Int'l conf on prevention of radiological terrorism to open in Moscow.

MOSCOW, October 28 (Itar-Tass) - An international workshop on
prevention of radiological terrorism opens in Moscow Wednesday under the auspices of the CIS Antiterrorist Center.

It will be held on the sidelines of the Interpolitech'2009 exhibition
of state security equipment.
Spokespeople for the Antiterrorist Center said the first part of the
conference will be held at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign
Ministry where problems of radiological security in the CIS region will be
looked at from the angle of view of secret services, law enforcement and
research organizations, industrial quarters, and public associations.
The second - practical - part of the workshop will be held Thursday on
the premises of the state enterprise Rodon located some 70 kilometers to
the northeast of Moscow.
The participants will be shown an exercise in the form of an
antiterrorist operation involving the liberation of hostages and rendering
harmless the terrorists who have seized vehicles transporting radioactive
waste on the route of transportation.
The forum on prevention of radiological terrorism will embrace
officials of security and intelligence services from CIS countries,
lawmaking and executive agencies of the CIS, the National Antiterrorist
Committee, the regional antiterrorist structure of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization /SCO/, the International Atomic Energy Agency,
Interpol, the Russian Foreign Ministry, and the State Atomic Energy
Corporation Rosatom.

.Moscow woman's death of new flu not 'imported case.

MOSCOW, October 28 (Itar-Tass) - Flu that killed a woman in Moscow
earlier this week was not an imported one, as she did not leave the city,
officials at the Russian Healthcare Ministry said Monday.
"It's known that the 53-year-old woman didn't leave the city," an
official said.
He indicated that the woman felt ill in the nighttime of October 15,
then stayed at home for four days trying to cure herself, turned to
medical assistance on the fifth day, October 19, and was hospitalized
immediately.
The official quoted his counterparts at Moscow City's Department for
Public Health as saying her test sample for establish the H1N1 flu was
sent to the Central Institute for Epidemics Research.
"It was confirmed that the patient had a heavy flu compounded with the
syndrome of an acute damage to the lung, acute cardiac insufficiency,
acute respiratory deficiency, brain edema, pulmonary edema, and
hemorrhagic syndrome," the official said.
"The woman had attending diseases like grade two hypertension, the
coronary heart disease, obesity, and a high blood glucose," he said.
The official indicated that all the four people who have died of the
H1N1 flu began with self-medication and turned to doctors too late.
"Preventive treatment to avoid heavy complications of the flu require
a consultation with the doctors literally within hours after you fall
ill," he said, adding that if a patient develops a pneumonia on the
background of a standard acute respiratory syndrome, urgent
hospitalization is needed then.

.Ecuador Pres arriving on first ever official visit in Moscow.

BOGOTA, October 28 (Itar-Tass) - President Rafael Correa Delgado of
Ecuador arrives on a three-day official visit in Russia Wednesday at the
invitation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
This is the first ever visit to Russia by the Ecuadorian head of state
since the two countries established diplomatic relations.
The official itinerary of President Correa's visit begins Thursday
with the laying of flowers at the Unknown Soldier's Tomb in the Alexander
Gardens by the northwest wall of the Kremlin, officials at the Ecuadorian
Foreign Ministry told Itar-Tass.
On the same day, he will have talks with Dmitry Medvedev.
These will be followed by talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and
the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill /Cyril/.
Friday, Correa will meet with Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and will
accept the title of Professor Emeritus from the State Technological
University in the city of Kursk, 550 kilometers to the south of Moscow.
Also, he will take part in the resumption of activity of the
Russian-Ecuadorian trade commission that is due to get down to business
after an interval of almost twenty years.
The Ecuadorian delegation includes Foreign Minister Fander Falconia
and Defense Minister Javier Ponce.
Correa said on the eve of his visit he hopes to get a detailed picture
on a number of agreements, the talks on which are underway and show
gradual progress.
He said he especially meant agreements ore mining, oil refining,
infrastructures and defense, since Russia has accumulated very expansive
experience in these areas and it might share some of its knowledge with
Ecuador.
Correa also voiced the hope that his country might increase the
exports of its agricultural produce - mostly bananas and coffee - to
Russia.
It is not ruled out that he will voice his administration's position
on the recognition of independence of two former regions of Georgia,
Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Latin American mass media have said of late
with references to well-informed sources in the Ecuadorian Foreign
Ministry the government in Quito was scrutinizing a possibility of this
recognition.
The former USSR and Ecuador established diplomatic relations June
15/16 1945.
Impulse to the ties between the two countries was imparted recently by
the reciprocal visits that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Fander Falconi.
In 2008, trade between the two countries stood at around 935 million
U.S. dollars.
At this moment, the two countries have eighteen agreements in various
spheres.
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