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Flood waters receding from towns in Yakutia region.
YAKUTSK, June 2 (Itar-Tass) - Floodwaters are receding from population centers in the East-Siberian region of Yakutia-Saha, the press service of the regional power utility, OAO Yakutsenergo said.
Supplies of electric power have resumed in the town of Khotochchu
where the flooding damaged 39 pylons of a power transmission line.
Up to 36 residential houses are still blacked out in other places and
the outage has also affected the district of Dyrkylakh in the regional
capital Yakutsk.
In the meantime, the zone of ice drift on the river Lena extends
across a distance of 160 kilometers now, the press service of the regional
department of Russia's Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil said.
They indicated that the threat of inundation is absent.
The flood in Yakutia continued from May 20 through May 25
About 2,000 residential houses were inundated and more than 6,500
people had to be evacuated.
They have now returned to their homes.
.Russian, Paraguayan frgn ministers to discuss economic relations.
MOSCOW, June 2 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
and Paraguayan Foreign Minister Hector Lacognata are expected to have
talks in Moscow Wednesday where they will focus on trade and economic
relations between the two countries and, on a broader plane, the
strengthening of cooperation between Russia and Latin America.
Hector Lacognata is making an official visit to Moscow, the first one
in the history of Russian-Paraguayan bilateral relations.
Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said
in this connection that the two sides are going to pay special attention
to Russia's dialogue with the countries making up Mercosur - the
organization of the regional trade agreement uniting Argentina, Brazil,
Paraguay, and Uruguay.
He indicated that this organization plays an important role in the
promotion of integration processes in Latin America.
"Russia and Paraguay are linked by bonds of friendship and episodes of
a common past," Nesterenko said, adding that Paraguay became a second home
for many representatives of the Russian emigration at the beginning of the
20th century.
"They made an important contribution to the rise of the Paraguayan
education system, science, culture, and national defense," he said.
Nesterenko added that some streets in the national capital Asuncion
bear the names of Russian officers who fell in combat operations for
Paraguay.
He recalled that the centenary jubilee of official relations between
Russia and Paraguay fell on 2009, "but bilateral ties started developing
in practical terms only a few years ago".
"Setting the legal format for them is the Treaty of Friendship and
Cooperation that the two countries signed in September 2000,"
Nesterenko said. "Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the
first-ever official visit to Asuncion in September 2007."
"As a logical stage in the rapprochement between the two peoples, the
Russian embassy was opened in Paraguay in December 2008," he went on. "The
two countries have stepped up bilateral political dialogue and are
gradually developing inter-parliamentary contacts, as well as expanding
the legislative framework for their relationship."
"The proximity of Russia and Paraguay's stance on basic issues of
international policies creates a favorable environment for a fruitful
cooperation in the international arena," Nesterenko said.
He indicated that the two countries persistently call for tapping
collective responses to the global challenges and threats existing
nowadays.
"They also speak in favor of peaceful and democratic resolution of
pressing problems on the basis of Internation law and the consolidation of
the central coordinating role of the UN," Nesterenko said.
"Last year, Russian-Paraguayan bilateral trade totaled $ 358 million,
most of it consisting of Paraguayan exports of meat, meat products and
soybeans," he said.
"Russia has risen to a prominent place among Paraguay's partners
thanks to the purchases of these products," Nesterenko said.
.Russian carrier rocket takes Japanese satellite into space.
MOSCOW, June 2 (Itar-Tass) - Russian carrier rocket Rokot that lifted
off from the Plesetsk space center in the north of European Russia at
01:59 GMT Wednesday has taken into space the Japanese experimental
satellite SERVIS-2, Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin, an official spokesman for
the Space Troops said.
The booster block Briz KM separated from the satellite at 02:04 GMT,
or more precisely, 319 seconds after the launch from Plesetsk, a source at
the Russian Space Agency /Roskosmos/ said.
The estimated time of the satellite's entry of the designated orbit is
07:34 Moscow daylight saving time /03:34 GMT/, Col Zolotukhin said.
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Supplies of electric power have resumed in the town of Khotochchu
where the flooding damaged 39 pylons of a power transmission line.
Up to 36 residential houses are still blacked out in other places and
the outage has also affected the district of Dyrkylakh in the regional
capital Yakutsk.
In the meantime, the zone of ice drift on the river Lena extends
across a distance of 160 kilometers now, the press service of the regional
department of Russia's Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil said.
They indicated that the threat of inundation is absent.
The flood in Yakutia continued from May 20 through May 25
About 2,000 residential houses were inundated and more than 6,500
people had to be evacuated.
They have now returned to their homes.
.Russian, Paraguayan frgn ministers to discuss economic relations.
MOSCOW, June 2 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
and Paraguayan Foreign Minister Hector Lacognata are expected to have
talks in Moscow Wednesday where they will focus on trade and economic
relations between the two countries and, on a broader plane, the
strengthening of cooperation between Russia and Latin America.
Hector Lacognata is making an official visit to Moscow, the first one
in the history of Russian-Paraguayan bilateral relations.
Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said
in this connection that the two sides are going to pay special attention
to Russia's dialogue with the countries making up Mercosur - the
organization of the regional trade agreement uniting Argentina, Brazil,
Paraguay, and Uruguay.
He indicated that this organization plays an important role in the
promotion of integration processes in Latin America.
"Russia and Paraguay are linked by bonds of friendship and episodes of
a common past," Nesterenko said, adding that Paraguay became a second home
for many representatives of the Russian emigration at the beginning of the
20th century.
"They made an important contribution to the rise of the Paraguayan
education system, science, culture, and national defense," he said.
Nesterenko added that some streets in the national capital Asuncion
bear the names of Russian officers who fell in combat operations for
Paraguay.
He recalled that the centenary jubilee of official relations between
Russia and Paraguay fell on 2009, "but bilateral ties started developing
in practical terms only a few years ago".
"Setting the legal format for them is the Treaty of Friendship and
Cooperation that the two countries signed in September 2000,"
Nesterenko said. "Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the
first-ever official visit to Asuncion in September 2007."
"As a logical stage in the rapprochement between the two peoples, the
Russian embassy was opened in Paraguay in December 2008," he went on. "The
two countries have stepped up bilateral political dialogue and are
gradually developing inter-parliamentary contacts, as well as expanding
the legislative framework for their relationship."
"The proximity of Russia and Paraguay's stance on basic issues of
international policies creates a favorable environment for a fruitful
cooperation in the international arena," Nesterenko said.
He indicated that the two countries persistently call for tapping
collective responses to the global challenges and threats existing
nowadays.
"They also speak in favor of peaceful and democratic resolution of
pressing problems on the basis of Internation law and the consolidation of
the central coordinating role of the UN," Nesterenko said.
"Last year, Russian-Paraguayan bilateral trade totaled $ 358 million,
most of it consisting of Paraguayan exports of meat, meat products and
soybeans," he said.
"Russia has risen to a prominent place among Paraguay's partners
thanks to the purchases of these products," Nesterenko said.
.Russian carrier rocket takes Japanese satellite into space.
MOSCOW, June 2 (Itar-Tass) - Russian carrier rocket Rokot that lifted
off from the Plesetsk space center in the north of European Russia at
01:59 GMT Wednesday has taken into space the Japanese experimental
satellite SERVIS-2, Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin, an official spokesman for
the Space Troops said.
The booster block Briz KM separated from the satellite at 02:04 GMT,
or more precisely, 319 seconds after the launch from Plesetsk, a source at
the Russian Space Agency /Roskosmos/ said.
The estimated time of the satellite's entry of the designated orbit is
07:34 Moscow daylight saving time /03:34 GMT/, Col Zolotukhin said.
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