Zubkov to head Russian delegation at Green Week -2010.

BERLIN, January 14 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister
Viktor Zubkov will visit Germany for a working visit on January 14-16, the
Russian government press service reports.
Zubkov will lead the Russian delegation to the 75th international
agro-industrial exhibition "Green Week - 2010" which is opening in Berlin
on Thursday evening.
The Russian delegation includes Russian Agriculture Minister Yelena
Skrynnik, presidential envoy in the Siberian Federal District Anatoly
Kvashnin, the heads of Russian regions and directors of leading Russian
agricultural enterprises.
Viktor Zubkov and Yelena Skrynnik will open the Russian pavilion on
Friday, January 15th. The pavilion occupies an area of 6,000 square
meters.
Russia attaches great importance to this major European agricultural
show. This one is 16th for Russia. Over the past three years from 2006 to
2009 the total economic profit from participation of Russian enterprises
has exceeded 1.7 billion euros.
The Siberian Federal District will have the largest exposition this
year. It will feature contemporary science-intensive agricultural
technologies, promising agro-industrial investment projects and the best
foodstuffs.
Other Russian regions will put up smaller displays. They include the
Tver, Saratov, Tomsk, Ivanovo and Rostov regions as well as the Krasnodar
territory and the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District.
The main task for Russia is to attract foreign investors to Russian
agricultural projects and ensure the entrance of Russian agricultural
products to international food markets. One hundred and twenty Russian
agricultural enterprises and companies will present more than 140
investment projects worth more than four billion euros.
Viktor Zubkov and the accompanying delegation will discuss bilateral
cooperation with Germany at the Russian-German forum on the Russian
strategy to modernize the agro-industrial complex and prospects for
Russian-German cooperation on the sidelines of Green Week-2010.
On January 16, Zubkov will hold a meeting of the boards of the Russian
and German coordination committees of the St. Petersburg dialogue public
forums jointly with the German co-chairman of the St. Petersburg dialogue
forum.

.Russian rescuers leave for Haiti.

MOSCOW, January 14 (Itar-Tass) - The first group of rescuers of the
Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations has left for Haiti to help the
local people hit by a powerful earthquake.
The Itar-Tass news agency reports that an IL-76 plane of the Russian
Ministry for Emergency Situations took off from the Ramenskoye airfield
near Moscow at 05:30 Moscow time.
It's carrying a 22 rescuers, including six dog specialists with dogs
trained to search for people, eight doctors and two psychologists.
Another IL-76 plane will deliver an airmobile hospital to Haiti.
The airmobile hospital has 50 beds and can function autonomously. It
has an intensive care ward, an operating room, a diagnostics and
consulting unit, ultrasonography, an X-ray examination unit,
electrocardiography and a blood test laboratory. An intensive therapy ward
with the number of beds varying from six to ten can be deployed if
necessary.
The hospital's doctors have worked in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Pakistan,
China and South Ossetia. They did surgical operations in field conditions.
Russia is sending relief aid to Haiti on order from Russian President
Dmitry Medvdev.
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