.” The lawyer's statement came after the Court of Arbitration for Sport did not overturn Platini's suspension from football, only reducing the period of his disqualification to four years. Even before the court's decision, as reported by Reuters , Platini admitted that if the disqualification continues, his football career will be over.

In Kharkov, during the laying of flowers at the Memorial of Glory, clashes occurred, reports the UNIAN news agency. The first fight occurred when activists saw a St. George’s ribbon on the clothes of Kharkov City Council deputy Andrei Lesik.

About half a million people gathered in the center of Moscow to participate in the “Immortal Regiment” action dedicated to Victory Day. Last year, 500 thousand people also took part in a similar event Participants in the “Immortal Regiment” action in Moscow (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC) The number of participants in the “Immortal Regiment” action, taking place in the center of Moscow, amounted to about 500 thousand people.

The military parade in honor of the 71st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War ended at the Russian Khmeimim airbase in Syria. This was reported by a RIA Novosti correspondent from the scene. The parade was hosted by the commander of the Russian group of troops in Syria, Colonel General Alexander Dvornikov. At the beginning of the event, the banner group brought the Russian flag and the Victory Banner onto the airfield.

North Korean authorities detained the correspondent and two other members of the BBC crew for reporting. This was reported on the website of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard were detained as they tried to leave the country on Friday. It is noted that after the arrest, the reporter was interrogated for eight hours.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for tougher sanctions against Russia as “voices are heard” in Europe about their ineffectiveness President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (Photo: Nikolay Lazarenko/TASS) President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, speaking during the “First Minute of Peace” event at the Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II on the evening of May 8, said that Ukrainian diplomacy is working to extend the economic sanctions imposed against Russia by the “global

The funds sent by large American businesses to the election fund of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began to exceed similar donor transfers to all other candidates combined. about this The Wall Street Journal writes after analyzing data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. The amount of donations Clinton received from major financiers is $4.2 million, $344 thousand of which were transferred in March alone.

Russia is ready to work on a modern non-bloc security system. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated this while speaking at the Victory Parade on Red Square on May 9. “Russia is open to joining forces with other states and is ready to work on creating a modern, non-bloc system of international security,” he said (hereinafter quoted by TASS ). The head of state also said that world civilization is now faced with the threat of terrorism.

On the Aginskoye-Duldurga highway in the Trans-Baikal Territory, an accident occurred involving a UAZ and a Toyota Land Cruiser. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Five people were killed as a result of a head-on car collision, the department said. Among the dead were the drivers of both cars and three passengers of the UAZ. Five more UAZ passengers were taken to the district hospital in the village of Aginskoye.

Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya walked in the column of the “Immortal Regiment” in Simferopol with an icon of Nicholas II in her hands, RIA Novosti reports . Poklonskaya explained to the agency that the portraits of her grandfathers who participated in the war were carried by her employees. The prosecutor noted that many veterans recall that in hopeless situations, images of the Virgin Mary and Tsar Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov appeared to them.

North Korea has said it will help strengthen the self-defense of its nuclear capabilities. The corresponding decision was made at the congress of the ruling Workers' Party of the DPRK. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the North Korean agency KCNA. “We will simultaneously develop economic construction and the construction of nuclear forces, both in quality and quantity, as long as the nuclear threat from the imperialists remains,” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said.

Ex-RUSADA employee Vitaly Stepanov told CBS that the ex-head of the Moscow laboratory told him about the work of the FSB in laboratories during the Sochi Olympics and about Russian champions who took doping Photo: Alexander Shcherbak/TASS The American television channel CBS on the evening of Sunday, May 8 (local time), as part of the “60 Minutes” program, showed a story entitled “Russia’s Dark Secret.” In it, ex-employee of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Vitaly Stepanov and his wife,

A parade dedicated to the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War has begun in Moscow.

The price of a barrel of oil fell today on the ICE exchange to $43.60, despite the fact that at the opening of trading it exceeded $46. The decline in quotations was influenced by the situation with Canadian and Saudi exports, as well as the strengthening of the dollar The cost of a barrel of oil on the London electronic exchange ICE at 20:27 Moscow time was $43.90, which is 3.22% lower than the closing price.