Missile warning radar at Armavir to go operational in autumn.

BALASHIKHA, Moscow Region, August 7 (Itar-Tass) -- The missile attack
early warning radar under construction in Armavir will be finalized and
enter combat duty in October or November this year, the director of the
special construction agency, General of the Army Nikolai Abroskin, said on
Thursday.

"At the moment the radar at Armavir is on combat duty in the
experimental mode. On the premises the support and logistics facilities
are being finalized - high voltage transformer lines, a training center
building, and a hostel. All works are scheduled to be completed this year.
As soon as high voltage power is switched on, the radar will enter
full-scale combat duty. That will happen in October or November.
He recalled that last year the special construction agency Spetsstroi
finalized a similar radar at Lekhktusi, the Leningrad Region.


.Russia interested in solution of Karabakh problem - Putin.


ANKARA, August 7 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia is interested in the settlement
of all conflicts in the Caucasus, including that over Nagorno-Karabakh,
and it will be prepared to act as a guarantor, Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin told the media following Russian-Turkish negotiations on Thursday.
"I have said this more than once, and now President Medvedev has
joined this work in the most active way. He regularly meets with the
leaders of both countries concerned (Armenia and Azerbaijan - Itar-Tass).
He does a large amount of positive work for the sake of resolving the
problem of Nagorno-Karabakh."
"I am saying so without any exaggeration. He does much positive work.
Russia is interested to see a settlement, and it does not want any
conflicts in the Caucasus, because any conflict-risky situation harms our
relations with this or that country," Putin said.
At the same time, he remarked, Russia invariably maintained it cannot
and must not do what is the exclusive competence of the conflicting
parties.
"We are outside the framework of this conflict. What we can do is act
as a safeguard, and we shall provide any assistance we can for the sake of
finding compromises that would lead to an ultimate and lasting settlement.


.One dies, 16 injured in head-on bus-truck collision near Krasnodar.


ROSTOV-ON-DON, August 7 (Itar-Tass) -- A night-time head-on collision
of an inter-city bus and a heavy truck on a highway in the Krasnodar
Territory hours ago left one person dead and sixteen others injured, the
press-service of the southern regional center of the Emergency Situations
Ministry has told Tass. Rescue work on the site of the incident has been
completed by now.
The accident occurred at 01:15 on Friday on the M-4 highway between
Otradnoye and Armavir, near the Kubanskoye village.
"A Setra double decker collided with a Renault truck. The truck driver
died instantly. Of the 66 persons on board the bus sixteen were hurt. All
of them have been taken to hospital. Two of the injured are children."
"The other passengers have been taken to Otradnoye-Kubanskoye to be
given accommodation at a local school. Food, water and other essentials
are being provided for the passengers," the Emergency Ministry's center
said.
Reserve busses will be dispatched to take the travelers to the final
destination.
Sources in the Krasnodar Territory's law enforcement have told
Itar-Tass traffic police are examining the site of the incident.
"There was a head-on collision. The one responsible is still to be
established," an official said.


.One dies, 20 suffer injuries in bus-truck collision (updates).

MOSCOW, August 7 (Itar-Tass) -- One died and 20 others were hurt in a
night-time road accident in the Krasnodar Territory in the small hours of
Friday.
"A truck driver died instantly and 20 bus passengers, including two
children were hurt. All have been taken to hospital," the southern
regional center of the Emergency Situations Ministry has told Itar-Tass.
There were 66 passengers on the bus.
A Setra double decker and a Renault truck collided on the Don highway
at 01:15 Moscow time. The bus was en route from Pyatigorsk to Anapa.
An investigation is on.