Medvedev sign law banning paedophiliacs to work with children.

MOSCOW, December 24 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
has signed a law prohibiting people with previous child abuse record to
work with children, the Kremlin press service reported on Thursday.
Relevant amendments to the law on state registration of legal entities
and individual entrepreneurs and the Labour Code were passed by the State
Duma lower parliament house on December 10, 2010, and approved by the
Council of Federation, or the upper house, on December 15, 2010.
The amendments prohibit any person having previous convictions or
records of child molestation or abuse to be employed with educational,
training, recreational, medical, social, sports or cultural institutions
dealing with children.
Moreover, the law binds a person seeking a job with such institutions
to present a police document certifying he or she has no previous
convictions.
According to the Russian Interior Ministry, the number of sexual
crimes against the under aged has gone up by 30.8 time in the past seven
years. As of January 1, 2010, about 10,500 people are serving sentences
for such crimes. As many as 400 out of these people worked with teenagers.

.Storm warning issued in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, December 24 (Itar-Tass) -- A storm warning
has been issued in southern areas of Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka
peninsula over an impending cyclone, a spokesman for the Kamchatka
meteorological centre told Itar-Tass on Friday.
According to the spokesman, a chain of cyclones is coming from the
Pacific northwards, while a strong anti-cyclone has formed over Chukotka
and blocks these cyclones. It has resulted in a complicated meteorological
situation along Kamchatka's southern coastline.
According to weather forecasts, wind velocity will augment to 45-50
meters a second overnight to December 25. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky wind
velocity is expected to reach 28-33 meters a second. A strong storm is
expected in the north-western parts of the Pacific and the Okhotsk Sea.
The winds will be accompanied by heavy snowfalls.
The Kamchatka avalanche centre has issued a snow slide warning till
December 27 and asked tourists and skiers to postpone their activities.
According to preliminary forecasts, the wind will begin to go down by
Saturday evening, although its will continue snowing.

.More toll sections to be commissioned along Don highway in 2011.

MOSCOW, December 24 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's state run Avtodor company
said on Thursday more toll road sections to the total length of more than
200 kilometers will be commissioned in 2011 along the Don federal highway
linking Moscow and Russia's southern regions.
According to Avtodor's deputy chairman of the board Vladimir
Yelistratov, the first toll section with a length of 52 kilometers was
commissioned in 2010. "In 2011, more toll sections to the total length of
218 kilometers will be commissioned in the Krasnodar territory, the
Lipetsk, Tula, and Voronezh region," he said.
Under the company plans, by 2015 toll sections will account for up to
half of the highway's total length, or 760 out of 1,542 kilometers, he
added.

.New motorway bridge commissioned on Chita-Zabaikalsk highway.

ULAN UDE, December 24 (Itar-Tass) -- A new motorway bridge across the
river Onon has been commissioned on the federal highway linking the cities
of Chita and Zabaikalsk and proceeding further on to the Chinese border,
the press service of the Baikal territory administration told Itar-Tass on
Friday.
The bridge is 390 meters long and has the traffic area of 15 meters.
Along with the bridge, a total of 13 kilometers of access roads were also
commissioned.
It took four years to build the new bridge that will replace the old
one built in 1936. A total of 1.4 billion roubles were allocated from the
federal budget on the project. Thanks to the new bridge the length of the
Chita-Zabaikalsk motorway shortened by 10 kilometers.
"It is the second large-scale project aiming to modernize the
Chita-Zabaikalsk highway in the recent years. A section bypassing the
settlement of Darsun was commissioned in 2009. The two projects are roads
of the second technical category. There are no more such roads in the
region. Even the Chita-Khabarovsk highway commissioned earlier in the year
is a third technical category road," the press service said.
The Chita-Zabaikalsk highway runs to the Zabaikalsk international
customs point for motor transport on the border with China. The customs
point was opened 20 years ago. With its projected capacity of 20,000
people a year, it has handled more than one million tourists in 2010,
although a maximum flow of two million people was registered in 2008. More
than 3,000 people and 500 motor vehicles use this customs point daily.
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