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Ministry of natural resources began realizing the Scientific-technical programme on study of local tripolis to use them in the economy of the republic in 1999-2001.

Financiers of the municipal housing complex solve their problems in the 'Chuvashia' sanatorium at the seminar organised by the Ministry of construction. It will last three days.

NikolaI Petrov, a prominent researcher of the Chuvash language, is 70

Scientific conference 'Problems of history of the Chuvash literary language and sylistics' was held yesterday in the Institute of Chuvash philology and culture of the Chuvash State University. It was dedicated to Prof. Nikolai Petrov, D. Sc. (Philology), academician of the National Academy of Science and Arts of the Chuvash Republic, honoured science worker of the Chuvash Republic.

Grippe is spread in Cheboxary

The number of cases of grippe and acute respiratory virus infection (ARVI) exceeded the threshold epidemiological level.

Day of the Chuvash press is celebrated on January 21

This day is not an official state holiday of our republic. It was on January 21, 1906 when the first newspaper in the Chuvash language 'Khypar (News)' was published.

Evening News

Migration service of Chuvash Republic informs:

Last year (January 1 - December 31, 1998) it registered 125 families (331 persons) of forced migrants.

As of January 1, 1999, there are 12 families (28 persons) of refugees and 1,061 families (2,594 persons) of forced migrants.

European 'Tacis' programme pays attention to Chuvashia

Today, Ministry of economy held a meeting with Mr. Rudi Oyen, a representative of the Netherlands institute of economics. The aim of his visit is to collect necessary information to be submitted to the Directorate of the programme (Brussels) - our republic is one of the applicants (among Saratov, Moscow, and Tver oblasts) for realization of the pilot project of the Programme for restructuring of agricultural enterprises.The results of the selection will be known in April-May, 1999.

"We sall help those districts and farms that work good", said Minister of economy in Yalchiki

Yesterday, Anatoly Axakov took part in the work of the deputies' assembly of Yalchikskii district. The assembly discussed and adopted the budget of the district for 1999.

Announcement

At 2 p.m. tomorrow, Minister of economy of Chuvash Republic Anatoly Axakov holds a press conference on the topic 'The results of socio-economic development and fulfilment of the anticrisis programme of the Chuvash Republic in 1998'.

Ministry of construction summed up the results of its work in 1998

Today, Minister of construction Vladimir Filatov held a press conference, where he totalled the construction of social housing in 1998 and told about the new conception of realization of the Republican programme for construction of social housing in 1999.

Construction conference at the 'Santek' Jsc

Today, Minister of construction Vladimir Filatov took part in the conference of heads of contract organisations working at the construction of the factory of sanitary engineering equipment 'Santek', and discussed the problems connected with this object controlled directly by the President of the republic.

Federal mutual settlements were discussed in Ministry of construction

Debts of the construction complex enterprises to the federal budget, as well as those of the federal budget to our republic are not small. Today, Minister of construction Vladimir Filatov held a conference to solve the problem of nutual settlements.

News in one line

The delegation of Chuvash industrialists headed by Valery Ertsikov, deputy minister of industry, went to Nizhnii Novgorod.

A conference was held to discuss the problems of preparation of the Days of Chuvash Republic in Moscow next February.

In Batyrevskii district, conference of the heads of local administrations was attended by Valery Yegorov, Chairman of the State committee on land resources.

The guild of bakers of Chuvashia discussed its problems.

Ministry of agriculture held a conference in Urmary to discuss the problems connected with wintering of cattle.

Ministry of economy held a meeting with the board of directors in the 'Promtractor' Jsc.

Scientific conference 'Historical and etymological study of the Chuvash and Altai languages' devoted to the 80th anniversary of Academician Mikhail Fedotov was held in the Chuvash State University.

Prepared by the Department for information supply and public relations, Chuvash Republic President's Staff, on January 20, 1999. © Translated from Russian by Vladimir Shashkov.