Moscow resolves problem of defrauded co-investors - mayor.

MOSCOW, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - Moscow authorities have resolved the
problem of defrauded co-investors in housing construction, city mayor Yuri
Luzhkov said during the ceremony at a house in Marshal Rokosovsky Street
on Tuesday to hand in the keys to apartments to former investors.

"For Muscovites, these problems are over. The theme of defrauded
co-investors is closed for Moscow," Luzhkov stated, "in 2005, we saw this
problem, and beginning from 2006, the Moscow government and the city
legislature decided to help the cheated people."
According to the mayor, city authorities have built 28 apartment
houses for people who lost their monies in housing construction fraud.
At present, works are being completed in Leninsky Prospect.
At a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday, Luzhkov
assured him that the problems of all cheated co-investors would be
resolved.
"In 2009, we'll resolve the problem with cheated co-investors; this we
can promise," he said.
These people wished to improve their housing conditions and invested
money in such construction firms as Sotsialnaya Initsiativa. There were
such 3,371 families - "a large problem."
A huge neighborhood for these families will be commissioned in
Leninsky Prospect as early as Saturday, Luzhkov said.


.Russian partiarch calls for equality in East-West dialogue.

KIEV, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill
said the Russian Orthodox civilization is able to make its contribution to
building one Europe. "So let us bring there our values," the patriarch
said in a live broadcast on Inter, one of Ukraine's largest non-government
television channels during his pastoral visit to Kiev on Tuesday.
The top Russian hierarch expressed concern over the fact that the
population of the countries of eastern Orthodox culture was being tested
by an onsurge of the western system of values.
"Trinkets are very attractive, not only in the time of Miklukho-Maklai
(19th century Ukrainian ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist); a
fancy wrapper always draws one's attention. The trinkets of modern life
make one giddy, and inebriate the human consciousness. People believe in
advertisement, fashion, stereotypes, and this virtual world as if it were
a reality," Patriarch Kirill said.
"I believe our unity, the unity of the spiritual space of the Holy
Russia is a huge civilization project; it is not meant to be guided, but
must generate ideas, and offer the choice of an outlook to which others
must answer," the Russian Orthodox leader noted.
He expressed confidence that the Orthodox civilization has a potential
for developing the East-West dialogue, which should not be a dialogue
between a horse and a rider, but a real dialogue between equal partners.
"Only this kind of dialogue will result in the building of one Europe," he
said.
The patriarch believes that one Europe "cannot be built with templates
which were not created in our great civilization, independent and
original," and that "if we are to build this one Europe, we should agree
to create new templates."
He expressed the hope that with God's help "we'll be able to make a
civilized contribution to creating both one Europe and building the just
world and just relations which are the dream of many people."


.Car bomb explodes in Ingushetia, no casualties - police.

NAZRAN, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - A car bomb has exploded in Ingushetia's
capital Nazran, but there have been no casualties, an official at the
republic's Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass.
"The explosive was in a car parked by unidentified persons in the
Gamuziyevsky neighborhood near the house of Magas mayor Aslambek Sagov.
The blast caused considerable damage to Sagov's house," he said.
A group of investigators went to the scene. Police are taking measures
to apprehend the dynamiters.


.Kyrgyz Opposition to stage protests.

BISHKEK, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - The Kyrgyz Opposition parties, angered
by the results of the July 23 presidential election, will lead protest
actions on Wednesday, leader of the opposition United People's Movement
Almazbek Atambayev said.
Representatives of his association said in a statement on Monday that
the presidential election was illegitimate because of mass violations.
"The scope and attendance of the upcoming rallies will depend not only
on the Opposition, but also on the activity of citizens and the country's
progressive forces," the United People's Movement said.
On Monday, the Kyrgyz Central Election Commission announced Kurmanbek
Bakiyev the winner of the July 23 presidential polls.
CEC member Toktgul Sultakeyev said the turnout was 79.12 percent of
2.84 million voters registered in the country.
The Central Election Commission processed data from all of the 2,330
poling stations, including those abroad.
Incumbent Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev netted almost 77 percent
of votes.
Opposition candidate Almazbek Atambayev received 8.39 percent.