Nobel Prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg dies.

MOSCOW, November 9 (Itar-Tass) -- A Nobel Prize winner, Academician of
the Russian Academy of Sciences Vitaly Ginzburg has died on November 8 at
the age of 93 years, the Russian news television channel Vesti reported.

Vitaly Ginzburg was born in Moscow in 1916. He is an author of more
than 400 scientific papers and ten monographs devoted to theoretical
physics and astrophysics, the theories of the origin of cosmic radiation
and electromagnetic wave propagation in plasmas.
In 2003 Ginzburg was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physics for the
development of the theory of superconductivity.

.Search for Tu-142 plane crashed in Russia's Far East continues.

VLADIVOSTOK, November 9 (Itar-Tass) -- The search operation for the
crew and fragments of the Pacific Fleet's Tu-142 anti-submarine turboprop,
which crashed in the Tartar Strait, Russia's Far East, continues.
Warships, civilian vessels and aircraft are involved in the search despite
difficult weather conditions.
The search operation will enter into a new phase upon arrival in the
search area of the Alagez rescue vessel, which is carrying the special
deep-water remotely controlled Taiger and Obzor submarine craft, the
manned submarine AS-30 craft as well as the sophisticated search Kalmar
system. This equipment permits to conduct the whole scope of deepwater
operations and to find both large and small fragments of the plane. The
Alagez, which left Vladivostok on Sunday afternoon, has aboard a team of
specially trained divers, capable of conducting work at a depth of down to
200 metres. Special attention will be given to a search for flight
recorders. The Alagez may arrive in the search area already on Monday
evening.
The Defense Ministry's committee headed by chief of the flight safety
service of the Russian Air Force Major-General Bainetov arrived in the
search area.
The Tu-142 was making a combat training flight on November 6. At the
final stage of the flight over the Tartar Strait the communication with
the crew was lost and the plane disappeared off the radars. The plane had
11 crewmen. The Pacific Fleet Department of the Prosecutor General's
Office Investigation Committee instituted a criminal case over the neglect
of flight safety rules and preparations to flights. Detectives have
several versions, from a technical failure to a human factor.

.Shuvalov to visit AvtoVAZ to inspect preparations for govt support.

SAMARA, November 9 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian First Deputy Prime Minister
Igor Shuvalov will visit the AvtoVAZ motor works as part of preparations
for the Russian government's support to the major Russian carmaker.
Shuvalov will also hold meetings with pensioners of the motor works,
workers of pre-retirement age and workers, who should pass various
retraining programs, the AvtoVAZ press service said.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a conference on economic issues
on November 3 that the Russian government is ready to allocate 54.8
billion roubles to AvtoVAZ to solve the problems of debt default, creating
new models of vehicles and new jobs.
On November 5, at a government presidium meeting Deputy Prime Minister
Alexander Zhukov noted that the Russian government will make special
allocations to implement an employment program for AvtoVAZ workers in
2009-2010.
Igor Shuvalov told reporters on October 28 that the employment program
for AvtoVAZ dismissed workers is to be finalized by November 10. All
dismissed workers will be offered new jobs, Shuvalov said.
"We will offer to change the place of work only when new jobs have
been created. Nobody will be told to resign or retire on pension until an
alternative has been offered," Shuvalov said.
About 96,000 people work at the AvtoVAZ motor works. In October, the
number of workers engaged in temporary and public works reached 23,000
people. Some 5.3 thousand workers are entitled to early old age pensions.
About 2,6 thousand workers have filed applications for early old age
pensions at the end of October.
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