Electric power supply in Kaliningrad mainly restored.

KALININGRAD, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - Electric power supply has been
restored in Kaliningrad. Massive power outages occurred on Tuesday due to
hurricane winds.
Press secretary of the Yantarenergo company Alexander Gmyrin told
Itar-Tass that "by 23:00 MSK repair brigades of Yantarenergo completed the
main operations to eliminate the effects of a powerful cyclone and supply
electricity to the affected residents of cities and towns."
The power grid company official said that some consumers were supplied
with electric power on a temporary basis in order to conduct the necessary
work later in a calm atmosphere. For various reasons, a number of suburban
gardening communities, as well as houses located far from transformer
substations, remain without electricity.
"Overall, I mean about 200-220 people who will have to spend the night
without electricity," the Yantarenergo spokesman noted. The work will be
continued in the morning, including it is planned to install mobile power
generators.
Squally winds with gusts up to 30-35 metres per second that raged in
the Kaliningrad region, have damages three power transmission lines (110
kV) and 55 power lines of 15 kV, they caused shutdown of 704 transformer
substations. About 54,000 people remained without electricity supply in
the region during the "peak" of the emergency.
A total of 33 repair teams of power engineers, more than 110
specialists, 35 machinery units have been involved in coping with the
hurricane's aftermath.
-0-


.Kyrgyz-Russia intergovt commission to discuss economic cooperation.

BISHKEK, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - The 12th meeting of the
Kyrgyz-Russian intergovernmental commission on trade, economic,
scientific, technological and cultural cooperation will be held here on
Thursday, the press service of the government of Kyrgyzstan told Itar-Tass.
The Russian delegation is led by head of the Federal Customs Service
Andrei Belyaninov, and the Kyrgyz - by First Deputy Prime Minister Omurbek
Babanov. "The final agenda for the meeting is still under discussion at
the expert level," the press-service noted, "but the development of
economic partnership will be the centrepiece." The meeting is expected to
be attended by "members of the Kyrgyz and Russian parts of the
commission," as well as workers of relevant ministries, departments and
organisations."
Babanov has recently visited Moscow on the instruction of the republic'
s Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev. According to the press service, the
first deputy prime minister of Kyrgyzstan visited the capital of Russia,
"for negotiations on the deliveries of jet fuel" to the republic. Babanov
also discussed with RF Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin issues "of the
development of trade and economic relations" between the two countries, in
particular, in the sphere of hydraulic power industry.
Several years ago, the trade turnover between Kyrgyzstan and Russia
exceeded 1 billion US dollars. The sides currently consider the
possibility of participation of Russia's Gazprom natural gas monopoly in
the prospecting and possible production of hydrocarbons in the republic's
south, as well as in the construction of the large hydropower plant
KambarAta-1 on the Naryn River. It is not excluded that Russia could be
involved in supplying fuel for the Transit Centre of the international
antiterrorist coalition located at Bishkek airport. Several companies had
earlier been engaged in the supply of jet fuel for it. On Tuesday, a
Kyrgyz-American agreement was signed under which Bishkek won the right to
supply 50 percent of fuel for the Transit Centre and the possibility to
choose contractors for it.
-0-


.Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipeline 70% complete.

VLADIVOSTOK, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - The construction of the
Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipeline in Russia's Primorsky
Territory is 70 percent complete.
To date, 470 kilometres of the 575-kilometre pipeline has been welded.
The gas pipeline laying operations in the territory of Vladivostok are
more than half complete. The builders of the gas pipeline's branch to the
Russky Island have completed drilling the first well under the bottom of
the Bosfor Vostochny Strait and now are reaming it out, the oil and gas
complex department of the Primorsky Territory told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
The first stage of the main gas pipeline is to be completed in the
fourth quarter of this year, which will make it possible to transfer to
gas the Vladivostok thermal power plants TPP-1, TPP-2 and the Severnaya
thermal power plant, as well as to conduct installation of gas service at
the energy facilities on the Russky Island and at the Sollers automobile
plant. The total gas consumption in the Primorsky Territory is estimated
to reach 4.6 billion cubic metres a year.
The capacity of the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline will be
27.5 billion cubic metres of gas, with possible increasing. Owing to the
construction in 2012 of the Yakutia-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipeline
system, natural gas will be delivered from the Chayanda field.
-0-ezh