Some 60,000 Ukrainians staying in RF to vote at 5 polling stations.

MOSCOW, January 17 (Itar-Tass) - About 60 thousand eligible Ukrainians
staying in Russia on Sunday will elect the republic's president at 5
polling stations created on the base of the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow
and 4 Ukrainian consulate generals in the RF - in St. Petersburg, Tyumen,
Rostov-on-Don and Vladivostok.
The polling stations will be working from 08:00 to 20:00, local time
without interruption in accordance with time zones in which the diplomatic
missions are located.
According to the Ukrainian Central Election Commission's (CEC)
decision and under the law "on elections of the president of the Republic
of Ukraine" the polling stations have been set up exclusively on the base
of the republic's diplomatic missions.
The main contingent of the electorate will be citizens registered at
consulates in the corresponding districts (about 55 thousand people in the
territory of Russia), however, in accordance with a recent decision of the
Constitutional Court and specification of the CEC, aside from those
registered at consular offices the right to vote will also be given to the
Ukrainian citizens that will apply to the corresponding commissions
created on the base of the embassy and consulates and prove that they are
staying in the RF territory on legal grounds and at the moment of the
elections will be in its territory. The commission will decide on the
admission of people to the voting in each separate case.
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.Freight train crashes in Tyumen region, nobody hurt.

MOSCOW, January 17 (Itar-Tass) - A freight train crashed in the Tyumen
region in the area of the Ishim station on Saturday. For unknown so far
reasons two wagons with wheat derailed. People were not hurt in the
incident, a duty officer of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told
Itar-Tass on Sunday.
The Khabarovsk-Moscow passenger train was delayed for some time due to
the incident. Now it has resumed the trip.
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.Five dead in passenger bus-car collision in Krasnodar Territory.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, January 17 (Itar-Tass) - Five people died after
midnight on Sunday in a collision of the passenger bus Ikarus and Ford car
in the Krasnodar Territory.
Itar-Tass was told at the Southern regional centre of the Russian
Emergency Situations Ministry that all the fatalities were the car
passengers. There are three children among them. The accident took place
40 kilometres from the town of Krymsk. The circumstances of the road
accident are being ascertained.
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.Russian rescuers find 4 more people alive under debris in Haiti.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Haiti), January 17 (Itar-Tass) - Russian rescuers on
Saturday found in a search operation in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince
that was hit by a strong earthquake, 4 more people alive. There are 2
children among them, head of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's
response team in the Republic of Haiti Salavat Mingaleyev told Russian
journalists.
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.RF rescuers in Haiti to search for missing Russia national.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, January 17 (Itar-Tass) - Head of the Russian Emergency
Situations Ministry's response team in the Republic of Haiti Salavat
Mingaleyev has told journalists that on Sunday the rescuers will search in
Port-au-Prince for a Russian citizen who went missing here after a
devastating earthquake hit the country.
"He is a 63-year-old resident of St. Petersburg who married a Haitian
woman and he was a teacher in the local university. Our staff members will
go to the house where our citizen was possibly staying and will start
search operations there," Mingaleyev said.
On Saturday, Russian rescuers found during a search operation in the
quake-stricken Port-au-Prince 4 more people alive. There are two children
among the saved people.
Meanwhile, the United Nations is continuing to rush urgently-needed
relief to Haiti, which was struck on Tuesday by a devastating earthquake
that is estimated to have impacted one third of the people of the
Caribbean nation, it said in a press release on Saturday.
Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, the UN World Food
Programme (WFP) has reached 20,000 people with ready-to-eat food, aiming
to feed nearly 40,000 people today in the capital, Port-au-Prince, the
worst-hit city. As part of its emergency operation, the agency plans to
assist 2 million with one-week food rations, while also planning for
food-for-work schemes to jump-start reconstruction and rehabilitation, the
UN release says.
A plane carrying over 20 metric tons of high-energy biscuits landed in
neighbouring Dominican Republic from El Salvador Thursday. They were set
to reach the capital Saturday evening via trucks. Another plane was
scheduled to leave El Salvador bearing more biscuits.
Information technology experts are en route to Haiti to fix
communication capacities for WFP and the entire humanitarian community
operating in the country, while solar panels, generators, laptops and
wireless equipment is being flown in from Dubai.
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported that another planed carrying
oral rehydration salts, water purification tablets and jerry cans touched
down in Port-au-Prince on Saturday morning, the second load of UNICEF
water and sanitation supplies to arrive in Haiti - where children comprise
half of the population - in the past 24 hours.
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