ASTRAKHAN. June 22 (Interfax-South) - Seventeen children from a pre-school day care center in Astrakhan have been hospitalized with food poisoning, Interfax was told at the regional division of the Emergency Situations Ministry Sunday evening.

Text of report in English by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS Omsk, 28 May: Fish poaching in the Caspian border zone has reached its critical peak, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev stated here on Monday after the end of Russian-Kazakh conference on border zone cooperation.

The Caspian Sea port of Olya in Astrakhan Region is being developed for the Russian Ministry of Defence, Russian Military News Agency AVN reported today, quoting Aleksandr Zhilkin, the regional governor.