Party of Regions not to form coalition with BYUT in parl'

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KIEV, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - The Party of Regions, headed by Viktor
Yanukovich, and the Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko (BYUT) will not unite into a
coalition in the present parliament of Ukraine, Member of Parliament
Nestor Shufrich said in a live broadcast of the ICTV channel on Tuesday.
"Unfortunately, I can hardly imagine a possibility of the Party of
Regions and BYUT uniting (into a coalition). After a regular parliamentary
election, this issue will, possibly, become important. However, this is
unlikely to happen in the present parliament". He also expressed an
opinion that there would be no early parliamentary elections.
Commenting on the question of who may become a Premier in the event
the Verkhovna Rada coalition is reformatted, Shufrich said, "I do not
imagine any other candidacy for premiership in a future coalition than
that of a representative of the Party of Regions".
Earlier, Yanukovich said that talks on the creation of a new
parliamentary coalition would begin on February 9.

.Branch of academy of mil sciences opens on Kamchatka.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - A branch of the
Russian Academy of Military Sciences (RAMS) has opened here on the basis
of the Kamchatka State Technical University, an official in the press
service of the Legislative Assembly of the Kamchatka Territory (KT) told
Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
The KT has become a 13th region of the country to have a branch of the
RAMS. The staff of the local branch has 27 members representing the
Peninsula's institutions of higher learning.
Boris Nevzorov, Chairman of the Territorial Legislative Assembly,
said, "Kamchatka, notwithstanding its geographical position of an outlying
region, is of great geopolitical and military-strategic importance. The
region holds one of the leading places in the world for the diversity and
scope of fish resources, ensuring the country's sufficiency in food". He
expressed confidence that the local branch of the RAMS would make a
tangible contribution to the scientific support for the development of
both the Territory and the entire country.

.Opera and ballet theatre to emerge in Vladivostok.

VLADIVOSTOK, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - A Khabarovsk-based Building
Holding Company will build an opera and ballet theatre here. The company
has won a tender for the right to build the theater which will emerge here
by the 2012 APEC summit.
The new theater will be fitted out with state-of-the-art equipment.
Sound and lighting equipment, and the mechanization of the stage will make
it possible to present even complex opera and ballet productions. The
theatre will have two comfortable auditoriums seating 300 and 1,500.
Provision is also made for a basement parking and a restaurant.

.Comm operators seek to overcome downturn aftermath.

MOSCOW, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - The results of the operation of the
Russian telecommunications sector in the light of the economic instability
of 2009 and tasks aimed at promoting a further development of the sector
are to be discussed at an international conference here.
Russian communications operators are to share their experience in
working under the conditions of economic downturn and present their
innovative recommendations in the field of the transaction of business.
The highest priority projects in the Russian telecomm sector at the
present stage are as follows: a transition to world standards for data
transmission speed, the modernization of outdated telephone-exchanges,
transition to digital television and radio broadcasting, and the mastering
of new frequency bands.

.Railwaymen of Baltics, RF to discuss sector problems.

TALLINN, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - The railwaymen of the Baltics and
Russia together with businessmen and politicians will discuss the problems
of the sector in the light of the world financial and economic downturn.
This will be the subject of discussion at an international sectoral
business forum on the theme of "Strategic Partnership 1,520: Baltic
Region". The forum opens here on Tuesday.
An organizing committee official has said, "The Baltics (the area
comprising Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) is a kind of outpost of
railways with a gauge of 1,520 mm, which brings together all the countries
in the post-Soviet space, as well as a number of countries both in Europe
and Asia".
Businessmen, industry officials, and politicians have been invited to
have a dialogue about urgent problems. They are not only to share their
vision of the situation but also seek jointly to work out possible
versions of resolving this or that problem.
A further development of relations between Russian railwaymen and
their Baltic colleagues will be also a quite important aspect of
discussions. Vladimir Yakunin, president of the Russian Railways Company,
pointed out earlier, "We view the Baltic railways as strategic partners.
We are convinced that our cooperation will make a tangible contribution to
the development of friendly relations between our countries".
Kaido Simmerman, chief of the Estonian Railway, told Russian
journalists, "We sought to secure that everyone is comfortable and feels
at home in Tallinn".
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