Search for Bigfoot in Kemerovo Region to begin late September

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KEMEROVO, September 4 (Itar-Tass) -- A science expedition will leave
for Mountain Shoria (a territory in Southern Siberia, east of the Altai
Mountains) in late September, in search of any traces of the abominable
snowman, the regional administration told Itar-Tass earlier this week.
Taking part in the expedition will be the director of the
International Center for Hominology, Igor Burtsev, the president of the
All-Russia Scientific Research Public Association Kosmopoisk, Vadim
Chernobrov, and other experts. The expedition is determined to find
conclusive evidence of the existence of Bigfoot (also known by the names
of Sasquatch and Yeti).
As Igor Burtsev, a participant in several previous expeditions, has
said, experts earlier explored the area Azassk Cave, located in the dense
taiga forest, 20 kilometers away from the village of Ust-Kabyrza, where
"local hunters claim to have repeatedly seen humanoid creatures some two
meters tall."
"During the previous expeditions, we thoroughly examined the area and
came to the conclusion that all conditions for the existence of such
creatures are in place," Burtsev said. "First, it is a sparsely populated,
mountainous area, where there are many caves, which is relatively warm and
where there are sources of pure fresh water. In the taiga forest there is
plenty of food to go around, and I have the certainty Bigfoots are there."
What is still more important, Burtsev said, "there are pieces of
irrefutable material evidence of the existence and activity of some
enigmatic creatures: pyramidal wooden structures, so-called "markers",
which are clearly made by hand." These structures are similar to those
researchers and explorers come across in the U.S. and Canada, said the
scientist, who has spent more than 40 years of his life searching for the
Bigfoot and conducting research in Russia, the USA, Abkhazia, and
Mongolia. Burtsev contributed to the exposition of Shoria's museum some
photos, plaster casts of footprints and other artifacts he had found in
the U.S., Abkhazia, and Mongolia.
According to descriptions offered by questioned residents in remote
villages in Shoria, Bigfoots have a stocky build and resemble a two-meter
tall brown bear. Some saw their footprints in the snow. The creatures have
hair all over the body and can climb trees well."

.International forum of neurosurgeons to be held in Kazan Sept 8-10.

KAZAN, September 4 (Itar-Tass) -- The Republic of Tatarstan on
September 8-10 will play host to an international forum of the World
Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. Kazan will welcome leading
physicians from Russia, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, India, Jordan, Italy
and Austria.
Last time Russia hosted such a congress in Irkutsk in 2008. Then it
brought together over 300 physicians.
The venue of the forthcoming symposium, which will see numerous
presentations and lectures, was chosen not by chance. During the January
visit to Kazan, the director of the Burdenko Institute of Neurosurgery,
president of the Association of Neurosurgeons of Russia Alexander
Konovalov, said that the level of medical care in Tatarstan and of the
equipment available at the republican health facilities was exceptionally
high. He noted the excellent conditions for neuro- and vascular surgery,
traumatology, and brain traumatology.
According to Tatarstan's Ministry of Health the president of the World
Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, Peter Black, will come to Kazan for
the WFNS forum.

.Liberal Democrats urge administrative penalty for noise at night.

MOSCOW, September 4 (Itar-Tass) -- The members of the Liberal
Democratic Party of Russia's faction in the State Duma have come out with
a bill establishing fines for noise at nighttime - from 23:00 to 7:00.
As the authors have explained, the purpose of this bill is "to create
a legal mechanism of administrative punishment for making noise at night,
for it is a hazard to people's health." The LDPR's deputies want the
Administrative Code's article concerning the sanitary-epidemiological
well-being of citizens complemented with clauses that would prohibit noise
inside apartment buildings, hospitals, dispensaries, sanatoria, rest
houses and boarding homes for children, the aged and the disabled and in
the adjacent territories.
Under the bill the offenders (individuals, officials or legal
entities) will be punishable with a warning or with a fine. The bill does
not specify, though, how strong the level of noise is to be to constitute
an offence.
Currently such rules exist only at the regional level. In the Moscow
Region, for example, such a law was passed in 2008. Similar standards
exist in many European countries.
This legislative initiative is in fact a logical extension of the bill
the Liberal Democrats submitted to the State Duma in early July. They
called for describing in the current law On Sanitary and Epidemiological
Well-being a list of harmful noise effects that breach calm and peace. In
particular, these include "renovation and construction works, and the use
of TV sets, radios, tape-recorders, etc." If enacted officially, such a
list will provide the legal basis for punishing noisemakers.

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