Repair teams continue restoring damaged railway in N Caucasus.

MOSCOW, July 12 (Itar-Tass) - Repair teams continue restoration works
at the Achi-Izerbash railway line in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan
where a cargo train was blown up Sunday.
A spokesman for the OAO RZD, the Russian state railway corporation,
said more than a hundred technical experts and five repair echelons are
working at the site of the incident right now.
"The traffic of trains has been suspended provisionally on that line,"
he said.
"Some passenger trains with more than 700 passengers aboard have been
halted and we're providing hot meals and fresh water for the stranded
customers," the spokesman said.
To mitigate the inconveniences for the passengers, the RZD has offered
bus transits to the railway stations where the passengers may take
alternative trains.
Law enforcement agencies say in the meantime the explosive device of a
yet unidentified capacity went off under the locomotive of a cargo train
at 04:15 Sunday at the 2,335th kilometer of the North Caucasus railway
line.
The locomotive and sixteen coaches, including the thirteen ones
carrying grain, cement and foodstuffs slid off the track and overturned as
a result.
No victims have been reported.

.Spain win 2010 World Cup.

JOHANNESBURG, July 12 (Itar-Tass) - Spanish national team has won the
2010 World Cup after beating Holland 1 - 0.
The goal was scored by Andres Iniesta in the 116th minute of the game.

.Technical flight to test new runway at Novosibirsk int'l airport.

NOVOSIBIRSK, July 12 (Itar-Tass) - A special technical flight is to be
performed at the international airport of Novosibirsk Monday for the
purpose of testing a new runway, Svetalna Smirnova, a spokeswoman for the
Tolmachevo airport told Itar-Tass.
The testing flight will be performed by a Boeing 767-300 of the S7
airline.
"The objective of the test is to verify the operation readiness of the
installations and systems of the runway for servicing regular flights,"
Smirnova said.
Earlier, a laboratory jet did a successful testing of navigation
systems and radio equipment of the runway.
A special commission has been set up for organizing the technical
flight and its members will also be the passengers aboard by Boeing
767-300 Monday.
The commission will draw up a confirmation act and will submit it to
Russia's Federal Agency for Air Transport, which is due to pass the final
decision on putting the runway into operation.
The Tolmachevo airport's second runway will increase its traffic
handling capacity twofold, which means the airport will be capable of
servicing 36 landings and takeoffs per hour.
The total cost of the project stands at about 4 billion rubles /USD
1=RUB 31.2/.
The cost of a linear running meter of the runway is more than 800,000
rubles.
Tolmachevo is Russia's largest transit air junction to the east of the
Ural Mountains on the routes linking Europe and Asia.
Its technical capability allows the landings and takeoffs of the
passenger and/or cargo jets of all types.
Several days ago, Tomachevo serviced the millionth passenger since the
beginning of the year.

.Spanish fans in Moscow celebrating Spanish team's victory in World
Cup.

MOSCOW, July 12 (Itar-Tass) - Spanish football fans who turned up in
Moscow on they night their national team played versus Holland in the 2010
World Cup final in South Africa say they did not have any doubts for a
single minute about the forthcoming victory.
"That's a historic feat, that's like a dream," a fan who joined his
compatriots watching the game in a Moscow bar said.
Spanish songs could be heard in Moscow restaurants and on the streets,
as the fans of La Furia Roja.
Some of the fans were tapping and some had tears in their eyes.
"We're amused by how sincerely and unemphaticly the Spanish can
express their joy," a female manager at a downtown Spanish restaurant
said. "Spanish football is also easy-going and elegant."
Dozens of Spanish tourists and staff-members of the Spanish embassy
went on a tour of nighttime Moscow after the end of the match.
"We're yet to recognize the feat that our national team has achieved
over the past two years," one of them said.
The Spanish won the European Cup two years ago and the World Cup this
Sunday - for the first time ever.
-0-kle


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