RF, PRC to sign several tens of agreements on Tuesday.

BEIJING, October 13 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and China will sign several
tens of agreements at the level of the Cabinets of Ministers and business
accords on Tuesday during intergovermental talks, in which Russian Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin will take part. He is currently in the capital of
China on an official visit.

Yuri Ushakov, deputy chief of the RF government staff, has told
journalists that within the framework of the visit Vladimir Putin is being
accompanied by many a minister, chiefs of Federal agencies, as well as a
large delegation (with about 100 members) of the executives of major
Russian companies.
Working together with Putin in China in their respective fields will
be Vice-Premiers Alexander Zhukov and Igor Sechin, Igor Levitin, Minister
of Transport, Alexander Avdeyev, Minister of Culture, Customs Service
chief Andrei Belyaninov, Rosrybolovstvo (Federal Agency for Fishery) chief
Andrei Krainiy, Roscosmos chief Anatoly Perminov, Deputy Minister of
Defence Alexander Kolmakov, as well as a number of other deputy
ministers. Intergovernmental documents on respective sectors will be
prepared for signature.

.Investment policy, priorities to be discussed at Milan conf.

ROME, October 13 (Itar-Tass) - The world investment policy and its
priorities in the post-recession period will be discussed by delegates to
the XIV World Investments Conference that opens in Milan on Tuesday.
Investment strategies at the time of recession and forecasts for the
post-recession period are among central items on the agenda of this year's
annual meeting of government officials, the executives of major private
companies, members of civil society, and scientists.
Reports to be presented at the conference are also to touch upon such
problems as measures for State stimulation of a new influx of capital, a
change of investment orientations, and the maintenance of the level of
investment to guarantee further development.
The two-day conference is an international floor for get-togethers,
exchanges of opinions and dialogue between representatiaves of world
business and members of the ruling elites.

.Development of RF Cities forum to open in Yelabuga Tue.

KAZAN, October 13 (Itar-Tass) - A two-day international forum on the
theme of "The Sustainable Development of the Cities of Russia" opens at
Yelabuga on Tuesday. Yelabuga is a port city on Kama River.
Andrei Kuzmin, head of the press service of Tatarstan's Cabinet of
Ministers, has told Itar-Tass, "The agenda of the forum includes items
concerning present-day strategies of single-industry cities, the role of
urban communities, and the peculiarities of the development of cities
implementing large-scale Federal projects".
Roundtable meetings are to be arranged during the forum on the themes
of "The Urban Development Policy of the Russian State", "European
Experience of Cities in the Globalisation Era", and "The Preservation of
the Historico-Cultural and Natural Heritage".
The forum has been organised by the Russian Ministry of Regional
Development and the government of Tatarstan.
It is expected that the forum will be attended by Viktor Basargin,
Russian Minister of Regional Development, Tatarstan Prime Minister Rustam
Minnikhanov, and by specialists of the European conference of ministers in
charge of regional development planning.
Parliamentarians, city mayors, the heads of municipal departments and
urban communities, experts on urbanistics from more than 40 cities of
Russia and delegations from Armenia, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland,
Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and other countries have also arrived
in Yelabuga.

.Frankfurt book fair involves over 7,000 exhibitors.

FRANKFURT ON MAIN, October 13 (Itar-Tass) - The 61st International
Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's major one, has drawn 7,300 exhibitors
from over 100 countries, including Russia. An official ceremony to open
the Fair is to be held here on Tuesday night.
The opening ceremony is to be attended by German Chancellor Angela
Merkel and Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping.
This year China is for the first time represented as a guest of honour
at the Fair, which has a 600-year-long record and which has been in
existence in its present form since 1949.
From October 14 to 16, the Book Fair, which is the most prestigious
floor for the conclusion of contracts for the transfer of copyright, will
open the doors of its pavilions to publishers, book traders, literary
agents, writers, poets, translators, book designers, and journalists from
all over the world. The Fair will be open to the general public from
October 17 to18.
No less than 300,000 people are expected to visit the Fair in the
coming days despite high prices of tickets -- beginning from 28 euros for
one day.
The Fair features printed and electronic books, magazines, newspapers,
and other print editions and periodicals, atlases and maps, calendars, and
comics.
A series of conferences, symposiums, and cultural events is timed to
coincide with the Book Fair. Those events commenced even before the
official opening of the Fair.
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