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'.

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.

Blatt continues to hope for the recovery of the CSKA forward The day after the end of the Mechel Cup international tournament held in the capital's USC CSKA, in which the Russian men's team took second place among four participants, losing to the Serbs in the decisive game (74:75), the head coach of our national team, David Blatt, called it shortened to minimum list of candidates for the Olympic composition.

On the European territory of Russia, the most unfavorable weather is in the Volga region and in the east of the Southern Federal District, where the influence of the cyclone that caused trouble is still great. The rest of the area is quite calm, but cool. The Scandinavian anticyclone turned its eastern periphery towards the Russian expanses, and cold air from the Arctic rushed along the eastern periphery of the anticyclone, which had already reached the middle zone.

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.

“New Wave” is not a wave yet, but it’s already a good reason to have fun Yesterday the International Competition for Young Popular Music Performers “New Wave” closed in Jurmala. Actually, the final stage of the event is taking place in Jurmala, which is a gigantic (more than 8,000 demo recordings were listened to in Russia alone, regional tours took place in Minsk, Kyiv, Alma-Ata, St.

Rosneft has found a platform for trading jet fuel Oil companies accused of inflating jet fuel prices are trying to prove their innocence to the Russian government. Yesterday, Rosneft announced that starting in August it plans to begin selling jet fuel produced at the Achinsk Refinery and Angarsk Petrochemical Complex on the Interregional Oil and Gas Exchange (MBNK).

Russians do not have a clear position on the merger of Moscow and the Moscow region Even against the backdrop of very difficult relations between Moscow and the Moscow region, Muscovites and Russians in general are extremely unsure of the need to unite the political and economic activities of the two subjects of the capital region.