In Moscow, live worse than in African cities Bashny.Net

The researchers ranked the best cities in the world. First place went to Zurich, Switzerland, and Moscow and St. Petersburg took the 171 and 164 lines of the rating, giving the capital of Zimbabwe.





Moscow and St. Petersburg, respectively, occupy the 171 th and 164 th place in the ranking of cities in the world in terms of life in 2007. Researchers at Mercer Human Resource Consulting found that the main trouble of the Russian cities - a low level of health and hygiene, and poor environment. These factors are fundamental in determining the quality of life in cities. The most comfortable for life found Zurich. The worst conditions have appeared in the Iraqi Baghdad.

Living conditions in 215 cities around the world in 2007 were evaluated on 10 categories, which included 39 factors: the political and economic environment, state of the environment, the level of personal security of citizens, health care, infrastructure and others. Indices of New York, which compared the rest of the city, received 100 points.

Leadership tradition for several years, goes quiet town in Switzerland. Like last year, the first place was Zurich, where the standard of living Mercer researchers evaluated 108, 1 point. This is followed by Geneva, followed - Vancouver, Canada, the Austrian Vienna and New Zealand Auckland. The five worst accommodation includes mainly African city of Pointe-Noire (Congo), Khartoum (Sudan), Bangui (CAR) and Brazzaville (Congo). Bringing up the rear turbulent Baghdad (14, 5 points).

The largest Russian city is also present in the rankings, and the study's authors put them in the bottom of the list. In particular, according to the calculations Mercer, the level of comfort for living and working in Russian cities is virtually identical to the level of poor African countries. Thus, Moscow behind Zimbabwe's capital Harare on three lines. Moscow and St. Petersburg took the 171 th and 164 th place respectively received 54, 4 and 56, 4 points, according to RBC daily.

For comparison, in the rating of Kiev is located in the four lines above Moscow. During the year the situation in the cities has not changed much, it noted in Mercer. In 2006, the Northern capital was at 162-m site, and Pervoprestolnaya - 172 th. The standard of living in the two provincial Russian towns was worse than in the cities of poor African countries. Novosibirsk was 47, 9 points (189 place) following the Maputo (Mozambique). Kazan should be outside the city of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and takes 191 th place.

The study authors explain Mercer similar picture in that the main criterion by which to judge the city, is the situation in health care and sanitation, also took into account the availability of medical care, water and air pollution. The city with the world's highest levels of health and sanitation has become a Canadian Calgary. The top five in the ranking also includes Honolulu (USA), Helsinki, Ottawa and Minneapolis. The most unhygienic city became Azerbaijan Baku.

The situation in Moscow in the near future will only get worse. According to environmentalists, under the new law, it is possible to cut down virtually unchecked in the city of green spaces, including major parks, and to give the land for development. For example, the Moscow government has decided to cut down the Tsaritsyno park (more than 3200 trees), built on the site which, according to some reports, the hotel complex. In the near future it can also be destroyed by Parks "Elk Island", "Krylatskiye hills", "Gardeners". There is an active cutting plants in the once "green" areas of Moscow, such as the Falcon.