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ORT Review
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Compiled by Luba Schwartzman (luba7@bu.edu)
Research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and
Policy
at Boston University
HEADLINES,
Monday, January 07, 2002
- Orthodox Christians in Russia and throughout the world are celebrating Christmas today. Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a school and a holiday pageant in the city of Maloyaroslavets; he also attended Christmas Mass at the Uspensky Cathedral and sent his greetings to all Russians celebrating Christmas.
- A group of Chechen fighters attacked Russian military and police troops near a bridge over the Argun River. According to reports, two soldiers were killed and four were wounded.
- Mikhail Lapshin, the leader of the Agrarian Party of Russia, has been elected President of the Altai Republic. He received over 68 percent of the vote, while incumbent Semyon Zubakin received only 23 percent.
- Seven-year-old Timur Zangiev was voted "man of the year" in North Ossetia. This second-grader conducted the Kabardino-Balkarian Symphony Orchestra's performance of Schubert's Eighth Symphony.
- The "Hopes of Europe" festival has opened in Sochi. Over 1500 children from different countries are competing in dance and vocal performance. Winners will be able to attend Russia's most prestigious theatrical and musical universities.
- The transmitter of a private company operating in Vladikavkaz has been blown up. An investigation is under way. The head of the North Ossetian Interior Ministry declared that the incident was a diversion aimed at destabilizing the political situation in anticipation of the republic's presidential elections (scheduled for January 27th).
- A meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was held in Beijing. Foreign ministers from Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan discussed the fight against terrorism and the political future of Afghanistan. The next meeting of the "Shanghai Six" will be held in St. Petersburg in June 2002.
- Along the Transcaucasian highway, snowstorms continue: some sections of the road are covered by a meter and a half of snow; rescue workers have been delivering food to the drivers of about twenty cars that have been stranded; sixty-five avalanches were registered last night alone.
- Moscow police forces are still searching for the man who stole Mikhail Zhvanetsky's Jeep. The writer explained that the car was insured, but that a briefcase with his work and address books was inside the car.
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