From 2019 to 2022, the number of low-emission places in cities increased from 228 to 320, according to a report from the European Clean Cities Movement.
Activists expect that by 2025 this figure will increase by more than 50%, to 507.
Clean air zones now exist in 35 cities, including London, Paris, Brussels and Berlin.
Ecologists note that clean air zones have proven to be an effective measure to counteract pollution. Madrid, for example, recorded a 32 percent drop in nitric oxide concentrations after such a zone appeared in the Spanish capital in 2018.
Meanwhile, European atmospheric monitoring service Copernicus has warned that very high levels of ozone pollution could be seen in much of Europe this week due to the heat wave. This problem will affect not only Southern Europe, but also the north and west of the region.
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The Port of Rotterdam announced the cessation of container traffic to and from Russia. It is one of the largest ports in Europe and one of the largest ports in the world in terms of cargo turnover.
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The French TotalEnergies will reduce the price of motor fuel at its filling stations in France by the end of the year. From September 1 to November 1, prices will be reduced by 0.2 euros per liter compared to world market quotations, and from November 1 to December 31 — by 0.1 euros per liter, the company said in a press release.
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The Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia on Friday decided to cut the key rate by 150 basis points (bp) to 8% per annum, the regulator said in a statement.
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Brazilian state-owned oil and gas company Petrobras lowered refinery selling prices for gasoline by 4.9% from July 20 for the first time since December 2021 due to lower prices in the global market, according to its press release.
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Freight One PJSC (PGK) has established its own IT company Freight One Digital LLC. According to Freight One, the new company will specialize in the development and implementation of digital products and software for the company’s client and internal IT solutions.
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The German government will acquire a 30% stake in Uniper SE and provide additional assistance to the energy company, which has been seriously affected by the reduction in Russian gas supplies to Germany.
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Since the beginning of the year, the Russian Federation has doubled the export of poultry meat, beef — by 40% (in value terms). This was reported by the Ministry of Agriculture following the meeting of the agricultural officer with the participants of the meat market of the Russian Federation.
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Aeroflot and the Federal Passenger Company (FPK, operator of long-distance trains) have launched a pilot project for the combined transportation of passengers via Sochi to Krasnodar and Anapa by air and rail.
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The Russian Olympic Committee has received a notification from the International Sports for All Association (TAFISA) about the cancellation of the VIII World Games in Nizhny Novgorod in 2024, the ROC press service said on Friday.
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The population of Russia owns cash dollars and euros worth about $85 billion in equivalent, said the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina at a press conference on Friday.
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American Twitter Inc recorded a net loss in the second quarter of 2022. According to a press release from the company, its revenue in April-June decreased by 1% to $1.18 billion from $1.19 billion in the same period last year. The company’s advertising revenue in the second quarter increased by 2% to $1.08 billion
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American oilfield services company Schlumberger, one of the largest in the world, increased its net profit and revenue in the second quarter and raised its full-year forecast. The company’s April-June net profit increased by 88% and amounted to $959 million, or 67 cents per share, compared with $510 million, or 36 cents per share, in the same quarter last year. The company’s adjusted earnings were 50 cents per share.
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The Russian Orthodox Church formulated and proposed to the government amendments to the bill that would allow religious organizations to transfer sacred objects from museum collections, Abbess Xenia (Chernega), head of the legal department of the Moscow Patriarchate, told Interfax.
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Norilsk Nickel’s revenue under RAS in the first half of 2022 grew by 28% year on year and amounted to 425.63 billion rubles, follows from the disclosure of the company.
Sales profit did not change significantly compared to the same period in 2021 and amounted to RUB 165.1 billion.
Norilsk Nickel’s net profit amounted to 328.2 billion rubles, which is 32% higher than a year ago.
Profit growth was influenced by the indicator of other income, which increased by more than 7 times, to 298.7 billion rubles.
The cost price increased by 61% to 224.5 billion rubles.
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Lithuanian Railways (Lietuvos gelezinkeliai)-owned freight carrier LTG Cargo will resume the transit of sanctioned goods between Russia and Kaliningrad on Friday, according to guidance released by the European Commission.
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The heavy-duty Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched into orbit on Friday with another batch of 46 mini-satellites to replenish the orbital constellation of the global Internet coverage network of the Starlink system, SpaceX said.
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The Ministry of Industry and Trade supported the idea of transferring expired products to the poor, the department told Izvestia.
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Roskomnadzor unblocked the Tor browser site in Russia, following the decision of the Saratov Regional Court. This was reported by the lawyer of the human rights project «Roskomsvoboda» Ekaterina Abashina, who represented the interests of The Tor Project, Inc. in a court.
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The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia appealed to the Lefortovsky District Court with a demand to seize illegally acquired property for a total of 130 million rubles. from the former traffic police inspector in Moscow Sergey Kuznetsov. This was reported on the website of the department.
According to the report, Sergey Kuznetsov, a former traffic police inspector of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the North-East Administrative District of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow, acquired and registered 23 real estate objects for himself and his relatives, seven of which are located in the UAE and Bulgaria, as well as a car
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Roskomnadzor entered the website of the Wheely premium taxi service into the unified register of prohibited information, RBC was told in the press service of the department. The measure was taken on the basis of the decision of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow. He declared prohibited information posted on the Wheely website.
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The Cuban Parliament approved a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. The draft new code removes the requirement of heterosexuality for marriage, adoption and parenthood through reproductive technology. Cuban citizens will vote for him in a referendum in September
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Residents of Georgia will start using Starlink high-speed Internet from SpaceX in 2023.
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The Chinese currency for the first time came second after the dollar in terms of trading volume with delivery «tomorrow» on the spot market of the Moscow Exchange. It amounted to 52.8 billion rubles, while with the euro it barely exceeded 41 billion rubles.
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In the United States, the first case of insider trading in cryptocurrencies was opened. Charges have been filed against former Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange manager Ishan Wahi, his brother, and their friend. All three used insider information about which cryptocurrencies will be listed in the short term on the Coinbase exchange. In total, Ishan Wahi shared with his brother and a friend data on the placement of 14 cryptocurrencies. They illegally earned $1.5 million.
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The phone numbers and emails of 5.4 million Twitter users are up for sale. A vulnerability in the security system of the social network was discovered in January and later fixed, but by that time, hackers had already managed to gain access to user data. Now they can be purchased for $30,000 on one of the hacker forums. According to those who posted the information, the database contains information about many celebrities, companies, etc.
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A U.S. jury found Steve Bannon guilty of contempt of the U.S. Congress for disobeying a subpoena to testify before lawmakers investigating the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev became a holder of the Russian Order of Alexander Nevsky, the corresponding decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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A court in Ukraine arrested additional assets of Viktor Medvedchuk and his wife: the rights of a company with an authorized capital of 38 million hryvnias ($1.2 million), bank accounts for 1.3 million hryvnias ($43.5 thousand), two land plots (three and five hectares ) and the premises of two hotel complexes (4.5 and 2.4 thousand square meters).
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The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has replenished the register of «foreign agents». It included: Ruslan Shaveddinov, politicians Ilya Yashin and Maxim Katz, blogger Veronika Belotserkovskaya, actress and TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva.
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The Ministry of Finance of the government of the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) announced an agreement reached with Iran on the purchase of 350,000 tons of oil from this country, Aamaj News reported.
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Scientists from the University of New South Wales have found that Jingulu, the language of the Jingili natives living in northern Australia, is ideal for training artificial intelligence systems. Based on it, the technological language JSwarm was created.
Jingula words can be easily translated directly into commands for algorithms. The language has a simple syntax — this reduces computational costs. At the same time, scientists can change the context of using jingulu without rearranging words in sentences.
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