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Russian FM to arrive in Nicaragua on visit.
MANAGUA, February 13 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov will arrive in Nicaragua on Saturday to have talks with its
leadership and hand over books to Managua's Central American University
for a Russian language room.
During the visits, Lavrov is scheduled to meet President Daniel Ortega
Saavedra and Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez to discuss pressing
international, regional and bilateral issues.
"The first-ever visit to this Latin American country by a Russian
foreign minister is called upon to raise Russian-Nicaraguan cooperation to
a new level of strategic partnership," Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei
Nesterenko said.
A great deal of attention will be given to the deepening and
diversification of trade, economic, financial and investment relations
between the two countries, as well as joint high-tech projects.
"Successes have been reported in bilateral technological cooperation.
The first stage of the project to deploy 4G wireless communications
network has been implemented and a Russian-Nicaraguan joint venture
Yota-Nicaragua has been set up," Nesterenko said.
Moscow and Managua have agreed to resume the work of the Russian trade
mission in Nicaragua.
Nicaragua is one of the important partners of Russia. The bilateral
legal framework is strengthened by maintaining and expanding contacts at
the political and business levels. In July 2009, the two countries signed
an agreement on the abolition of visas for mutual trips. Russia and
Nicaragua also actively cooperate in the field of science and culture.
On Sunday, February 14, Lavrov will attend ceremony in which books
will be handed over to Managua's Central American University from the
Federal Agency for the CIS, Compatriots Abroad and International
Humanitarian Cooperation and the Russkiy Mir Foundation.
.Nord Stream plans to start building first stretch of pipeline in
April 2010.
MOSCOW, February 13 (Itar-Tass) -- Nord Stream Company plans to start
building the first section of the pipeline in April 2010 and make the
first natural gas supplies in late 2011.
Nord Stream has obtained the last of the permits needed for the
construction of the 1,223-kilometre gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea.
The latest permit issued by Finnish environmental authorities complements
the earlier approval given by the Finnish government for the use of the
country's exclusive economic zone.
Nord Stream now has all the necessary permits and approvals for the
construction of the pipeline from all five countries through which it will
run: Russian, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.
The Regional Administrative Agency for Southern Finland (former
Western Finland Permit Authority) on Friday approved Nord Stream's
detailed plans to construct, operate and maintain its gas pipeline along a
374-kilometre route through Finland's exclusive economic zone.
"This is the culmination of four years of intensive studies,
consultations and dialogue with the authorities, experts, stakeholders and
the public in Finland and other countries through the Baltic Sea region,"
Nord Stream's Managing Director Matthias Warnig said.
"I would like to thank the authorities and the many stakeholders whose
contributions have helped us to find solutions to the many challenges
posed by the Baltic Sea ecosystem. Their support has enabled us to develop
this key European energy infrastructure project to world-class safety and
environmental standards," he continued.
"Our project has been made possible by extensive cooperation between
many European countries and it will make an important contribution to
European energy security," Warnig added.
The authorities have now agreed on the precise routing of the pipeline
and detailed plans for its construction and operation. The finalised plans
are based on a dialogue with the authorities and feedback from other
stakeholders from the five countries through which the pipeline will pass,
as well as inputs from the four other countries around the Baltic Sea.
.Tatarstan art workers to perform in St Pete for Chaliapin's birthday.
ST. PETERSBURG, February 13 (Itar-Tass) -- Art workers from St.
Petersburg and Kazan will pay tribute to Fyodor Chaliapin, the great
Russian singer, on Saturday.
He was worn on the Volga on this day 137 years ago, and 21 years after
that his strong and reverberating bas was for the first time heard in St.
Petersburg.
A concert titled "Kazan - Chaliapin's Muse" will be held on this day
at St. Petersburg's Sheremetev Palace where a memorial exhibition devoted
to the life and work of one of the greatest opera singers of the 20th
century has been set up.
"We would like works of Russian and Tatar composers to be performed in
one concert on this day to bring St. Petersburgers closer to the land
where the great singer grew and where he appeared on stage for the first
time," project coordinator Alfia Rakhmatulina told Itar-Tass.
Celebrations marking Chaliapin's birthday will begin in Kazan with a
religious service at the Epiphany Cathedral. "The future bas of Russia was
baptised here 137 years ago. There is the appropriate entry in the church
book," the cathedral's superior Father Oleg said.
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