Bridge across Kerch Strait to be built within 3 years - governor.

KRASNODAR, July 1 (Itar-Tass) - A bridge across the Kerch Strait near
Port Kavkaz will be built within the next three years, Krasnodar region's
governor Alexander Tkachev said on Wednesday.
"This bridge, the construction of which is also supported by the
Ukrainian president, will connect Russia with Ukraine," sources from the
press service of the regional administration told Tass.
People making trips to Ukraine and Russia currently use the ferry link
between Port Kavkaz and Kerch. At a session of the regional security
council on Wednesday it was decided to increase the number of ferry trips,
as well as launch an additional passenger boat between Ukraine's Crimea
and Port Kavkaz (Krasnodar region). Ferry tickets that up till now have
been sold only in the port, can now be bought in other cities of the
region.
A railway-ferry link between Russia's Kuban and Crimea was restored on
September 18, 2004 after a 15-year-long break.

.Medvedev to visit 4 Far Eastern cities, watch military exercise.

MOSCOW, July 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev heads
on Thursday for the Far East, where he will visit Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan,
Blagoveshchensk and Vladivostok, covering all in all the distance of about
20,000 kilometres.
As for Khabarovsk, Medvedev visited it three times (in 2006 and 2008
as First Deputy Prime Minister, and in 2009 as President), and as for the
other three cities - it will be his first visit.
Under the schedule, the president expects to chair in Khabarovsk a
session on social and economic development of the Far East. In
Birobidzhan, he will meet with representatives of small business, while in
Blagoveshchensk he will meet with the leadership of Amur region's
municipalities.
The main aim of the visit to Vladivostok is to attend Vostok 2010
military exercise.
The Siberian and Far Eastern military districts hosts Vostok 2010
exercise on June 29 - July 8. About 10,000 servicemen are taking part in
the exercise. The exercise will be all-inclusive, and the servicemen will
train relocation from one theater of operation to another, as well as
defensive and offensive operations.
The drill will involve servicemen of the Siberian and Far Eastern
military districts, the Air Force, the Airborne Forces, the North Fleet
and the Pacific Fleet. The total number of practicing servicemen will
reach 10,000.
Vostok 2010 "is not aimed against any concrete country or a
military-political bloc," said the chief of the Russian Army General
Staff, General Nikolai Makarov, who will lead the manoeuvres. He they are
aimed at "ensuring security and protecting national interests of the state
on the Far Eastern borders against a manoeuvre enemy".

.Russian-German plant opens in Alabuga SEZ.

KAZAN, July 1 (Itar-Tass) - A Russian-German plant for the production
of fibreglass opens on Thursday in the special economic zone Alabuga.
Minister for Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina and President of
Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov will take part in the unveiling ceremony.
The plant was built under an agreement between Tatarstan's Tatneft oil
company and German Preiss-Daimler Group, signed in 2008. The plant
occupies the territory of 20 hectares and will produce up to 21,000 tons
of fibreglass a year.
Fibreglass is irreplaceable in construction, in the car industry,
aviation, shipbuilding as well as in the production of household goods.
The Alabuga special economic zone was opened on the right bank of the Kama
River in November 2007.
At the present moment it has nine residents from Russia, Japan,
Germany, Denmark, France and Turkey. According to Tatarstan's Minister for
Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov, six new residents will join them soon.

.Altai region authorities seek to attract more foreign tourists.

BARNAUL, July 1 (Itar-Tass) -The authorities of Russia's Altai region
seek to make the region maximally attractive for foreign tourists, sources
from the region's chief department for economy and investments told Tass
on Thursday.
"In 2009, over 5,000 people from 56 countries holidayed in Altai. This
is a fairly good figure for such a distant region of Russia, where tourism
has been developed consistently only for the past few years," the sources
said.
Altai health resorts expect an increase in the flow of tourists from
France within the next few years after a successful presentation of the
region at the Franche-Comte fair in May.
The sources specified that last year only 200 French people visited
the Altai region for tourism. However, there were a lot of German
tourists. This is partially because there are a lot of ethnic Germans
living in the region. Tourists from CIS states are second on the list of
tourists visiting the Altai region.
Altai is ready to offer sightseeing as well as therapeutic tours.
Specialists say that no place in Europe can boast such intact nature.
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