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ITAR-TASS overnight news cycle for August 5-3.
Baikal deepwater missions organizer refutes reports on search for Adm
Kolchak's gold.
MOSCOW, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - Deepwater descent missions on Lake
Baikal do not have any objectives that might pertain to a digging-up of dubious sensations, hoards or a missing gold reserve left behind by Admiral Kolchak, a Russian royalist who ruled the Urals and Siberia from 1918 through to 1920, Member of Parliament Artur Chilingarov, who stands at the head of the Baikal expedition told a news conference Monday.
"Baikal is Russia's treasure in itself and our main objective is to study it at an advanced level so as to generate healthy interest towards the lake, in the first place, as well as toward its protection and a rational use of its resources," Chilingarov said as he addressed reporters at Itar-Tass headquarters.
"I don't know if there's whatever gold in the depths of the Baikal," Chilingarov said, adding however that he had heard about an organization of some kind that searched the lake's expanses in a believe the thickness of its waters concealed who trains full of precious metals.
"We do look for archeological artefacts," he said. "Presumably, there are many archeological finds lying somewhere on the Baikal's bed. We won't conceal anything from public view."
People's Assembly of Rssn region to discuss candidate for presidency.
CHERKESSK, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - People's Assembly in the Russian
North Caucasus constituent republic of Karachai-Cherkessia is expected to meet in session Tuesday for considering the candidacy of Boris Ebzeyev to the post of the republic's president.
Ebzeyev was nominated for the post by Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev.
The incumbent president, Mustafa Batdyev is expected to leave the post under the provisions of the Karachai-Cherkessia constitution, as his five-year term of office expires.
Boris Ebzeyev, 58, has a biography that is quite typical of
politicians who emerged from the Soviet-era grassroots.
He started out as a concreter at construction projects in the town of Karachayevsk, served in the Armed Forces and then in the special motorized units of the police, graduated from a law school in the city of Saratov, defended a doctorate, took the position of a professor, and became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Ebzeyev is married and has a son and two grandchildren. In October
1991, he was elected a judge of the Russian Constitutional Court.
People's Assembly of Karachai-Cherkessia has fifty deputies and if
Ebzeyev rallies a half of their votes he will be the region's president over the next five years.
Former mayor of southern Russian city arrested in Austria.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - Former mayor of the southern
Russian city of Stavropol, Dmitry Kuzmin, whom the authorities placed on an international wanted list, has been arrested at an airport in Austria and documents for his extradition are being prepared now, a source at the Russian Interior Ministry's branch in the Southern Federal District said.
In February, the Stavropol territory department for investigations
instituted an investigation accusing Kuzmin of a misuse of occupational powers in detriment of the interests of public service and the heavy consequences that ensued.
According to investigators, Kuzmin made a proposal to the Stavropol city hall back in 2005 to sign a loan agreement between a municipal unitary enterprise and a lending institution to the tune of 13 million rubles and the annual interest of 8.5%.
The agreement had an effective period of 90 days. As a collateral,
Kuzmin's scheme envisioned the issuance of a mortgage agreement for an
untenanted facility.
The loan agreement featured a large insurance company as a guarantor of the loan's return.
As a result, the sides signed a loan agreement that could not be
fulfilled by virtue of its nature.
"The municipal enterprise had no need for it and the city's budget did not have a reservation of funds for this purpose.
The insurance company took over the right to recourse in 2006.
"In the same year, the untenanted facility that cost 16.3 million
rubles was put up for an action on the grounds of non-execution of
contract provisions by the loaner. It was purchased by a person
affiliated with the insurance company.
By organizing the scheme, Kuzmin inflicted a damage of 16.3 million rubles on the city budget.
A criminal case citing abuse of office at an agency of local
self-government was instituted last November. It concerned among other
things the permission, which Kuzmin gave out in July 2005 to an official of the regional government to exchange the latter man's municipal apartment for a private house with a plot of land.
The decision put the city into a damage of 1.3 million rubles.
A city court passed a decision November 30, 2007 to oust Kuzmin from the mayor's office.
His arrest was sanctioned by the court and he was placed on the wanted list.
Kolchak's gold.
MOSCOW, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - Deepwater descent missions on Lake
Baikal do not have any objectives that might pertain to a digging-up of dubious sensations, hoards or a missing gold reserve left behind by Admiral Kolchak, a Russian royalist who ruled the Urals and Siberia from 1918 through to 1920, Member of Parliament Artur Chilingarov, who stands at the head of the Baikal expedition told a news conference Monday.
"Baikal is Russia's treasure in itself and our main objective is to study it at an advanced level so as to generate healthy interest towards the lake, in the first place, as well as toward its protection and a rational use of its resources," Chilingarov said as he addressed reporters at Itar-Tass headquarters.
"I don't know if there's whatever gold in the depths of the Baikal," Chilingarov said, adding however that he had heard about an organization of some kind that searched the lake's expanses in a believe the thickness of its waters concealed who trains full of precious metals.
"We do look for archeological artefacts," he said. "Presumably, there are many archeological finds lying somewhere on the Baikal's bed. We won't conceal anything from public view."
People's Assembly of Rssn region to discuss candidate for presidency.
CHERKESSK, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - People's Assembly in the Russian
North Caucasus constituent republic of Karachai-Cherkessia is expected to meet in session Tuesday for considering the candidacy of Boris Ebzeyev to the post of the republic's president.
Ebzeyev was nominated for the post by Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev.
The incumbent president, Mustafa Batdyev is expected to leave the post under the provisions of the Karachai-Cherkessia constitution, as his five-year term of office expires.
Boris Ebzeyev, 58, has a biography that is quite typical of
politicians who emerged from the Soviet-era grassroots.
He started out as a concreter at construction projects in the town of Karachayevsk, served in the Armed Forces and then in the special motorized units of the police, graduated from a law school in the city of Saratov, defended a doctorate, took the position of a professor, and became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Ebzeyev is married and has a son and two grandchildren. In October
1991, he was elected a judge of the Russian Constitutional Court.
People's Assembly of Karachai-Cherkessia has fifty deputies and if
Ebzeyev rallies a half of their votes he will be the region's president over the next five years.
Former mayor of southern Russian city arrested in Austria.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - Former mayor of the southern
Russian city of Stavropol, Dmitry Kuzmin, whom the authorities placed on an international wanted list, has been arrested at an airport in Austria and documents for his extradition are being prepared now, a source at the Russian Interior Ministry's branch in the Southern Federal District said.
In February, the Stavropol territory department for investigations
instituted an investigation accusing Kuzmin of a misuse of occupational powers in detriment of the interests of public service and the heavy consequences that ensued.
According to investigators, Kuzmin made a proposal to the Stavropol city hall back in 2005 to sign a loan agreement between a municipal unitary enterprise and a lending institution to the tune of 13 million rubles and the annual interest of 8.5%.
The agreement had an effective period of 90 days. As a collateral,
Kuzmin's scheme envisioned the issuance of a mortgage agreement for an
untenanted facility.
The loan agreement featured a large insurance company as a guarantor of the loan's return.
As a result, the sides signed a loan agreement that could not be
fulfilled by virtue of its nature.
"The municipal enterprise had no need for it and the city's budget did not have a reservation of funds for this purpose.
The insurance company took over the right to recourse in 2006.
"In the same year, the untenanted facility that cost 16.3 million
rubles was put up for an action on the grounds of non-execution of
contract provisions by the loaner. It was purchased by a person
affiliated with the insurance company.
By organizing the scheme, Kuzmin inflicted a damage of 16.3 million rubles on the city budget.
A criminal case citing abuse of office at an agency of local
self-government was instituted last November. It concerned among other
things the permission, which Kuzmin gave out in July 2005 to an official of the regional government to exchange the latter man's municipal apartment for a private house with a plot of land.
The decision put the city into a damage of 1.3 million rubles.
A city court passed a decision November 30, 2007 to oust Kuzmin from the mayor's office.
His arrest was sanctioned by the court and he was placed on the wanted list.
