Border guards detain small vessel with salmon caviar.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - Border guards have
detained a small vessel that was about to smuggle over 1.3 tonnes of red
caviar out of the Magadan region in the area of Cape Ptichiy (avian) near
the city of Magadan, an official in the public relations group of the
North Eastern border department of the Federal Security Service of the
Russian Federation told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

The vessel belongs to one of local resource companies. The vessel
lacked cargo-related documents. The caviar that was on board has been
confiscated and turned over for safe storage..The vessel has been arrested
and escorted to Magadan for an inquiry.
Judicial proceedings have been instituted against the skipper in view
of an administrative infraction. A check is under way.

.Detour road building resumes in Primorye.

VLADIVOSTOK, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - The construction of detour road
M-60 Khabarovsk-Vladivosotok has been resumed in the Primorsky (maritime)
Territory. The length of the road section around the city of Ussuriisk
will be 25 kilometres.
There will be amodern road, two road junctions, an overpass across a
railway, and two bridges over the rivers Glukhovka and Rakovka, an
official at the administration of the Ussuriisk city district told
Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
The first eight kilometres of the detour road were put into use way
back in 2001, after which road building work stopped for lack of financing.
The construction of this road is now included in the Automobile Roads
subprogramme of the Modernisation of the Transport System of Russia
Federal purpose-oriented programme. The facility is to be commissioned in
May 2012. Financing from Federal budget resources will amount to 3,400
million roubles.

.NKorea youth delegation tours Russia's Primorsky Terr.

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - A three-member youth
delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has arrived
in Nakhodka and began to get acquainted with the life of Russia's
Primorsky (maritime) Territory on Tuesday.
The delegation members work at the Central Committee of the Kim Il
Sung Socialist Youth League of the DPRK. Nakhodka Mayor Oleg Kolyadin
received the guests.
Kolyadin told the delegation about the socio-economic position of
the city and related the history of long-standing friendly relatioins with
the DPRK. North Korea's Consulate-General has been functioning in Nakhodka
since 1958. In the past years the sides implemented a lot of joint
projects and took a multitude of measures, with special emphasis on youth
exchanges.
The delegation will stay in Nakhodka for five days. The guests are
planning to visit the DPRK Consulate-General, meet with Nakhodka students,
schoolchildren, and Young Communist League activists, and tour industrail
enterprises and memorable places. The North Korean youth delegatio will
also visit Vladivostok and Partizansk.

.Russian, Chinese co's to build rlw bridge over Amur river.

BIROBIDZHAN, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - An agreement on joint
construction of a railway bridge over the borderline river Amur has been
signed by representatives of the Russian Rubikon enterprise and the
Chinese investment company Machimpex, an official in the group of the
metallurgic alliance Petropavlovsk, of which the Rubikon is part, told
Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
According to company officials, the future railway bridge, thefirst
one in the Far East, will link the Chinese city of Tungjiang and the
international river port of Nizhneleninsky in the Jewish Autonomous Region
(JAR).
The equal sections of the 2.5 km bridge will be erected by Russian
and Chinese builders. This will ensure an annual transportation of freight
amounting to not less than six million tonnes. Freight will include
chiefly iron-ore concentrate from an ore dressing factory which is under
construction in the JAR. The factory is to start production in 2015. By
that time the bridge is to be put into operation.
Designers' estimate is that the cost of the facility will be $150
million. After the bridge will come into operation, China will get an
outlet to the Trans-Siberian Mainline Railway via a
Nizhneleninskoye-Birobidzhan railway line.

NKorea leader inspects fish-farm.

PYONGYANG, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - Kim Jong Il, Leader of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has inspected a farm for the
rearing of salmon fishes and thanked the fish-farm workers for their
contribution to the development of the national economy.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday that the
Head of State had called for stimulation of the rearing of fresh-water
fishes in the Republic so as to provide the population with this "tasty
and nutritious" food product.
"Our country, which abounds in rivers and lakes and is surrounded by
seas, affords favourable conditions for the rearing of salmon fishes," Kim
Jong Il said, urging the establishment of more fish-farms.
KCNA did not specify the whereabouts of the fish-farm which the DPRK
Leader had visited. During the present inspection tour, Kim Jong Il is
reported to have been accompanied by Choe Tae Bok and Kim Ki Nam,
Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party (KWP),
as well as by Chan Son Taek, departmentalhead at the KWP Central Committee.
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