MOSCOW, February 26 (AVN) - Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov endorsed the government's decision to hold the Russian industrialist 2001international expo-cum-congress in St. Petersburg on September 24-27, 2001, the government information department told the Military News Agency on Monday.
Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov was appointed chairman of the organising committee. The St. Petersburg government as well as other interested federal executive bodies are supposed to set up the committee, while Klebanov is to approve it.