NKorea suggests joint catch of crabs, squid to Sakhalin.

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - North Korean has applied
to the Sakhalin fishermen with a proposal to organise joint catch of crabs
and squid within the 200-mile economic zone of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Such a joint catch may amount to 9,000 tonnes of
crabs and 20,000 tonnes of squid. A report about that came on Tuesday from
the Sakhalin Region department for fisheries.
According to information from Pavel Kolotushkin, First Deputy Head of
the Department, the proposal was made by the North Korean side orally and
was not backed up by any documents.
The talk about such a joint catch of marine animals within the DPRK
200-mile economic zone was conducted during the Sakhalin Region
delegation's trip to Pyongyang from October 8 to15.
Kolotushkin said the North Korean side has got problems with the
fishing fleet which cannot operate at considerable depths. The DPRK would
like Sakhalin-based boats to engage in catching crabs and squid and hand
them over to a North Korean factory ship.
The Sakhalin Region delegation requested their counterparts from the
DPRK to prepare commercial proposals for joint operation within the
DPRK's 200-mile economic zone and send them over to Sakhalin.

.Kaliningrad conf to deal with sci, education innovations.

KALININGRAD, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - The VII international scientific
conference on the theme of " Innovations in Science and Education -- 2009"
opens at the Kaliningrad State Technical University (KSTU) on Tuesday,
with leading scientists and teachers from 37 institutions of higher
learning from Russia's cities, as well as from Poland, Germany, Lithuania,
and Ukraine participating.
The programme of the conference incudes more than 300 reports and
communications on current science and education problems to be examined in
26 panels.
Lyubov Sverzhinskaya, KSTU public relaitons manager, has told
Itar-Tass, "The current importance of the conference is called forth by
the fact that Russia enters a new period of establishing an
innovations-based economy through an accelerated development of science,
education, and high technologies. This calls for an in-depth and all-round
scientific research into the problems of developing the economy, industry
and agriculture, and a comparative analysis of the state of and prospects
for the development of science, education and high technologies".
The organisers of the conference, Sverzhanskaya pointed out,
have applied to the scientific community with a proposal to share
ideas that may substantially influence a change of the elements of the
education system for the purpose of its qualitative transformation and
development of innovations-based technologies".
The peculiarity of the conference is that its participants, along with
academic and scientific matters, will also discuss themes that are of
practical importance to the economic development of regions.
The conference has been organised by the KSTU under the auspices of
the Federal Agency for Fisheries (FAF), the Kaliningrad Region government
and Regional Duma legislature.
The KSTU, which operates under the FAF authority, has about 70
agreements with higher learning establishments and research organisations
from 16 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas on cooperation in the
fieldsof ecology, agriculture, fisheries, energy, economics, information
technologies, biotechnology, and engineering. The KSTU is among leaders of
the Business Rating of the Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

.German bottom mine found at sea near Feodosiya.

DONETSK, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - Almost 5,000 residents of Feodosiya
are to be evacuated Tuesday from an area where preparartions were made on
Monday for the elimination of a German air-delivered bottom mine found at
sea.
An official in the press service of the Crimean department of the
Ministry for Emergencies has told Itar-Tass that on Monday night a special
commission made a decision on temporary evacuation of the occupants of 960
private houses, 15 five-storey buildings, as well as the personnel of a
Russian military unit stationed there.
The evacuees will be able to return home after the end of an operation
to transfer the found mine to a safe distance, to the area of the military
range on Cape Chauda. The border control services have been instructed to
ensure the safety of ships that may be at sea in the area of the the
planned operation.
The 1,000-kg mine of 1938 make had been discovered on Sunday by metal
scrap collectors who at first mistook it for a gas cylinder. They pulled
the find out of water and began to dismantle it. However, after they
knocked the lid off they saw one of the fuzes and realised what the find
actually was. They reported the find to the city department of the
Emergencies Ministry. Feodosiya and Kerch rescuers and pyrotechnicians
qualified that the incident as a miracle, for an explosion was to ensure
immediately after the discoverers knocked the mine's lid off.
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