Bashkortostan MPs to consider Khamitov candidacy for president.

UFA, July 19 (Itar-Tass) - Parliamentarians of the State Assembly of
Bashkortostan will consider at their extraordinary session on Monday the
president-nominated candidate, Rustem Khamitov, for the republic's
presidential seat. In order to become president, Khamitov must secure the
majority of votes in the State Assembly, which has 120 parliamentarians.
President Dmitry Medvedev chose his candidacy from the list of four
candidates proposed by the United Russia party.
On July 15, Medvedev accepted the resignation of President of the
republic of Bashkortostan Murtaza Rakhimov, and on the same day signed a
decree to appoint Khamitov as Acting President until he is sworn into
office.
Khamitov was born in the village of Drachenino, the Kemerovo Region's
Leninsk-Kuznetsky district, in 1954.
He graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University in
1977. He is a doctor of technical sciences.
In 1977-78, he worked at the Ufa engine-making plant. From 1978 to
1986, he was an engineer and a scientific specialist at the Ufa aviation
institute. In 1986-90, Khamitov was a laboratory head and then a
department head at the Ufa-based Eastern branch of the all-Union
scientific pipeline construction institute. Between 1990 and 1993, he was
a people's deputy of the Republic of Bashkortostan. He headed the
republican Supreme Council's commission on ecology and rational use of
natural resources. He was director of the Bashkortostan's institute of
applied ecology and natural resources use.
From 1994 to 1999, he served as Bashkiria's minister for emergencies.
From 1999 to 2000, he headed the Russian Emergencies Ministry's department
for emergency prevention and liquidation.
On September 21, 2000, Khamitov was appointed as a chief federal
inspector for the republic. In 2002 he was the president's deputy envoy to
the Volga Federal District. In 2003 he headed an inter-regional inspection
service of the Tax Ministry. From October 2003, he headed the ministry's
department for major taxpayers. From March 2004 to May 2009, he headed the
Federal Agency for Water Resources. From July 2009, he became a member of
the board of RusHydro, Russia's hydropower-generating company.

.Contracts worth 536 mln rbls signed at forum's innovation workshop.

SELIGER (Tver Region), July 19 (Itar-Tass) - Contracts worth over 536
million roubles were signed at the workshop Innovations and Technical
Creativity at the Seliger 2010 youth forum currently in progress in
Russia's Tver region.
That worship became the most large-scale innovation event of this
year, "bringing together 5,000 young designers and scientists who have
managed to realize their ideas here," the curator of the workshop, Dmitry
Kokh, told Itar-Tass on Sunday.
The Technopark Sistema-Sarov company has chosen for financing two
projects with the total amount of finance of 179 million roubles, Kokh
said.
Thirty participants in the workshop have received one million roubles
each from the Fund for Small Entrepreneurship in the scientific-technical
sphere, and over 2,000 people received consultations on legal matters,
intellectual protection, investments and commercialisation.
All in all over 25,000 delegates from almost 100 countries take part
in the forum, which will run till July 28.
Apart from the international workshop, the forum has seven more, that
deal with support for scientific creative activity, support for young
entrepreneurs, training of specialists working with youth, support for
young journalists, volunteers' activity, popularization of the healthy way
of life and support for creative youth.
The best projects at the forum will get financial support.
Youth forums similar to the Russian Seliger-2010 forum will be
possibly also held in the CIS states, Russian Deputy Minister for Sports,
Tourism and Youth Policy Oleg Rozhnov said earlier.

.Russian, Polish justice ministries to sign cooperation program.

WARSAW, July 19 (Itar-Tass) - The justice ministries of Russia and
Poland are expected to sign on Monday a program for cooperation in
2010-2012, the Polish ministry reports. It said the signing would be held
on the result of a meeting of the Russian and Polish justice ministers,
Alexander Konovalov and Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, in St. Petersburg.
"The cooperation program includes such priority directions as an
exchange of experience in the sphere of present-day forms of the execution
of judgement, analysis of judicial practice, the strengthening of
cooperation in the sphere of practice of law and notariate, as well as
bilateral consultations on reform of the European Court of Human Rights,"
the Polish ministry said.
Within the framework of the talks, the sides also plan to discuss two
Russian-Polish treaties. One of them is on mutual legal assistance on
criminal cases, which gives in the future a possibility to hold joint
investigation. The second one envisages direct cooperation of courts in
the sphere of legal assistance on civil cases. "The discussion of these
two documents will be the most important point of my visit to St.
Petersburg," Polish Justice Minister Krzysztof Kwiatkowski said ahead of
the visit.
On July 4, the justice ministers of Russia and Poland met for the
first time over the past 15 years. A memorandum on cooperation was signed,
laying the foundation for efficient cooperation, an exchange of
information and practical experience on the main directions in the
activity of the two countries' ministries.
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