December 16, 2008

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

On December 15 Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko had a meeting with members of the delegation from South Korea which came to Khanty-Mansiysk with familiarization visit.

The members of the delegation – Councilor of President of South Korea for Culture Kwang Chul Chin, President of "XTEP International" Un Sang Chong, Chair of the Board of the JSC "Ark-II" Igol Li.

Alexander Filipenko told about Ugra, its history, social and economic situation, nature resources, role in Russia. Governor remembered that in the mid of October he visited Ulsan in  South Korea where the oil refinery and gas processing plant  of the biggest Korean company SK Energy is located. He said that he had been impressed by the structure of national economy of South Korea  and development of petrochemical industry, the fact the Koreans created the biggest plants for hydrocarbons processing and refinery though South Korea is not possessed of oil.

The head of the region said that Ugra was ready to propose several tens of priority investment projects which could be of interest for businessmen of South Korea. The total capacity of these projects amounts to almost 500 billion rubles. In opinion of Alexander Filipenko the cooperation in tourism, sport, culture, high technologies could be of mutual interest.  "We really have enough potential to organize joint work in many avenues. We would like to establish direct contacts with Korean companies, representatives of big business. It would be interesting and efficient", - said Alexander Filipenko.

At the meeting with the head of the region Mr. Chin said that the regional center produced a great impression on them. The guest proposed to  establish relations between cities, permanent friendly links for mutual acquaintance with life, history, culture, experience exchange. One of the cities from South Korea can become a twin-city of Khanty-Mansiysk. Alexander Filipenko supported this idea and emphasized  that establishing such relations would promote to successful and more dynamic cooperation of Ugra and South Korea.

Councilor of the President also said that South Korea was ready to participate in the creation of the Anthem of the 39-th World Chess Olympiad which is expected to be held in 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The Koreans have the experience of holding the Summer Olympiad in 1988 in Seoul  where the official anthem was also sounded.

December 16, 2008

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

The Union of Ugra Journalists signed the agreement on interaction and cooperation with the regional division of the Federal Service for Control in the sphere of mass communications.

Chair of the Union of Ugra Journalists Lyubov Korneeva said in her comments that "the agreement should greatly promote to increasing the level of juridical literacy of the Autonomous Okrug journalists and leaders of mass media. Cooperation is mutually  beneficial for both parties as Rossvyaznadzor is extremely interested in observance of the federal legislation in this sphere and we need guarantees of journalists’ rights protection and general level of juridical culture of mass media employees… "

That is why the permanent information exchange is expected as well as workshops and meetings with Rossvyaznadzor experts.

The Union of Ugra Journalists unites over 400 journalists of newspapers, Internet-publications, TV and radio companies and news agencies.