Yeltsin Foundation to organise memorial conferences over 2011.

WASHINGTON, October 24 (Itar-Tass) -- The Yeltsin Foundation will
organise over 2011 in Russia, the USA and some other countries a series of
memorial events devoted to the 20th anniversary of Russia's new statehood
and the 80th anniversary of its first president. Russia's presidential
envoy on international cultural cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoi said that
those plans would be supported by the US Administration.
On February 1 in Moscow there will be a historical conference devoted
to the development of Russia in the 1990s and the role of Boris Yeltsin
there. The conference will be international and some American researches
are expected to take part in it.
In the United States, there will be a conference called About the fate
of democracy in globalisation: New challenges.
"We have initiated an idea, and our American counterparts supported
us, to organise the event in Bill Clinton's library," Shvydkoi said. "This
is only natural, because the conference will cover the period of joint
work of Yeltsin and Clinton."
He said that it is planned to organise more conferences devoted to
Yeltsin in Germany, Ukraine and possibly in Kazakhstan.


.Meat prices may drop by New Year and jump in spring 2011 - view.

MOSCOW, October 24 (Itar-Tass) -- The drought of summer 2010 may
affect meat prices much more that prices for bread, Chairman of Russia's
Agricultural Union Ivan Obolentsev forecast.
"As for bread products, I must say we have enough grain: the resources
make 77 million tonnes /the crops plus storage/, of which 22 million will
be used for food and 40 million for feeding and 12 million for seeds," he
said. "Prices for bread will not go up dramatically, and should this
happen the reason would be a deficit of grain."
He expressed concern about prices for feeding.
"As of today, feeding costs twice the price of the previous year," he
said. Feeding makes about 60 to 75 percent in prices for meat.
"Prices for natural feed have grown, too," Obolentsev said. "That is
why the price for milk will go up and not every farmer will be able to pay
high prices for feed."
Many farmers will choose slaughter of cattle, he forecast.
"That is why by the New Year time prices for meat may go down, while
in spring and summer of the coming year they will jump up."


.Murmansk to have centre for high technology companies.

MURMANSK, October 24 (Itar-Tass) -- The Murmansk Region will organise
an inter-sector centre for high technology companies, Director General of
the Association of oil and gas industry suppliers, the Murmanshelf,
Grigory Stratiy said.
The Association has become a centre to form the cluster, he explained.
"It will unite over 240 Russian and foreign enterprises of industry,
construction, transport, service, logistics, finances and education,
including well-known holding companies like Gazprom, StatoilHydro of
Norway and Total of France," he said.
The project will be implemented on the basis of state-private
partnership.
The cluster uniting enterprises of different sectors will favour the
development of the resource base of Russia's Arctic zone and the
satisfaction of the country's demand in hydrocarbons, water biological
resources, and environment protection over the growing economic activity
in the Arctic, Stratiy said. During the development of the Shtokman and
Prirazlomnyi oil deposits, the Murmansk Region will be the centre of a new
oil and gas province.
Murmansk is a city in the extreme northwest of Russia and the world's
largest city north of the Arctic Circle. With a population of over
300,000, Murmansk is the largest city in the Arctic and an important
Russian naval base and commercial port. In World War II, Murmansk served
as a port for the arctic convoys, and after the war became the Soviet
Union's most important submarine base.

-0-kar