Real slaves work on the car wash of Norway, labor protection inspectors recognized, conducting large -scale checks with the police within two years. Inspectors got acquainted with working conditions and estimated the level of wages of employees of more than 100 car soles. “We met people who receive 19 Norwegian crowns ($ 3.17) per hour. This is slavery,” said Alf -Magne Fredricksen police officer in an interview with the local newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, writes The Local .

Austria authorities suspect the son of former Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov - Alexei - in laundering money, Interfax reports. The Die Presse newspaper became known from legal circles that the Vienna prosecutor began an investigation against Alexei Azarov at the end of February: Azarov Jr., his wife Lilia, another citizen of Ukraine, as well as the tax consultant Christian G. From the Austrian city of Crees and the Business Advocate Friedrich B.

The influence of Crimea’s accession to Russia on inflation is very few and close to statistical error. The population of Crimea is only about 2 million people, and in Russia the population is about 140 million people. Expenses after the accession of Crimea make up a very small part of the Russian budget.

In Yalta, a group of local residents demanded to remove the sculpture of a crocodile installed in front of the entrance to the crocodilamue, the website of the Crimea News reports. According to the press service of the Crocodilearium, the monument to the graph crocodile was erected on Wednesday, June 4, on a bench at the entrance to the institution.

The American telecommunication company Sprint is going to purchase an international mobile operator T-Mobile, the main shareholder of which is the German telecommunication concern Deutsche Telekom. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, this week the electronic version of The Wall Street Journal reported this week. In the telecommunication services market in the United States, Sprint takes third place, T -mobile - fourth (lead - AT&T and Verizon).

The International Research Sports Center (CIEES) recognized the striker "Barcelona" and the Argentine national team of Lionel Messi by the most expensive football player in the world. The annual report on the study of the football market states that the Messi cost ranges from 200.2 million euros to 232.6 million euros, Interfax reports. The second place in the ranking was taken by the forward of the Madrid Real Madrid and the Portuguese national team Cristiano Ronaldo.

In Syria, all 100% of votes who took part in the presidential election are calculated. According to their results, Bashar Assad won the race. 88.7% (10.2 million) out of 11.6 million voters voted for the current head of state. Such data, as ITAR-TASS reports, was cited by the chairman of the parliament Sar Mukhamed Alyham. Two rivals of the current head of state remained far behind.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine attracted T-64 tanks to the "anti-terrorist operation" of the Kiev authorities under the city of Slavic in the Donetsk region. They are placed on the checkpoints of Ukrainian security forces around this city, covered by military operations , said the head of the operational group to inform the ATO Vladislav Seleznev. At the same time, he emphasized that the tanks “will not be involved in offensive operations,” UNIAN reports.

The confrontation between supporters of federalization and the Ukrainian army in the east of the country continues. On the eve of the Ukrainian security forces resumed the artillery shelling of the village of Semenovka near Slavyansk. In the very besieged city, according to the army, a large warehouse with ammunition was destroyed. In turn, the militias of Slavyansk said that two attack aircraft and three helicopters were shot down.

“The current political regime in Russia is sometimes called a “police state,” but its peculiarity is that, if necessary, it violates the human dignity of absolutely any person, including police officers and prosecutors. This is how the authorities’ policy should be interpreted, according to which police officers and prosecutors are required to hand over their foreign passports to human resources departments.

On July 7, an official event will be held in the vicinity of Tomsk. Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk will weld the first two pipes of the Siberian force gas pipeline, which will supply Russian gas to China after 4-6 years, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. The contractor who will build the first section of the gas pipeline is not yet defined, and therefore, at the official event, the Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk will weld the pipes.

The President of the United States of Barack Obama, after the end of the Summit of the "Big Seven" in Brussels, in a sense, spoke in support of Russia's position in Ukraine, namely, it recognized that the Russian Federation may have "legal interest" to what is happening in a neighboring country. "Russia has a legitimate interest in what is happening in Ukraine, based on the presence of a common border and historical ties," ITAR -TASS quoted the American leader.

The head of the Institute of Regional Press (IRP) Anna Sharogradskaya was detained on Thursday at the airport of St. Petersburg. This was reported on the official website of the Interregional Human Rights Association "Agora" with reference to lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov, who represents the interests of the institute . "Currently, Anna Arkadyevna’s personal belongings are being seen, the FSB officers are waiting for the carriers of electronic information more carefully," Cherkasov said.

The remark of Vladimir Putin addressed to the former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, made on the eve of a visit to France in an interview with the French television channel TF1 and the Europe-1 radio station, outraged the Western public, which found the statement of the Russian president sexist.

Russian Ambassador Mikhail Zurabov returns to his place of service - to Ukrainian Kyiv. He will become a representative from Russia who will take part in the official inauguration of the elected president Petro Poroshenko. This was stated "Interfax" by the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Grigory Karasin.