."Made in Togliatti" vehicles set out on a ride to Moscow Tue.

SAMARA, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - "Made in Togliatti" special-purpose
motor vehicles on Tuesday set out on a ride from the AvtoVAZ science and
technology center to Moscow.
The vehicles will ride along the following route: Togliatti - Saratov
- Kursk - Oryol- Bryansk - Kaluga- Moscow and will finish at the Moscow
international automobile show.
An official in the press service of theTogliatti City Council has told
Itar-Tass that the key theme of the ride, organized with the support of
AvtoVAZ (Volzhsky car factory) and the City Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, is the presentation of special-purpose vehicles. They all have
been developed on the basis of Lada cars and are equipped to meet the
needs of EMERCOM, the Interior Ministry, medicine, the postal service,
geologists, fishermen, and hunters. The main emphasis this year is laid on
vehicles intended for operation under conditions of emergency situations.
Participants in the motor ride are to hold meetings with
representatives of local enterprises and organizations in the cities along
the route. Upon arriving at the Moscow automobile show, the
special-purpose vehicles will joint the AvtoVAZ exhibition.
An official at the AvtoVAZ press center said the AvtoVAZ exhibition
this year would feature an R90 vehicle, the manufacture of which is to be
started in the spring of 2012. On the Russian market, the R90 will occupy
the niche of budget-funded general-purpose vehicles of enhanced capacity.
Visitors to the Lada display stand will also see a bi-fuel Lada Priora
CNG vehicle. The range of model batch-produced vehicles will be
represented by Lada Priora and Lada Kalina car families: on the strength
of the example of these vehicles it will be possible to get acquainted
with new options that will appear on AvtoVAZ-made vehicles soon.

.Cyclone washes out two sections of Yakutsk-Magadan road.
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MAGADAN, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - A powerful cyclone with rain sweeping
the Magadan region has washed out two sections of a road from Yakutsk to
Magadan. The washed-out section in one place is 30 metres long and in the
other place -- 250 metres. The road is closed to all types of transport
there, the press service of the EMERCOM directorate for Magadan Region has
announced.
There was no loss of life and no one was hurt. Motorists returned back
to their settlements. Only tank trucks with lubricants and heavy-duty
lorries on the road are awaiting restoration of traffic. The road repair
operations are involving about 50 graders, bulldozers, and other
machinery. Two ambulance teams are keeping vigil in the washed-out areas.
It is planned to restore the Yakutsk-Magadan road on August 25.

.Ukraine marks Independence Day on Tuesday.

KIEV, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - Ukraine marks the 19th anniversary of
the gaining of independence on Tuesday. In an address to the people of
Ukraine on the occasion of the Day of Independence, President Viktor
Yanukovich pointed out, "Nineteen years ago with great hope and belief we
responded to the challenge of fate by embarking upon the road of creation
and development of an independent state of our own".
The President believes that "the peculiarity of the present day, when
we are entering a 20th year of independence, is that the authorities do
everything to ensure that Ukraine gains an economic independence as well".
"Because a real independence is based precisely on that foundation. My
programme of reforms is a programme for building an economically
independent Ukrainian state," Yanukovich stated.
"I shall not allow the country to swerve off the democratic road of
reforms to satisfy the selfish interests of some irresponsible
politicians," the Head of State added. "I understand that the road that we
have chosen is very complex and hard. However, there is no other road to a
genuine freedom and real independence. There is no other road to an
independent Ukraine, in which I would like our children to live".
On August 24, 1991, the Ukrainian parliament adopted an "Act of
Proclamation of the Independence of Ukraine". "A republican referendum
must be held on December 1, 1991, to reaffirm the Act of the Proclamation
of Independence," said the resolution of the Verkhovna Rada.
The outcome of the historic referendum marked the beginning of a final
break-up of the Soviet Union. Presently, on December 8, 1991, the leaders
of independent Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the Byelorussian SSR
signed a Belovezhye Accord on the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The
Accord was ratified by the parliaments of those countries and supported by
a majority of the republics of the USSR. Shortly after that the state
independence of Ukraine was recognized in the whole world.
According to Sergei Levochkin, head of the presidential
administration, Yanukovich with his powers has enough clout in the state
but that his activity, in effecting reforms, in particular, could have
been more effective if those powers were extended. Levochkin declared in
favour of reverting to the Constitution of the 1996 pattern.
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