08/04/2008 08:30:00] ''Today, we can say with certitude that Russia has made significant progress along the path of decentralisation of powers - especially given its tradition of centralism which has been permeating all its history,'' stressed Congress President Halvdan Skard,

10/04/2008 11:30:00] Speaking at the conference in Moscow, Yavuz Mildon, President of the Congress' Chamber of Regions, pointed out that Russia's joining the Council of Europe and its ratification of the European Charter of Local Self-Government set the basic democratic

Washington, D.C., April 4, 2008 - The Alliance to Save Energy commends the Maryland General Assembly on its passage of the EmPOWER Maryland Energy Efficiency Initiative (Senate Bill 205 and House Bill 374), which sets one of the most ambitious

By Tony Favro, US correspondent- CityMayors.com- 2 April 2008: The US city of Rochester, New York State, and its immediate suburbs occupy about 160,000 hectares, or the same land area as London, England. The difference is that Rochester's urbanized core

Ben Block - April 9, 2008 - 12:17pm - Agriculture continues to erode forests of the Brazilian Amazon, as shown in these satellite images of Mato Grosso state in 2002 (bottom) and 2006 (top). On Monday, Blairo Maggi was in

Ben Block - April 11, 2008 - 6:00am - The world's hunger for beef spurred demand for 10 million cattle from the Amazon last year, a 46 percent increase over 2004.One of Brazil's largest beef-export companies is expanding its Amazon

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