The German Auto-Conceived Volkswagen will pay at least 1.2 billion dollars to owners of 80 thousand cars with 3-liter diesel engines, which have identified violations of American environmental standards. The agreement on this was approved on Thursday by the district judge of the city of San Francisco Charles Breer, reports Reuters .

The US trade representative (USTR) announced an annual report on the level of piracy in more than 30 countries of the world, including Russia, which has traditionally entered the list of priority observation with Algeria, Indonesia, Kuwait, Ukraine and a number of other states, the Kommersant newspaper writes. As noted in the report, the level of intellectual property protection in Russia is reduced, as in the previous four years.

The seventeen-year-old Bulgarian performer Christian Kostov, who, according to bookmakers , is one of the most likely winners of the Eurovision-2017 song contest in Kiev, came to journalists with a scandalous statement. The singer born in Moscow promised that in the event of his victory, he would bring the prize - the "Crystal Microphone" - to the Russian capital and smash it in front of the cameras, UNIAN reports.

The expenses for the state program for the development of the Arctic from 2017 to 2025 can reduce four times. The Ministry of Economic Development proposed to adjust the project taking into account the comments from the Ministry of Finance. It is planned to exclude a number of infrastructure projects from the program, as well as the construction of the Leader icebreaker.

In the American city of Ferbanx in the center of Alaska, next to which there is a large military base of the US Fort Waineite, a ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council ended. This international forum unites eight states whose territories are partially or completely in the Arctic (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA).

While Muscovites are protesting against the renovation planned by the authorities and do not want to move anywhere, in Omsk, tenants of the destroying five -story building would be happy to leave, but the city hall offered them only a bus for living, BK55.ru reports. On the eve of May 11, in the Soviet district of Omsk along the street 50 years of trade unions, 57b collapsed part of the wall on the fifth floor under the roof.

Within the framework of the Build 2017 conference in Seattle, Microsoft has announced a new large addition to the Windows 10 operating system and also introduced the video editor Story Remix. According to The Verge , an update called Fall Creators Update will bring several useful functions to OC.

The Kremlin is ready to go to mirror measures in relation to American property in Russia, if the new White House administration does not cancel the decision of the former head of state Barack Obama on the blockade of two residential complexes belonging to the Russian Federation in the United States. This was announced on Friday by the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Yuri Ushakov, RBC reports.

The players of the English "Manchester United" and the Dutch "Ajax" made their way to the final of the European Football League, which will be held in Stockholm on May 24. On Thursday in the home arena, Old Trafford on Thursday, in a response to the semifinal match, tied with the Spanish Selta with a score of 1: 1. In the first match of May 4, in the Spanish Vigo, Mu won with a score of 1: 0. The owners distinguished himself with Maruan Fellaini (17 '), for "Celta" - Fakundo Roncalya (85').

Most residents of Georgia called Russia the largest threat to their country, follows from a public opinion poll conducted in April 2017 by the American National Democratic Institute of International Relations (NDI). According to the portal "Georgia Online" , on Friday, May 12, the organization published the first part of the research results. Answering the question of which country is the greatest threat to Georgia, 63% called the Russian Federation.

The resumption of air travel between the Russian Federation and Egypt is postponed for an indefinite period due to the reluctance of Cairo to allow Russian specialists in aviation security to be present at local airports and unsuccessful claims for the safe operation of terminals. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to the informed source.

In Perm, the gypsies stole two ponies from the Grazia children's horse club and demanded a ransom for them. The animals were returned three days later, writes "KP Perm" with reference to the commander of the detachment of the Cossack squad Alena Votinov. On May 8, two ponies nicknamed Lex and Tibet were stolen from the meadow near the equestrian club in the Perm microdistrict acid cottages, where the younger members of the Cossack squad take place.

On Friday night, the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest-2017 was held, and thus all the finalists of the Kyiv review were determined. There was no scandal: the representative of Bulgaria was among those who went to the final, who, as it turned out, performed in the Crimea shortly after the attachment of the peninsula to Russia. The SBU said that they knew about this, but they did not close the entrance - unlike the Russian woman Yulia Samoilova.

The arrested foster mother of a four -year -old boy, whose remains were discovered in Volgograd eight months after his allegedly universal disappearance, told during interrogation about the circumstances of the death of the child and admitted that she hid his death from the rest of the family, buried the body, the regional investigative committee reports.

In the Ivolginsky district of the Republic of Buryatia, a 23-year-old girl consumed killed a friend who tried to undress her, according to the website of the regional department of the RF IC. According to the investigation, on May 9, a 23-year-old suspect went to visit her friends of her friend in the DNT "Sapsan" near the village of Hoito-Bay.