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The winners of the first semifinal of “Eurovision-2017” held in Kiev were the representatives of Moldova, Azerbaijan, Greece, Sweden, Portugal, Poland, Armenia, Australia, Cyprus and Belgium. This is the official website of the contest. In the first semifinal of their numbers presented 18 countries. Albania, Czech Republic, Finland, Georgia, Iceland, Latvia, Montenegro and Slovenia went into the final part of the show. Selection of finalists took place in two stages. The national jury scores are in after yesterday’s live broadcast of the dress rehearsal, and the audience gave voice during the show. The opening ceremony of “Eurovision-2017” was held in the Kiev exhibition centre “Park” on 7 may. The second semi-final will take place on 11 may, the final will be held may 13. Ukraine this year is the group O. Torvald, the contestant from Russia Yulia Samoylova, the event does not participate because of the ban on entry into

FIFA is conducting an investigation regarding the most expensive transfer in the history of football Fields Pogba from Turin “Juventus” in English “Manchester United”. On it informs Agency France Presse referring to a source in the organization. French midfielder Pogba was transferred to “Manchester United” in the summer of 2016 for of 105.2 million euros. It is not clear what the item transfer is investigating FIFA. Record Pogba may soon be covered by other purchases. Thus, the same “Manchester United” has decided to buy the rights to Brazilian striker Neymar of Barcelona for 200 million euros. As Manchester United prepared to double the salary of the Brazilian bring the amount up to 25 million euros per year excluding bonuses and bonuses. Sports analysts from the International centre for sports studies “estimate” of Neymar to 246,8 million euros. The second value they call the striker “Barcelona” Lionel Messi 170.5 million. Pogba

The President of the United States Donald trump fired the FBI Director James Komi. According to Reuters, citing a White house statement, the President listened to the advice of the attorney General and Minister of justice, Jeff and Roman sessions. Trump is accused of Komi in the “inability to effectively lead” the FBI. “It is very important that we find to the FBI, the new leadership that restores trust and confidence in the vital mission of the Agency”, — says the letter of President to the former Director of the Department. It is reported that the search for candidates for the position of new Director “begins immediately.” According to the White house, Komi abused their powers, independently closing the case against Hillary Clinton of any unauthorized use of the private e-mail server. Komi became the head of the FBI at last President Barack Obama in 2013, he fully intended to

The representative of the “Democratic party” moon Jae In won the presidential election in South Korea. According to the Agency Yonhap, citing the national election Committee of the country, he enlisted the support of 41.1% of the vote (13.4 million) citizens. For the conservative “Korean freedom” hon Joon PHE voted 24.03 percent, Ahn Chul-soo from the center-left people’s party gained 21.4 percent. Before the announcement of the official results, moon Jae-In said that “to build a new nation. Great Korea, proud of Korea. And I’m the proud President of a proud nation.” Moon Jae-In, who by a small margin in the previous elections lost earlier removed from the post of President Park Geun-Hye in 2012, criticized the previous administration for what they are unable to stop the development of the North Korean missile program and nuclear weapons. He was in favour of bilateral policy dialogue while maintaining pressure and sanctions.

American comedian and host of The Daily Show Trevor Noah during his speech at the event Variety”s Tech and Entertainment Summit, likened the US President Donald trump with the coke and the sun. Reported by Business Insider. Noah asked the question about the phenomenon of the Trump bump — the popular gesture of the supporters of trump, in whose honour also referred to as the phenomenon of constant coverage of the Republican in the media and popular TV programs. In response the presenter jokingly called trump “a cocaine Comedy”. “You know, it just… takes you to a wonderful place. But nobody wants peritonotis”, — he said. Noah stressed that the authors of the articles and TV shows you should not cover all the news about the trump. “It can generate news hooks at least every day. Trump, he is like the sun,” concluded the comedian. In November 2016 Noah compared

The administration of U.S. President Donald trump endorsed the delivery of more heavy arms to Syrian Kurds to the liberation of Raqqa from the militants of the “Islamic state”. On Tuesday, may 9, the Associated Press reports. It is expected that this decision will make it possible to capture the stronghold of banned terrorist organizations. The US believes the Kurds are the most effective fighting partner in the fight against ISIS in the North and East of Syria. Supply of heavy arms to oppose Ankara, which, in turn, calls Kurdish terrorist enterprises. A complete list of supplies is not disclosed, but presumably it will include 120-mm mortars, machine guns, and light armored vehicles. It is known that we are not talking about artillery and anti-aircraft missiles. As told RIA Novosti news Agency a source in the Pentagon, the weapons will be handed only to achieve a specific military objective. April

White house spokesman Sean Spicer said that Donald trump has no objection to the investigation of his ties with Russia. According to the official, the US President has with Moscow no business, no contacts, reports RIA Novosti. Another indictment of the tramp was heard from the Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who on Tuesday, may 9, said the need to investigate the alleged business relationship 45th US President to Moscow. “Certainly, the President knows about the offer made today by Senator Graham. And he was all fine about it. He had no business in Russia, he had no ties with Russia, so he welcomes the investigation,” said Spicer. The White house spokesman added that the head of state has asked for “a large law firm in Washington to send a registered letter to Senator Graham about the fact that he had no ties with Russia.” The day before trump once again

The Russian defense Ministry has denied recent media reports about the capture and execution of a Russian soldier, who had served in Syria. On Tuesday, may 9, RIA Novosti reported. “Cause condemnation of the actions of individual media regularly reproduce information to international terrorist groups”, — noted in the defense Ministry. Earlier Tuesday, the Agency Reuters with reference to the organization SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors the Internet activity of radical groups, said that banned terrorist organization “Islamic state” has uploaded a video which allegedly beheaded captured Russian spy. 2 of may it became known about the death of the Colonel of the Russian army, military adviser Alexei Buchelnikov, who was killed in Syria by a sniper militants. It is part of a group of Russian military conducted the combat training of personnel of the Syrian artillery units when the militants opened fire.

The US President Donald trump on Tuesday, may 9, for another year extended sanctions against the Syrian government. This is stated in the notice, the press service of the White house. As follows from the document, Washington condemns hard violence and violation of human rights by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and urged him to stop violence against the Syrian people. The paper recalled that the first sanctions were imposed against Syria in may 2004, “as a response to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States.” On the night of 7 April by order of the President of the United States Donald trump was dealt a missile attack on a government aircraft used by Syria to the airport shirt. It was made after April 4, the Syrian opposition said about the alleged use loyal to President Bashar al-Assad’s

Sergei Mozyakin Examination of the captain of Russian national team on hockey Sergey Mozyakin did not reveal the concussion. This was stated by the coach of the team Ilya Vorobiev. He said this in a live “Match on TV”, reports RT. “Was the impetus behind mozyakin hit his head on the ice. MRI was done. The survey did not reveal a concussion. Sergei is feeling much better. Let’s see how it will work under load. Today we went to the memorial tomorrow to train in a regular mode”, — said Vorobyov. Mozyakin is injured in the first period of the match with Germany in the group stage of the world championship on hockey. The meeting was held on may 8 and ended with the victory of the Russian team with the score 6:3. The breach allowed the forward of German national team Patrick Hager.