The Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reports that unit 2 of the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant has started active operation. Russia seeks to regain its status of a nuclear superpower. Besides building nuclear power plants in Russia, this country’s experts have been erecting nuclear power-generating units in India, Bulgaria and Iran. According to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Moscow has quite ambitions plans to that end, namely to boost nuclear power generation from 16% to 30% in the overall power production.
The World Bank has told one and all that women in Russia are better protected in socio-economic and labour terms than in many European countries and the United States, writes the Moscow-based Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily in an article. According to expert conclusions, Russian women are entitled to a fully-paid 140-day maternity leave. By comparison, in the US women are not paid when on maternity leave. Russia also compares favourably from other countries by banning women from hard labour and by the legislated pension age as of 55 years (60 years for men). By contrast, in most European countries and the United States both men and women retire on pension at 65.
Presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev and Viktor Yanukovich, are expected to sign an agreement on the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait during Mr. Medvedev`s visit to Ukraine on 17-18 May, the Gazeta reports. Mr. Yanukovich thinks Russia should be very interested in the bridge from the Ukrainian port of Kerch to its post Caucasus in Krasnodar region ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
Russia will have its ‘Silicon Valley’ in the district of Skolkovo outside Moscow, the Vedomosti reports. The announcement was made by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday. The place was chosen not accidentally for it already has some basic facilities. We will build it in a place where we already have the solid groundwork for doing it quickly. Speed is of particular importance," Medvedev said. The Russian Silicon Valley will become the center for technologies' development in five sectors: energy, telecommunications, bio medical technologies and nuclear technologies.
The Tbilisi Drama Theater returns to the Russian classics, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports. Currently the company offers three productions of plays by Anton Chekhov, while a young director Irina Gachechiladze, a graduated of the Russian Academy of Theatrical Art, unveiled her plans to stage Eugene Onegin. She sees it as a bilingual production, when Pushkin`s novel in verse will be recited by an actor in Russian, while the performance itself will be in Georgian.
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