In the Nizhny Novgorod region they will engage in anti-corruption education for children Members of the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region approved the regional target program “Anti-corruption in the Nizhny Novgorod region”, designed for 2009-2011. The main objectives of the program will be, as stated, the organization of monitoring of corruption, as well as anti-corruption education, training and education of young people.

Head of E.ON demands a pan-European energy strategy Renewable energy appears to be becoming a reality in Germany. Having gained experience in the design and operation of experimental installations, industry enterprises are trying to move on to serious projects. We are talking about the Desertec project, the implementation of which, as its authors are sure, over time can lead the European electricity market to revolutionary changes.

Moscow Film Festival handed out awards It was almost certain from the very beginning of the festival that the main prize would go to a Russian film - the competition program showed a very strong bias towards domestic cinema. But to give almost all the prizes to films from the host country—for such a decision, the jury of an international festival must have very good reasons. For example, the rest of the films selected for the competition turned out to be very, very bad.

Oleg Mitvol is ready to work at his place of birth Former deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol, who will officially leave the staff of this department on July 6, will not be left without work. As Mr. Mitvol said yesterday, he gladly accepted the offer of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to head the Northern Administrative District of the capital.

Fur producers are trying to overcome the crisis The Russian fur industry, which never managed to get back on its feet in recent “fat” years, is now counting the losses incurred during the new economic crisis. The drop in sales on the fur market ranges from 30 to 40% - these figures apply equally to both Western and Russian producers. Last December, shortly after the crisis began, a fur auction was held, where Russian producers managed to sell only 10% of their products.

On the European territory of Russia, the end of June turned out to be very different. In the north-west, in some places the average daily temperature was 4-6 degrees higher than the climatic norm; in the north-east, on the contrary, it was approximately the same amount lower. In the south of European territory, the heat has subsided - the average daily temperature has approached normal for the end of June. In the coming days there will be no rain at all in the center of Russia.

Europe is finding out how much it costs to pump into underground storage facilities in Ukraine Brussels multilateral consultations between representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the European Union on preventing another gas conflict ended yesterday with an official statement by the European Commission on progress in finding ways out of the crisis. Russian negotiators, led by Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexander Medvedev (pictured), refrained from making assessments in hot pursuit.

This summer, four American fifth-generation F-22 Raptor fighters will begin training flights at a new air force training ground that the United States, in agreement with the Portuguese authorities, is creating on the Azores archipelago in the mid-Atlantic. Then they will be joined by eight more such machines. In the archipelago, preparations are in full swing to receive the latest fighter jets at the Lajes air force base on the island of Teixeira, leased by the US Air Force.

Ilham Aliyev is ready to spur Ankara and Brussels at the expense of Moscow The Russian gas monopolist Gazprom has signed a long-awaited agreement on the supply of Azerbaijani gas to Russia. For this purpose, President Dmitry Medvedev flew to Baku yesterday for several hours. He met with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev as recently as early June at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.

CONCERTS Ensemble of Oleg Kireev. "Union of Composers" , 20.30. Ash. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K. Jobima, Brazilian classics, as well as works by the group organizer Igor Nadezhdin in Portuguese. "Forte" , 21.00. Haleo (Cuba). Latin American rhythms, youthful enthusiasm and tropical temperament at Cool Train Club , 21.00. CLASSIC Chamber orchestra Musica Viva. I.-S. Bach, G.-F. Handel, J. Haydn, W.-A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven, F. Schubert. Soloist A. Rudin.

The IEA promised the restoration of the oil market by 2012 In three years, according to analysts from the International Energy Agency (IEA), the global level of hydrocarbon consumption will fully recover and return to 2008 levels. Experts interviewed by Vremya Novostei believe that demand for raw materials may indeed reach previous levels. However, analysts have differing opinions regarding the cost.

Performance "Tangent" at the Chekhov Theater Festival Today, visual theater (a stupid definition, but, unfortunately, they haven’t come up with a better one yet) is the main festival trend. Everyone wants something like this - preferably non-verbal, inexplicable, effective and bewitching. But there is terrible confusion with genres and types of visual theater.

Rostov did not accept armed Sun d'Or employees During the short-lived air transport conflict, Israel practically achieved the right for its airlines to have their own armed guards at airports in southern Russia. For this reason, last Sunday they suspended Russian flights from Rostov to Israel. True, the very next day the Aeroflot-Don plane was allowed to fly to Tel Aviv a day late.

Participants in the “people's IPO” of VTB may not count on buy-back shares VTB expects that this year will end with a loss, Andrei Kostin, chairman of the bank's board, said at the annual general meeting of shareholders yesterday. VTB did not perform worse: in 2008, assets grew by 35.9%, to $125.8 billion, the volume of lending to legal entities increased by 2 percentage points, to 12.7%, and the volume of lending to individuals - by 2. 9 percentage points, to 8.8%.

Vladimir Putin put state banks in a credit position Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, having seriously forked out money to support the banking sector (the government allocated 700 billion rubles for this purpose), demanded a return payment. He called on top managers of state banks to forget about summer vacations and, by the sweat of their brow, to fill the real sector with no less real loans worth hundreds of billions of rubles by October 1. The budget meeting that Mr.