In April, Russian dealers of the Japanese Lexus brand sold 2322 cars - this is 5.5% more compared to last year. Thus, the brand set a historical record of its sales for this month, Avtostat reports. In just four months of 2016, 7259 Lexus cars were sold, which is 17.1% higher than the annoyance indicator. According to analysts, this is the best result of sales for this period for the entire time of the presence of the brand in the Russian Federation.

The United States Bureau has published on its website a patent application by Samsung, which describes a smart watch with a built-in projector capable of displaying the watch interface on the hand of the owner or other surface. According to the Phone Arena , the device, patented by the company, is able to project a number of a number or keyboard set or a keyboard on the wrist or forearm of the user.

The previously announced meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia Ilham Aliyev and Serge Sargsyan began in Vienna through the mediation of the School of Minsk Group of the OSCE -OSCE - USA, Russia and France - to resolve the situation in Nagorno -Karabakh, which was aggravated in early April, Reuters reports. In the capital of Austria, the OSCE Minsk group is represented by the heads of their foreign policy departments Sergey Lavrov, John Kerry and Jean-Marc Airo.

The American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers canceled on Saturday, May 14, a performance in California after the hospitalization of the soloist Anthony Kidis. A 53-year-old musician a few hours before the group of a group in the city of Irvain (California) at the Kroq Weenie Roast music festival was sent to a hospital in Los Angeles after he felt acute pain in the stomach. The group was supposed to act at the festival as a headliner.

Activists from the public "National Committee +60" in St. Petersburg said that Ukraine’s victory at the Eurovision Song Contest was provided by some "unclean forces". To combat them, they proposed to send to the following competitions of the prepared participant.

“Let’s look at the voting. Firstly, the most actively circulated lie is that voting by a “professional jury” (hereinafter, for brevity, just a jury) was introduced only this year. This is a hundred percent and, I am sure, a deliberate lie - there is a jury almost always, but not in all countries.

About 10% of retail space in the underground crossings of the Moscow metro can be purchased by one major buyer, RBC reports with reference to the data of the City Hall of the capital. In the middle of the week, May 18, the city authorities will immediately hold 74 open auction for the right to trade in underground crossings belonging to the Metro. Five years contracts will be concluded with the winners of the auction.

The exhibition "manuscripts do not burn" in an apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street, where Mikhail Bulgakov created the novel "Master and Margarita", extended until May 21 due to a huge number of visitors. In the first two days after the opening, from May 14, about three thousand people watched the exposition. In the apartment near the Novodevichy Monastery, Bulgakov lived difficult for seven years from 1927 to 1934.

The leaders of the Russian football Premier League - CSKA and Rostov - won victories on the penultimate, 29th round of the country's championship, postponing the definition of the champion for the final tour. “Rostov” defeated the Yekaterinburg “Ural” in his field with a score of 1: 0, and CSKA in Khimki prevailed over Krasnodar - 2-0.

Immediately 27 grinds - dolphin sizes from small whales - were thrown out in shallow water in the state of Lower California. The rapid tide did not allow naval sailors and animal protection specialists to save them. Only two adults and one cub managed to evacuate. According to ExcelSior , the rescue operation was under the leadership of the federal prosecutor for the protection of the country and representatives of the country's navy.

The authorities of St. Petersburg opposed the ban on hostels in the residential premises of the fund, which is planned to be introduced by the law adopted on Friday in the first reading of the State Duma. This ban will hit 17% of the total number of St. Petersburg, TASS reports. "In the cultural capital, hostels cannot be prohibited.

The Perovskaya Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow instituted four production offenses in relation to the infamous animal shelter in Veshnyaks of the charity autonomous non -profit organization (Bano) "Eco" and its head of Vera Petrosyan, the Moscow prosecutor's office reports. Cases were instituted under Part 1 of Article 10.6 ("Violation of the rules of the quarantine of animals") and under Part 1 of Art.

The basketball players of the Russian CSKA beat the Turkish Fenerbahce in overtime in the Euroleague finals and became the owners of the trophy. The match, held in the neutral arena in Berlin, ended with a score of 101: 96. The most productive player in the army was Nando de Kol, who scored 22 points, and Milos Theodosich received another 19 points.

The head of the Russian Imperial House of the Romanovs, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and Tsarevich Georgy Mikhailovich arrived in Crimea on an official visit - the first after the attachment of the peninsula to Russia. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the Chancellery of the head of the Romanov House in the Crimean region Vladislav Pilkevich.

Petersburg Zenit lost the chances of protecting the Russian football champion title, won in the last championship. The Petersburgers dropped out of the Golden Race, playing on Sunday a draw 1: 1 with the Moscow Lokomotiv in the 29th round of the country's championship. Both goals were scored in the first half from the penalty: in the 10th minute the Brazilian Hulk distinguished himself, and before the break, Alexander Samedov equalized the score.