The prosecutor's office of Munich charged the ex-head of Audi (part of the Volkswagen concert) to Rupert Stadler in connection with the "diesel scandal". This is stated in the message of the department. "Professor Stadler is accused of the fact that, since the end of September 2015, he was in the course of manipulations, allowed or did not prevent further sale of Audi and Volkswagen cars," TASS quoted the release of the prosecutor's office.

The Pentagon defense logistics agency announced a competition for "researching the markets of the Northern Polar Circle with subsequent reports." The list of regions where research will be carried out includes the island of Kolguev, Yamalo -Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Murmansk region, the Archipelago of the North Land, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Novosibirsk Islands.

The remains of the famous American gangster John Dillinger will be removed from the grave in September, for this it will be necessary to raise 2.5 tons of concrete from the ground, reports Indianapolis Star . The exhumation of the remains in the cemetery in Indianapolis will be held at the request of the dillinger nephew, the grounds for it are not called. However, it is known that exhumation is part of a certain "documentary project". Relatives of Dillinger refused to comment.

Unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma Dmitry Klochkov and head of the headquarters Gennady Gudkov Elvira Vikharev submitted applications to the Moscow City Hall for holding protest rallies against the lack of opposition candidates in the Moscow City Duma. “We have submitted two applications for holding the action in support of independent candidates, as we believe that only one event is coordinated, applications are submitted to different numbers,” Vikhareva said.

A suspect in the murder of a 24-year-old model and beauty blogger, participants in the Miss Maxim 2018 contest of Ekaterina Semochkina (Karaglanova), detained the day before in Moscow, gave a confession. 33-year-old Maxim Gareev has already admitted that on July 26 this year he committed the murder of a girl-blogger in Moscow, whose body was found in a suitcase in her rented apartment. In what kind of relationship Gareev consisted with the killed is not specified.

“Having enormous material capabilities to prepare in advance, for two decades, for forest fires in Siberia, to create an effective system for their elimination, the Russian authorities and Putin personally did not do this. Great power means great responsibility. Long power multiplies responsibility by twenty years,” writes the publicist in LiveJournal .

In the Irkutsk region, which borders Mongolia, a state of emergency has been introduced throughout the entire territory due to forest fires. The same regime operates in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in two regions of Buryatia and in one region of Yakutia. The taiga in Siberia and partly in the Far East is already burning on 3 million hectares, and this area is constantly increasing.

The champion of the National Basketball Association (NBA) as part of Cleveland, Russian Timofei Mozgov, moved to Khimki near Moscow. According to the press service of the team , the Center Contract was concluded for one year. "In" Khimki "I return with positive emotions and a good mood. Here everyone is waiting and loves me, Khimki is my hometown. I have a lot to do with the club and the city, and the upcoming season will be very important for me and for the team.

The Federal Research Center for Nutrition, Biotechnology and Food has prepared a project to form a set of food in the consumer basket of Russians by sexual basis and age.

The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitarian Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor) was on the ban on the supply of plums, nectarines, apricots, peaches, crooks, cherries, cherries, apples, pears and quince from China, according to a message posted on the official website of the department. "This decision was made in connection with the ongoing cases of supplying to the country of plant products of Chinese origin, infected with dangerous, quarantine objects for Russia," Rosselkhoznadzor said.

In London this week, divorce proceedings begin between Princess Haya of Dubai and Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. This process has already been called the “divorce of the century”: as The Daily Mail writes, the ruler of Dubai and his sixth wife hired two of the most famous divorce lawyers.

The prosecutor’s office of the city of Sochi approved the indictment in the criminal case against a local resident who earned almost 100 million rubles on the sale of apartments in an illegally built house, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the message of the department. According to investigators, a 59-year-old man, without the status of an individual entrepreneur, and also not being the founder of a legal entity, from 2011 to 2017 carried out illegal activities aimed at systematic profit.

The Presnensky court of Moscow arrested for 30 days one of the organizers of the protested protest in support of unregistered candidates in the Moscow City Duma, a member of the Libertarian party Mikhail Svetov for a repeated violation of the rules of the rally organization.

Five employees of the Perm Powder Plant were injured as a result of the explosion during the dismantling of the equipment, the general director of the enterprise Oleg Mirgorodsky said on Wednesday Interfax . According to him, the "group accident" occurred at 16:08 local time. Two people received body burns on an area of ​​60% and 35%, three more received light injuries, nothing threatens their lives. All five were hospitalized, one of the seriously injured is now operated on.

In America, the popular science book of Chris Newby was published “Book: the secret history of Lyme's disease and biological weapons.” Its author claims that Lyme's disease (borreliosis), which is transmitted by forest ticks, was the result of the development of the military in the 1970s and the followed errors of biologists. About this writes "Komsomolskaya Pravda" . It is noted that 90% of cases of Borelliosis are recorded in five small states.