* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will lay flowers to the grave of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall (10.00).
* The Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house will host the following press conferences:
- with Russian President's aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky on the forecasts and prospects of the forthcoming Russia-EU summit (11.00);
- with State Secretary of Russia-Belarus Union Pavel Borodin on the topic "Human rights in Belarus. Double standards of the West. Interference in domestic affairs of the union state" (12.00).
* The Russian Information Agency Novosti will host the following press conferences:
- on international charity cultural and public event "Alexander Nevsky, the year of common memory, victory, peace and reconciliation" as part of celebrations the 60th anniversary of VE Day (12.00);
- with Latvian ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Russia Andris Teikmanis who headed the diplomatic mission in April 2005 (14.00);
- on the marathon of Serbian athletes from Belgrade to Moscow dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Victory over Nazism (13.00).
* The lobby of the New Opera Theater in the Hermitage garden will host a press conference on the world premiere of The Cinemaphonia after Dmitry Shostakovich's 7th (Leningrad) symphony. The premiere will take place in the New Opera Theater on May 5 at 19.00. This event is held especially for foreign ambassadors accredited in Russia as part of celebrations the 60th anniversary of VE Day (13.00).
* International University in Moscow will host a roundtable on the results of the Great Patriotic War (12.00).
* The Institute of Tolerance will host a requiem soiree dedicated to the commemoration of Jews, victims of Nazism and heroes of the Resistance movement. The event is organized by the Holocaust fund, the Moscow government, Jewish organizations and the Israeli embassy in Russia (18.30).
KALININGRAD
* The Amber Necklace 22nd international arts festival dedicated to the 60th anniversary of VE Day and the 750th anniversary of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) will open. Days of Polish, Lithuanian, German and Swedish cultures will be held during the festival. It will be running for a month.
ST. PETERSBURG
* The Victory Day all-Russia free wrestling tournament will open at the Winter stadium (May 5-7). Over 100 athletes from Russia, Estonia and Lithuania will participate in the competitions.
PYONGYANG
* A delegation of the Russian State Duma international affairs committee will arrive in Pyongyang. The delegates are to hold talks on the North Korean nuclear program (May 5-7).
PARIS
* A cultural center near Paris will host a soiree dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Victory over Nazism. Soloists of the opera signing center of Galina Vishnevskaya and holders of grants of Mstislav Rostropvich's fund will perform war music. An exhibition of war photographs and an exhibition Victory Commanders from the fund's archives will be organized.
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