Medvedev to hold conf on budgetary policy Wed.

MOSCOW, June 16 (Itar-Tass) - President Dmitry Medvedev holds a
conference here on Wednesday to discuss matters concerning budgetary
policy.
This will refer, in particular, to the inclusion of expenditure,
necessary for the implementation of presidential assignments, in the draft
budget for 2011 and the 2012-2013 plan period, to the formation of a Road
Fund, as well as the problems of financing innovative projects.
Presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich, in response to a question about
an amount of resources to be allocated for the activities of the
commission on modernization and technological development of the Russian
economy in 2011, said Tuesday that a final decision on the matter had not
been made so far.
Dvorkovich pointed out, "Next year, we expect, an aggregate of up
to10,000 million roubles will be allocated, on the whole, for the
Commission's activities and, separately, 15,000 million roubles will be
earmarked for the Skolkovo project. The money will be also used, in
particular, in support of business projects that are being implemented
there". "However, this is not a final sum; the budgetary process is
evolving," he emphasized.

.Irkutsk int'l conf to deal with transborder forest fire fighting.

IRKUTSK, June 16 (Itar-Tass) - An international conference on
counteraction to transborder forest fires and on cooperation in fighting
them opens here on Wednesday.
An official in the press service of the governor and government of the
region has told Itar-Tass that the programme for the conference is
intended for three days to enable participants to share their experience
in arrangements for the protection of forests from fires, inter-agency and
interregional interaction in grappling with fires, and the development of
information systems for distance monitoring.
Representatives of Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, the Republic
of Korea, the United States, and Ukraine are expected to make reports and
communications at plenary meetings.
Russia is to be represented by the directors of the relevant agencies
of the Ministries of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Foreign Affairs,
the Ministry for Emergencies, other Federal agencies, and executive power
bodies of the border regions of the Far East, Siberia, and the European
part of the country.
The forestry department of the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization and the UN center for global monitoring of natural fires will
be also represented at the conference.
A Protection of Forests from Fires exhibition will be open during the
work of the conference. Forest fire fighting exercises are to be held in
conclusion of the forum.

.RF eye specialists to discuss achievements, prospects.

MOSCOW, June 16 (Itar-Tass) - Contemporary achievements of Russian and
foreign ophthalmology are to be discussed at the 9th Congress of the
Ophthalmologists of Russia, opening here on Wednesday.
Special attention at the congress is to be devoted to unpenetrative,
sparing surgery, an official at the organizing committee has told
Itar-Tass.
More than 1,500 Russian and foreign specialists will take part in the
forum. Present-day ophthalmologic operations are of short duration and are
sparing to the patient.
"At present, mass-scale operations for the treatment of cataract
(which account for 40 percent of all eye diseases) last 10-15 minutes, and
the patient gets discharged from clinic on the next day," the organizing
committee official related.
"The makings of success are in the minutest puncture, through which
the cloudy lens of the eye is extracted and an intraocular multifocal lens
is implanted," specialists explained.
Those present at the congress are also to discuss work in the field of
ophthalmology at the molecular level, organ-sparing surgery, and child
surgery.

.Int'l youth econ forum to open in St Pete on Wednesday.

ST PETERSBURG, June 16 (Itar-Tass) - The first International youth
economic forum (MMEF) opens here on Wednesday.
More than 200 young entrepreneurs and scholars, aged from 18 to 30,
gather here ahead of the "large" St Petersburg international economic
forum (PMEF-2010) to discuss in a brainstorm format the most important
matters connected with the development of youth entrepreneurship under the
new economic conditions.
The programme provides for discussion of four sets of subjects that in
many respects determine the development of the world economy: "The Cities
of the Future", "Social Entrepreneurship", "Education", and "The
Development of Talents". The programme is intended for two days. Most
discussions will be held in the Presidential Library compound and a
concluding session is to take place at the LenExpo, the venue of the
PMEF-2010.
At the close of the youth forum, all its participants will be given an
opportunity to join in the work of the PMEF, which will be held here from
June 17 to 19.
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