Airliner bound for Moscow back to New York over engine malfunction.

NEW YORK, November 22 (Itar-Tass) -- A Delta airliner, which took off
from the JFK International Airport to Moscow, had to fly back to New York
over an engine malfunction. No one was injured in the incident.
The airliner landed at about 6 p.m. EST on Sunday (2 a.m. Moscow time
on Monday), spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration Holly
Baker said. Some media reports on an airliner wing catching fire were
false.
The airliner had to fly back to New York, after the pilots had found
some malfunctions in an engine.
The airliner was carrying about 200 passengers, no one of them was
hurt, the New York City Fire Department reported.
The Delta Air Lines, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia (GA), did not
give any comments on the incident yet.

.Major foreign media reporters to take part in Public Chamber conf.

MOSCOW, November 22 (Itar-Tass) -- Journalists from the major foreign
media together with Russian politicians and public figures will discuss
social and political modernization, the current situation in Russia and
other countries. The international conference entitled "Modernization and
Innovation Development: Global Partnership" will open at the Russian
Public Chamber in Moscow on Monday.
"The journalists from the major foreign media, including the
newspapers The Financial Times, Die Presse, The Independent, Le Figaro,
the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC, the news agency Reuters,
together with Russian politicians and public figures, including the leader
of the Russian Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the head of
the Just Russia faction in the State Duma Nikolai Levichev, the chairman
of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions and
Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov, the rector of the Moscow State University
Viktor Sadovnichy and others will discuss pressing global problems and the
current events in the world," the Public Chamber press service reported.
Three major discussions will be held at the conference: issues of
social and political modernization on November 22, the problems of
innovation development of Russian economy on the next day, Russia's
foreign image and the prospects for the development of Russian-EU
relations on the final day.

.Russia, EU to discuss common energy space formation.

BRUSSELS, November 22 (Itar-Tass) -- The participants in a jubilee
conference, which will open here Monday on the occasion of the 10th
anniversary of the Russia-EU energy dialogue, will discuss the formation
of a common energy space. Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and EU
Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger will participate in the forum, the
press service of the Russian Energy Ministry told Itar-Tass.
"The participants in the conference will discuss the formation of a
common energy space and the prospects for the development of European and
Russian energy markets for decades to come," the press service reported.
"The conference is also to consider the hydrocarbons transit and the early
warning procedure," the press service said. "The forum will also highlight
the legal basis in Russia-EU energy cooperation," he added.
Shmatko will also attend a session of the Russia-EU Permanent
Partnership Council on Energy in Brussels.
Ahead of the Brussels conference State Duma Vice-Speaker and President
of the Russian Gas Society Valery Yazev told Itar-Tass about the issues,
which Russia will raise at the forum. Specifically, Yazev intends to
discuss the third EU energy package, which will enter into force in the
spring of 2011. The package sets the rules for the competition on the EU
energy market, including the compulsory equal access of energy companies
to the transport energy infrastructure, as well as the compulsory
separation of the structures engaged in the energy supplies from the power
generation companies.
These provisions "will make the investors less motivated to create a
transport energy structure, including for our Gazprom," Yazev stated. He
believes that the investments, which the Russian gas giant had already
made, "lose their interest, and it is not interesting any longer to create
new gas distribution networks and buy the assets in Europe."
In reply to a question how Russia could protect the country's energy
sector from the undesirable consequences of the third European energy
package coming into effect, the State Duma vice-speaker noted that "the
basic provisions of the package in the domestic legislations of the EU
states are being implemented." "At this stage some changes can be made,"
he believes. "Alongside, we have formed two working groups to minimize the
negative consequences the law enforcement practice after the third energy
package enters into force. One working group is between the EU and Russia,
the second one between the Russian Gas Society and Eurogas," the lawmaker
recalled. "We will continue the discussions in this format," the State
Duma vice-speaker added.
"We realize that the law is the law and it is approved, but (a
mutually acceptable) solution should be found," Yazev noted. "Our position
is that the third energy package should be put into practice starting from
the gas hubs, where Russian gas supplies are made. We delivered the gas to
Baumgarten (the gas distribution stations and gas storage facilities in
Austria) and then do what you want," he pointed out. "There are some
variants in this issue," Yazev underlined.
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