Putin to visit Energia corporation, meet with astronauts.

MOSCOW, July 19 (Itar-Tass) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit
on Monday the Energia Aerospace Corporation, a source at the government
press office told Itar-Tass.
"The prime minister will tour corporate industrial buildings, view new
space products, visit a space museum and meet with astronauts, including
participants of the first in the history of astronautics Soyuz-Apollo
international flight on July 17-19, 1975," the source said.
"This is not a protocol visit. The prime minister will come here to
congratulate the collective on the 35th anniversary of the historic space
docking of the Souz and Apollo spacecraft," the president of Energia,
Vitaly Lopota, told Tass.
Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, Federal Space Agency head Anatoly
Perminov and Moscow Regional Governor Boris Gromov will be accompanying
the premier on the visit. Energia President and General Designer Vitaly
Lopota will inform them about space exploration projects. According to
Lopota, the leadership of the corporation plan to inform the prime
minister about their vision of the sector's development. "We want to
present technologies for designing safe and high-quality space and rocket
hardware," he specified.
The corporation, set up by the founder of that branch Sergei Korolyov,
is a leading participant in international space programs, among them
Soyuz-Apollo, InterCosmos, EuroMir, Mir-NASA, Mir-Shuttle and the
International Space Station (ISS). Currently, the corporation is a key
transporter of cargo and crews to the ISS. Once the U.S. space shuttle
program ends in 2011, Energia will be the sole transporter servicing the
ISS.
The main directions of Energia activity include the development and
operation of the International Space Station, the designing and supply of
Russian systems for European ATV cargo craft on the ISS programme, the
development and operation of communication satellites, earth remote
sensing and production of boosters for GLONASS satellites among others.
Last year, Energia's sales revenues made up 19.2 billion roubles,
which is 52 percent more as compared with 2008. The corporate production
may grow to 23.4 billion roubles this year.
Late in June, the corporation presented its design of a new piloted
spacecraft that is to replace Soyuz spacecraft. Tests of the new craft in
an unmanned version will begin in 2015, while in the pilot-controlled mode
- in 2018.

.Russian aircraft producers take part in Farnborough air show.

FARNBOROUGH (Great Britain), July 19 (Itar-Tass) - One of the world's
biggest air shows, Farnborough International Airshow, opens on Monday.
Traditionally, Russian aircraft producers will demonstrate best projects
of the aircraft industry. Export contracts are to be signed.
In particular, the Sukhoi Civil Aircraft company, plans to sign a
contract for the supply of 30 Sukhoi Superjet 100 with an air carrier from
South East Asia. At the present moment, the company has 122 standing
orders for Superjet.
The Ilyushin Finance leasing company plans to sign a contract for the
supply of three An-148 planes. It also plans to sign an agreement with the
Ukrainian Antonov aircraft producer and will possibly sign some agreements
with the Irkut corporation on the passenger jet MS-21 that is to replace
TU-154.
Irkut itself will present a model of MS-21. According to the president
of the company, Oleg Demchenko, Irkut plans to have 50 orders for that
plane by the end of the year. Early in June, the corporation signed in
Malaysia a protocol of intentions to sign a treaty for the supply of 20
MS-21 planes to Malaysia. It is not ruled out that documents on aircraft
supplies will be signed in Farnborough.
Military planes will also be presented at the air show. The
Rosoboronexport government-controlled arms exporter will present the Su-35
fighter aircraft, the operational trainer Yak-130, the multi-functional
tactical fighter MiG-35 and its two-seater modification MiG-35D.
Besides Rosoboronexport will present helicopters, which account for
about ten percent of its export orders. Helicopter exports will grow this
year by 30 percent as compared with 2009. In particular, it will present
transport-combat Mi-35M helicopters. At the present moment, it
successfully implements a contract for the supply of these helicopters for
the Brazilian Air Force. It will also demonstrate the combat helicopter
Ka-52, the heavy transport helicopter Mi-26T and its new modification
Mi-26T2.
As to world premiers, Boeing will for the first time demonstrate its
Boeing 787 Dreamliner to general public. It touched down at Farnborough
early on Sunday and will stay at the air show till Tuesday afternoon.

.Federation Council to hold last session before summer recess.

MOSCOW, July 19 (Itar-Tass) - The Federation Council upper house of
Russian parliament will hold on Monday the last sitting of its spring
session and will consider all bills submitted by the State Duma lower
house.
"The house will manage to do all, we will have no debts remaining and
we will finish 100 percent the program of the spring session," the
chairman of the commission for regulations and parliamentary activity,
Nikolai Tulayev, has told Tass.
There are 25 bills on the agenda. They were submitted by the State
Duma, which passed them at its final session on Friday.
After that, Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov will sum up the
results of the spring session at a briefing.
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