By Vestnik Kavkaza
Kabardino-Balkarskaya Pravda reports that the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of the North Caucasus of Russia are ready to adopt the concept of development of tool production on the basis of two enterprises of the region – Terekalmaz and Gidrometallurg. It was developed by Stankoprom – the leading holding company of the national corporation of Rostech, which deals with the machine-tool industry and tool production, uniting national industrial, scientific, tool and commercial organizations.
The document is aimed at development of ideas on using the potential of enterprises of the North Caucasus Federal District in projects of import substitution in the sphere of production of carbide tools, according to the protocol of the session of the Governmental Commission for Socio-Economic Development of the NCFD on November 5th 2014 in Nalchik under the management of Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev.
The newspaper reports that Terekalmaz takes a leading position among Russian producers of modern diamond tools, produces drill-pipes for exploration and ore-mining companies. The enterprise provides all stages of working on projecting, development of technologies, and production engineering of new types of diamond tools. It has a broad outlet market – Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Belgium, the US, Romania, Latin America. In January, a contract on cooperation between Terekalmaz and Stankoprom was signed. It requires development of the existing capacities and extending of import-independent high-tech production of diamond tools. The project costs 1.9 billion rubles. It is planned to fulfill the project in 2016-2018. As for Gidrometallurg, a modern tungsten oxide plant is going to be built by the second half of 2018 on the basis of Gidrometallurg in the Maysky Region.
Development of tool production in the region will lead to a growth in the number of jobs, consolidated payments to budgets at all levels, and a decrease of import dependence in the sphere by 20-30% by 2020.
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Dagestan may face problems with extension of using its hydroelectric power, which is 30.1 billion kWh annually, according to Dagestanskaya Pravda. The real technical power which can be used is 12.7 billion kWh.
According to information of the head of the Agency for the Electrical Industry, Murtazali Gitinasulov, a problem of this issue is cooperation between RusHydro and the Ministry of Energy of Russia, which earlier planned to build HEPS on the Andiyskoe Koysu and Avarskoe Koysu Rivers.
As a result of several meetings, the leadership of the RusHydro branch decided that construction of HEPS on the rivers of the Sulak Basin was very expensive, and it was possible only under necessary investment capacities of the company; but it has no such capacities at the moment. The head of the Agency stated that further discussion of the issue will be ineffective, as the participation of RusHydro in the projects is impossible, while there are no other investors who could carry out the construction.
According to the newspaper, such a situation concerns the authorities of the republic. The Strategy of Development of Dagestan to 2025 requires an increase of volumes of industrial production, which directly depends on using the power resources of the region. Meanwhile, today Dagestan already lacks electricity power, which is produced in the mountainous territories of the republic. Dagestan has adopted the program for using renewable power sources (RPS) to 2020. It is focused on balanced development of all kinds of RPS. The general cost of the project is 30 billion rubles. The financial resources will be allocated from several sources: the republican budget will give 3%; an investor – 7%; non-budget sources – 63%; and the investment fund commitments – 27%. According to experts, a result of the program should be an increase of the RPS volumes up to 1 billion kWh.
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According to the Azerbaydzhanskiye Izvestia newspaper, the past decade has been very successful for the formation of IT-infrastructure, particularly mass adoption of broadband internet in the country. However, with the rapid expansion of the network of space and the growth of traffic, additional resources to build communication capabilities were demanded.The Ministry of Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan has implemented a number of projects to digitize telephone exchanges and update the equipment of providers over the past five or six years. The efforts of the Ministry to upgrade the fixed communications were directed at the construction of the telephone exchange based on the digital technology NGN (Next Generation Network). Today, their share has already reached 40%. No less attention was paid to the laying of trunk optical communication lines, primarily for connection to the international internet hubs.The country has actively participated in several international projects – the laying of the high-capacity fiber-optic cable system EPEG and the expanding of the Trans-Caspian segment of the TAE communication system have also initiated the project of creating the Trans-Eurasian Information Super Highway (TASIM). The implementation of these projects gave a fifty times growth in volume of internet traffic of the national segment AzNet in a few years. If in 2008 the figure was 6 Gbit/s, by the end of last year it had already exceeded 300 Gbit/s. Today a number of neighboring countries have access to the global network using the transit possibilities of Azerbaijan.However, the repeatedly increased traffic entering the country through the main communication channels still needs to be dealt with by a distribution system and delivered to the end user without loss of quality and speed. With this purpose, the ministry launched the Fiber to Home project, aiming to provide 85% of the population with broadband internet by 2018. His ultimate goal will be the formation of a branched optical infrastructure, by means of which the connection of the cities to the internet at speeds of 10 to 100 Mbit/s will be provided. The Optical Distribution Network will be stretched and located in remote regions. The project will run fiber-optic cables to all multi-storey houses, administrative and public buildings, modernizing the existing and under construction telephone exchange for these purposes.Work on the project will begin in the second half of the year with the financial support of the Amsterdam Trade Bank, which provided a loan of 13.7 million euros. The purchase of equipment to increase the number capacities of telecommunication nodes has already begun in the Sumgait, Ganja, Absheron, Zagatala, Shamkir, Khachmaz, Goygol, Agdam, Barda and Terter regions. In addition, the number of ports of broadband internet in the 47 cities will be increased by 98 thousand units.The most important component of the project will be the laying of optic communication lines. The publication says that the Production Association Aztelekom has recently signed with Sumgait Technopark (STP) a contract on the supply of fiber-optic cables, where appropriate facilities were put into operation at the end of last year. The production, based on European technologies and equipment, fully meets the domestic demands of the country in these products. The main advantage of the localization of production in the country is the price for the customer, which is about 30% less than the cost of imported counterparts.The Ministry of Health of Abkhazia, together with Russian specialists, has started to implement programs on reproductive health, on the basis of the cooperation agreement signed with the Moscow clinic AltraVita in April 2015.As AltraVita CEO Sergei Yakovenko told the online edition of Sputnik-Abkhazia, the first stage of the program includes the training of local experts in in vitro fertilization (IVF). The experts will hold a series of thematic workshops on the examination and preparation of patients for treatment for Abkhaz doctors. Our doctors will conduct the reception of patients together with local doctors, then the patient will be sent to Moscow for appropriate therapy. The doctors from Abkhazia at later stages will be able to train in Moscow for 2-4 weeks.According to the news agency Abkhazia-Inform, a group of doctors from Moscow have arrived in Abkhazia to hold a conference with local doctors, as well as to find out what number of patients actually need IVF. Today's agenda also includes the issue of training of Abkhaz personnel. An attending physician will be present during the medical examination to know what medications were assigned to patients, and what treatment they should receive before IVF. In addition, AltraVita experts will deal with specific clinical cases at seminars together with Abkhaz physicians.According to Minister of Health Andzor Goov, this work is particularly relevant for Abkhazia, because now the children of the war of 1992-1993, who suffered serious stress, have begun to start families. He also said that this year the IVF procedure will be financed by the state, and in 2016 it will be conducted at the expense of mandatory health insurance.The Severnaya Ossetiya paper informs that specialists of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have arrived in the republic to shoot a documentary about the leopard, better known as the Caucasian leopard. The purpose of the picture is to show the trail of the leopard in the region's history from ancient times to the present day, to talk about the habits and habitats of this animal. It's not a coincidence that the film is being shotin Ossetia. This leopard is a state symbol of the Republic. The crew are collecting the material in the National Museum of Local Lore, exploring the symbolism, heraldry, studying ancient artifacts with images of the leopard. Shooting on location will also be held in places of possible habitat of the predator.The leopard was widespread in the Caucasus and occupied almost all mountainous areas. It was allowed to kill it at any time of the year and by any means, including loops and poison baits, the paper writes. By the 1950s only a few leopards survived. Today traces of leopard in the Caucasus are extremely rare. Sometimes a leopard arrives at the screen of the video camera. WWF experts believe that these are isolated approaches of young leopards from Iran through the Transcaucasian republics.Since 2007 the Foundation has been implementing a program of repopulating the leopard in the Russian Caucasus. Now there are 5 adults and 8 сubs at the fund of the center for breeding and rehabilitation. They plan to set free the mature and ready for independent life cubs this year on the territory of the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve in Krasnodar Territory. The movement of the animals will be watched with the help of GPS-collars, the article says.One of the tasks of the film is to talk about how to treat this animal. "The information part of the project aims to protect the animal from the local population. Our task is also to explain to people what kind of animal it is and why we are returning it here," the press secretary of Russian Caucasus department of the World Wildlife Fund, Vyacheslav Morozov, said. According to him, work is being done to protect people from the animal, and the animal from people. The leopard itself will do everything not to meet with people, and if a man doesn't look for him deliberately, there is no chance of meeting.According to the Azerbaydzhanskiye Izvestia newspaper, the past decade has been very successful for the formation of IT-infrastructure, particularly mass adoption of broadband internet in the country. However, with the rapid expansion of the network of space and the growth of traffic, additional resources to build communication capabilities were demanded.
The Ministry of Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan has implemented a number of projects to digitize telephone exchanges and update the equipment of providers over the past five or six years. The efforts of the Ministry to upgrade the fixed communications were directed at the construction of the telephone exchange based on the digital technology NGN (Next Generation Network). Today, their share has already reached 40%. No less attention was paid to the laying of trunk optical communication lines, primarily for connection to the international internet hubs.
The country has actively participated in several international projects – the laying of the high-capacity fiber-optic cable system EPEG and the expanding of the Trans-Caspian segment of the TAE communication system have also initiated the project of creating the Trans-Eurasian Information Super Highway (TASIM). The implementation of these projects gave a fifty times growth in volume of internet traffic of the national segment AzNet in a few years. If in 2008 the figure was 6 Gbit/s, by the end of last year it had already exceeded 300 Gbit/s. Today a number of neighboring countries have access to the global network using the transit possibilities of Azerbaijan.
However, the repeatedly increased traffic entering the country through the main communication channels still needs to be dealt with by a distribution system and delivered to the end user without loss of quality and speed. With this purpose, the ministry launched the Fiber to Home project, aiming to provide 85% of the population with broadband internet by 2018. His ultimate goal will be the formation of a branched optical infrastructure, by means of which the connection of the cities to the internet at speeds of 10 to 100 Mbit/s will be provided. The Optical Distribution Network will be stretched and located in remote regions. The project will run fiber-optic cables to all multi-storey houses, administrative and public buildings, modernizing the existing and under construction telephone exchange for these purposes.
Work on the project will begin in the second half of the year with the financial support of the Amsterdam Trade Bank, which provided a loan of 13.7 million euros. The purchase of equipment to increase the number capacities of telecommunication nodes has already begun in the Sumgait, Ganja, Absheron, Zagatala, Shamkir, Khachmaz, Goygol, Agdam, Barda and Terter regions. In addition, the number of ports of broadband internet in the 47 cities will be increased by 98 thousand units.
The most important component of the project will be the laying of optic communication lines. The publication says that the Production Association Aztelekom has recently signed with Sumgait Technopark (STP) a contract on the supply of fiber-optic cables, where appropriate facilities were put into operation at the end of last year. The production, based on European technologies and equipment, fully meets the domestic demands of the country in these products. The main advantage of the localization of production in the country is the price for the customer, which is about 30% less than the cost of imported counterparts.
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The Ministry of Health of Abkhazia, together with Russian specialists, has started to implement programs on reproductive health, on the basis of the cooperation agreement signed with the Moscow clinic AltraVita in April 2015.
As AltraVita CEO Sergei Yakovenko told the online edition of Sputnik-Abkhazia, the first stage of the program includes the training of local experts in in vitro fertilization (IVF). The experts will hold a series of thematic workshops on the examination and preparation of patients for treatment for Abkhaz doctors. Our doctors will conduct the reception of patients together with local doctors, then the patient will be sent to Moscow for appropriate therapy. The doctors from Abkhazia at later stages will be able to train in Moscow for 2-4 weeks.
According to the news agency Abkhazia-Inform, a group of doctors from Moscow have arrived in Abkhazia to hold a conference with local doctors, as well as to find out what number of patients actually need IVF. Today's agenda also includes the issue of training of Abkhaz personnel. An attending physician will be present during the medical examination to know what medications were assigned to patients, and what treatment they should receive before IVF. In addition, AltraVita experts will deal with specific clinical cases at seminars together with Abkhaz physicians.
According to Minister of Health Andzor Goov, this work is particularly relevant for Abkhazia, because now the children of the war of 1992-1993, who suffered serious stress, have begun to start families. He also said that this year the IVF procedure will be financed by the state, and in 2016 it will be conducted at the expense of mandatory health insurance.
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The Severnaya Ossetiya paper informs that specialists of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have arrived in the republic to shoot a documentary about the leopard, better known as the Caucasian leopard. The purpose of the picture is to show the trail of the leopard in the region's history from ancient times to the present day, to talk about the habits and habitats of this animal. It's not a coincidence that the film is being shotin Ossetia. This leopard is a state symbol of the Republic. The crew are collecting the material in the National Museum of Local Lore, exploring the symbolism, heraldry, studying ancient artifacts with images of the leopard. Shooting on location will also be held in places of possible habitat of the predator.
The leopard was widespread in the Caucasus and occupied almost all mountainous areas. It was allowed to kill it at any time of the year and by any means, including loops and poison baits, the paper writes. By the 1950s only a few leopards survived. Today traces of leopard in the Caucasus are extremely rare. Sometimes a leopard arrives at the screen of the video camera. WWF experts believe that these are isolated approaches of young leopards from Iran through the Transcaucasian republics.
Since 2007 the Foundation has been implementing a program of repopulating the leopard in the Russian Caucasus. Now there are 5 adults and 8 сubs at the fund of the center for breeding and rehabilitation. They plan to set free the mature and ready for independent life cubs this year on the territory of the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve in Krasnodar Territory. The movement of the animals will be watched with the help of GPS-collars, the article says.
One of the tasks of the film is to talk about how to treat this animal. "The information part of the project aims to protect the animal from the local population. Our task is also to explain to people what kind of animal it is and why we are returning it here," the press secretary of Russian Caucasus department of the World Wildlife Fund, Vyacheslav Morozov, said. According to him, work is being done to protect people from the animal, and the animal from people. The leopard itself will do everything not to meet with people, and if a man doesn't look for him deliberately, there is no chance of meeting.
