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YEAR * EVENTS * MOSCOW * RIA
MOSCOW, December 26, 2002. /From RIA Novosti corr./--The Russian news agency
RIA Novosti presents a list of Moscow's most important events of the year from
the point of view of its correspondents:
1. The hostage-taking act in the Theater Center in Dubrovka Street;
2. Street violence that followed the football game between Russia and Japan
during the World Championship;
3. The adding of two new stations to the Moscow Metro: Vorobyovy Gory, which was
re-opened after being shut down for 19 years, and Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo, the
first station to be opened outside the Moscow Ring Road;
4. The commissioning of new sections of the Third Transport Ring: from
Volgogradsky Prospect to Nizhegorodskaya Street and from Zvenigorodskoye Highway
to Begovaya Street. The last sections of the ring will be commissioned at the
end of 2003;
5. Burning forests and peat bogs outside Moscow made life a misery for residents
of Moscow and the region and even forced drugstores to start selling
respirators;
6. The commissioning of Russia's first high-speed railway line between
Paveletsky Terminal and Domodedovo Airport: passengers can reach it in just 40
minutes;
7. The Bolshoi Theater acquired a new stage: a new 1,000-seat auditorium that
opened in the building next door came complete with up-to-date equipment and a
lifting-dipping pit floor;
8. Liquidation of merchandise markets in sports complexes: the 3,500 market
vendors that were left jobless as a result of the process were placed in jobs in
other markets of Moscow;
9. The most outrageous crime in Moscow: Governor of the Magadan region Valentin
Tsvetkov was assassinated in broad daylight in Moscow's central Novy Arbat
Street. Investigators believe the murder might have been prompted by economic
conflicts in the region, either related to gold-mining or to fishery;
10. A second attempt on the life of Deputy Moscow Mayor Iosif Ordzhonikidze, who
overlooks the capital's hotel business and the gambling industry. In December
2000, he was heavily wounded in an attack on his car. This time, he escaped
unharmed.
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