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In Sochi, the eighth international investment forum "Sochi 2009" opens today. The forum will be the chairman of the Russian Government Vladimir Putin, Deputy Head of Government Dmitry Kozak, Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina. The main topics of the discussion will be the investment strategy for the development of Russia, preparations for the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, issues of energy efficiency and improving the tax system.

American automakers are ordered to take a course to save fuel The US government in order demanded from automakers to radically increase the economy of cars in order to combat a greenhouse effect. The tangible technological jerk, carried out in the shortest possible time, most likely, will follow the increase in cars of cars. In May, President Barack Obama announced his intention to increase the standards of exhaust gas emissions for cars and trucks. Now the details of the sentence are published.

Andrey Babitsky Almost every day from the North Caucasus reports about suicide bombers. The number of suicides that take with them the lives of other people is growing. The epidemic, which continues its mourning procession in Chechnya, has several reasons, and I will start with secondary ones, since some explanations are required. The struggle with the armed underground in the republic from year to year becomes more total, tough, not restrained by any legal or moral standards.

US Vice President Joseph Biden visited on Thursday the Kurdish Autonomous Region in the north of Iraq. It is reported that he tried to convince the Iraqi leaders of the need for speedy streamlining of the country's legislation - on the eve of the elections planned for January. On the eve of the US Vice President met with the American military at the base near Baghdad.

The All-Russian population census is transferred from 2010 to 2013 due to the financial crisis. This was announced on Friday by Deputy Head of Rosstat Alexander Surinov. According to him, the decision on this issue was made by the President of Russia. In May it was reported that Dmitry Medvedev demanded that the census finance in 2010.

Afghanistan is an eternal hot point? 38 week 2009 on the pages of American weekly. Cash register and civil debt. "Change human nature." Afghanistan: goals and reality. About + reboot = rating. Moral choice of consumer "We always knew that thoughtless egoism is bad for morality.

Will the White House refuse to place the missile systems in Europe with a step towards rapprochement with the Kremlin? We are talking about this in the program "The City of Time" on Friday September 18 at 23 o’clock with the director of the Center for International Security IMEMO RAS Alexei Arbatov and the deputy. Director of the Institute of the USA and Canada Viktor Kremenyuk. Leading Vladimir Kara-Murza. Ask your question to the program participants.

An accident occurred in the coal mine in Poland. There are dead, dozens of miners are injured. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Alexander Lemeshevsky, the fire of methane in the mine "VUEK-Slensk, Ruda-Slensk" occurred about 10.15 local time at a depth of more than a thousand meters. At this time, about 40 miners worked underground. According to the representative of the Mine Office Edit Tomashevsk, 12 of them died as a result of fire, and about three dozen were injured.

In Germany, about every seventh resident of the country regrets that the Berlin wall collapsed 20 years ago. These are the data of the sociological survey conducted by the Forsa Institute among one thousand Germans. It turned out that 15 percent of the respondents - with the country's population of 82 million people - with nostalgia recall the time when there were "two Germany."

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and deputy chief of the Joint Committee of the Chiefs of Staff James Cartreite at a press conference in the Pentagon Many in the United States took the decision of Barack Obama to abandon the missile defense option in Europe as a model of the George Bush administration as a fundamental concession to Russia.

Marian Lupa Vitaly Portnikov: How will the political crisis be resolved in the Republic of Moldova, what are the guidelines of the new Moldavian leadership, how the relations between the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation will develop with the new government, what are the prospects for resolving the Transnistrian conflict - we will discuss all these issues today with our guest.

Residents of Germany are preparing for celebrations on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, a discussion on the role of Margaret Thatcher in the reunion of Germany, begun by the London Times , continues .