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A rally-procession under the title "Bulgaria - Zone of Peace" and "No to war and the involvement of Bulgaria in the conflict in Ukraine" gathered dozens of protesting citizens in front of the National Palace of Culture (NDK) in Sofia.

Today Bulgarians celebrate the Day of Courage and the Bulgarian Army - May 6. For the third year in a row, there will be no military parade on May 6. A solemn water blessing of the battle flags and sacred flags was organized in the capital Sofia.

For the third day in a row, more than 40,000 new infections with COVID-19 have been registered in Russia, TACC reports, explaining that 40,735 coronavirus infections have been reported in the country in the last 24 hours. Thus, the total number of cases reaches 8,714,595, the Federal Operational Headquarters for Combating the New Infection announced.

The Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee (COSR) presented on Sunday evening Team Romania for the Tokyo Olympic Games (July 23 - August 8) which includes 100 athletes - 45 women and 55 in men - who will be competing in 17 sports.

Romania's women's team on Saturday qualified for the final of the ITTF European Table Tennis Championships in Nantes, France, after it defeated Poland's team in the semifinals, 3-1. Defending champion, team Romania will try to defend its title on Sunday in the final with the winner between Portugal and Hungary.

Romania's women's team defeated the Slovakian team by 3-0, on Wednesday, in Group 1 of the International Table Tennis Federation - ITTF European Championships, taking place in Nantes (France).

The Russian Federation has this summer thus hosted three million foreign visitors for the World Cup 2018 - the planet's top football competition, organized by FIFA once every four years.

The highly coveted title has this year been won by France.

An international team of researchers headed by Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, with Greek archaeogenticist Maria A. Spyrou, has decoded two 3,800-year-old genomes that suggest a Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague.

SputnikNews - Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and flight engineer Oleg Artemyev played soccer on board the ISS with a Telstar-18 ball, which will return to Earth on June 3 and open the World Cup 2018 in Russia.

23 players will make it to the team that will travel to Russia on June 11, and this final list will be known on June 4.

Serbia will on that day play the first of the two friendly matches as part of the team's preparations for the tournament in Russia.

The friendlies against Chile (June 4) and Bolivia (June 9) will both be played in Graz, Austria.