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ITAR-TASS news digest of June 2: 1. |
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OTTAWA - - The Russian-Canadian inter-governmental commission will meet in Ottawa on Thursday, June 2, under the chairmanship of Russian First Vice Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov and Canadian Minister of International Trade Edwards Fast.
Working groups on space industry, agriculture, and construction will meet as part of the commission’s work.
MOSCOW - - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with his Bulgarian counterpart Nikolay Mladenov in Moscow on Thursday, June 2, to discuss a wide range of issues concerning Russian-Bulgarian cooperation, including trade and economic ties.
The ministers will also discuss “the implementation of major investment projects in the energy sector, and cultural and humanitarian cooperation,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.
MOSCOW - - The Big Russian-French inter-parliamentary commission will convene for the 16th meeting on Thursday, June 2.
The commission plans to discuss political changes in the Arab world, the missile defence system in Europe, and Russian-French trade and economic cooperation, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky told Itar-Tass.
MOSCOW - - The 54th session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) opened on June 1 in Vienna. The event marks two remarkable anniversaries: 50 years of human space flight and the 50th anniversary of COPUOS establishment.
MOSCOW - - About 450 public organisations and movements have joined the All-Russia People’s Front initiated by Prime Minister and United Russia leader Vladimir Putin.
MOSCOW - - Russia’s navigation system GLONASS is more accurate than American GPS, Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Deputy Director Anatoly Shilov said.
“Today the accuracy of GLONASS is 6 metres, and that of GPS is 7 metres,” Shilov said at the 5th international forum on satellite navigation on Wednesday, June 1.
He said the accuracy of the Russian navigation system would have to be improved to 2-3 metres in the years to come.
MOSCOW - - Russia and Poland are interested to sign an inter-governmental agreement that would set the procedure for local cross-border trips for the residents of the Kaliningrad region of Russia and adjacent regions of Poland, the Foreign Ministry said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with Marshall of the Senate of Poland Bogdan Borusevic in Moscow on Wednesday, June 1, to discuss the visa issue in the context of the upcoming Polish presidency in the European Union.
VIENNA - - Russia will start building a new spaceport, Vostochny, in the Far East this summer, Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Deputy Director Sergei Savelyev said.
BRUSSELS - - NATO and Russian fighter aircraft will take part in the counter-terrorism exercise codenamed Vigilant Skies 2011 on June 6-10 - a joint demonstration of the NATO-Russia Council Cooperative Airspace Initiative (NRC CAI), the North Atlantic Alliance said in a press release.
SUKHUM - - Late President Sergei Bagapsh will be buried in Abkhazia on Thursday, June 2.
Delegations from Ingushetia, Transdniestria, Nagorno-Karabakh, and members of the Abkhazian communities abroad have arrived in the republic for the burial ceremony. Officials from Russian regions are expected to join them later in the day.
WASHINGTON - - Russia has already cut its nuclear arsenals to levels below those required by New START, Arms Control Association Research Director Tom Collina said, commenting on the Department of State’s fact sheet on the number of deployed nuclear warheads and their carriers in the United States and Russia as of February 5, 2011.
According to the fact sheet, Russia has 1,537 operationally deployed warheads on 521 carriers, and the U.S. has 1,800 warheads on 882 vehicles.
VLADIVOSTOK - - Four higher educational institutions have been consolidated into the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok.
The Far Eastern State University, the Far Eastern Technical State University, the Pacific State Economic University, and the Ussurisk Pedagogical Institute have ceased to exist from June 1 to form the Far Eastern Federal University.
ULAN UDE - - A meeting of the Finance ministers and the executives of major banks of the member-countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will be held in the capital of the Republic of Buryatia in August 2012 in the run-up to an APEC summit in Vladivostok, an official in the press service of the republican government told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
The republican government has set up a coordinating group to prepare the APEC ministerial meeting. The 24th summit of APEC countries is to be held in Vladivostok early in September 2012.
KRASNOYARSK - - As many as 218 wildfires at a total area of 8,476 hectares have been registered in Siberia on Wednesday. Of them, 89 fires have been put out.
MOSCOW - - Russia has warned the United States and the European Union about the inadmissibility of weapons supply to the Syrian opposition according to the Libyan scenario and come out against the interference of the UN Security Council in the developments in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated in Moscow in an interview with Bloomberg.
VOLGOGRAD - - A platform with a drilling rig for the offshore production of hydrocarbons in the Caspian Sea will be put into operation before the end of this year by the shipbuilders of the Krasnyye Barrikady (red barricades) shipbuilding plant .
The first phase of the construction of the drilling rig of the Super M2-100 series has been completed at the plant, an official in the press service of the Astrakhan Region Governor has told Itar-Tass.
MOSCOW - - The Russian Consumer Rights Watchdog has temporarily banned imports of all fresh vegetables from EU countries, Chief of the Consumer Rights Watchdog Gennady Onischenko told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
MOSCOW, June 2 (Itar-Tass) Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves climbed by 1.5 million US dollars from 516.8 billion dollars to 518.3 billion (or by 0.29 per cent) on May 20-27, the business news agency PRIME-TASS reported on Thursday with reference to the foreign and public relations department of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR).
ST. PETERSBURG - - Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, who continues his official visit to Russia in St. Petersburg, will meet with Buddhists of St. Petersburg on Thursday.
June 02, 2011 11:28
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