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October 14, 2003
Interfax Group opens news agency in northwestern Russia
The Interfax Information Services Group has announced the establishment of Interfax-Northwest, a news agency in northwestern Russia.
Nikolai Dimchenko, who formerly headed the branch of the Reuters international information organization for the northwestern Commonwealth of Independent States, has been appointed general director of Interfax-Northwest.
Lyudmila Fomichova has become president and first deputy general director of the new agency. Between 1993 and 1996, she was the press secretary for the first mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, and until recently an adviser and press secretary for the chairman of the Russian Federation Council, Sergei Mironov.
Since 1998, a branch of the Interfax news agency, the Group's central division, has operated in the northwest.
"The northwest has always been one of the most powerful industrial regions of Russia, which borders on industrialized European countries," said Mikhail Komissar, chairman of the Group board of directors. "We expect that a powerful information institution will help build a favorable investment climate in that region."
Opening Interfax-Northwest is one of the stages in the Group's strategic project of setting up news agencies in all Russian federal districts. The task of these agencies is to provide comprehensive political and economic information of regional or federal relevance for mass media, the business community, and the state.
The Group has already opened major agencies in the Ural, Volga, and Southern federal districts, Interfax-Urals, Interfax-Volga, and Interfax-South. It plans to set up agencies in the Central, Far Eastern, and Siberian federal districts.
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