Defence industry development programme requires 330 bln roubles.

MOSCOW, August 22 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's programme to develop the
defence industry complex over 2011-2020 will require 329.3 billion roubles
of budget money during the coming three years, a source in the Ministry of
Industry and Trade said.
"As of now, the Finance Ministry has approved only 60 billion roubles
for 2011, and has set limits of 60 billion roubles per both 2012 and 2013,
which will not be sufficient, as the industry and trade ministry
calculated that the programme would require 117.8 billion in 2012, and
151.5 billion in 2013," the source said. "In our discussions with the
finance ministry we shall insist on our methods, because Russia's defence
industry needs real modernisation."
The programme to modernise Russia's defence industry plans production
of 1,300 new armouries, 213 of them would require new producing facilities
and modernisation of existing ones. About 1,000 new technologies should be
worked out under the programme, the source explained.
"This plan would require big financial investments."
Russia's ministry of industry and trade, defence and finance
ministries, space agency, ministry of economic development and
Rostechnologii are expected to present their amendments to the programme
before August ends, and the government will consider those within
September.


.New modern neurosurgery centre to be opened in Novosibirsk in 2011.

NOVOSIBIRSK, August 22 (Itar-Tass) -- The construction of a
neurosurgery centre, the biggest in the eastern part of Russia, will be
finalised in 2011, Governor of the Novosibirsk Region Viktor Tolokonsky
said.
The financial crisis stopped the financing of the construction to be
was renewed over the current year.
"The regional budget has invested its part already, and the federal
budget is expected to invest about 2.5 billion roubles soon," the governor
said. "This centre will have the best equipment in the country."
The new centre will provide high-technology medical assistance not
only to local residents, but to patients from Siberia's all regions.
Russia has about ten centres of the kind. The project is supervised by
the Rostechnologii state-run corporation.


.Buryatia presents its investment potential at EXPO-2010.

ULAN-UDE, August 22 (Itar-Tass) -- Buryatia presented its investment
potential at the EXPO-2010 exhibition in Shanghai.
"Our aim was to present the Buryat Republic as Russia's dynamically
developing region, which offers attractive projects for foreign
investments," the republic's President Vyacheslav Nagovitsin said. "We
presented a project to develop tourism at the Baikal Lake, which will
limit the so-called wild tourism and will favour the preservation of the
ecology around the biggest lake in the world."
The Chinese side expressed interest in the Baikal Harbour project.
Over 50 tourist companies from Manchuria, Beijing, Shanghai, Sanya,
Dalian, and Harbin took part in a round table in June, which was devoted
to the development of tourist cooperation. The mayors of Ulan-Ude and
Manchuria signed a protocol on cooperation over 2010.
"Tourism is a priority of the bilateral cooperation between Russia and
China," the document stated.
"On the eve of our presentation, the delegation from Buryatia visited
China's pavilion at the EXPO-2010," the press service of the republic's
government said. "The Russian pavilion featured a performance of the
Buryatia's state theatre of song and dance."
"The performance of the Buryatia ensemble was a major cultural event
of the EXPO-2010 exhibition," China's Zhenmin Zhibao newspaper said.

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