ST.PETERSBURG. June 8 (Interfax-AVN) - The eighth All- Russian scientific conference "Protection and Security Problems" to be held in St. Petersburg on April 4-7, 2005, will focus on improving means and methods of combating international terrorism.
"This decision has been based on the results of the seventh conference just over in St. Petersburg," an organizational committee official told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday.
According to him, the subject matter of the seventh and the eighth conferences is based on the growing threat of terrorism both in the country and in the world.
"All five symposia of the conference paid due attention to means and methods of combating terrorism. One of them was devoted to technical anti-terrorist means. The future conference will feature various symposia, focusing their efforts on non-lethal weapons, emergency robotics, industrial terrorism counter-means, and high-power protection means on crucial industrial facilities," the official noted.
The conference is sponsored by the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, the Kuznetsov Naval Academy, the Special Materials Research and Production Association, and the St. Petersburg-based Interior Ministry University.
In 2004 the conference saw participation of over 150 enterprises, organizations, institutions, colleges, all law- enforcement agencies, defense industry, the Education Ministry, the Bank of Russia, etc.
The results of the conference will be included in the proceedings, which are to comprise over 450 reports by over 700 authors.
The organizational committee noted that the number of participants in the conference increases on an annual basis.