The European Commission has adopted an odious program to reduce carbon dioxide emissions The European Commission yesterday approved a program to combat global warming , official representative of this body Pia Hansen told news agencies. This program envisages reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20% by 2020 compared to 2005 levels and increasing the share of renewable energy sources from the current 8.5% to an average of 20%. The cost of the program is 60 billion euros.

The Prime Minister signed a decree on the transfer of public sector employees to a new wage system In Russia, the unified tariff schedule (UTS), which determined the salaries of public sector workers, is being abolished, and a new wage system is being introduced. The corresponding government decree was signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday. As expected, this decision will come into force on December 1 this year.

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The European Central Bank refused to support the US Federal Reserve The reluctance of the European Central Bank to lower interest rates and thereby support the US Federal Reserve's actions to stimulate the economy was the main reason why the stock market continued to fall yesterday.

The Italian extremist, whose extradition from France has been sought by her home country for several years, will not only not be extradited to Italy in the near future, but will even be released from the French prison where she has been held since August 2007. A French court in Versailles decided that 54-year-old Marina Petrella cannot remain behind bars because she is in poor physical and mental condition. She suffers from severe depression, nervous exhaustion and often talks about suicide.

Edinburgh Theater Festival opens today This festival is the 62nd in a row. Since post-war times, when Edinburgh first became the center of the theatrical world for a month, the scale of the festival has grown incredibly - at first the “world” included only Great Britain, then Europe, but now troupes from all continents come to Scotland, with the exception of Antarctica.

Explosion season continues in Sochi Yesterday at 10.35 on the beach in the Sochi village of Loo, a homemade explosive device went off. As a result of the explosion, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, born in 1977, and a resident of Kyiv, born in 1986, were killed. Four other people, including an eight-year-old boy, were taken to hospital with serious injuries.

A verbal duel is playing out in the media space between the Central Election Commission and Russian communists, who in July lost a case in the Supreme Court to cancel the results of the parliamentary elections . Lawyers of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation are already appealing this decision to the Supreme Court, and electoral system workers close to the Communist Party are giving interviews on radical opposition websites.

The board of directors of Norilsk Nickel yesterday appointed an extraordinary meeting of shareholders for April 8, the company said in a statement. The agenda includes issues of re-election of the board of directors, as well as amendments to the company's charter. As stated in the Norilsk Nickel message, in the near future the board of directors will provide its recommendations to the company’s shareholders regarding voting on the issues on the meeting agenda.

The weather in central European Russia is gradually improving. The stormy cyclone will move to the Urals in the coming days, and a fine anticyclone is trying to take its place. No precipitation is expected in the central regions in the coming days; only on Sunday the cyclone may shed short-term rains in places. Daytime temperatures will rise every day: on Friday +18...+23оС, and on weekends already +21...+26оС. In the northwestern regions, the respite from rain was short-lived.

You know that Russia was and is present on the territory of Georgia on an absolutely legal basis, fulfilling its peacekeeping mission in accordance with the international agreements that were reached. And we considered and still consider our main task to be the preservation of peace. Russia has historically been and will remain the guarantor of the security of the peoples of the Caucasus.

There are signs of a truce in South Ossetia Late yesterday evening, with reference to Russian Ambassador-at-Large Yuri Popov, reports appeared about a ceasefire in the zone of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict. An agreement was also reached on a meeting between Georgian State Minister for Reintegration Temuri Yakobashvili and Deputy Prime Minister of the unrecognized South Ossetia Boris Chochiev, which is tentatively scheduled for today.

Police officers have uncovered a new method of deception in the real estate market The Main Investigation Department (GID) at the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, as Vremya Novostey learned, has opened another criminal case about defrauding co-investors when purchasing real estate. This time, the leaders and founders of the consumer mortgage cooperative (PIK) “Common Cause” came under suspicion.

CLUBS "Dancing Minus" “16 tons” , August 8, 21.00. Mara. Ikra , August 8, 21.00. "The end of the film." “Point” , August 8, 22.30. "Masha and the Bears". "B2" , August 8, 23.00. Olga Arefieva and “Ark”. Presentation of the acoustic double concert CD+DVD “Calligraphy”. “Point” , August 9, 22.30. "NOM." Eccentric and multifaceted, not fitting into any genre framework and not trying to adapt to the tastes of the public and the preferences of the media, the St.

Russia will help Merrill Lynch make money Former New York Stock Exchange CEO John Thain (pictured) made his first international visit as chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch to Russia and personally attended the opening of the bank's new office.