Border guards of 5 countries begin exercises Tuesday.

VLADIVOSTOK, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - An active phase of exercises of
the border guards of five countries begin in the Peter the Great Bay near
Vladivostok on Tuesday.
The exercises will continue for two days. On the first day, Coast
Guard ships and aviation of Russia, China, and the Republic of Korea (ROK)
will drill cooperative action. The second day will be devoted to the
training of the border guards of Russia, Japan, and the United States.
Immediately at the close of the exercises, the participating ship will
head for Vladivostok where the work of the delegations of the border
agencies of Russia, Japan, the ROK, the US, and the People's Republic of
China will be continued.
The Russian delegation will be headed by Colonel General Viktor
Trufanov, deputy chief of the FSB Border Service and head of the Coast
Guard Department.

.Moscow city authorities to consider next year's budget Tue.

MOSCOW, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - The Moscow authorities are to consider
a draft budget of the city for next year here on Tuesday.
An official in the city council has told Itar-Tass that the suggested
main fiscal plan will be again with a deficit. "Revenue is expected to
amount to slightly more than 1.192 trillion roubles. Expenditure is to run
at about 1.292 trillion roubles," the official pointed out. So, the budget
deficit is expected to be over 100.803 billion roubles.
Taxes are expected to be the main source of replenishment of the city
coffers. "The expected deficit is to be financed mainly resultant of
borrowed resources," the city administration official said.
The official recalled that the parameters of this year's budget had
been set as follows: revenue amounting to 1,251 billion roubles,
expenditure -- 1,060.8 billion roubles, and deficit running at 190.2
billion roubles.

.RF, Kazakh, Ukraine geologists to discuss Ural ore presence.

YEKATERINBURG, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - The XI all-Russia conference on
petrography opens here on Tuesday, with foreign geologists participating.
Petrography is a science describing rocks, their mineralogical and
chemical composition, structure and texture, mode of occurrence,
regularities of distribution and origin, and changes in the Earth's crust
and on terrestrial surface.
An official at the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the Ural
Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences has told Itar-Tass that this
time the conference has drawn more than 170 scientists from various cities
of Russia, as well as those from Kazakhstan and Ukraine, among them about
15 Academicians.
"Such conferences are held once in five years," the Institute official
pointed out. This time the theme of the conference is "Magmatism and
Metamorphism in the Earth's History". Within the framework of the forum,
the scientists intend to discuss eight main subjects, including general
matters concerning the presence of ores, as well as magmatism,
metamorphism and the present of ores in the Urals.
Participants in the conference will also make tours to Ural areas that
are most interesting from the viewpoint of geology: the Adui granite
massif and the Malyshev emerald deposit. The conference will continue
until August 28.
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.Pink granite monument to perpetuate special-risk units' vets.
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ST PETERSBURG, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - The exploit of the soldiers and
officers who participated in the tests of nuclear weapons is to be
immortalized by a monument to the Veterans of Special-Risk Units. The
unveiling ceremony is to be held here on Tuesday.
Vladimir Bentsianov, chairman of the "Committee of Veterans of Special
Risk Units of the Russian Federation" state-and-public organization, has
told Itar-Tass that the 20th anniversary of the setting up of this
association in Leningrad is marked on Tuesday. Participants in the
September 1954 Totsky troop exercises, during which nuclear weapons were
used, stood at the rise of this organization.
The seamen, who eliminated breakdowns aboard nuclear-powered
submarines, participants in various exercises with the use of nuclear
weapons and in tests on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, at the
Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, and the developers of radiological
warfare agents are now referred to as veterans of special-risk units as
well. More than 25,000 people had been members of the organization over
two decades.
The monument is 3.5 metres high and is made from pink granite. The
project has been implemented with the support of the St Petersburg
administration, the Russian Ministry of Defence, and sponsors.
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