In Finland, the founder of the Odin Soldiers Street Patrol Matias Ranta is found guilty of beating a man last summer. The Kemi-Tornio District Court sentenced the nationalist by one year and six months conditionally, 50 hours of public work and the payment of compensation in the amount of nine thousand euros, the Yle portal reports. Journalists recall that the incident with a beating occurred in the city of Kemi last summer. The injured man received injuries that threatened his life.

On May 18, Microsoft officially announced the sale of a business for the production of mobile phones under the Nokia brand. According to the press release, Fih Mobile ("Daughter" of the Taiwanese manufacturer of Electronics Foxconn and the Finnish HMD Global, will become buyers of this business. The amount of the transaction, which is planned to be closed in the second half of this year, will amount to $ 350 million.

In St. Petersburg, the City Court granted the appeal and released the cancer patient from the colony. Human rights activists, the prosecutor’s office and the administration of the regional hospital insisted on the liberation, Rapsei reports. At the end of April, it was reported that by the decision of the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg, a 37 -year -old prisoner with cancer of the fourth (hopeless) stage was transferred from the hospital to a penal colony - to actually die.

The Grand Hyatt Cannes Martinez Hotel, in which many guests of the Cannes Film Festival stop, decided to protect customers from gulls who become more and more from year to year, stealing food from tables and scaring guests. According to The Washington Post , the hotel is going to use other birds - hawks to combat birds. Five trained professional bird guards are currently kept in combat readiness: hawks will drive the seagulls, which in May become especially many in Cannes.

The Kiev Court of Appeal on Wednesday rejected the complaint of Gazprom, which asked to invalidate the recent decision of the Kyiv economic court. By this decision, the claim of the Russian company to appeal the decision of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) on imposing a fine of 85.966 billion hryvnias (about $ 3.5 billion) was left without consideration. Gazprom has the right to cassation appeal of this decision of the Court of Appeal, Interfax reports.

The Council of the Italian region Veneto, whose capital is the famous city of Venice, adopted a resolution calling for officially recognizing the right of the Crimea Peninsula to self -determination and create a committee that will advocate the abolition of anti -Russian sanctions. In support of the document, 27 members of the local parliament spoke, nine people voted against, the official website of the Council said.

The Russian government has launched the Danger Voemeniya.rf website with a library of video producers of dangerous behavior on the roads, designed to help drivers deal with a new concept in the traffic rules.

On Wednesday, the American Strategic Intelligence Air Force RC-135 Air Force Strategic Intelligence Air Force, which flew out of the Mildenhalle in the UK, approached the state border of Russia in the Kaliningrad Region. Journalists of the Interfax agency with reference to aviation resource data clarify that the RC-135 is currently completing the task in the southern part of the Baltic Sea.

One of the founders of the Dissernet network community, which is engaged in the search for plagiarism in the scientific works of officials and public figures, Sergei Parkhomenko called to the management of economic security and counteracting corruption of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to give explanations about the activities of the project. Parkhomenko himself wrote about this on his Facebook page.

The Vladimir Regional Court sentenced the members of the criminal group, which trained the murders of the owners of apartments in order to seize their real estate. By a court decision, the leader of the gang, Azad Mammadov and his most active minist, Jafar Mirzoev will serve lifelong terms of imprisonment, the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation reports. Both convicts will be sent to a special regime colony.

In the Vologda diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, the project “Flights over the Northern Fivaida” was launched, which received grant support for the Orthodox Initiative 2015 -2016 competition in the section “Information Activities”.

The Russian company MTS and Finnish Nokia have concluded an agreement on cooperation in the field of development of 5G technologies in Russia, Interfax reports with reference to a joint press release of companies. Within the framework of the agreement, the parties intend to develop a plan of strategy for the implementation of decisions of 5G and the Internet of things (IOT).

The district police of the Western Midnapur in the state of West Bengal is investigating the murder of a woman, over whom the fellow villagers arranged for gravity. The victim was suspected of witchcraft and believed that she was sitting on other deadly illnesses, writes Zee News . The victim of the lynchics was 45-year-old Sambari Tuda from the village of Birsinghpur. The woman was sentenced to death at the Council of Elders.

The State Hermitage intends to show a 3D video on Palace Square for the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, as well as invite visitors to a quest, whose participants will get acquainted in detail with the course of assault on the Winter Palace. Video projection will allow the audience to look at the historical events of 100 years ago non-stress, writes TASS with reference to the General Director of Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky.

The slowdown in China’s economy can return oil prices to the levels of the beginning of the year, that is, about $ 30 per barrel. This, according to TASS, said at the conference "Developing Markets - Russia" Credit Suisse, Deputy Minister of Finance Maxim Oreshkin. "A recession in China can lead to the fact that oil prices will come to the levels of the beginning of the year," Oreshkin said.