GLONASS (briefly for global navigation satellite system)
The Russian general staff lifts from the 01st of January, 2007 all restrictions which are valid presently for the exactness of the detection of objects within the scope of the national navigation system GLONASS.
Before the divergence amounted with the regulation of the exact co-ordinates because of the restrictions up to 150 metres. Now the divergence will sway about five metres”, said the deputy of the department for surgical management of the civil defence ministry, Andrej Legoschin, during an interview towards RIA Novosti.

He said that the exact regulation of an object can be vital with bad weather or under complicated geographic conditions on the rescue of human life.

“We want to bomb nobody, however, it is necessary to know the exact scene of the accident or the stay of the victims. This is necessary for the work of the rescue groups on the earth as well as for the airplane management”, he said.

Legoschin informed that the Russian rescue service uses GLONASS the similar American system GPS already for some years except with which these restrictions were already abolished earlier.