November 28, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Today in Slovakia Governor, Chairman of the Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra Alexander Filipenko and Chair of the Banska Bystritsa Oblast Milan Murgash signed the Protocol on Intentions.

Commenting on this event, Milan Murgash said that the Protocol would become a good basis for perspective cooperation between two regions. Governor of Ugra said that the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug was possessed of great economic and investment potential and ready to consider the possibility of Slovakian business-companies’ participation in the region’s economy development. He named housing construction, economy, oriented to the development of commercial and investment relations, tourism, education and science as priorities for cooperation.

Cooperation between two regions will be carried out via the information regular exchange, joint meetings, negotiations and consultations. The working group with representatives from both regions will coordinate the implementation of the present Protocol.

After  a year is passed from the moment of signing the Protocol, the Parties will consider the possibility to conclude the agreement on commercial-economic, scientific and technical and cultural cooperation.

November 28, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

On November 26-28 the official delegation of the Ugra Government, headed by the member of the Council of Federation from the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra Gennadi Oleynik participate in the I international conference “Challenges for creating clusters and innovation partnerships”, held in Valencia (Spain).

The hosts are the Department of Industry and Entrepreneurship of the European Commission.

The participants exchange experience on practical application of innovation and advanced methods in the sphere of IT-technologies.

Over 350 delegates from 22 countries will discuss prospects of the new technologies application in construction, textile industry, automobile industry, and also possibilities for creating new partnerships to increase the industrial potential of enterprises.

November 28, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

On November 27 Governor of the Okrug Alexander Filipenko held several working meetings in Moscow.

He discussed the issues of the preparation for the election campaign to the Oblast Duma with the Deputy Leader of the RF President’s Administration Vladimir Surkov.

In the talk with President of the Science Towns Development Council and Defence Enterprises Support League Anatoli Dolgolaptev he discussed the possible ways of interaction of fuel and energy system companies of Ugra and enterprises of military and industrial system of Russia.

Governor Filipenko discussed with the Vice-President of the Russian media community Vitali Dymarski the development of information space of the Okrug and support to this process by top federal mass media.

November 28, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

On December 1 the forestries of Russia  will celebrate its 180-th anniversary and the Okrug system of forest management – 15-th anniversary.

Independent bodies of the management were created at a new constituent entity of the Russian Federation – Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra and in accordance with the decree of the Chair of the Executive Committee Alexander Filipenko the whole forest fund was transferred from the “Tyumenlesprom” to the “Khanty-Mansiyskleskhoz”. From this moment all the timber activities is carried out on behalf of Ugra by 19 timber farms.

For these years 62,5 ths. ha of new forest sites have  been created, forest – restoration works have been done on the area of 534,5 ths. ha, about 37 million young trees have been planted. As a result of these activities 932,8 ths. ha were planted by trees.

70 million cubic m of timber were logged for the industrial needs of the region.

Employees of the Division – today there are about one thousand of them – put out about 8 ths. fires in forests, brought to light 2,5 ths. violations.

By its forests area Ugra is the fourth in the Russian Federation, the forest plays a great role in economy of the Okrug. Therefore it as made a decision to reform the Forestry Division into the Department from January 1, 2007. In accordance with the decree of the Governor Alexander Filipenko the leader of the Forestry Agency Evgeni Platonov is appointed the Department Director.