The World Bank advises Vladimir Putin on how to defeat gas flaring A year ago, the World Bank published data on associated gas flaring in Russia , obtained by processing information from satellites. It turned out that in reality the volumes of burned APG are several times higher than the official statistics.

Early music festival opens in Innsbruck Every festival is a celebration. But not everyone has such an exquisite frame as the Innsbruck one. The center of this ancient city in the Alps is like a precious box, and tourists here are thrilled to touch the beauties of the past. But there is even higher in the mountains the Ambras Palace, standing in the middle of a carefully trimmed garden.

The Serbian radical party is preparing a large-scale protest against the extradition of the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, 64-year-old Radovan Karadzic, to the Hague Tribunal . Rumor has it that the radicals may even try to recapture him. The Serbian authorities would like to get rid of the prisoner even before the radical demonstration, but the terms of extradition have not yet been determined.

The Moscow and Constantinople patriarchs promised to jointly resolve the church dispute in Ukraine The program of the stay of Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II in Ukraine had to be reduced. Yesterday, official representatives of the Patriarchate reported that the head of the Russian Orthodox Church would not be able to come to Donetsk, where he was expected to serve a solemn liturgy dedicated to the 1020th anniversary of the baptism of Rus'.

First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Alexey Ulyukaev yesterday presented his new book “Modern Monetary Policy. Problems and prospects." Many famous economists and financiers came to the presentation (Evgeny Yasin, Yegor Gaidar, Vladimir Milovidov, Alexander Potemkin, Oleg Vyugin, Konstantin Korishchenko, Sergey Dubinin, Yakov Urinson, Garegin Tosunyan, Pavel Medvedev, etc.).

The ROC Executive Committee approved the composition of the Russian Olympic team Yesterday in Moscow, on Luzhnetskaya Embankment, the executive committee of the Russian Olympic Committee met. The main issue of the meeting was the approval of the final composition of the country's Olympic team for the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, which opens on August 8.

Sex work and its victims Summer is considered a low season in the publishing business, but we found three new books. Two of them will help expand your historical horizons, and the third will clarify something about the immediate government priorities. Sex work and its victims Alexander Ilyukhov. Prostitution in Russia from the 17th century to 1917. -- M.: New Chronograph, 2008.

Why Russian computer manufacturers don't care about idle conveyors The huge underutilization of the capacity of Russian PC assemblers is an obvious fact; it is recognized by the manufacturers themselves. Nevertheless, new factories are being built. By the beginning of 2008, K-Systems/IRBIS had nine production lines in Vidnoye, two in St. Petersburg and four lines at the plant in Mytishchi (for assembling laptops).

Maxim Travnikov replaced Kamil Iskhakov as curator of national policy at the Ministry of Regional Development Maxim Travnikov, who had previously worked as deputy director of the government department of international cooperation, was appointed Deputy Minister of Regional Development Dmitry Kozak, instead of Kamil Iskhakov, who moved to another job - the permanent representative of Russia to the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

The third meeting of States on the implementation of the Program of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), adopted by the international community in 2001, was held in New York from 14 to 18 July.

The interests of Pyongyang and Washington temporarily coincided Last week, an extraordinary event occurred at negotiations on the North Korean nuclear issue. On July 23, in Singapore, for the first time in the history of the six-party dialogue involving North and South Korea, China, the United States, Russia and Japan, which began in 2003, an informal meeting of all six participants took place at the level of foreign ministers.

Arkady Dvorkovich tried to soften the effect of Vladimir Putin's speeches The Kremlin made an attempt to calm the agitated Russian stock market . True, President Dmitry Medvedev himself did not interfere in the dispute between the executive authorities and another economic entity.

Chronicle of sporting events Football. Russian Championship . Match of the 15th round. "Shinnik" - "Terek" - 1:1 (Khazov 81 - Kulik 26) . The next round of the Russian Championship was not without scandal. After the end of the game "Shinnik" - "Terek", which ended in a 1:1 draw, the hosts suspected that the main referee of the match, Igor Zakharov (pictured), officiated the match while intoxicated.

“The Conversion of Saul” Parmigianino visits the Hermitage In Russian museums you can get a more or less complete picture of “healthy realism,” but they are desperately poor in works from those periods in the history of world culture that until recently were considered decadent. In particular, we cannot form a thorough idea of ​​the work of the Italian masters of mannerism.

MGTS donated payphone cards to the RSL The Russian State Library accepted a collection of payphone cards consisting of 70 series as a gift from MGTS. This is the second collection transferred to the RSL for storage. The first one was donated five years ago. The parties found it difficult to estimate the cost of the gift - these collection cards are a very unusual product. The donation ceremony took place on July 28 at the Russian State Library.