October 20, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Prospects of the further development of the customs service and international airports of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug were discussed at the working meeting of the Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko and Head of the Regional Border Division of the Federal Security Service of the RF over the Urals Federal District, Lieutenant-General Nikolai Kozik and Head of the Urals Customs Division, Major-General of the customs service Vladimir Sorokin. Both generals were recently appointed.

In the Autonomous Okrug there are ten airports and four of them have an international status - in Surgut, Kogalym, Nizhnevartovsk and Khanty-Mansiysk.

All of them are equipped with border posts for customs, border examination of passengers, necessary technological equipment, cars, offices and dwelling premises for the stable functioning of airports’ international sectors.

The main load of international traffic is given to the airport in Surgut - for eight months it has served over 40 ths. passengers. Almost ten ths. passengers used services of the international airport in Nizhnevartovsk. The international sector of the airport in the capital of the Autonomous Okrug - Khanty-Mansiysk is growing. In August it was opened the flight Baku-Khanty-Mansiysk-Nizhnevartovsk-Khanty-Mansiysk-Baku which became popular.

Leaders of the territorial services of the customs house and border division intend to get acquainted in detail with the work of all the international airports of Ugra and to render necessary support, if needed.

October 20, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

The spheres of cooperation concerning the preparation and organization of credit lines for the implementation of projects, included into the Okrug program of reconstruction and modernization of housing and communal services system of the Autonomous Okrug, were discussed at the working meeting by Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko and top banker of the municipal and ecological infrastructure unit of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRR) Yevgeni Ofrikhter.

In the interlocutors’ opinion, cooperation will be made for the benefit of the municipalities - Surgut District, towns of Megion, Nefteyugansk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Surgut and others. There were considered the draft credit agreements between the EBRR and the municipalities and there were discussed conditions of signing the Deed of guarantees and partial support for the implementation of the projects, aimed at reconstruction and modernization of housing and communal services system by the Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.

October 20, 2006

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Today the Duma of Ugra adopted two important draft laws of the Okrug Government for the agribusiness industry of the Autonomous Okrug. They are about rendering the planned gradual support to the production of agricultural goods.

The head of the Okrug Agribusiness Complex Division Lev Kalashnikov told the deputies that in the Okrug several governmental programs, adopted before, are successfully implemented in the Okrug. They are aimed at improving the social and economic status of the village including the target-oriented program "Rural school", special programs, aimed at improving housing conditions of countrymen and young specialists, construction of social facilities. The new program "Program of State Support for commodity-producers in 2007-2011" will promote to the development of the agrarian sector of the Okrug economy. Some events will be made including subsidizing the per cent rates for bank loans, compensation of expenses for manufacture products of cattle-farming, plant-growing and fishing, purchase of pedigree cattle, from the Okrug budget and also compensation of 2/3 rate of re-financing of the RF Central Bank for the use of loans, taken for the renewal, expansion, modernization of production, support of young specialists and etc. The total sum of financing the Ugra agribusiness system for the coming five years will amount to 2 billion 783,7 million rubles.

The deputies adopted the "program of support" in the first reading, having incorporated their amendments. For five years of this document implementation the production of milk and meat in the Okrug should increase by 110 % in respect to the level of 2005, vegetables - by 105 %, fish - by 160 %. The manufacture of gross production in the agrarian sector will exceed 6 billion rubles by 2011.

The Duma adopted the proposed by the Okrug Government draft law about the double increase of subsidizing the production of milk and meat this year - 57,5 million rubles will be spent for these purposes what will allow to create the reliable base for the implementation of the priority national project in 2007.