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Russian Nuclear Center marking 55 years since hydrogen bomb testing
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NIZHNY NOVGOROD, November 23 (Itar-Tass) - Staff of Russia's Federal
Nuclear Research Center in the town of Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region, on
Tuesday recalls an event that made the whole world give a thought to the
perils of an unbridled arms race.
Exactly on this date 55 years ago, the world's first thermonuclear
charge RDS-37 was tested at a nuclear testing range in the Semipalatinsk
region in central Kazakhstan.
The charge, labeled as the hydrogen bomb, was designed in the Sarov
center, then a super-secret facility hidden deep in the thick forest in
the south of the Gorky /Nizhny Novgorod/ region.
The testing was crowned with an all-round success, as the charge
emitted 1.6 megatons of energy, thus laying the grounds for more expansive
research and development works that were commissioned to a highly secret
Design Bureau No. 11 reporting to Dr Yuli Kharton.
More than 2,400 people were decorated with Soviet orders and medals
taking part in the project, and 88 of them received the honorary title of
the Hero of Socialist Labor.
A group of researchers including Igor Kurchatov, Yakov Zeldovich, Yuli
Khariton, and Andrei Sakharov became the first winners of the Lenin Prize.
Officials at the press service of the Federal Nuclear Center told
Itar-Tass members of the Russian government and leading executives of the
state nuclear power corporation Rosatom are expected to visit the facility
Tuesday.
The guests will take part in a gala conference devoted to the
anniversary and in the opening of a monument to Boris Muzrukov, who stood
at the head of the center from 1955 through to 1974.
The latter man is widely acclaimed in the professional quarters as an
extremely gifted organizer.
.Germany's former Chancellor calls for closer ties btw Europe, Russia.
BERLIN, November 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russia should be involved more
closely in the European organizations, Germany's former Federal Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder said Monday night as he spoke at a gala meeting devoted
to the 20 years since the start of cooperation between the Russian natural
gas producer Gazprom and the German corporation BASF.
Schroeder recalled that talks are underway right now on a new
cooperation agreement between the European Union and Russia. He said the
move is important but far from sufficient.
Russia should be more tightly bound to the EU, he said, adding that
the Europeans need Russia's involvement and liberalization of trade with
it ranging up to the emergence of a free trade zone, joint infrastructure
projects, simpler regulations for the issuance of travel visas on both
sides, and cooperation in the field of security.
Schroeder believes that this is the right way to achieve Russia's
modernization, as Russia will thus get closer to the European system of
values and law, while the European continent will build up its stability.
He stressed the central role that Russia plays in supplying energy
resources worldwide, calling it one of the crucial tasks, firstly, because
of the problem of access to energy resources and, secondly, because of the
ecological hazards of energy production.
For this end, the Europeans need a long-term consistent energy policy
aimed at resource saving, and this is possible only if accent is placed on
energy efficiency and the use of renewable sources of energy, Schroeder
said.
The right thing to do in this context is to continue expanding
partnership relations in the field of energy, and especially with Russia,
which is Europe's crucial partner, he indicated.
A close intertwining of this kind has significance for the economy and
for politics, as it creates trust, reliability and stability, Schroeder
said.
Germany's federal government supports energy partnership with Russia,
federal minister Eckart von Klaeden said as he took the floor at the same
meeting.
He pointed out the assistance that this cooperation enjoys on both
sides and the contribution it makes to the modernization of Russia's
energy sector.
Simultaneously, the German government tries to link its efforts to the
overall dialogue between Russia and the EU, von Klaeden said.
He indicated that the demand for energy resources continues growing
worldwide and Germany should ensure reliable resource supplies along with
meeting the objectives of climate protection.
According to von Klaeden, the relations between Germany and Russia are
nowhere as strong as in the gas sector, since the German market is the
biggest one for Gazprom and Russia is the main supplier of gas to Germany.
Thousands upon thousands of kilometers of pipelines link the deposits
in West Siberia to the markets in Germany and other European countries, he
said.
Von Klaeden recalled that construction of a new pipeline, the Nord
Stream, got underway in April 2010 and it appears to be one of the major
infrastructure projects of our time, with investment in it reaching 7.4
billion euros.
He expressed satisfaction over the fact that an agreement was reached
at inter-state consultations two years ago on setting up a Russian-German
energy agency. The latter started operations in October 2009.
.Russia's Duma to issue statement on 65th date of Nuremberg Trials.
MOSCOW, November 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's State Duma, the lower house
of parliament plans issuing a statement on occasion of the 65th
anniversary since the start of Nuremberg Trials over the main culprits of
the Nazi regime, house leaders said at the Duma's official website.
"Members of the State Duma call on the international organizations and
parliaments of foreign countries to condemn resolutely and curb any
attempts to revive the fascist, rightwing radical, racist, and
nationalistic ideologies in their countries and wherever, and to honor the
unambiguous and universal spirit of the Tribunals' decisions," a draft
statement says.
"The attempts to accuse the Soviet Union, an initiator of the Trials,
along with Hitlerite Germany of unleashing the Second World War are little
more than pseudo-historic falsehoods," the document says.
It voices the Duma's profound concern over "the efforts to justify
fascism and the nationalistically tainted rightwing extremism in some
countries of Europe, where war criminals are being turned into heroes."
MPs Konstantin Kosachev and Nikolai Kovalyov, the authors of the
statements, say that "textbooks /in the countries where attempts of this
kind are made/ not infrequently give more space to the 'deeds' of the
fascist corroborators than to the Nuremberg Trials, which condemned
fascism for all times."
The statement also reflects the Russian MPs' indignation over the
cases of desecration of monuments to Soviet soldiers and immortalizing of
the individuals who fought on Hitler's side.
Kosachev and Kovalyov voice indignation over the fact that
"accomplices in heinous crimes of the fascist regime are being
rehabilitated and even decorated with state awards while the soldiers who
fought in the ranks of the anti-Hitler coalition are subjected to
persecutions."
The statement points out a direct consequence of such efforts - the
infamous verdict of the European Court for Human Rights on the Russian war
veteran Vassily Kononov, who lives in Latvia.
-0-kle
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, November 23 (Itar-Tass) - Staff of Russia's Federal
Nuclear Research Center in the town of Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region, on
Tuesday recalls an event that made the whole world give a thought to the
perils of an unbridled arms race.
Exactly on this date 55 years ago, the world's first thermonuclear
charge RDS-37 was tested at a nuclear testing range in the Semipalatinsk
region in central Kazakhstan.
The charge, labeled as the hydrogen bomb, was designed in the Sarov
center, then a super-secret facility hidden deep in the thick forest in
the south of the Gorky /Nizhny Novgorod/ region.
The testing was crowned with an all-round success, as the charge
emitted 1.6 megatons of energy, thus laying the grounds for more expansive
research and development works that were commissioned to a highly secret
Design Bureau No. 11 reporting to Dr Yuli Kharton.
More than 2,400 people were decorated with Soviet orders and medals
taking part in the project, and 88 of them received the honorary title of
the Hero of Socialist Labor.
A group of researchers including Igor Kurchatov, Yakov Zeldovich, Yuli
Khariton, and Andrei Sakharov became the first winners of the Lenin Prize.
Officials at the press service of the Federal Nuclear Center told
Itar-Tass members of the Russian government and leading executives of the
state nuclear power corporation Rosatom are expected to visit the facility
Tuesday.
The guests will take part in a gala conference devoted to the
anniversary and in the opening of a monument to Boris Muzrukov, who stood
at the head of the center from 1955 through to 1974.
The latter man is widely acclaimed in the professional quarters as an
extremely gifted organizer.
.Germany's former Chancellor calls for closer ties btw Europe, Russia.
BERLIN, November 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russia should be involved more
closely in the European organizations, Germany's former Federal Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder said Monday night as he spoke at a gala meeting devoted
to the 20 years since the start of cooperation between the Russian natural
gas producer Gazprom and the German corporation BASF.
Schroeder recalled that talks are underway right now on a new
cooperation agreement between the European Union and Russia. He said the
move is important but far from sufficient.
Russia should be more tightly bound to the EU, he said, adding that
the Europeans need Russia's involvement and liberalization of trade with
it ranging up to the emergence of a free trade zone, joint infrastructure
projects, simpler regulations for the issuance of travel visas on both
sides, and cooperation in the field of security.
Schroeder believes that this is the right way to achieve Russia's
modernization, as Russia will thus get closer to the European system of
values and law, while the European continent will build up its stability.
He stressed the central role that Russia plays in supplying energy
resources worldwide, calling it one of the crucial tasks, firstly, because
of the problem of access to energy resources and, secondly, because of the
ecological hazards of energy production.
For this end, the Europeans need a long-term consistent energy policy
aimed at resource saving, and this is possible only if accent is placed on
energy efficiency and the use of renewable sources of energy, Schroeder
said.
The right thing to do in this context is to continue expanding
partnership relations in the field of energy, and especially with Russia,
which is Europe's crucial partner, he indicated.
A close intertwining of this kind has significance for the economy and
for politics, as it creates trust, reliability and stability, Schroeder
said.
Germany's federal government supports energy partnership with Russia,
federal minister Eckart von Klaeden said as he took the floor at the same
meeting.
He pointed out the assistance that this cooperation enjoys on both
sides and the contribution it makes to the modernization of Russia's
energy sector.
Simultaneously, the German government tries to link its efforts to the
overall dialogue between Russia and the EU, von Klaeden said.
He indicated that the demand for energy resources continues growing
worldwide and Germany should ensure reliable resource supplies along with
meeting the objectives of climate protection.
According to von Klaeden, the relations between Germany and Russia are
nowhere as strong as in the gas sector, since the German market is the
biggest one for Gazprom and Russia is the main supplier of gas to Germany.
Thousands upon thousands of kilometers of pipelines link the deposits
in West Siberia to the markets in Germany and other European countries, he
said.
Von Klaeden recalled that construction of a new pipeline, the Nord
Stream, got underway in April 2010 and it appears to be one of the major
infrastructure projects of our time, with investment in it reaching 7.4
billion euros.
He expressed satisfaction over the fact that an agreement was reached
at inter-state consultations two years ago on setting up a Russian-German
energy agency. The latter started operations in October 2009.
.Russia's Duma to issue statement on 65th date of Nuremberg Trials.
MOSCOW, November 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's State Duma, the lower house
of parliament plans issuing a statement on occasion of the 65th
anniversary since the start of Nuremberg Trials over the main culprits of
the Nazi regime, house leaders said at the Duma's official website.
"Members of the State Duma call on the international organizations and
parliaments of foreign countries to condemn resolutely and curb any
attempts to revive the fascist, rightwing radical, racist, and
nationalistic ideologies in their countries and wherever, and to honor the
unambiguous and universal spirit of the Tribunals' decisions," a draft
statement says.
"The attempts to accuse the Soviet Union, an initiator of the Trials,
along with Hitlerite Germany of unleashing the Second World War are little
more than pseudo-historic falsehoods," the document says.
It voices the Duma's profound concern over "the efforts to justify
fascism and the nationalistically tainted rightwing extremism in some
countries of Europe, where war criminals are being turned into heroes."
MPs Konstantin Kosachev and Nikolai Kovalyov, the authors of the
statements, say that "textbooks /in the countries where attempts of this
kind are made/ not infrequently give more space to the 'deeds' of the
fascist corroborators than to the Nuremberg Trials, which condemned
fascism for all times."
The statement also reflects the Russian MPs' indignation over the
cases of desecration of monuments to Soviet soldiers and immortalizing of
the individuals who fought on Hitler's side.
Kosachev and Kovalyov voice indignation over the fact that
"accomplices in heinous crimes of the fascist regime are being
rehabilitated and even decorated with state awards while the soldiers who
fought in the ranks of the anti-Hitler coalition are subjected to
persecutions."
The statement points out a direct consequence of such efforts - the
infamous verdict of the European Court for Human Rights on the Russian war
veteran Vassily Kononov, who lives in Latvia.
-0-kle
