50 children from Moscow enveloped in fires come to Kaliningrad.

KALININGRAD, August 12 (Itar-Tass) -- First 50 children from the
Yegoryevsk district of the Moscow Region, who suffered in the wildfires,
come for rest in Kaliningrad on Thursday.
"They will taken here by plane," the regional press service said.
The children were invited to have a holiday at the Baltic Sea.
"This is the first group of children from Central Russia's regions,
which suffered in the wildfires, and who will be able to have a rest at
the Baltic Sea."
The aid was organised by the regional government and the regional
branch of the United Russia Party.
By the middle of the coming week, 100 more children from the Moscow
Region are expected to come there. The Kaliningrad Region is prepared to
host about 500 children. Those, who became homeless in the fires, will be
able to stay there for a longer period of time.
The Kaliningrad Region collects humanitarian aid to forward to the
victims in the fires.


.Tatarstan welcomes 100 children who suffered in fires.

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, August 12 (Itar-Tass) -- 100 children from the
families which suffered from the wildfires in Sarov and other places of
the Nizhny Novgorod Region leave for Tatarstan for a holiday.
"The invitation from Tatarstan read that the children from the Nizhny
Novgorod Region would be the guests of the republic and they would be
accommodated at the best children's resort there," Governor of the Nizhny
Novgorod Region Valeri Shantsev said.
Children from other districts of the Nizhny Novgorod Region are
invited to other places, too.
"Another group of children will leave for Abkhazia /the Black Sea/ on
August 15," the regional government said.


.Finland offers assistance to Russia in putting out wildfires.

HELSINKI, August 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Finland offered assistance to
Russia in fighting wildfires, the press service of the country's
government said.
"Finland has offered equipment and experts to fight wildfires," the
press service said. "The equipment is hoses and pumps, but it is important
to have assistance from the experts who know how to fight fires in woods
and at peat fields."
"If Russia accepts the offer, the equipment will be delivered without
delay to the border and further on to the regions appointed by Russia's
government," the source said.
The Russian Federation and Finland have an agreement on mutual
assistance in emergency situations, and fires are included in the list of
the natural calamities there. Several days earlier, Finland's
meteorologists and their counterparts in Russia started to monitor jointly
the development of the fires and smoke. The Finns are concerned about the
spread of fires into their territory.
"The situation at the Russian-Finnish border is not as bad as in
Central Russia," Finnish meteorologists said.


.Belarus raises gas prices for businesses by over 13 percent.

MINSK, August 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Belarussian Ministry of Economy raises
gas prices for private businesses and organisations by 13.2 to 716,000
Belarussian roubles /about 238 dollars/ per one cubic metre exclusive of
VAT.
"The change of the price was caused by higher prices for natural gas
imported from Russia and by the changes in the domestic economic
conditions."
At the same time, kindergartens of various forms and orphanages will
continue to pay the price set for private residents, the ministry said.


.US to insist detained Khorokhorin is extradited from France.

WASHINGTON, August 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The United States of America will
insist France extradites Russian citizen Vladislav Khorokhorin, who was
detained there for distribution of stolen information on credit cards, the
US law enforcement authorities said on Wednesday.
Khorokhorin, who is 27, was detained on August 7 in Nice as he
attempted to fly to Moscow, the source said. The arrest was made at the
request of the American side. On Wednesday, Washington D.C.'s Jury
presented charges of fraud with access information to bank accounts and of
stealing personal data.
Khorokhorin organised a web site to sell data of stolen cards, the
source said. He used the Internet forums to find clients there. The US
started a secret investigation.
The network, organised by the authors of the CarderPlanet, and
Khorokhorin is one of them, is the world's most sophisticated organisation
in the Internet for financial crime, the United States Secret Service
said. This network was involved in most cases of stealing financial
information, which were reported to law enforcement authorities, the
source said.

-0-kar