May 22, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

For four days the group of the World Bank experts will be working in the capital of  Yugra. It is headed by the WB program coordinator for Russia (Moscow representative office of the World Bank) Samir Suleymanov.

He experts started their work with the meeting with the Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Alexander Filipenko. As it was declared by Samir Suleymanov, Yugra is one of the perspective regions of Russia to establish close cooperation with the World Bank. “We are developing the strategy of the full-scale cooperation with Russia and its regions”, - stressed the leader of the working group. “There is no doubt that Yugra will occupy the worthiest place in this project taking into account the experience of economy management, accumulated in the region, realization of social projects. We hope that experience of the World Bank activity will give new opportunities in the development of Yugra”.

Alexander Filipenko expressed his confidence that cooperation with such a prestigious international financial institute would make it possible implement  many programs in Yugra at a high new level. For example, in the sphere of building interrelations with the authorities of different levels, training staff, modernization and diversification of the Okrug economy, providing the rights of the Northern aboriginals, development of transport and engineering communications, solving social problems.

Governor of Yugra tasked his deputies who are responsible for economic and social blocks of the activity, to determine while joint analysis the most perspective spheres of close cooperation with the World Bank.

May 22, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

The official inauguration ceremony was held today in Nefteyugansk. Sergei Burov was appointed Mayor of the town. Governor, Chairman of the Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra Alexander Filipenko participated in it.

In his speech he made an accent that for Nefteyugansk people the time of the elections has finished – the representative body of the municipal authorities has been formed and in May the Mayor wad appointed. The appointed Mayor of the town will form the executive body which will be able to stabilize the public and political situation in the shortest possible time, to word the basic directions of the economic development of the town and social policy. “I am confident that expectations of the townsmen will be justified”, - said Governor of Yugra. “The public authorities have started their work. Nefteyugansk is possessed of everything for the town to develop dynamically, for the authorities to implement successfully all the social programs for the benefit of people”.

May 22, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

At the end of the previous week the Deputy Chairman of the Government, Deputy Chairman of the Coordinating Council on the implementation of national projects in Yugra Sergei Kuchin held the working meeting in Nyagan.

The town programs for each of four directions are ready in the municipality, relevant agreements on cooperation with the Yugra Government have been signed or are preparing for being signed. The participants of the meeting submitted their proposals on the improvement of the form and contents of this interaction. Sergei Kuchin said that it was important for him to hear the opinion of the town administration concerning the realization of the agribusiness complex realization program as there is an opinion that this sphere is a prerogative of the districts. Mayor of Nyagan Alexander Ryzhenkov is confident that the development of agribusiness in the town is of great importance not as the source of the local budget replenishment but as a way to support private sector, to raise the status of farmers, to involve families with average sufficiency into this sector of economy, for whom vegetable growing can become an additional way of getting money. These problems should be solved by the town program of agribusiness development. The program includes the measures of agriculture products producers support, an opportunity of priority participation in the municipal order for the delivery of agricultural production for enterprises and organizations of the town, privileges for allotting land parcels, pastures.

May 22, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

The preparation of the coming All-Russia agricultural census has been completed in Yugra.

Records have been checked in books about   private farms, draft agreements with relevant municipal, transport services have been confirmed to provide the normal work of meters.

The census will be held on July 1-25. It will be organized in accordance with the Federal law “On the All-Russia agricultural census”, adopted on July 21, 2005. This event is of the statistical character. Such a census was held last in the Soviet period.  Since that time the qualitative and quantitative number of owners, land and other relations have been changed in the rural localities. Therefore collecting full data about the domestic agriculture will help to form the well-balanced agricultural policy of Russia for many years.