Written claims on compensation payments can be registered in Murmansk (Sofia Perovskaya St., 2, office №102, telephone number 45-89-87, 48-65-41) and in the administrations of municipal districts. Documents which are needed to get compensation are copy of passport, original financial document (contract, depositor` s book, certificate and others), account number for money transfer. Veterans and invalids of the Great Patriotic War should also provide veteran` s identity document, for widows and widowers – marriage license and death certificate. Heirs by will or law have to provide certificate of inheritance right.

Request to allocate 19.9 million rubles in order to set up the salary of public sector employees in accordance with the minimum living wage for the employable population of the Murmansk region was directed by the Murmansk City Council to the Murmansk Regional Duma in February 2008. Money for the agreement “On minimum salary in the Murmansk region” was not provided in the city budget but salary was fully paid to the public sector employees. Extra money was not allocated.

Besides, salary of the public sector employees was increased by 14% in February 2008. 171 million rubles were spent on it from the city budget. Only 81 million rubles is presently returned to the budget.
There are a lot of employees in the public sector whose salary is under the minimum living wage. 17.750 million rubles is needed to increase the salary of public sector’s employees in 2009.

Subsidiies of 44,193 thousand rubles are also planned to be directed on the enlargement of the city cemetery in Murmashi.

Annual overall production of the pig meat has twicely grown during the passed period. Pig meat presently makes 60% (4.5 thousand tons) of the overall volume of the meat production. There is positive tendency of the livestock safety that is connected with the good animal increase and the growth of daily average BWG (body weight gain).

As Vyacheslav Sidorov, press secretary of the Government of the Murmansk region, informs adopted resolution will come into effect after its official publishing and apply to legal relations which appear after October 1, 2008.

Uriy Evdokimov, Governor of the Murmansk region, took part in the official opening of the Conference. It is worldly believed nowadays that Arctic will become the main resource base of mankind in the nearest future. As Uriy Evdokimov noticed, the conference is the basis of the system approach to the development of the Arctic hydrocarbon deposits. The specialized industry of the shelf operations should be quickly expanded in order to support the development of Arctic. Governor of the Murmansk Region hopes the conference will find solutions to the set of questions.

Panel session will be held within the framework of the conference. Special sections will be opened on November 13-14, 2008. Sections include characteristics of the Arctic Shelf geologic structure, geophysical researchers and engineering surveys, sea exploratory drilling, infrastructure and economy of the oil and gas resources of the Arctic Shelf, ecology and environmental control.

Sergey Leus, Head of the Industry and Transport Department, made report about the role of the Murmansk region in the development of the Arctic resources on today`s panel session. Pier Nergararyan, Director General of the “Total” company, will also participate in today`s meeting and report on investments in Russia. Bengt Li Hansen, Director of “Statoil Hydro”, will tell about Norwegian experience in Shtokman project.

Besides, 28 crimes were revealed. Among them are illegal subsidy getting and business with counterfeit medical record. As an example, within prevention activities of the Department of the Internal Affairs of the Murmansk region the car URAL-375 was detained on the territory of the garage co-operative in Tersky in September 2008. Valuable commercial fish was found out during the checkup of the car. Further checking showed two local citizens joined in the criminal conspiracy and gained 722 specimens of the valuable fish without license. Criminal case is opened based on this fact.

As the Department of Economic Development of the Murmansk region informs the volume of credits given to the regional enterprises as of October 1, 2008, has increased by 19% since the beginning of the year and is now 50,1 billion rubles. The number of short-term credits has increased by 10,3% and its total sum is 16,3 billion rubles, long-term credits by 32,6% - 7,8 billion rubles.

Individuals were given credits of the total sum of 18,1 billion rubles that is by 24,9% higher than at the beginning of the year. The national currency is prioritized (82%). The growth of household deposits has become 9,8% since the beginning of the year and is now 33,9 billion rubles. The volume of deposits made for more than one year is 25,7 billion rubles and it is 3 times higher in comparison with deposits made for less than a year.

First part of the new complex “Severnor Nagornoe” built on the crossing of Kolsky Prospect and Beringa Street will include grocery supermarket “City Gurme”, restaurant patio, sport and leisure centre, appliance shop, shops with household products, sport, clothes and shoe stores.

The total area of the centre is 45 sq.km and the opening of the first part of the complex is planned to take place in the 3 quarter of 2009.

As Committee of Veterinary of the Murmansk region informed, the document package did not changed since year 2007. It involves two applications. These applications should separately point out production volume of every kind of fish, fish or sea production, originating points of the product with the company’s number (or name of the vessel).

Sample of application can be found on:
http://www.gov-murman.ru/power/comit/veterinary/laws/requirements.shtml?id=20

The main purpose of the conference is to provide further partnership development between Russian and foreign authority bodies, industrial enterprises, banks, scientific organizations, oil-producing and service companies. This development aims to create favorable investment climate that stimulates the perspective development of the mineral and raw complex.

More than 500 representatives of Russian and foreign companies are expected to participate in the conference.