MOSCOW, February 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The international exhibition Sviaz-Expocomm-2009, which is to take place at Expocentre in May 12 - 15, 2009, has got official support of the Ministry of Telecommunications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation.

The Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev assumes that the exhibition possesses impressive potential and is worthy of support as one of the most significant branch forums.

The exhibition is also being held under the patronage of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia, with the support and participation of the core federal bodies and also the Government of Moscow.

The American company E.J. Krause Associates, Inc. is acting as the partner of Expocentre in organizing the exhibition. Sviaz-Expocomm has a more than thirty years long history and is the most large-scale in Russia and Eastern Europe show of telecommunications equipment, control systems, information technologies and communications services.

Last year 676 companies from 24 countries demonstrated their achievements in the field of communications systems and info communications technologies at the exhibition. The total exhibition area exceeded 40 000 square meters.

This year's international participation in the show promises to be no less representative.

Traditionally a German exhibition pavilion is to function at Svyaz-Expocomm-2009. The US Department of Commerce is cooperating with the organizers of Sviaz-Expocomm-2009 on a permanent basis. The Chinese pavilion is to function at the exhibition for the fourth time, the Taiwan pavilion for the fifth, and the Indian is to function for the second successive year.

The South Korean companies are regular participants with their pavilion, but the Israeli Export Institute is organizing the Israel national pavilion for the first time.

A new international congress-exhibition project Navitech-Expo-2009 is to be launched this year on the basis of Sviaz-Expocomm-2009. Its main topic is to be the possibilities of using the national global satellite navigation system GLONASS and various aspects of its use both in Russia and abroad. Simultaneously the Third International Satellite Navigation Forum is to take place at Expocentre.

The idea of holding in parallel with Sviaz-Expocomm-2009 a novel independent exhibition on navigation systems, technologies and services, was supported by core ministries interested in the fastest commercialization of navigation services. At present the GLONASS developers have something to offer business, housing and public utilities services and also mass consumers.

Arkadiy V. Didevich, Head of Press Centre, didevich@expocentr.ru, +7-499-256-74-50