Eastern Europe, like the eastern part of the United States, is a territory of «non-green» energy: renewable sources account for less than 20% of total energy generation. In Russia, renewable sources provide only 19.7% of generation (mainly hydroelectric power plants), while in Belarus — only 3.3%. Approximately the same figures are in Ukraine, Moldova, Hungary, the Czech Republic and many states of the eastern part of the USA
And Iceland turned out to be the absolute leader in renewable energy, where 100% of energy is obtained from renewable sources (hydrothermal sources). Iceland shared the first place with Albania, which also achieved 100% «clean» energy. Norway lags behind them minimally (99%), and in general the countries of Northern Europe and the Baltics.
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The European Commission (EC) announced in Brussels that the European Union, Argentina, Brazil, Cape Verde, Canada, Morocco, the United States and South Africa signed a new declaration on research and innovation in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday in Washington.
Brussels believes that this new science policy will bring the Atlantic partners together to address the most pressing challenges facing this ocean basin, in particular climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, ecosystem protection and restoration, and a sustainable and inclusive ocean economy in line with the objectives of the EU Green Deal.
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The cargo spacecraft Cargo Dragon of the American company SpaceX set off to the International Space Station from the east coast of the United States with a cargo of food and materials for scientific experiments. Docking with the ISS is scheduled for July 16.
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There are fewer supporters of neutrality in Switzerland, 52% of Swiss citizens support the course towards rapprochement with NATO.
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The Canadian Foreign Ministry announced the introduction of new sanctions against Russia. It is noted that eight new industries from these sectors have been added to the sanctions list.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, «any person in Canada and any Canadian outside of Canada is prohibited from providing services to Russia or any person in Russia» related to the production of metal products, computer, electronic and optical products, electrical equipment, cars, trailers and semi-trailers, transport equipment, land transport and pipelines.
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The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a nearly $840 billion defense budget for fiscal year 2023, reports The Hill.
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The US Treasury has decided to temporarily allow transactions with the German company SEFE Securing Energy for Europe GmbH. At the same time, the Ministry of Finance notes that there are exceptions to this rule: transactions that violate US sanctions against Russia are prohibited, in particular, transactions involving persons on the sanctions lists.
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Wind and solar power plants, which are planned to be built in Lithuania, by 2025 should allow reducing the share of imports in the electricity consumed by the country from 65% to 17%, according to the Lithuanian Energy Agency (LEA).
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Members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany on Thursday officially began discussing the possibility of expelling ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder from the party, according to European media.
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The Russian government has terminated memorandums on the establishment of information offices of the Nordic Council of Ministers in St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad, its website says.
The memorandum on the establishment of the Information Bureau of the Northern Council of Ministers in St. Petersburg has been in force since 1997, a similar document on Kaliningrad has been in force since 2005.
The Nordic Council of Ministers is an intergovernmental organization established to coordinate cooperation between the parliaments of the Nordic countries. It has been operating since 1971. The Nordic Council of Ministers includes Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden.
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Car sharing services have begun to actively replenish their fleet with Chinese cars. Thus, the Delimobil service purchased the first batch of Chery Tiggo 4. Yandex.Drive also plans to purchase up to 7,000 of these vehicles this year. Brands from China are already offering Citydrive and BelkaCar to their users.
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Joe Biden visited Israel and will now meet with Arab leaders. Israel and the United States signed a declaration on strategic partnership, which, among other things, implies opposition to Iran on the path to creating nuclear weapons. This was the main outcome of US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel.
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The White House called Saudi Arabia’s «historic» opening of its skies to and from Israel the result of Biden’s diplomacy, who is visiting the Middle East.
The Kingdom’s Civil Aviation Authority announced yesterday that it had decided to allow access to Saudi airspace to all civil air carriers.
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Fusion Industry Association (FIA): Investments in commercial fusion increased 2.5 times in a year, to $2.83 billion. Investor confidence is clearly growing, over the past year 8 new «fusion» companies have entered the market, which means that reactors can appear in 10-15 years. A fusion plant would have to be low enough in cost and high in efficiency to be considered commercially viable.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that directly prohibits payment for goods and services in Russia with cryptocurrencies (and any other digital financial assets).
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Russian President Vladimir Putin also deprived large IT companies (IT divisions of banks, Yandex.Taxi, Yandex.Delivery and other taxi and food delivery services) of income tax benefits and insurance premiums. The reason was their too high margin.
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The United States has allowed operations with Russia related to fertilizers, food, seeds, medicines and medical equipment. In addition, the US Treasury removed the former Kazakh subsidiary of Alfa-Bank and Gazprom Germania from sanctions.
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HMD Global has unveiled the Nokia 5710 XpressAudio phone, which has a compartment for charging and storing wireless headphones. It also has music playback controls but does not support music streaming services.
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The Prosecutor General’s Office of Putin’s Russian Federation has declared the work of foreign agent publications Bellingcat, The Insider and the Czech CEELI Institute undesirable in Russia. Now for the reposts of their materials and participation in their creation may face administrative liability. And for repeated violation — criminal.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has voted on an amendment to its fiscal year 2023 military budget that would ban the sale of new F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, Politico reported.
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The Polish manufacturer of frozen vegetables, fruits and berries Hortex left Russia. Agama Group became the new owner of the Ortika Frozen Foods company, which represented the interests of Hortex in the Russian Federation, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. The group is engaged in the production and supply of fish.
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Retail sales of vodka in Russia in June exceeded 6 million decaliters, which is 10.6% more than in 2021, according to the National Union for the Protection of Consumer Rights. In total, over 35 million decaliters of vodka were sold in the first half of the year, which is 7.5% more than a year earlier.
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Belarus has applied to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, said SCO Secretary General Zhang Ming, his words are quoted in the organization’s Telegram.
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia put journalist Yevgeny Kiselev on the wanted list. The search is being carried out “under the article of the Criminal Code”, however, it is not specified for which one.
From October 1993 to April 2001, Kiselev worked for NTV, since 2008 he has been working for Ukrainian television. Now he lives in Ukraine. In April, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation added Kiselyov to the list of «foreign agents».
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Norwegian packaging maker Elopak (Pure-Pak cartons) has decided to leave the Russian Federation and transfer the business to local management, the company said.
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Gazprom, from January 1 to July 15, 2022, according to preliminary data, produced 249.7 billion cubic meters. m of gas. This is 10.4% (29.1 billion cubic meters) less than last year, the company reports.
Demand for the company’s gas from the gas transmission system in the domestic market over this period decreased by 1.9% (by 2.7 billion cubic meters).
Gas exports to non-CIS countries amounted to 71.9 billion cubic meters. m — by 33.1% (by 35.6 billion cubic meters) less than in the same period of 2021.
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Russia maintains a stable situation on the labor market, the number of registered unemployed does not exceed 0.9% of the total number of employees, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said
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Minister of Labor and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov said that the number of citizens working part-time or working week increased from 128.7 thousand to 134.4 thousand people from July 4 to July 11, and the number of workers who are idle , — from 120.6 thousand to 127.1 thousand people.
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Last week, at a meeting of the Interdepartmental Working Group on the situation on the labor market, Golikova said that over the period from June 27 to July 4, the number of registered unemployed decreased by 7.8 thousand people and amounted to 687 thousand people. 128.7 thousand people worked in the part-time or working week mode, and the number of idle workers was 120.6 thousand people.
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According to Rosstat, unemployment in Russia has continued to decline since February; in May, the unemployment rate dropped to 3.9%, updating the historical minimum since 1991. The total number of unemployed in Russia in May 2022 amounted to 2 million 946 thousand people, which is 59 thousand less than in April 2022.
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British sports car maker Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings Plc will raise £653m ($772m) by selling shares to the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund as well as existing investors.
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Yuri Borisov, who was dismissed on Friday from the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, has been appointed general director of the Roscosmos state corporation. The corresponding decree was signed on Friday by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The document entered into force from the date of its signing.
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The President of Russia signed a decree on the release of Dmitry Rogozin from the post of head of Roskosmos.
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The State Duma of Russia at an extraordinary meeting on Friday approved Denis Manturov for the post of Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Industry and Trade. 394 deputies voted «for», one abstained.
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin by his decree introduced a new position of Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Industry and Trade.
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From July 15, after the lifting of anti-coronavirus restrictions, Russians can travel for any purpose to neighboring states across land borders. At the same time, the requirement for PCR testing for tourists returning from abroad who have not been vaccinated and who have not been ill in the last six months remains.
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