Russian-Bulgarian information security forum opens in Varna.

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VARNA, September 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Problems of information security
will be in the focus of attention of the 20th international conference
Russia-Bulgaria: Information Cooperation and Information Security, which
opens in the Bulgarian resort city of Varna on Tuesday.
The three-day forum was organized by the security committee of the
Russian State Duma lower parliament house, the Russian Ministry of
Communications, and the Bulgarian Ministry of Transport, Information
Technologies and Communications.
Participants in the forum will discuss legal, organizational and
technological aspects of electronic government, information security in
the sphere of finance, problems of personal data protection during
trans-border information transfer, prospects for electronic education and
problems of safe Internet.
The conference will be co-chaired by first deputy head of the Russian
State Duma security committee Mikhail Grishankov and Bulgaria's deputy
minister of transport, information technologies and communications Parvan
Rusinov.

.Some 200 tons of convenience foods to be disposed over anthrax threat.

OMSK, September 14 (Itar-Tass) -- About 200 tons of convenience foods
that might contain anthrax bacillus will be disposed of in Russia's cities
of Omsk, Khanty-Mansiisk, Tver, Surgut, and others.
Chief sanitarian doctor for Russia's Omsk region Alexander Kriga on
Monday ordered to dispose of more than 195 tons of meat-stuffed
convenience foods produced in the period from July 13 through August 6 by
the Darina company and two more private enterprises. The companies used
horse meat bought from the Aitenov farm, where anthrax cases were reported
among horses. Moreover, six farm workers were reported to catch the
disease, one of them died.
According to Kriga, subject to disposal will also be prepared foods
made from meats other than horse meat but manufactured within the same
time span and with the use of the same equipment.

.Russia's first electronic government to be launched in Kazan within
month.

SOCHI, September 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's first-ever electronic
government will be launched in Kazan in a month's period, Director General
of the Russian Technologies State Corporation Sergei Chemezov said on
Monday at a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
According to Chemezon, Russian Technologies has already set up the
Iota company specializing in providing high-speed broadband Internet
access. "We have already launched networks in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Ufa,
Krasnodar, a similar network has recently been launched in Kazan. This
network will serve as a basis for the electronic government to be launched
here," he said.
"We have made a test start-up, but we need some time more to settle
formalities with the communications ministry. Nonetheless, within a month
we will launch the entire system, including the first electronic
government and high-speed broadband Internet access, in Kazan," Chemezov
said, adding that the company had launched digital television, a format
maintained by telephones manufactures by Russian Technologies.

.56 acute enteric infection cases registered in Russia's Khabarovsk
territory.

KHABAROVSK, September 14 (Itar-Tass) -- A total of 56 cases of acute
enteric infection, including 51 among children, have been registered in
the settlement of Troitskoye in Russia's Far Eastern Khabarovsk territory,
a spokesman for the regional consumer rights supervision authority told
Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
According to the spokesman, most of the children who caught the
disease are inmates of two pre-school institutions.
Efforts are being taken to prevent the spread of the disease, a
special regime was introduced in children's institutions, the spokesman
said.
"According to preliminary data, the infection was caused by food
cooked in violation of technological norms and using products with expired
shelf life. The infection further spread through nonpercutaneous
channels," the spokesman noted.
The court ruled to temporarily shut the kindergarten in the village of
Troitskoye.
Local sanitary authorities have recommended the villagers to practice
proper hygiene, to drink only boiled or bottled water and not to drink raw
milk.

.Kazakhstan steppe fire threatening Russia's Altai territory put out.

KRASNOYARSK, September 14 (Itar-Tass) -- A steppe fire in Kazakhstan
that threatened Russia's Altai territory has been extinguished, a
spokeswoman for the Siberian regional emergencies centre told Itar-Tass on
Tuesday.
According to Olesya Kukuyeva, the fire margin was extinguished late on
Monday some 30 kilometers from the border with the Altai territory. No
loss of life or injuries were reported.
A total of 172 fire fighters and 82 pieces of equipment were involved
in fire fighting operations.
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