ST.PETERSBURG, April 18 (AVN) - Director of the Federal Border Guard Service (FBGS) Konstantin Totsky and St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev signed an agreement on partronage upon the Pyandzh and Murab border guard detachments of the Russian border guard group in Tajikistan on Wednesday, a spokesman for the St. Petersburg administration told the Military News Agency.
As a first patronage action the city government will send to border guards in Tajikistan a batch of commodities including furniture, office goods and sport equipment. The FBGS and the administration also agreed that a picket of the Murab detachment would be named St. Petersburg.
The border guards have tough ties with authorities, enterprises and organisations of St. Petersburg, the spokesman stressed. The Vyborg district of the city has been helping a picket of the Vyborg border guard detachment for several years. The editorial of the Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti newspaper is patronising a border guard detachment on the Karelian Isthmus. The administration of the town of Pushkin confers its patronage upon the First Cadet Corps of the FBGS that is located in the town.