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Moscow jury panel issued guilty verdict to 11 skinheads.
MOSCOW, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - A jury panel at the Moscow City
Court on Thursday passed a guilty verdict on eleven skinheads, who had
been accused of attacks on people out of the motives of ethnic hatred, the court's official spokeswoman Anna Ussachova said.
"The jury panel passed the verdict that confirmed the guilt of all the
people who stood trial in connection with this case," she said.
Still, the panellists believe that some of the skinheads deserve mercy
and this applies to the leader of the grouping, Yevgenia Zhikhareva.
The court has scheduled examination of legal consequences of this
jury's verdict for September 15 when the public prosecutor specifies the
punishments the court would like to award to the guilty.
All skinheads featured in the case were accused of inflicting damage
on others' health, assassination attempts, hooliganism, and the fanning
of ethnic strife.
.Russian official admits big number of problems with children's rights.
MOSCOW, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - Problems in the field of protection
of children's rights "are abounding in this country and if you try to
tackle all of them at one and the same time, you won't get any reassuring
effects," Alexei Golovan, the Russian President's ombudsman for the rights
of children says in an interview published by the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily.
He says he has singled out only four main areas of activity for
himself so far, "but really major and systemic areas."
These areas embrace the violence targeting children, "violence
everywhere - at home, at school and on the street", then the defense of
rights of orphaned children, including the ones who get out of orphanage
shelters upon coming of age, the problems of child prostitution and
pornography, and improvement of the position of children with restricted
physical abilities.
"These are the four priority areas that I'd like to concentrate on for
the time being," Golovan says. "Each of them requires huge efforts on the
part of the government and society likewise, and all of them also require
money and legislative regulation."
"Then we'll gradually go over to other problems," he says adding that
his singling out of the four major areas of operations does not mean that
other aspects of children's rights protection will be drowned in oblivion.
"Certainly we'll take them up, too," Golovan says.
He is the first federal ombudsman for children's rights in the history
of Russia. This official position was instituted by President Dmitry
Medvedev's decree September 1, 2009.
.Magna Int'l, Sberbank to invest 500 mln euros in Opel's capital.
MOSCOW, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - Canada's Magna International and
Russia's Sberbank /Savings Bank/ will invest 500 million euros in the
registered capital of the German car manufacturer Opel, Sberbank said in a
statement Thursday.
Opel's current owner, General Motors, found Magna and Sberbank's joint
proposal for purchasing a 55% in Opel to be the most promising one from
the angle of view of future development of the German company.
The proposal suggests that Magna and Sberbank will split the package
fifty-fifty.
General Motors will retain a 35% stake and the remaining 10% shares
will go over Opel's labor staff under the terms of a new labor contract.
"The consortium notes with santisfaction that the proposed plan for
Opel's development meets the demands specified by General Motors," Magna's
Co-Chief Executive Officer Siegfrid Wolf and Sberbank's President Alexei
Miller said.
"In addition to this, the consortium also thanks the General Motors'
executives for a fruitful conduct of talks, as well as other parties to
the negotiations that supported its business plan," the statement said.
Especial gratitude has been expressed to the German government.
Magna's chairman of the board of directors, Frank Stronach added to
this that the corporation will draw a clear line between the business
lblock of Magna's spare parts and Opel's operations so as to ensure
confidentiality of its clients' intellectual property.
Finalization of the deal will become possible if the main agreements
and terms are observed and if finances are made available against the
German government's guarantees and endorsement by regulatory
organizations, Sberbank said in the statement.
.World Bank issuing 147 mln dlrs to Georgia for road modernization.
WASHINGTON, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - World Bank has decided to issue
another big loan to Georgia, the bank's press service said Friday.
An amount of $ 147 million is being issued to support the third
project for modernization of the East-West automobile road.
A part of the loans will be spent to support the department of the
Georgian government for the purpose of improving the administration of
road networks and raising the safety of automobile trips.
The loan is allocated for 30 years and has a grace period of five
years.
-0-kle
Court on Thursday passed a guilty verdict on eleven skinheads, who had
been accused of attacks on people out of the motives of ethnic hatred, the court's official spokeswoman Anna Ussachova said.
"The jury panel passed the verdict that confirmed the guilt of all the
people who stood trial in connection with this case," she said.
Still, the panellists believe that some of the skinheads deserve mercy
and this applies to the leader of the grouping, Yevgenia Zhikhareva.
The court has scheduled examination of legal consequences of this
jury's verdict for September 15 when the public prosecutor specifies the
punishments the court would like to award to the guilty.
All skinheads featured in the case were accused of inflicting damage
on others' health, assassination attempts, hooliganism, and the fanning
of ethnic strife.
.Russian official admits big number of problems with children's rights.
MOSCOW, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - Problems in the field of protection
of children's rights "are abounding in this country and if you try to
tackle all of them at one and the same time, you won't get any reassuring
effects," Alexei Golovan, the Russian President's ombudsman for the rights
of children says in an interview published by the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily.
He says he has singled out only four main areas of activity for
himself so far, "but really major and systemic areas."
These areas embrace the violence targeting children, "violence
everywhere - at home, at school and on the street", then the defense of
rights of orphaned children, including the ones who get out of orphanage
shelters upon coming of age, the problems of child prostitution and
pornography, and improvement of the position of children with restricted
physical abilities.
"These are the four priority areas that I'd like to concentrate on for
the time being," Golovan says. "Each of them requires huge efforts on the
part of the government and society likewise, and all of them also require
money and legislative regulation."
"Then we'll gradually go over to other problems," he says adding that
his singling out of the four major areas of operations does not mean that
other aspects of children's rights protection will be drowned in oblivion.
"Certainly we'll take them up, too," Golovan says.
He is the first federal ombudsman for children's rights in the history
of Russia. This official position was instituted by President Dmitry
Medvedev's decree September 1, 2009.
.Magna Int'l, Sberbank to invest 500 mln euros in Opel's capital.
MOSCOW, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - Canada's Magna International and
Russia's Sberbank /Savings Bank/ will invest 500 million euros in the
registered capital of the German car manufacturer Opel, Sberbank said in a
statement Thursday.
Opel's current owner, General Motors, found Magna and Sberbank's joint
proposal for purchasing a 55% in Opel to be the most promising one from
the angle of view of future development of the German company.
The proposal suggests that Magna and Sberbank will split the package
fifty-fifty.
General Motors will retain a 35% stake and the remaining 10% shares
will go over Opel's labor staff under the terms of a new labor contract.
"The consortium notes with santisfaction that the proposed plan for
Opel's development meets the demands specified by General Motors," Magna's
Co-Chief Executive Officer Siegfrid Wolf and Sberbank's President Alexei
Miller said.
"In addition to this, the consortium also thanks the General Motors'
executives for a fruitful conduct of talks, as well as other parties to
the negotiations that supported its business plan," the statement said.
Especial gratitude has been expressed to the German government.
Magna's chairman of the board of directors, Frank Stronach added to
this that the corporation will draw a clear line between the business
lblock of Magna's spare parts and Opel's operations so as to ensure
confidentiality of its clients' intellectual property.
Finalization of the deal will become possible if the main agreements
and terms are observed and if finances are made available against the
German government's guarantees and endorsement by regulatory
organizations, Sberbank said in the statement.
.World Bank issuing 147 mln dlrs to Georgia for road modernization.
WASHINGTON, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - World Bank has decided to issue
another big loan to Georgia, the bank's press service said Friday.
An amount of $ 147 million is being issued to support the third
project for modernization of the East-West automobile road.
A part of the loans will be spent to support the department of the
Georgian government for the purpose of improving the administration of
road networks and raising the safety of automobile trips.
The loan is allocated for 30 years and has a grace period of five
years.
-0-kle
