Russian oil and gas employers to unite in a single organization.

MOSCOW, June 9 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian oil and gas industry employers
on Wednesday will gather at the Russian State Duma lower parliament house
to set up a specialized organization, a source in the Russian Gas Society
told Itar-Tass.
According to the source, the ceremony will be attended by the Society
president and deputy speaker of the State Duma Valery Yazev, chairman of
the Board of the Union of Oil and Gas Producers of Russia Yuri Shafranik,
and its president Gennady Shmal.
The new organization will advocate corporate interests of more than
1.5 million workers of the oil and gas sector in regulating the labour
laws and in revising state tariffs on hydrocarbons and their
transportation.
The would-be union of oil and gas industry employers will be a "place
to coordinate the activity of oil and gas companies in the area of social
policy on the labour market" and will be "helpful for the purposes of the
development of the economic situation in the country," says a greeting
message signed by Deputy Minister of Energy Sergei Kudryashov.
According to chairman of the State Duma energy committee Yuri Lipatov,
the union will "ensure legitimate cooperation between state authorities,
trade unions and employers in the system of social partnership."
In the mean time, head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and
Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin said in his message to the union
organizers that his organization was drafting proposals on amending the
current legislation to "significantly broaden the rights of unions in both
social and economic spheres," and offered consultancy on organizational
aspects.

.International IT forum opens in Khanty-Mansiisk.

TYUMEN, June 9 (Itar-Tass) -- More than 300 IT specialists are
attending an international IT forum opening in Khanty-Mansiisk on
Wednesday, the Yugra governor's press service told Itar-Tass.
The program of the three-day forum includes the 9th interregional
conference "Information Technologies and Solutions for the Development of
Information Society in Russia," a workshop to consider the information
society development strategy, and an exhibition of the 21st century
information technologies.
The forum was organized by the Russian commission for the UNESCO
affairs, the Northern Forum international non-governmental organization,
and the ECDL (European Computer Driving License) Foundation.
Russia's Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area is ranked among the country's
top five regions in terms of IT development, and in the past three years
it has been ranked first in terms of information openness of executive
bodies. Yugra has 200 points of public access to the Internet, which is by
far more than in any other Russian region. It is the first Russian region
to launch computer literacy programs for adults.
In 2006-2009, the region implemented the target program "Electronic
Yugra," which brought the number of accessible information resources of
regional authorities by 5.5 times as compared with 2005.

.Early population census starts in Russia's Far Eastern Magadan region.

MAGADAN, June 9 (Itar-Tass) -- Early population census started in the
most remote settlements of Russia's Far Eastern Magadan region on
Wednesday.
Six statistics specialists from Magadan and three representatives from
the Russian Federal State Statistics Service were brought by helicopter to
the settlements of Yamsk and Takhtoyamsk on Tuesday.
The early census is expected to be over on June 13, and the census
takers will be brought back to Magadan.
Yamsk and Takhtoyamsk are inhibited mainly by representatives of
ethnic minorities of the North. According to the previous census of 2002,
there were 350 residents in Takhtoyamsk, and 100 - in Yamsk.
The two settlements are reachable only by snow-going vehicles in
winter period. Yamsk has no direct motorway links to district and regional
centres, with all procurements being supplied by sea during the summer
navigation period. Takhtoyams is also reachable only by sea or air
transport only. An An-2 aircraft makes two flights in a month to
Takhtoyamsk.
The Magadan region is the second Russia region to begin early
population census. The census of the rest of the region's population will
be taken from October 14 though 25, like in the rest of the country.
Population census will be extended up to December in several Russian
regions having territories, which are hardly reachable due to climatic
conditions, remoteness, and the lack of transport infrastructure.
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