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.Kaliningrad governor plans to decrease dependence on food imports.
KALININGRAD, February 24 (Itar-Tass) - Kaliningrad governor Nikolai
Tsukanov said his region plans to decrease the dependence on food imports
by expanding crop areas. He said so in the course of his meeting with
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
At present, 45 percent of land in the Kaliningrad region are farmland,
although 90 percent of all available land are suitable for farming. He
noted the problem of ineffective land use.
"We've worked out a program to offer stimuli to land owners, and plan
to reclaim 10 percent of land for farming each year, in order not to
depend on imported food," the governor said.
He also briefed the prime minister on the plans to develop the health
care system. Federal budget allocations for the purpose make up 2.8
billion roubles in 2011, and the regional budget has earmarked as much.
However, even these funds are insufficient to implement t all the plans.
The regional authorities planned to receive 5 billion roubles from the
federal budget to upgrade the health care system. For example, the
Kaliningrad region needs a medical center for complex surgery, as it is
problematic for local residents to travel to other regions. In this
connection, the governor asked the premier to help with additional funding
of the regional health care program.
Putin asked Tsukanov about the situation with utility tariffs this
year. The governor said the authorities had kept the growth of tariffs at
5.5 percent in Kaliningrad, where almost half of the region's population
lives and at 7 percent in other districts. The gas and heat supply tariffs
have not been marked up this year, according to the governor.
9 injured in Voronezh gas cylinder explosion.
MOSCOW, February 24 (Itar-Tass) - Nine people were injured in an gas
cylinder explosion in a garage compound in Voronezh, the regional
department of the Emergency Situations Ministry told Itar-Tass.
"A gas cylinder exploded in a garage compound, starting a fire. The
blast ruined the roofs of three garages, and in another a wall collapsed.
The fire damaged two cars," an emergency official said.
According to the regional emergency situations department, nine people
suffered burns. Seven were taken to hospitals, while another two refused
hospitalization.
.Militants' camp found in Kabardino-Balkaria.
MOSCOW, February 24 (Itar-Tass) - Special task forces in the Elbrus
district, Kabardino-Balkaria, found a militants' camp containing police
uniforms and weapons.
"Special task units found in the highland as well-hidden and
well-equipped militants' base for eight people. The base could accommodate
gunmen in the winter," spokesman for the National Antiterrorist Committee
Nikolai Sintsov told Itar-Tass.
"The base contained large stocks of food, police uniforms, a homemade
bomb and a Kalashnikov machine-gun," Sintsov said.
The operation to detect and destroy militants continues. There has
been no precise information about the casualties among the gunmen.
Reports said one special task force police officer was killed and five
servicemen were wounded in the special operation against militants in
highland Kabardino-Balkaria. Also, on Tuesday night, a Federal Security
Colonel was wounded, law-enforcement bodies in the North Caucasus Federal
District (SKFO) told Tass.
"Fighting continued throughout the night," a high-placed police
officer said, "thermal imaging devices were used to track the militants."
He did not rule out that federal forces were confronting not one gang,
but several, numbering five to eight gunman each.
Speaking about the casualties on the part of federal forces, the
Interior Ministry representative said the special task force police
officer was killed and his five colleagues were wounded when the militants
detected and shelled a recon group. The militants fired from a height and
had an advantage.
Mortars and aviation will be used at the targets in the mountains, he
said.
Law-enforcement bodies said "there is no precise information as to
whether the militants sustained losses. If some of them were killed, the
bodies have been taken away."
An armed group numbering up to seven gunmen opened fire at
law-enforcement personnel on a countryside road linking the Baksan and
Chegem Gorges near the highland village of Bylym, Elbrus district, at
around 17:00, Moscow time, on Tuesday.
The regional department of the Investigation Committee opened a
criminal case over attempted murder of law-enforcement personnel and
illegal turnover of weapons.
Meanwhile, Kabardino-Balkaria law-enforcement bodies have not
confirmed the information about the bombing of the area where the
militants might be hiding.
"A helicopter was only used for aerial reconnaissance," a police
official told Tass.
"As the federal forces were pursuing the gunmen, they used automatic
weapons and mortars," the source said.
Updated reports identified the fatality as K.B.Aliyev, a servicemen
from interior troops unit 3787 billeted in Nalchik-20.
"The group of investigators sent to the scene does not confirm the
information about the killed militants," an investigator said
-0-myz
Tsukanov said his region plans to decrease the dependence on food imports
by expanding crop areas. He said so in the course of his meeting with
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
At present, 45 percent of land in the Kaliningrad region are farmland,
although 90 percent of all available land are suitable for farming. He
noted the problem of ineffective land use.
"We've worked out a program to offer stimuli to land owners, and plan
to reclaim 10 percent of land for farming each year, in order not to
depend on imported food," the governor said.
He also briefed the prime minister on the plans to develop the health
care system. Federal budget allocations for the purpose make up 2.8
billion roubles in 2011, and the regional budget has earmarked as much.
However, even these funds are insufficient to implement t all the plans.
The regional authorities planned to receive 5 billion roubles from the
federal budget to upgrade the health care system. For example, the
Kaliningrad region needs a medical center for complex surgery, as it is
problematic for local residents to travel to other regions. In this
connection, the governor asked the premier to help with additional funding
of the regional health care program.
Putin asked Tsukanov about the situation with utility tariffs this
year. The governor said the authorities had kept the growth of tariffs at
5.5 percent in Kaliningrad, where almost half of the region's population
lives and at 7 percent in other districts. The gas and heat supply tariffs
have not been marked up this year, according to the governor.
9 injured in Voronezh gas cylinder explosion.
MOSCOW, February 24 (Itar-Tass) - Nine people were injured in an gas
cylinder explosion in a garage compound in Voronezh, the regional
department of the Emergency Situations Ministry told Itar-Tass.
"A gas cylinder exploded in a garage compound, starting a fire. The
blast ruined the roofs of three garages, and in another a wall collapsed.
The fire damaged two cars," an emergency official said.
According to the regional emergency situations department, nine people
suffered burns. Seven were taken to hospitals, while another two refused
hospitalization.
.Militants' camp found in Kabardino-Balkaria.
MOSCOW, February 24 (Itar-Tass) - Special task forces in the Elbrus
district, Kabardino-Balkaria, found a militants' camp containing police
uniforms and weapons.
"Special task units found in the highland as well-hidden and
well-equipped militants' base for eight people. The base could accommodate
gunmen in the winter," spokesman for the National Antiterrorist Committee
Nikolai Sintsov told Itar-Tass.
"The base contained large stocks of food, police uniforms, a homemade
bomb and a Kalashnikov machine-gun," Sintsov said.
The operation to detect and destroy militants continues. There has
been no precise information about the casualties among the gunmen.
Reports said one special task force police officer was killed and five
servicemen were wounded in the special operation against militants in
highland Kabardino-Balkaria. Also, on Tuesday night, a Federal Security
Colonel was wounded, law-enforcement bodies in the North Caucasus Federal
District (SKFO) told Tass.
"Fighting continued throughout the night," a high-placed police
officer said, "thermal imaging devices were used to track the militants."
He did not rule out that federal forces were confronting not one gang,
but several, numbering five to eight gunman each.
Speaking about the casualties on the part of federal forces, the
Interior Ministry representative said the special task force police
officer was killed and his five colleagues were wounded when the militants
detected and shelled a recon group. The militants fired from a height and
had an advantage.
Mortars and aviation will be used at the targets in the mountains, he
said.
Law-enforcement bodies said "there is no precise information as to
whether the militants sustained losses. If some of them were killed, the
bodies have been taken away."
An armed group numbering up to seven gunmen opened fire at
law-enforcement personnel on a countryside road linking the Baksan and
Chegem Gorges near the highland village of Bylym, Elbrus district, at
around 17:00, Moscow time, on Tuesday.
The regional department of the Investigation Committee opened a
criminal case over attempted murder of law-enforcement personnel and
illegal turnover of weapons.
Meanwhile, Kabardino-Balkaria law-enforcement bodies have not
confirmed the information about the bombing of the area where the
militants might be hiding.
"A helicopter was only used for aerial reconnaissance," a police
official told Tass.
"As the federal forces were pursuing the gunmen, they used automatic
weapons and mortars," the source said.
Updated reports identified the fatality as K.B.Aliyev, a servicemen
from interior troops unit 3787 billeted in Nalchik-20.
"The group of investigators sent to the scene does not confirm the
information about the killed militants," an investigator said
-0-myz
