Medvedev to visit Severodvinsk to see the launch of new submarine.

MOSCOW, June 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is the commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces, will on Tuesday attend a ceremony of launching the Severodvinsk nuclear submarine in the dockyard of the Sevmash defence plant in the town of Severodvinsk.

Medvedev's first visit to Severodvinsk was in 2009.
The Severodvisnk is a multipurpose nuclear submarine of the fourth
generation designed by the Malakhit design bureau in St. Petersburg.
The submarine's construction began in 1993. Experts working at the
Sevmash dockyard explain why it took so long to finish the job. There are
several reasons such as economic hardships, a fundamentally new
architecture of the hull and modern weapons.
Vice-Admiral Oleg Burtsev, the deputy chief of the Russian Navy
General Staff, said that the nuclear submarine would undergo test trials
this coming summer. The Russian Navy will receive the first Severodvinsk
submarine in 2011. There are plans for the construction of six more
submarines after the first one begins operation.
The Severodvinsk nuclear submarine has no analogues in Russia or
abroad. According to open sources, its hull is made of high-strength
steel. It is equipped with buoyant rescue chambers for the entire crew.
Besides, the submarine is equipped with a new Ajax integrated sonar system
and its nuclear power unit meets all contemporary nuclear safety standards.
The missiles are deployed in eight launchers. The weapons kit
includes supersonic cruise missiles and deep-water self-guided torpedoes.
The vessel has the latest communication and navigation means, a
fundamentally new nuclear power unit and a jet propellant instead of a
screw. The conning tower has a well-rounded shape and the submarines solid
hull is divided in ten compartments. For the first time in the history of
Russian shipbuilding torpedo launchers will be located behind the central
compartment and the sonar antenna will be installed in the nose section.
The Severodvinsk submarine is 120 metes long. Its water displacement
ranges from 8,600 to 9,500 tons.
The Sevmash plant began the construction of a second submarine of the
fourth generation, the Kazan, in July 2009 when Medvedev visited
Severodvinsk for the first time. He then demanded that modernization of
the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier be completed as soon as possible. It'
s expected to be handed over to the Indian Navy in 2012.

. Il-76 plane evacuates two injured Russians from Antalya.

MOSCOW, June 15 (Itar-Tass) - An Il-76 plane of the Russian
Emergencies Ministry landed in Moscow at 05:35 in the morning on Tuesday.
It had evacuated a five-year-old girl and an injured Russian male tourist
from the Turkish resort town of Antalya.
The plane is equipped with special medical modules in which the
doctors placed the patients during the flight.
A rock fragment in the mountains of Antalya hit the five-year-old
Zaliya Rakhmetova, a daughter of world rock-climbing champion Salavat
Rakhmetov.
She will be airlifted to Moscow onboard the Il-76 plane together with
a Russian tourist who was injured in a bus accident in Turkey on May 25.
Fifteen people died in the bus accident, including two Turkish
nationals - the bus driver and the guide.

. Mufti calls for respect between Kyrgyz & Uzbek communities.

VLADIVOSTOK, June 15 (Itar-Tass) - The Mufti of Russia's Far Eastern
region has called for peace and respect between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks
communities.
"Murder and violence are not going to make your life better. It's
neither the Kyrgyz nor the Uzbeks who are to blame for your poverty and
other problems," Abdullah ibn Dzhamil, who is also the Imam of
Vladivostok, said in his address.
"Islam categorically bans the spilling of blood and the killing of
innocent people, especially in the Holy (prohibitive) months," the Imam
went on to say.
According to unconfirmed reports, clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and
Uzbeks were registered in Vladivostok on June 13 and 14. There are
casualties.

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