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Moscow rgn power utility to resume electricity supplies to all
MOSCOW, January 5 (Itar-Tass) - Moscow region power utility MOESK
promises to resume supplies of electricity to all the customers on the
region's territory who were blacked out pending ruptures of transmission
lines under the burden of wet snow in the first days of January.
Vitaly Strugovest, MOESK's official spokesman told Itar-Tass late
night Tuesday that a part of the customers will start getting electricity
by the end of Wednesday under what the power industry here calls 'a
provisional pattern of supplies'.
This means that if a township or village should get electricity from
two supply centers under the permanent pattern, all the electricity will
be supplied from just one center for the time being.
According to Strugovets, "some 84 repair teams numbering 343 workers
will be working all through the early morning" to restore the damaged
power lines.
He said the officials derive their hope for the capability to live up
to the promises from the fact that the number of disconnected transformer
plants reduced to 370 from 640 between 18:00 hours and 22:00 hours Tuesday.
In the meantime, residents of the Moscow region have been experiencing
problems with electricity supplies for the twelfth day on end. The
information released by the Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil
Defense /EMERCOM/ suggests that the electricity outages continued
affecting about 15,000 people in 199 townships and villages Tuesday night.
A total of 43 power transmission lines are still out of operation,
although "practically all the high-voltage transmission lines except two
are back into operation," Strugovets said.
"The latter two electricity feeding facilities don't play a crucial
role in the functioning of the energy system," he said.
Tuesday, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko set forth a task to resume
full-scale servicing of all the customers in the Moscow region within a
three-day period.
He also said about two months will be needed after that to ensure the
reliability of all the power networks. As part of the effort, the Moscow
region power utility will be expected to clear and clean all the forest
cuts-through serving as corridors for the transmission lines.
The peak number of transformer substations affected by the electricity
outages in the wake of the January 2 heavy snowstorm in the Moscow region
reached 2,200.
Tuesday night, a senior spokesman for Moscow region's Interior
Department came up with a warning that the police will scrutinize mass
media reports that power utility repair workers charged money from the
population for restoring the power supplies.
"A number of mass media carried reports quoting the residents of a
township in the Ramenskoye district who said the officials in charge of
the resumption of powers supplies in the towns and districts of the Moscow
region had shown instances of corruption," said Police Colonel Yevgeny
Gildeyev, the spokesman.
He recalled the people's indications that a resumption of power
supplies to a township or a village had required a graft of 20,000 rubles.
"We've taken the media information under control and a scrupulous
inquiry will be done now," Col Gildeyev said. "The results of the effort
will be made public in the media. If we get evidence of the facts, the
culprits will be brought to criminal responsibility."
He asked the region's residents on behalf of the authorities "to
report even on the slightest showings of corruption on the part of the
services responsible for the elimination of natural calamities."
The Interior Department has published the telephone numbers for the
people to call at if they come across the cases of corruption while the
aftermath of the heavy snowfalls is still being liquidated.
.Russia's Medvedev to take part in World Economic Forum in Davos.
MOSCOW, January 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
issued a confirmation Tuesday night that he will take part in the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, from January 26 to January 30, the
Kremlin press service said.
Tuesday, Medvedev had a telephone conversation with Israeli President
Shimon Peres. The two countries' leaders agreed to have talks on the
sidelines of the Davos forum.
Medvedev's aide Arkady Dvorkovich said earlier Medvedev would address
the forum's first plenary session January 26. "The Russian President will
be the main speaker at that session," he said.
In his report, Medvedev will make accent on the Russian economy's
modernization and on cooperation with foreign partners.
According to Dvorkovich, Medvedev, who is going to make a three-day
visit to Davos where he will attend roundtable meetings and will have
talks with CEO's of foreign corporations.
"In all probability, the President will have a meeting with Young
Global Leaders," he said.
Leaders of a number of other countries are expected in Davos, too, and
Kremlin officials do not rule out a possibility of bilateral meetings with
them either.
-0-kle
promises to resume supplies of electricity to all the customers on the
region's territory who were blacked out pending ruptures of transmission
lines under the burden of wet snow in the first days of January.
Vitaly Strugovest, MOESK's official spokesman told Itar-Tass late
night Tuesday that a part of the customers will start getting electricity
by the end of Wednesday under what the power industry here calls 'a
provisional pattern of supplies'.
This means that if a township or village should get electricity from
two supply centers under the permanent pattern, all the electricity will
be supplied from just one center for the time being.
According to Strugovets, "some 84 repair teams numbering 343 workers
will be working all through the early morning" to restore the damaged
power lines.
He said the officials derive their hope for the capability to live up
to the promises from the fact that the number of disconnected transformer
plants reduced to 370 from 640 between 18:00 hours and 22:00 hours Tuesday.
In the meantime, residents of the Moscow region have been experiencing
problems with electricity supplies for the twelfth day on end. The
information released by the Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil
Defense /EMERCOM/ suggests that the electricity outages continued
affecting about 15,000 people in 199 townships and villages Tuesday night.
A total of 43 power transmission lines are still out of operation,
although "practically all the high-voltage transmission lines except two
are back into operation," Strugovets said.
"The latter two electricity feeding facilities don't play a crucial
role in the functioning of the energy system," he said.
Tuesday, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko set forth a task to resume
full-scale servicing of all the customers in the Moscow region within a
three-day period.
He also said about two months will be needed after that to ensure the
reliability of all the power networks. As part of the effort, the Moscow
region power utility will be expected to clear and clean all the forest
cuts-through serving as corridors for the transmission lines.
The peak number of transformer substations affected by the electricity
outages in the wake of the January 2 heavy snowstorm in the Moscow region
reached 2,200.
Tuesday night, a senior spokesman for Moscow region's Interior
Department came up with a warning that the police will scrutinize mass
media reports that power utility repair workers charged money from the
population for restoring the power supplies.
"A number of mass media carried reports quoting the residents of a
township in the Ramenskoye district who said the officials in charge of
the resumption of powers supplies in the towns and districts of the Moscow
region had shown instances of corruption," said Police Colonel Yevgeny
Gildeyev, the spokesman.
He recalled the people's indications that a resumption of power
supplies to a township or a village had required a graft of 20,000 rubles.
"We've taken the media information under control and a scrupulous
inquiry will be done now," Col Gildeyev said. "The results of the effort
will be made public in the media. If we get evidence of the facts, the
culprits will be brought to criminal responsibility."
He asked the region's residents on behalf of the authorities "to
report even on the slightest showings of corruption on the part of the
services responsible for the elimination of natural calamities."
The Interior Department has published the telephone numbers for the
people to call at if they come across the cases of corruption while the
aftermath of the heavy snowfalls is still being liquidated.
.Russia's Medvedev to take part in World Economic Forum in Davos.
MOSCOW, January 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
issued a confirmation Tuesday night that he will take part in the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, from January 26 to January 30, the
Kremlin press service said.
Tuesday, Medvedev had a telephone conversation with Israeli President
Shimon Peres. The two countries' leaders agreed to have talks on the
sidelines of the Davos forum.
Medvedev's aide Arkady Dvorkovich said earlier Medvedev would address
the forum's first plenary session January 26. "The Russian President will
be the main speaker at that session," he said.
In his report, Medvedev will make accent on the Russian economy's
modernization and on cooperation with foreign partners.
According to Dvorkovich, Medvedev, who is going to make a three-day
visit to Davos where he will attend roundtable meetings and will have
talks with CEO's of foreign corporations.
"In all probability, the President will have a meeting with Young
Global Leaders," he said.
Leaders of a number of other countries are expected in Davos, too, and
Kremlin officials do not rule out a possibility of bilateral meetings with
them either.
-0-kle
