300 co's from 24 countries to participate in meat, dairy forums.

MOSCOW, March 16 (Itar-Tass) - Over 300 companies from 24 countries
will participated in Meat and Dairy Industry international forums opening
at the All-Russia exhibition center here on Tuesday.
Organizers say that "These are the only specialized events in Russia
to represent the complete technological cycle of industrial processing of
meat and milk, including transportation and storage".
The organizers of the three-day forums, among them Russia's Dairy and
Meat Unions, also hope that the planned forums and roundtable meetings,
which are to involve officials of respective agencies, will in many
respects determine a strategy for the development of these industries.

.Building and power industry exhibits to open in Volgograd.

VOLGOGRAD, March 16 (Itar-Tass) - StrojEXPO and Electro-2010 are the
names of two all-Russia exhibitions that open here on Tuesday.
Irina Stepko, deputy director of the VolgogradEXPO exhibition center,
has told Itar-Tass, "All in all, 220 companies and enterprises from 20
constituent entities of the Russian Federation will participate in these
exhibitions".
"The displays have been arranged in three pavilions of the Palace of
Sports on an aggregate area of 6,000 square meters. It is not by chance
that they are combined. The building industry exhibition covers all phases
of construction, from the laying of foundation pit to turn-key
commissioning of the facility. The power industry exhibition will provide
specialists with all information on the electrical engineering equipment
of the construction facilities," Stepko said.
The prestige of the StrojEXPO, which is held for a 28th time, is
reaffirmed by the quantitative and qualitative make-up of exhibitors,
among them the foremost building-industry producers, the leaders in
building and finishing technologies. These are building companies and
organizations from Moscow, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, and other Russian
cities, Stepko said.

.MIPIM 2010 int'l realty fair to open in Cannes Tuesday.

CANNES, March 16 (Itar-Tass) - The international market for real
estate projects, the MIPIM 2010, opens in the Palace of Festivals here on
Tuesday. The world's major get-together of real estate professionals and
urban and regional authorities has been arranged for the 21st time already.
The MIPIM fair is a key event in the field of real estate. It is
capable of drawing within four days all the important participants in the
sector -- from developers of territorial development concepts to investors
and end users, and providing them with opportunities for establishing
strong contacts, presenting new projects and laying groundwork for
fruitful cooperation, and giving them a clear idea of the future of the
real estate market, and enabling them to come to realize the challenges
and trends of this rapidly developing sector. Any exhibitor here can
propel his project to an international level.
This year the major international forum has drawn more than 29,000
representatives, among them 7,625 those of end users and investors and
2,687 of exhibitor companies, from 89 countries. The exhibition area is
almost 27,000 metres and the number of accredited journalists is 613.
The Russian delegation includes more than ten governors, heads and
representatives of large city administrations. Displays at the fair have
been arranged by such Russian cities and regions as Tatarstan, Krasnodar
Territory, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaluga, Ulyanovsk, and Ivanovo regions.
The participation of the Chechen Republic and the Altai Republic,
Khabarovsk Territory and Sakhalin, Perm, Rostov, Moscow, Kaliningrad,
Tver, and Volgograd regions, and the cities of Astrakhan, Moscow, St
Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Penza has been announced as well.

.Amurian tiger protection under consideration in Vladivostok.

VLADIVOSTOK, March 16 (Itar-Tass) - A National strategy for the
conservation of Amurian tiger and regional Action Plans for its protection
in the Primorsky (maritime) and Khabarovsk Territories will be the main
subject of discussion at an international conference, which opened here on
Tuesday. The theme of the conference is "The Amurian Tiger in Northeast
Asia: Problems of Conservation in the 21st Century".
The forum is being attended by ecologists and biologists,
representatives of financial and public organizations from China, the
Republic of Korea, Germany, Switzerland, Britain, the United States,
Japan, India, Malaysia, and Russia.
Yuri Darman, director of the Amur branch of the World Wildlife Fund,
has said the forum is one of their important steps on the way to an
international summit on tiger conservation problems. The summit is to be
held in Vladivostok in September this year.
"Before the Heads of Government of 'tiger' states get to the
negotiating table, it is logical for scientists of those countries and
leading international experts on the felines to discuss problems of how to
preserve the global tiger population," Darman pointed out.
Russia is the only tiger-habitat country where the stock of the
species considerably grew since the middle of last century and has been
relatively stable in the past decade. Russian now affords the largest
tiger population in a single habitat -- 450 species or 11 percent of the
world's tiger stock.
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