In Europe, a single standard for the size of clothing is introduced, representatives of Italian clothing manufacturers told reporters after the meeting, which took place on Monday in Milan at the National Textile Association (Unitex). The new standard, which was called EN 13402, will soon be introduced in all European states, RIA Novosti reports.

More than half of the Americans hate their work - such results were obtained during the latest study by The Conference Board, which is engaged in the compilation of key economic indicators in the United States. It turned out that the share of Americans, satisfied with their work, is the lowest in all 20 years of research. Most dissatisfied with those who have not yet been 25 years old. Those who make less earn their work are less likely to love their work.

According to the latest study, Trust-Barometer 2007, conducted by one of the largest American public relations Edelman, Russians, unlike citizens of other countries with growing economies, do not believe either to business, the state, nor the media, the newspaper RBC Daily writes. According to Edelman, which for the first time conducts a similar study in Russia, Russians are very different from citizens of states with growing economies.

British writer Joan Rowling, the author of books about Harry Potter, suits the largest Internet auction Ebay, on which electronic copies of her bestsellers about a young wizard were sold. According to the British newspaper The Times , Rowling sued the auction after his Indian auction unit sold illegal versions of books from the Harry Potter series. The Supreme Court of Delhi made a decision according to which it is forbidden to exhibit non-automated versions of her books on the site.

State Duma deputies propose to deprive foreign citizens the right to serve in the foreign intelligence service (SVR), the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Federal Security Service (FSO), leaving them the opportunity to undergo military service only in the Armed Forces of Russia.

Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, who was on a visit to Japan, called for discussing a territorial dispute around the Kuril Islands without haste: with feeling, with an arrangement. This issue cannot be discussed in isolation from others, and it will be decided "as bilateral relations are transferred to a new quality." For this, you need more confidence, cooperation and general efforts, made it clear.

Official representatives of the North and South Korea plan to hold the first negotiations this month at the level of ministers on Tuesday. It is planned to discuss the resumption of the extremely necessary food assistance to the DPRK from South Korea after North Korea promised to revise her nuclear program.

In the near future, a bill on the prevention of children's mortality related to cars will be received by the House of Representatives of the US Congress. A document entitled "Act on Children and Machines of 2007" was prepared by the Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton, her colleague Republican John Sonuna, President of Kids and Cars , Junet Fennel, Vice-President of Lawyers Association specializing in protecting the victims of car accident, Jackie Guillen, Selly Grinberg. reports AutoChannel .

The 2006 Olympic champion in figure skating Yevgeny Plushenko plans to start a trial against his fellow-countrymen, as well as the Olympic champions of Turin Tatyana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin. The subject for the proceedings will be the fact that the famous couple signed a contract for participation in Plushenko’s project “Golden Ice Stradivari”, and then went to the Ilya Averbukh show “Stars on Ice”.

The popular theater and film actor Konstantin Grigoryev died in St. Petersburg, Interfax told on Tuesday in the city culture committee. According to the committee, the actor died last Monday after a serious long illness. On February 18, the actor turned 70 years old, recalls NTV , and last week he celebrated his anniversary with his friends. Konstantin Konstantinovich Grigoryev was born on February 10, 1937 in Leningrad. Grandma was engaged in raising a child.

The All -Russian Public Organization "Business Russia" (DR) proposed to create a "business rating of higher education" (tree). The rating will evaluate universities in the demand for their graduates in the labor market. The idea of ​​creating a business rating of universities "Business Russia" has proposed for more than one year. However, the start to the project, in fact, was given by President Vladimir Putin.

Deputy Head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry Zigimantas Pavilionis said that Lithuania could join the Polish veto and block negotiations on the new Russian -EU agreement, but his colleagues did not agree with this. Pavilionis claims are related to the closure of the Druzhba oil pipeline branch to the Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery.

As already reported , the privatization of cultural heritage objects will begin with house churches, chapels and estates, that is, objects of historically "private". This was announced the day before by the head of "Rossthosthkulture" Boris Boyarskov. In St. Petersburg, there have long been disputes about the fate of the monuments located in the northern capital, and about what such privatization can lead to.

The Moscow City Court refused today to satisfy the complaint of journalist Sergei Bychkov to the deputy head of the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP) Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Interfax reports. “The decision of the Preobrazhensky court was left in force. The cassation appeal of Mr. Bychkov was not satisfied. Today I again expressed my conviction that Mr.

Rescuers found the stone of the last of the missing climbers on the slope of the mountain. According to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, a resident of Primorye Sergey Lopukhov feels normally, "all three climbers found are taken aboard the Mi-8 helicopter and head to the village of Klyuchi," Interfax reports. A few hours earlier, two more participants in the ascent went to the house of scientists on the slope of the volcano, whose fate was not known until today.