Russian Minister for Labour and Social Protection Maksim Topilin and Minister for North Caucasus Affairs Lev Kuznetsov discussed the labour market in the NCFD, the Severnaya Ossetiya paper reports. They decided to create a road map to form a balance of labour resources in the NCFD. Kuznetov said that it would require a well-organized system for training, forecasting labour demands of the economy.
According to Topilin, employment in the NCFD is improving, though unemployment in Ingushetia dropped by about 30%. The minister ordered regions of the NCFD to come up with proposals for development of the labour market. He emphasized the need to form a package of measures to legalize the labour market. Statistically, about half of the population of the NCFD does not pay insurance fees.
Unemployment in North Ossetia is at 9.4%. Over 55% of people addressing employment centers are women. 73.8% of workplaces in North Ossetia require a low-skill workforce, while 58.5% of people registered in employment centers have higher and medium professional education. The republic has an excess of lawyers, economists and managers. It needs more specialists for industry, transportation, housing and utilities and the social sector.
According to Zuber Tkhagalegov, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian State Committee for Employment, unemployment in the republic dropped, the ratio of people searching for jobs to vacancies is 2.4, compared with 3 the previous year, Kabardino-Balkarskaya Pravda reports. 5,700 people found jobs in 2014, exceeding the number in 2013 by 60%. Tkagalegov emphasized that 80% of vacancies were for low-skilled workers. Professional training was organized for 853 unemployed people. The number of people with higher education undergoing retraining has recently been rising. The republic needs builders and mechanics.
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According to the Deputy Minister for Economic Development of Ingushetia, Mahmoud Malsagov, the contribution of small and medium-scale business to the gross regional product of the republic will have totaled 29.8% by 2017, the Ingushetia paper reports. The republic has 1,307 small and medium-scale businesses and 10,117 individual businessmen. The ratio of small business to the total number of employed people Is 17.9%, or 12,800 people. Over 94 million rubles of special taxes are collected annually.
Infrastructure has been created to support business. The Guarantee Fund with 196 million rubles of assets was formed, allowing about 585 million rubles to be granted to small and medium-scale business annually. A system of microfinancing worth over 68.9 million rubles was created. It has already been used to grant businessmen over 387 million rubles of loans.
Malsagov said that the number of small and medium-scale businesses should increase by 150% in 2016, compared with the number in 2013. The ratio of people working for small and medium-scale business to the employed population will have reached 12.5% by 2017.
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Dagestan will collect rice from 13,200 hectares of land this year, exceeding the area of rice crops in 2013 by 40%, the Dagestanskaya Pravda paper reports. Expansion of rice fields is part of the presidential project that prioritizes the crop. Dagestani Vice Prime Minister Sharip Sharipov said that Dagestan has the potential to become the second-largest rice-grower in the country after Krasnodar Territory. Sharipov noted that the yield had totaled 35-36 centners per hectare in 2013 and 45-50 centners this year.
Dagestan has about 46,000 hectares of uncultivated Soviet rice fields. Lack of equipment is one of the main problems in farming.
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The sentence for the murder of Sandro Girgvliani, an employee of the United Bank of Georgia, will be announced by Tbilisi City Court on October 20. Vano Merabishvili, an ex-prime minister and ex-interior minister of Georgia, is suspected of abuse of power within the framework of the case, News Georgia reports.
Gerontiy Alania, the head of the first directorate of the constitutional security department (CSD), currently on the wanted list, and Valerian Metreveli, the head of the fifth directorate of the CSD, are involved in the case. Charges were pressed against Data Akhalaya, an ex-head of the CSD, who is currently hiding in Greece, an extradition request was sent. Oleg Melnikov, an ex-head of the CSD, has a separate case.
Sandro Girgvliani, 28, was found dead on Tbilisi's outskirts in January 2006 after a quarrel with Data Akhalaya, Oleg Melnikov and Vano Merabishvili’s wife Tako Salakaya at one of Tbilisi's bars.
In 2006, four officials of the CSD were sentenced, only to be pardoned later. In October 2012, under social pressure, the Chief Prosecutor’s Office started a new investigation into Girgvliani’s case and concluded that his murder had been organized by Data Akhalaya. Oleg Melnikov, the main witness, said that Merabishvili’s wife Salakaya was the one who had hired killers. Merabishvili, according to prosecutors, falsified judicial proceedings to save his wife and colleagues. All people involved in the case, except Alania and Akhalaya, were to be detained.
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The National Oncological Center of Azerbaijan and America’s Varian Medical Systems, specializing in advanced radiotherapy technologies, have signed a cooperation agreement, the Bakinsky Rabochiy paper reports.
The Azerbaijani center gained the status of a reference center. The deal allows it to expand cooperation with partners, get equipment faster and expand exchange of foreign specialists.
Varian Medical Systems Vice President Fritz Derrer noted that the status of an international educational and consultative center was only granted to clinics with the highest technologies and specialists. Such clinics can be found in five countries of Europe. The ray therapy department treats 3,000 people annually. It has 5 high-energy linear accelerators for brachytherapy. The center concluded installation of Trubim-STX radiotherapy equipment. The reference center of Varian Medical Systems in Baku will host practical radiotherapy classes, studies according to clinical programs, seminars for radioagraphic oncologists of Azerbaijan, physicists, engineers and technicians.
Caucasus domestic and foreign political events in local pressRussian Minister for Labour and Social Protection Maksim Topilin and Minister for North Caucasus Affairs Lev Kuznetsov discussed the labour market in the NCFD, the Severnaya Ossetiya paper reports. They decided to create a road map to form a balance of labour resources in the NCFD. Kuznetov said that it would require a well-organized system for training, forecasting labour demands of the economy.According to Topilin, employment in the NCFD is improving, though unemployment in Ingushetia dropped by about 30%. The minister ordered regions of the NCFD to come up with proposals for development of the labour market. He emphasized the need to form a package of measures to legalize the labour market. Statistically, about half of the population of the NCFD does not pay insurance fees.Unemployment in North Ossetia is at 9.4%. Over 55% of people addressing employment centers are women. 73.8% of workplaces in North Ossetia require a low-skill workforce, while 58.5% of people registered in employment centers have higher and medium professional education. The republic has an excess of lawyers, economists and managers. It needs more specialists for industry, transportation, housing and utilities and the social sector.According to Zuber Tkhagalegov, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian State Committee for Employment, unemployment in the republic dropped, the ratio of people searching for jobs to vacancies is 2.4, compared with 3 the previous year, Kabardino-Balkarskaya Pravda reports. 5,700 people found jobs in 2014, exceeding the number in 2013 by 60%. Tkagalegov emphasized that 80% of vacancies were for low-skilled workers. Professional training was organized for 853 unemployed people. The number of people with higher education undergoing retraining has recently been rising. The republic needs builders and mechanics.* * *According to the Deputy Minister for Economic Development of Ingushetia, Mahmoud Malsagov, the contribution of small and medium-scale business to the gross regional product of the republic will have totaled 29.8% by 2017. The republic has 1,307 small and medium-scale businesses and 10,117 individual businessmen. The ratio of small business to the total number of employed people Is 17.9%, or 12,800 people. Over 94 million rubles of special taxes are collected annually.Infrastructure has been created to support business. The Guarantee Fund with 196 million rubles of assets was formed, allowing about 585 million rubles to be granted to small and medium-scale business annually. A system of microfinancing worth over 68.9 million rubles was created. It has already been used to grant businessmen over 387 million rubles of loans.Malsagov said that the number of small and medium-scale businesses should increase by 150% in 2016, compared with the number in 2013. The ratio of people working for small and medium-scale business to the employed population will have reached 12.5% by 2017.* * *Dagestan will collect rice from 13,200 hectares of land this year, exceeding the area of rice crops in 2013 by 40%, the Dagestanskaya Pravda paper reports. Expansion of rice fields is part of the presidential project that prioritizes the crop. Dagestani Vice Prime Minister Sharip Sharipov said that Dagestan has the potential to become the second-largest rice-grower in the country after Krasnodar Territory. Sharipov noted that the yield had totaled 35-36 centners per hectare in 2013 and 45-50 centners this year.Dagestan has about 46,000 hectares of uncultivated Soviet rice fields. Lack of equipment is one of the main problems in farming.* * *The sentence for the murder of Sandro Girgvliani, an employee of the United Bank of Georgia, will be announced by Tbilisi City Court on October 20. Vano Merabishvili, an ex-prime minister and ex-interior minister of Georgia, is suspected of abuse of power within the framework of the case, News Georgia reports.Gerontiy Alania, the head of the first directorate of the constitutional security department (CSD), currently on the wanted list, and Valerian Metreveli, the head of the fifth directorate of the CSD, are involved in the case. Charges were pressed against Data Akhalaya, an ex-head of the CSD, who is currently hiding in Greece, an extradition request was sent. Oleg Melnikov, an ex-head of the CSD, has a separate case.Sandro Girgvliani, 28, was found dead on Tbilisi's outskirts in January 2006 after a quarrel with Data Akhalaya, Oleg Melnikov and Vano Merabishvili’s wife Tako Salakaya at one of Tbilisi's bars.In 2006, four officials of the CSD were sentenced, only to be pardoned later. In October 2012, under social pressure, the Chief Prosecutor’s Office started a new investigation into Girgvliani’s case and concluded that his murder had been organized by Data Akhalaya. Oleg Melnikov, the main witness, said that Merabishvili’s wife Salakaya was the one who had hired killers. Merabishvili, according to prosecutors, falsified judicial proceedings to save his wife and colleagues. All people involved in the case, except Alania and Akhalaya, were to be detained.* * *The National Oncological Center of Azerbaijan and America’s Varian Medical Systems, specializing in advanced radiotherapy technologies, have signed a cooperation agreement, the Bakinsky Rabochiy paper reports.The Azerbaijani center gained the status of a reference center. The deal allows it to expand cooperation with partners, get equipment faster and expand exchange of foreign specialists.Varian Medical Systems Vice President Fritz Derrer noted that the status of an international educational and consultative center was only granted to clinics with the highest technologies and specialists. Such clinics can be found in five countries of Europe. The ray therapy department treats 3,000 people annually. It has 5 high-energy linear accelerators for brachytherapy. The center concluded installation of Trubim-STX radiotherapy equipment. The reference center of Varian Medical Systems in Baku will host practical radiotherapy classes, studies according to clinical programs, seminars for radioagraphic oncologists of Azerbaijan, physicists, engineers and technici
