Russia supports idea of further dialogue over CFE - envoy to OSCE.

VIENNA, November 7 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia supports the determination of
the current OSCE president Greece to ensure the conditions for a further
dialogue over the critical situation concerning the Conventional Forces in
Europe (CFE) Treaty, Russia's permanent representative at the OSCE, Anvar
Azimov, said on Friday.

He was speaking at a special meeting of the OSCE
Permanent Council - the leadership body uniting representatives from all
of the 56 member-countries.

The Russian envoy called upon all of the OSCE partners to step up
efforts to restore the viability of the regimen of control of conventional
forces in Europe and promote the early coming into effect the CFE Treaty's
adaptation agreement.
He said that the OSCE still had a chance of proving its "professional
aptitude" in such key matters as control of conventional forces,
confidence and security building measures, perfection of inter-state
relations and of cooperation by organizations, coordination of common
approaches to preventing crises and achieving their peace settlement and
the raising of the level of cooperation in the struggle with new
challenges and threats."
"Russia is prepared for energetic work along these lines," he said.
"We believe that time is ripe for reinforcing the Vienna document on
confidence-building measures in the military sphere by adjusting it to the
imperatives of the day. A corresponding draft resolution of the Athens
meeting of the foreign ministers has been presented to the Forum for
Security Cooperation.

.No reason to punish doctors for bonuses from medical producers-FAS.

MOSCOW, November 7 (Itar-Tass) -- The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service
(FAS) sees no reason for the time being to punish doctors who get material
incentives from pharmaceutical companies for advising their patients to
take certain medical formulas. FAS chief Igor Artemiev said at a meeting
of the experts council for the promotion of competition in the social
sphere and the health service on Friday his service had no intention to
indulge in "witch hunting."
"At a time when doctors were paid a tiny salary of 2,000 rubles a
month in the 1990s, financial support from pharmaceutical companies
allowed to preserve professional workers for the health service system,"
Artemiev said. He suggested dealing with the problem of doctors "on the
payroll" of medical producers by introducing special legal norms,
identical to those already in effect in the European Union.
The FAS chief recalled that Russia had a special civil service act
that imposed certain restrictions on civil servants.
"A similar law, ruling out the emergence of a conflict between the
interests of doctors and patients must exist in Russia, too," Artemiev
said.

.Crew remains, parts of naval plane recovered in Tatar Strait.

MOSCOW, November 7 (Itar-Tass) -- Crew remains and fragments of a
crashed naval warplane have been recovered by rescue ships in the Tatar
Strait, where a search operation has continued for more than seven hours
in the area where a long-range anti-submarine Tu-142-M3 of the Pacific
Fleet went missing on Friday.
According to sources in the naval aviation regiment the lost plane had
belonged to, the cockpit voice and flight data recorders have not been
spotted yet. A kerosene spill and the plane's fragments have been found at
the scene of the crash.
The Russian Defense Ministry's press-service has said the Tu-142 plane
of the Pacific Fleet was making a training flight at 14:17 on November 6
in keeping with the routine training schedule. At the final phase of the
mission over the Tatar Strait radio contact with the crew was lost and the
plane disappeared from radar screens. Joint search by Pacific Fleet ships,
civilian vessels and Air Force planes identified the area of the incident.
Vice-Admiral Konstantin Sidenko is running the search operation."
Emergency Situations Ministry rescuers based in the city of
Komsomolsk-on-Amur and the command of the Pacific Fleet's naval aviation
under its chief, Colonel Albert Nuretdinov, have arrived at the scene.
The plane lies at a small depth, but the chances of finding any bodies
inside are bleak due to the strong currents in the area, naval sources
said.

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