Crude abuse of armor redeployment rules exposed in Urals.

YEKATERINBURG, March 13 (Itar-Tass) -- The military prosecutor's
office of the Volga-Urals military district has exposed crude violations
of standard procedures in the redeployment of armored vehicles, which were
founded abandoned in a forest near the Yelan garrison, the Sverdlovsk
Region, last February, Itar-Tass was told on Friday.

"It has been established that in violation of the rules and
regulations no adequate measures were taken to arrange for properly
guarding and deploying armored vehicles in the process of their
relocation," the military prosecutor's office said.
The area where armored vehicles were placed temporarily was not fenced
off or equipped as is required. No permanent guards were placed. The place
was inspected by patrols from time to time.
The redeployment of a large number of armored vehicles was carried out
in the territory of the Volga-Urals military district. For a long time the
vehicles remained in the forest near the Yelan garrison, which was a
temporary stopover. According to media reports, the tanks were left
unattended. By now the redeployment has been completed. All were brought
to a depot at the Kamyshlovo garrison.

.US State Department's human rights report 'traditional'-Russian FM.

MOSCOW, March 13 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian Foreign Ministry has
described the US Department of State's report on the human rights
situation in the world in 2009 as a "traditional and ritual one."
"Everything about this report looks very traditional, and even
ritual-like - the approaches, the main ideas, the conclusions and the
sources," the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "In this respect we have
noted no major difference, despite the 'resetting' in our relations the
current US Administration has declared.
"It is common knowledge that this piece of work is expected in the
first place to address the foreign policy tasks of the US establishment by
using such a delicate matter as human rights to create the needed
political framework and to advance very specific and very materialistic
foreign policy interests," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
At the same time, the statement runs, it is a good sign that the
Department of State has declared the intention to publish a report on the
observance of human rights in the United States, too."
"We do hope that it will both reflect the facts and offer proper
critical evaluations," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"It would be of great interest to know how the US foreign policy
department, which is so fond of lecturing others regarding the human
rights, will comment on torturers and inhuman or humiliating treatment in
the United States itself," the Foreign Ministry said. "This refers not
only to the well-known cases in Bagram or the Guantanamo special prison,
which, contrary to promises by the Obama Administration, has not been
closed down to this day, and also in US prisons and on the streets of
American cities."
"We do hope that such things as family violence that leads to murders
of children, including those adopted from Russia, manifestations of racism
and xenophobia towards migrants, Islamophobia and intrusion of privacy by
secret services will not be forgotten, either. The same applies to the
restrictive measures being taken towards journalists involved in covering
US operations abroad," the Foreign Ministry said.
Lastly, Moscow expressed the hope that "probably the report will give
recommendations to introduce at last the office of human rights
commissioner in the United States, to join a number of international human
rights treaties on the eve of the forthcoming procedure of the Universal
Periodical Review on the human rights within the framework of the UN Human
Rights Council, and also make specific proposals for not so much improving
the image of the country as improving the real state of affairs."

.Without hightech industry Russia has no future - Alfyorov.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 13 (Itar-Tass) -- Without a systematic program
for the revival of the high technology industry Russia will have no
future, says Nobel Prize winner Zhores Alfyorov, a deputy president of the
Russian Academy of Sciences.
"Only science and break-throughs, only revolutionary products in
science and engineering can furnish the basis for the revival of
research-intense branches of the economy and their further development,"
Alfyorov told Friday's news conference in St. Petersburg on the eve of his
80th anniversary. The renowned scientist's birthday is on March 15.
"This task must be addressed systematically at all levels of state
governance," he said.
"It is highly deplorable that Russia's science today relies
exclusively on a handful of individuals, although quite outstanding ones,"
novelist Daniil Granin, an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg, told the
news conference. "The hope for the revival of the national science is
still alive, the more so, since there are young talented scientists on
Russian soil and they just need support."
At the end of the news briefing Alfyorov said that "reports by young
scientists, awarded the prize of the Alfyorov Fund, will be the best
birthday present."
The prizewinners will gather in St. Petersburg from all over the
nation and from many former Soviet republics to make reports at a special
forum.
"It is not ruled out that the revolutionary results of research by my
promotees will be noticed at the international level and lay the
groundwork of future breakthrough discoveries," Alfyorov said.

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