September 16, 2009

The Okrug press-service informs:

In the finale of the XIII International Festival of TV programs and TV films “Golden Drum” Ugra will be represented by two films “A postcard from Russia. Berezovo and Berezov District” by Vitor Jouravlev (Khanty-Mansiysk) and “Sfortsando” by Irina Golovanova (Urai) who participate in the nominations “Ethnography and Travels” and “TV portrait”.

“A postcard from Russia” is a TV tour to the region which has been closely connected with the history of the Russian State for over 400 years but due to its remoteness it is not known by most of the Russians. Historic zigzags is the proof of the reversals of fortune Berezovo had experienced for more than 4 centuries. It was a fortress and prison, a provincial town and village. It is an island of traditional culture of Khanty and Mansi peoples and Komi and Zyryan people, the region of great projects and prospects.

“Sfortsando” is a sudden accent on separate sounds or accords. So life points out talent, love, wisdom and voice of human soul. Sfortsando of theatrical mastery, professor of Yekaterinburg State Theatre Institute Vyacheslav Anisimov becomes a tuning fork of each deed of all his students.

Today at 6.30 at the Center of Arts there will be held a closing ceremony of the XIII International Festival of TV programs and TV films “Golden Drum”. While a day there will be held contest demonstrations of programs, presentation of projects, creative meeting with Professor of Sorbonna Elen Mela (France).

September 16, 2009

The Okrug press-service informs:

Russian sportsmen got the first place at the XXI Summer Deaf Olympic Games in Taiwan.

On September 15 in Taibei (Taiwan) there was held the official closing ceremony of the Deaf Olympic Games.  The combined team of Russia won 97 medals (29 gold medals, 40 silver and 28 bronze medals). The Ukraine won 66 medals and Chinese Peoples’ Republic (38 medals).

This kind of the Games is the oldest sports competition among deaf sportsmen and has been held since 1924. Representatives of 85 countries of the world  participated in the XXI Summer Deaf Olympic Games. Ugra athletes participated for the first time.

Aming the winners are sportsmen from the Okrug Disable Peoples’ Sport Center – Maxim Bgan (Surgut) who won a silver medal in the hammer throw, Vladimir Shmygin who together with the volleyball combined team won a gold medal.

The other two sportsmen of Ugra could not be among the top three leaders at this Olympic Games. Yulia Lyubchik was the fourth in the hammer throw, Ali Ametov while the finale of pole vault got  a thigh injury  and could not continue his participation in the competitions.

“The Deaf Olympic Games have the same high status as the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games”, - emphasized Eduard Isakov, Director of the Okrug Disable Peoples’ Sport Center. “Therefore medals of Ugra athletes are the highest achievement of sportsmen and their coaches and a great contribution into the sports of Ugra”.

September 16, 2009

The Okrug press-service informs:

On September 17-19  the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO will hold the International Congress of UNESCO Chairs on Education for Sustainable Development in Khanty-Mansiysk.

The key goal of the Congress is to determine necessary pre-conditions and conditions of multilateral education in the world for sustainable development. One of the topics of the discussion will be reasons of social crisis. The attention will also be paid to key issues as policy and social partnership in education, role of mass media, libraries in the population’s education, assessment of the management efficiency, coordination  of education development in the world, determination of expediency in creation of interregional networks in various aspects of education for sustainable development.

The Congress participants - Secretary  of the RF Commission for UNESCO Grigori Ordzhonikidze, Director of UNESCO Office in Moscow Dendev Badarch, Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko, Dean of the Geographic Faculty, Moscow State University Nikolai Kasimov, Rector of the Russian Academy of the Public Administration at the Russian Federation President Vladimir Egorov. The participation of about 80 people are expected – representatives of Russia, Spain, Brazil, Kuwait, Pakistan and other states.

September 16, 2009

The Okrug press-service informs:

Today in Khanty-Mansiysk Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko held a working meeting with representatives of the investment bank “Troyka Dialogue”.

There was discussed an opportunity of attracting extra ruble funded  loans to the budget of the Autonomous Okrug to pay off the deficit.

The Managing Director of the company Pavel Sokolov told about various options of their optimization, made taking into account the economic aspect and financial needs of the Autonomous Okrug including conclusion of agreements of currency and oil swaps to observe the balance between the currency component of the Okrug budget revenues and the debt and also to minimize interest payments with the negative situation in oil market.

Alexander Filipenko said that these proposals were of current interest in the present situation: “We have difficulties but they temporal and local. I am confident that we shall finish this year better by economic indicators than we expected”.

The head of the region said it was necessary to continue the work on the creation of the venture capital fund in the region for the implementation of large-scale projects.

“Troyka Dialogue” is one of the biggest independent investment companies in Russia. The basic  spheres of its activities – transactions for consolidation and merger for Russian and international companies, private and public offering of securities, management of assets, attraction of investments for Russian companies, organizing and underwriting of debt securities issues.