Russia's last Progress M-67 to be buried in Pacific.

MOSCOW, September 27 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's last space freighter
Progress of old modification will be buried at a 'spaceship cemetery' in
the Pacific Ocean on Sunday after it served as an orbital laboratory in
the low earth orbit for six days, Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin
told Itar-Tass.

"At 13:33 Moscow time the engines of Progress M-67 should begin an
aerocapture maneuver and exit from the orbit, 47 minutes later unburnt
debris of the space freighter will reach a designated area in the ocean,"
he said.
The spaceship was undocked from the International Space Station (ISS)
on Monday and was taken to the low earth orbit. "During the spacecraft's
orbit flight Plasma-Progress geophysical experiment was conducted," the
expert said. During Plasma-Progress experiments high precision
measurements of TCV coordinate and reflecting characteristics and
space-time disturbances of plasma parameters are executed.
Before undocking the freighter was loaded with over 1 tonne of space
garbage from the ISS.
"Most of the space garbage is burnt out while entering uppermost
layers of the atmosphere and only remaining debris reach the Earth," the
spokesman said adding that no damage to environment is caused.



.Local administration chief and his bodyguard killed in Chechnya.

GROZNY, September 27 (Itar-Tass) - A local administration chief of
Stary Achkhoi, Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan district, and his bodyguard were
shot dead by unknown gunmen at 17:30 Moscow time on Saturday, a source at
the republic's law enforcement agency told Itar-Tass.
Ali Artamov with his bodyguard returned home from work, when two
gunmen opened fire on his car from an automatic rifle in the center of the
village of Stary Achkhoi.
Investigation is underway.



.Russia registers upward trend in housing construction - Basargin.

MOSCOW, September 27 (Itar-Tass) - Russia registers an upward trend in
the housing construction despite impacts of the global financial crisis,
Regional Development Minister Viktor Basargin told Itar-Tass on Saturday.
"Despite the crisis Russia observes higher housing construction
rates," he said adding that "we managed to keep the positive dynamics in
the housing construction countrywide."
"In January-July 25.7 million square meters of housing was built.
Meanwhile, higher construction rates were registered in Russia's 45
regions," Basargin said.
"In 2009 it is planned to commission 57.3 million square meters of
housing. This is by 10.2 percent higher those rates stipulated by the
national project on affordable and comfortable housing," he said. "Over
the first two months of this year we commissioned by 5.86 million square
meters more than over the same period of 2008."
Basargin stressed that the government's anti-crisis program for 2009
pays much attention to the measures to support the construction sector.
He said his ministry "sees support for the industry not in financial
injections, but in the regulation of supply and d He said his ministry
"sees support for the industry not in financial injections, but in the
regulation of supply and demand and their stable functioning taking into
account regional peculiarities."

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