The White House proposes to increase the use of alternative fuel five times US President George Bush signed a decree that should not only contribute to reducing oil consumption in the country, but also lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The head of the White House demanded that his government develop more increased requirements for the purity of car exhausts sold in the United States.

The Minister of Education of Poland is sure that the introduction of school uniforms will significantly improve discipline in schools, so the game is worth the candle In Polish schools, it was decided to introduce the obligatory wearing of a single uniform of clothing by all students. For some, this step is associated exclusively with the socialist past, others see in it the opportunity to improve discipline in schools.

Polish meat is no worse than a contract between Moscow and Brussels, they think in Warsaw On the eve of the EU-Russia summit, Poland says that he will not abandon his veto to begin negotiations between Moscow and Brussels under a new partnership agreement. Warsaw requires, first of all, the abolition of the Russian embargo on Polish products.

The head of the Iranian delegation at negotiations under the nuclear program of Tehran Ali Laridzhani and a member of the EU leadership Javier Solan will hold the next round of negotiations on May 31. An agreement on this was reached on Tuesday in a telephone conversation between Laridzhani and Solana. The UN Security Council at the end of March tightened the sanctions against Iran for refusing to stop working on the enrichment of Uranus.

"Before the change of administration, both in the Kremlin and in the White House, there is no need to count on changes" in Portugal, the search for the abducted English girl Bluker prize was continued by the book "My War: Killing Time in Iraq"

Elena Dementieva reached the 2nd circle of the tournament in Rome. On Monday, in the match of the first circle, the Russian tennis player won Maria Elena Kamerin from Italy 6: 1, 6: 2.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. A radio correspondent Freedom Mumin Shakirov takes part. Andrei Shary : The head of the company "Russneft" Mikhail Gutseriev today made a refutation of information that there are claims from law enforcement agencies. According to Gutseriev, the charges were not brought to him, but to the leaders of the two subsidiaries of Russneft for the period when these units were not yet part of the holding.

The former head of the Radon special department, which is engaged in the burial of radioactive waste, was sentenced to 4 years. The court in Novosibirsk found Yuri Ostanin guilty of assigning the money of the enterprise - when he was the director, he, in particular, paid himself an increased salary. The court ruled that Ostanin should return to the plant about 189 thousand rubles - despite the fact that the total damage amounted to 400 thousand.

According to experts, Vladimir Putin (driving an electric car at the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg) has long sought to reduce Russia's dependence on the United States (George Bush and Condeilia Rice as passengers) and finally succeeded in this Today is the second day of the visit of US Secretary of State Condolizes Rice to Moscow. Yesterday, she met with the first deputy prime minister of the Russian government, Sergei Ivanov.

The famous Russian coach Yuri Semin, now the president of the Moscow Lokomotiv, turned 60 years old. By decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Semin was awarded the Order of Honor.

For the first time, gallicisms began to replenish Russian vocabulary in the 18th century. Over time, there were so many of them that there was a need to make a foreign influence softer. Here, says Julia Safonova, a member of the editorial council of the Gramota.ru portal, tracing came to the rescue.

Russia and the European Union have no conflict of interests, but there are different views on the solution of certain problems, ”said Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the German Foreign Minister Francom-Valter Steinmeier. The head of the German Foreign Ministry - the current chairman of the EU - in turn called on openly discussing disagreements in order to prevent them from developing into political conflicts.

In the Afghan province of Kandahar, the Aviation of Coalition Forces inflicted a massive blow to the positions of the Taliban. Up to sixty militants were killed. The ground troops entered the settlements today, where the fighters of the Taliban movement were fixed.

The US Department of Defense has blocked employees and employees of all its divisions access to blogs. Yuotube video blogs, a social network Myspace, as well as many other resources that allow you to post videos and photos, fell under the ban. The Pentagon stated that the ban was exclusively associated with overloading the networks of the Ministry of Defense. Restrictions to affect 15 thousand local and regional networks that combine more than 5 million computers.

Tim Moore, the author of the book “Zero points” about the Eurovision Musical Competition, in the commentary of the BBC, called the competition in Helsinki the worst in history, characterizing it as “extremely politicized”. According to Moore, the result depended on “how many aunts have a aunts in Montenegro”. Tim Moore proposes to hold two Eurovision contests - in the east and west, and after reducing the best musicians in the final.