RUSNANO to implement Academy of Sciences' research.

MOSCOW, July 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's corporation for the
development of nano technologies /RUSNANO/ and Russia's Academy of
Sciences agreed to organize a joint centre for technologies transfer.
"Commercial use of the Academic institutes' knowledge and technologies
will be the task of the centre," RUSNANO's press service said.
The centre projects will be forwarded to RUSNANO and further on to
start-up and venture investment funds.
The new centre will invite experts to evaluate a commercial
attractiveness of technologies presented. Selected projects will get
business models and marketing and business plans. It will monitor
technology trends and problems and it will analyze, how to combine better
the potential of the Academy's institutes and products and technologies
necessary for the market.
"Research and scientific results should be clear for businesses and
they should attract investors," the source said. "This is one of the tasks
for the new centre."
The technologies transfer centre will be a non-commercial partnership
of RUSNANO and Russia's Academy of Sciences. The total budget will make
65.4 million roubles, where RUSNANO will cover 34.94 million roubles.
Russia's Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) was established in
2007 by the government to implement the national policy in
nanotechnologies. The corporation co-invests in nanotechnology industry
projects that have high commercial potential or social benefit.
Early-stage investment by RUSNANO lowers risks of its investment partners
from the private sector.


.Turkey to cooperate with Altai in tourism.

GORNO-ALTAISK, July 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Turkey's Committee for
international economic relations /DELK/ plans to cooperate with Russia's
Altai Republic in development of tourism and in investments in local
tourism.
DELK's delegation came to the Altai Republic to learn major
several-million projects on construction of resort complexes - the
Manzherok and the Altai Valley. The local government told the guests about
the specific climate in the Altai Mountains region and about its social
and economic development. The presentation included energy and
infrastructural plans.
The delegation members confirmed their interest in Altai as a tourist
partner and as an attractive area for investments. Turkey's businesses
have invested over ten billion dollars in tourism abroad and believe that
the revenues from their investments in Altai will be high, too. Back in
1980s, Turkey hosted about 30 tourists from Russia, while nowadays it
serves about three million Russians.
DELK will promote the Altai Republic's resort complexes in Turkey to
attract businesses to the development of tourist projects in Altai.
The Altai Mountains in southern Siberia form the major mountain range
in the western Siberia bio-geographic region and provide the source of its
greatest rivers - the Ob and the Irtysh. Three separate areas are
inscribed: Altaisky Zapovednik /National Park/ and a buffer zone around
Lake Teletskoye; Katunsky Zapovednik and a buffer zone around Mount
Belukha; and the Ukok Quiet Zone on the Ukok plateau. The total area
covers 1,611,457 ha. The region represents the most complete sequence of
altitudinal vegetation zones in central Siberia, from steppe,
forest-steppe, mixed forest, sub alpine vegetation to alpine vegetation.
The site is also an important habitat for endangered animal species such
as the snow leopard.

.Abkhazia PM to control funds allocated by Russia.

SUKHUM, July 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Abkhazia's Prime Minister Sergei Shamba
will control the use of money provided by the Russian Federation for the
complex plan of social and economic development of the republic for
2010-2012.
"Russia's government allocates much money for the social and economic
development of Abkhazia and wants our government to secure control over
it," he said.
Abkhazia's complex plan for social and economic development was
adopted in the framework of the Agreement on assistance from Russia, which
was signed back in August 2009 over the visit of Russia's Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin to Sukhum.
Russia allocated 10.9 billion dollars for Abkhazia's development plan.
Earlier, over an emergency meeting of the government, Abkhazia's
President Sergei Bagapsh urged the cabinet members "to use new methods in
their work."
"Every minister is personally responsible for the rational use of the
money," he said.


.Gas fills pipeline in Kamchatka.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, July 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Gas started to fill a
pipeline of 392 kilometres long from Russia's Kamchatka /Far East/ to the
city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. By September, the gas will reach the
city's electric plant - the energy heart of the region, the press service
of the Kamchatka Region said on Saturday.
Presently, the region receives only one percent, or nine million cubic
metres, of gas by pipelines. All kinds of fuel are being shipped to the
peninsula from the mainland, and if a tanker is stuck in a sea storm, the
region lacks energy.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky will receive 750 million cubic metres of gas
a year. The construction of the pipeline was funded by Russia's Gazprom.
The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Far
East, with an area of 472,300 square kilometres, which lies between the
Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west. Over fifty
percent of the population live in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The Kamchatka
Peninsula contains the Volcanoes of Kamchatka, a UNESCO World Heritage
Site.


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