Putin to chair meeting on agro budget spending for '11-'13.

MOSCOW, June 29 (Itar-Tass) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a
meeting here on Tuesday to discuss "Federal Budget Expenditure on
Agriculture and Fishery Sector for 2011, and for the 2012-2013 Plan
Period".
Tuesday's meeting is yet another one in a series of conferences on the
elaboration of Federal budget parameters for the main branches of the
country's economy. Earlier, the financing of the agri-industrial sector
(AIS) was discussed on June 4.
It is planned, the government press service reports, that those
present at the meeting will discuss the Agriculture Ministry proposals on
Federal budget expenditure on agriculture in 2011-2913. The Ministry
worked out the proposals proceeding from the goals and priorities set by
the Concept of long-term socio-economic development of the Russian
Federation for the period ending in 2020, and the RF Food Sufficiency
Doctrine.
Federal budget resources, allocated to the Agriculture Ministry will
be used predominantly to finance measures under the State programme for
the development of agriculture and regulation of the markets of farm
products, raw materials, and food for 2008-2012. The Programme was
approved by a government decision dated July 14, 2007.
It is planned to continue to take measures provided for by the State
Programme for such areas as sustainable development of rural territories,
the creation of common conditions for the functioning of agriculture, and
priority development of subsectors (meat husbandry, primarily, beef
production), the achievement of financial stability of agricultural
commodity producers, technical and technological modernization of AIS, and
refinement of a package of measures for State regulation of the market of
farm products, raw materials, and food.
The budget financing level, suggested by the Agriculture Ministry,
corresponds to the parameters determined by the State Programme. It makes
it possible to maintain the current rate of AIS growth and ensure
attainment of most of Programme-envisioned indicators of the development
of the sector within the five-year period. In the process, the pattern of
financing measures will require an adjustment: due to the growth of
investments in agriculture in 2004-2008, it is essential to increase
expenditure on the subsidizing of interest rates on the so-called long
credits.
Considering that the implementation of the first phase of the State
Programme is to be completed in 2012, and budget expenditure is planned
out for a three-year term, the Ministry of Agriculture, in accordance
with the Federal Law on the development of agriculture, begins to draft a
State Programme for next five-year period of 2013 to 2017. In the process,
the ensurance of profitability and investment-wise attractiveness of the
sector, as well as the solution of socio-economic rural development
matters will remain key tasks in the development of the sector, the
government press service report emphasizes.

.Int'l neurotraumatology conf to open in St Pete Tuesday.

ST PETERSBURG, June 29 (Itar-Tass) - An international conference on
the newest achievements in the field of neurotraumatology opens here on
Tuesday under the auspices of the World Federation of Neurosurgery
Associations, Russian Association of Neurosurgeons, and the Russian
Academy of Medical Sciences.
More than 500 leading neurosurgeons and experts representing related
branches of medicine from Russia, Switzerland, the United States, Belgium,
Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Germany, Britain, China, Italy, India, Canada, Egypt,
Indonesia, Argentina, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Moldova,
and Belarus have confirmed their participation in the prestigious forum.
Academician Alexander Potapov, chairman of the of the committee on
neuroinjuries of the World Federation of Neurosurgery Associations, deputy
director of the neurosurgery research institute named after Academician
N.N. Burdenko, speaking at a new conference held ahead of the opening of
the forum, emphasized "On the world scale, neuroinjuries, received in
frequent road accidents, terrorist acts, industrial accidents and natural
calamities, are the key cause of mortality and incapacitation of people,
predominantly young ones".
Potapov specified, "About 1.5 million people in the world die of
craniocerebral injuries and 2.4 million people get disabled by them".
These findings are a patent evidence of the magnitude of the menacing
phenomenon, the neurosurgeon warned. Causes of the craniocerebral
traumatism considerably vary depending on social, geographic, weather,
demographic, and other factors. In Russia, about half a million people a
year receive craniocerebral injuries, and another 50,000 are disabled.
Academician Potapov expressed confidence that the main result of the
conference would be partner programmes, exchanges of innovative techniques
of treatment and rehabilitation of patients. "All this will make it
possible to save thousands of human lives and enable people to regain
their health and social activity," Potapov summed up.
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