Medvedev to attend Suvorov March anniversary event.

BERNE, September 22 (Itar-Tass) - On Tuesday, President Dmitry
Medvedev of Russia will attend a ceremony marking the 210th anniversary of
the Fieldmarshal Alexander Suvorov's march across the Swiss Alps.
The Russian Head of State will also tour Switzerland's Museum of
History and meet with Jacques Rogge, President of the International
Olympic Committee. Dmitry Medvedev, at the close of his State visit to
Switzerland, will leave by air for New York.
After a meeting with Rogge on Tuesday morning, the President of Russia
will leave by air for the town of Andermatt located in central Switzerland
at an altitude of 1,500 metres above sea level. The town is famous for the
fact that precisely over there Suvorov-led troops forced their way with
battles across the Swiss Alps in the September of 1799.
A 12-metre-high commemorative cross was hewed near the so-called
Devil's Bridge in Schollenen Gorge, several kilometres from Andermatt, in
memory of the valiant warriors.
Following the ceremony near the memorial, Medvedev will go to the city
of Schwiz, where a Museum of Archives is located. This is one of the
principal landmarks of the city. The Museum is a historico-cultrural
institution of national importance. On view there are the originals of the
documensts connected with the history of the establishment and development
of an integrated Swiss state. Of particular value is the original of the
certificate dated 1291, which sealed the allied obligations of three
cantons whose alliance laid the foundation of the future Swiss
Confederation.

.Mil-industrial panel to discuss carrier forces, '10 def order.

MOSCOW, September 22 (Itar-Tass) - The accomplishment of an
instruction about creating in Russia a sea-going air-capable complex will
be the main subject of discussion at a session of the Military-Industrial
Commission (MIC) under the chairmanship of Vice-Premier Sergei Ivanov, an
official at the Vice-Premier's secretariat has told Itar-Tass.
To create a sea-going aircraft-carrying complex is one of the tasks
provided for by the Russian Navy's armament programme for a period until
2015.
Head of State Dmitry Medvedev, when visiting Severomorsk in October
last year, instructed the Defence Ministry to work out a programme for the
construction of aircraft carriers so as to begin to bring them into being
in the coming years. Only one aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, is
currently operational in the Russian Navy.
Vladimir Vysotsky, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, said earlier that
it is planned to create five to six carrier groups in the Northern and
Pacific Fleets. In the process it is planned to build not just aircraft
carriers proper but "sea-going air-capable systems" that would ensure
interaction among ships, aviation, on-shore and space-based facilities.
Research is currently under way to study the creation of the first such
system.
The Sevmash Shipyard is one of the main contenders for building
aircraft carriers for the Navy. Maintenance operations are conducted
aboard the aircraft carrier Vikramaditya (formerly the Admiral Gorshkov),
which was turned over to the Indian Navy.
The secretariat official said those present at the MIC meeting woud
also consider the main parameters of a State-placed defence order for 2010
and a plan period of 2011-2012. Ivanov said earlier that the aggregate
amount of a State-placed defence order for 2010 would be 1,109,000 million
roubles, or 1.2 percent more than this year's one.

.Svetlana Medvedev to present two bear cubs to Berne.

BERNE, September 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's First Lady Svetlana
Medvedev will attend a ceremony here on Tuesday marking the handover of
two bear cubs, male and female, to the city of Berne as a gift from Russia.
President Dmitry Medvedev is currently in Switzerland on an official
visit while Svetlana Medvedev and Swiss First Lady Roswitha Merz have a
programme of their own.
The brown bear cubs, brought from Russia, are from the Ussirian taiga.
The cubs that are under one year old were born in January. Hunters came
across the cubs in the forest of the Khabarovsk Territory in spring. The
cubs were emaciated and would not survive in the taiga on their
own.Therefore the hunters sent them for medical treatment and
rehabilitation so that they could be either released back into the taiga
lateron or be turned over to a zoo. Prior to dispatch to Switzerland, the
bear cubs were vaccinated. As of now they are kept under quarantine at the
Berne zoo. The cubs have grown up considerably and became strogner: the
female cub weighs 8.2 kg while the male one is 7.8 kg. Each cub is
provided with a passport indicating the place and time of birth, the
current abode, and even a photo.
After the handover ceremony, Svetlana Medvedev is expected to visit
the Zurich-based Resurrection parish which was founded in 1936 by
Metropolitan Yevlogy (Georgiyevsky), a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox
Church Outside Russia. In 1946 the parish was placed under the
administration of the Korsun bishopric of the Moscow Patriarchate. As of
now, the parish is the only Moscow Patriarchate-administered church in
Switzerland.
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