Several people injured in Shanghai subway trains collision.

SHANGHAI, December 22 (Itar-Tass) - Several people have been injured as a result of two subway trains' collision here on Tuesday morning.

The incident occurred on one of the busiest lines of the urban subway
network. A subway train collided with the one in front of it. Serious
damage has been done to the rolling stock. According to preliminary data,
the collision was caused by malfunction in electrical equipment.
Line 1 of the Shanghai subway is fully closed now. The line provides a
direct link between two railway terminals and many urban neighborhoods
from the city's south to north.

.Russia enters period of economic growth -- Shuvalov.

MOSCOW, December 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has entered a period of
economic growth and it must now address itself to strategic socio-economic
development matters, Russia's First Vice-Premier Igor Shuvalov has told
the newspaper Kommersant in an interview.
Shuvalov said, "We already entered a period of growth -- although a
not yet steady one -- in December 2009. This growth enables us to address
ourselves to socio-economic development matters that are of paramount
importance to the Russian economy".
Explaining the peculiarities of a new spiral of privatization next
year, Shuvalov said, "We want to change modes for the sale of State
property". He said, "It is essential to ensure an absolute transparency of
privatization actions" while "privatization modes can be expanded through
sale via non-State agents to be selected in accordance with a transparent
procedure".
"In some situations we intend to maintain State control. However, no
one absolutizes the role of preservation of 100 percent of shares or even
a controlling interest in the hands of the State," the First Vice-Premier
pointed out.
When speaking of efforts to resolve the problem of unemployment in
2009, Shuvalov pointed out, "Only some orientations of support for the
labour market have remained out of demand -- this is connected with a low
mobility of the population. In a number of instances, serious projects
turned out well in an effort to promote the development of small and
medium-sized businesses, on which we count in single-industry cities.
'Short-term' programmes for the creation of job opportunities on a
country-wide scale were successful everywhere".
Turning to matters concerning the modernization of the systems of
education, health care, and provision of pensions, Shuvalov specified, "In
the field of health care the government is now preoccupied with pilot
projects for reforms in the regions".
"We must have a right to a certain guaranteed medical aid package and
provision of medicines all over the country. However, an approach to that,
I believe, will be a common one in education, health care, and the pension
system. We can allow only certain types of medicines in the health
insurance system while some types of aid will be the personal
responsibility for the citizen. This is reality," Shuvalov emphasized.

.10-year-old boy dies in road accident in Chita Tuesday.

ULAN UDE, December 22 (Itar-Tass) - A foreign-made car knocked down a
30-year-old woman with two children at a pedestrian crossing in Chita on
Tuesday morning.
A ten-year-old boy died on the spot. The woman and an eleven-year-old
girl have been hospitalized. A motorist guilty of the accident fled the
scene.
The Chita traffic police have launched a search for a Lexus car. The
silvery-coloured jeep may have some damage of the bumper, radiator grill,
and some carbody components. Traffic police applied to the city folk
through the media in a request to help find the car and the driver.
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