Photo exhibition about metro to open in St. Petersburg.

St. PETERSBURG, September 1 (Itar-Tass) - A photo exhibition featuring
metro as a the social, cultural and even philosophical phenomenon will be
open in Peter and Paul's Fortress from August 25 to September 17, 2010
under the Metromania project. It unites photographers of several
generations who work in various genres and styles.
The display includes scenery and genre photos. They fix urban life in
the vicinity of St. Petersburg metro stations. Alexei Kitayev, the
inspirer and curator of the display, showed how the construction of a
metro station changed the face of Sennaya, one of the main squares in the
northern capital, in the course of two decades in his 'Images of Sennaya'
series which dates back to 1986-2003.
Most photographers take photos of street characters: vendors,
musicians, occasional passers-by whose faces can be seen on many genre
photos.
Works by Pavel Markin, the father of St. Petersburg photographers,
occupies a special place in the exposition. His fifty-year-old photos
bring visitors back to 1955 when the first underground line was launched
in St. Petersburg. They depict metro builders, the first train, its
passengers and also photo reporters.

.Russia to held building nuclear power station in Vietnam.

HANOI, September 1 (Itar-Tass) - Sergei Kiriyenko, the general
director of the State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom), is beginning
his working visit to Vietnam on Wednesday to discuss Russia's
participation in the creation and development of Vietnam's atomic energy
industry.
Kiriyenko will have meetings with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh
Triet and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. He will hold talks with Vietnam'
s top energy officials and the heads of the Ministry of Industry and
Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technologies.
Russian-Vietnamese cooperation in building the first nuclear power
station (AES-1) in Vietnam will be in the focus of the forthcoming
consultations.
In November 2009, the Vietnamese parliament endorsed a plan for the
construction of the first nuclear power station with a power capacity of
two thousand megawatts a year.
The Vietnamese authorities hope that the construction of the AES-1
nuclear power station will start in 2014 and that the station will begin
operation by 2020.
Russia's Rosatom will be Vietnam's partner in this project. High
safety at Russian nuclear power plants and Russia's readiness to render
assistance to Vietnam in nuclear waste disposal were the main reasons for
choosing the Russian corporation as a partner, according to local experts.
In recent years, the United States, Japan, China, India and South
Korea have offered Vietnam cooperation in the development of its atomic
energy alongside with Russia.

. Russian FM begins working visit to Poland.

MOSCOW, September 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov is beginning his working visit to Poland on Wednesday at the
invitation of his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski.
Lavrov will be the first Russian foreign minister in the history of
bilateral relations to attend a meeting of Polish ambassadors and
permanent representatives. Lavrov and Sikorski will hold talks on the
sidelines of this discussion on September 2.
"Moscow has deservedly appreciated the invitation of the Polish
foreign minister. A speech which Sergei Lavrov is going to deliver to the
heads of Polish diplomatic missions who daily participate in pursuing
Poland's foreign policy, including in the Russian direction, will make it
possible to set forth Russia's approaches to building correct and
genuinely good-neighbourly relations with Poland and outline Russia's
foreign policy priorities, including its relations with the European Union
and NATO," said Andrei Nesterenko, the Russian Foreign Ministry's
spokesperson.
The 'resetting' of the main mechanisms of Russian-Polish bilateral
ties have made them more stable. New mechanisms are being created. Last
year saw successful start of the Forum of Regions instituted under the
auspices of the upper chambers of Russian and Polish parliaments. The next
meeting is to be held in Moscow in 2011.
During Lavrov's visit the sides will also set the exact dates for
holding a meeting of the Committee for the strategy of Russian-Polish
cooperation to be chaired by the foreign ministers of the two countries.
"The Russian side is satisfied with the work of the inter-governmental
commission for economic cooperation. We are convinced that time has come
to put Russian-Polish trade and economic ties on the lines of innovation
development, particularly in the context of the Partnership for
Modernization initiative in relations between Russia and the European
Union," Nesterenko went on to say.
He said that Russia doesn't' want historical disputes of joint past to
produce a negative impact on present-day bilateral relations, let alone to
aggravate them.
" We hope that we are going to build our relations on the basis of
mutual respect and with account for each other's interests," Nesterenko
emphasized.

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