CIS leaders to attend non-formal summit in Crimea.

KIEV, July 10 (Itar-Tass) -- The heads of the CIS countries will take
part in a non-formal summit in Yalta's Livadia Palace on Saturday. Russia'
s President Dmitry Medvedev and other leaders will take part in the event.
The two-day meeting was initiated by Ukraine's President Viktor
Yanukovich, who celebrated his 60th birthday on Friday.
The summit will pay special attention to the "investment, resort and
transport development of the Crimea," the head of Ukraine's presidential
administration Sergei Lavochkin said. On the second day of the meeting, on
July 11, "the participants in the summit will see demonstration flights of
Ukraine's new aircrafts," he added.
Yanukovich will host a dinner on Saturday. Some sources say that he
will welcome guests at the Zarya residence in Foros, which is still often
called Gorbachev's residence. The menu was not revealed, but the reporters
learned about a big order for pheasants. The sources say that the guests
will see a concert of modern popular signers. Russia's many politicians
and businesses wish to greet Yanukovich on his jubilee, and six special
flights are expected to arrive in Simferopol on Saturday.
Livadia Palace was a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas
II, and his family in Livadiya, Crimea in southern Ukraine. The Yalta
Conference was held there in 1945, when the palace housed the apartments
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other members of the American delegation.
Today, the palace is a museum, but sometimes it is used by the Ukrainian
authorities for international summits.


.Obama learned about Russian spies before Medvedev's visit.

WASHINGTON, July 10 (Itar-Tass) -- The US President Barack Obama
received a report about suspected Russian agents on June 11, before the
visit of Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, a spokesman of the White
House said on Friday.
According to the source, the FBI, CIA and the Justice Ministry had
briefings on the case back in February. The "programme of illegal
/agents/" and their biographies were discussed over those meetings.
On June 11, a special briefing was organised for the US president, a
source in the administration told the AP agency. Obama received a report
on the plans to arrest the suspects, on possible incrimination, on the
consequences for the bilateral relations and on a possible swap.
The source in the White House said that it was the USA who named the
persons to be released by the Russian side in exchange for the deportation
of Russia's ten citizens.


.US Department of Justice refuses to comment on Tretyakov's death.

WASHINGTON, July 10 (Itar-Tass) -- The US Department of Justice
refused to comment on the death of the former Russian spy, defector Sergei
Tretyakov.
The Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd answered with a short "no"
to the question if any feedback to this news may be expected.
The US FBI is a part of the Department of Justice. Any information
from Tretyakov would have been of interest to this division in particular.
Presently, the FBI supervises the autopsy.
Tretyakov's wife Elena said that he died of a heart attack at home on
June 13, he was 53.


.Second block of Kalinin NPP stopped for maintenance works.

TVER, July 10 (Itar-Tass) -- The second energy block of the Kalinin
nuclear power plant was stopped at midnight on Saturday for a pre-planned
maintenance, a source at the plant said.
"It is planned to disassemble the reactor, reload the fuel, assemble
the reactor and unload the fuel" and to make some maintenance operations,
the source said. "We shall also disassemble, revise and assemble the
turbine-driven set."
The plan includes certain modernisation tasks.
All the works are planned to be finalised on August 18.
"The radiation level at the plant and in the neighbouring territory is
at the natural level," the source said.
The construction of the second block started at the Kalinin nuclear
plant back in 1981, and in 1986 it went operational.
The Kalinin nuclear power plant is in northern Tver Region, 330
kilometres of Moscow. The produced energy goes to Russia's various regions.

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