Six injured when car mounts pavement in Petersburg

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ST. PETERSBURG, September 20 (Itar-Tass) - Six people, including a
child, were injured when a car mounted a pavement in St. Petersburg on
Saturday, police source told Tass.
According to preliminary information, a foreign national was driving
the car. Police look into the incident.

.NATO Military Committee hopes Russia-NATO ties to be restored.

SINTRA (Portugal), September 20 (Itar-Tass) - The NATO Military
Committee expects that NATO-Russia cooperation would be restored, the
chairman of the Committee, Giampaolo di Paola, told a news conference
after a Committee session on Saturday.
However, he was cautious as concerns concrete results and possible
dates of rapprochement between Moscow and Brussels. Giampaolo Di Paola
said that on Friday, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen made a
statement explaining how he saw relations with Russia. Russia's first
reaction to that speech signalled possible progress on the way towards the
restoration of partnership.
The chairman of NATO's Military Committee said NATO wanted to reach
progress and hoped Russia would seriously participate in it to overcome
the cooldown following the events of August 2008. Thus there is a bid to
move forward, he stressed.

.Russian president to unveil Moscow school of management.

MOSCOW, September 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
will on Sunday unveil the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo.
Skolkovo is a joint project of major Russian and international
business leaders, who pooled their efforts to create from scratch a
world-class business school in Russia. About 15 major world companies are
among its founders.
"The president considers this event important, because this school
must become one of the first MBA schools on the world market," Medvedev's
spokeswoman Natalya Timakova told Tass.
The business school has the first in Russia MBA programme with a full
cycle of education. This programme has no analogues in the world, as it
presents the system of education through real projects - two thirds of the
educational process proceed not in the format of traditional lectures, but
in the form of consulting projects, which students will carry out in real
companies.
Roman Abramovich, Ruben Vardanyan, Mikhail Kusnirovich are among the
Russian business executives who have made contribution to the construction
of the business school. The former prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan
Yew, will take part in the unveiling ceremony. He managed to make his
country a leader in economic growth and stability within a record short
period of time.
The Moscow school of management was laid in 2006. It has become one of
the two business schools envisaged in the national project Education. The
second such school is being built in St. Petersburg.
In the process of studies attention will be focused first of all on
studying business activity in countries with quickly growing economies,
such as Russia, India or China. Its students will have a possibility to
take part in a joint implementation of international consulting projects
and train abroad.
According to Ruben Vardanian, President of Skolkovo, "our aim is to
create a new educational centre in Moscow that will train leaders and
entrepreneurs for emerging markets and that will be known for its
innovative approach to teaching".
The initiators of the project - 14 major investors, Russian and
foreign companies and private individuals, say the aim of the school is to
help students develop entrepreneurial leadership, start their own business.

.About 7,000 Kamchatka residents take part in All-Russia race day.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, September 20 (Itar-Tass) - About 7,000
people, including professional athletes and amateurs, take part in the
All-Russia race day on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Natalya Putilova from the
Kamchatka agency for sports told Tass on Sunday.
However, this is a preliminary figure, she added. The event takes
place in the suburbs of regional centre Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. It
started at noon local time (03:00 on Sunday, Moscow time). Thousands of
fans watch the competition.
Athletes compete at the distance of two, four, six, eight and 12
kilometres, depending on their age and physical condition.
The first such race took place on the peninsula on October 3, 2004. A
total of 9,657 people took part in it then. Last year there were 12,246
participants.
The all-Russia race takes place on Sunday in more than 100 Russian
cities. According to the organizers, this race is the most large-scale in
the world as to the number of participants and geography.
Over one million people are expected to take part all in all.
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