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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)
[Presenter] A new hydropower plant has been put in operation in Kabarda-Balkaria. It is the republic's largest power plant whose commissioning will result in a threefold increase in power generation in the region. Celebrations were held to mark the ceremony at which the acceptance commission signed the commissioning certificate.
[Correspondent Aleksandr Zhestkov] Kabarda-Balkaria has been waiting for this moment for almost 20 years. The decision to build a hydropower plant in a region which has one of Russia's worst shortages of energy was taken in the early 1980s. However, construction began only on the 1990s and …