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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 21, 2002
- Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center. Engineers showed him plans for the Angara, Rokot and Proton-M launch vehicles and the FGB-2 module that will be docked to the International Space Station by the end of the year.
- President Putin met with Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov. Cooperation in the gas sector was at the top of the agenda. President Putin suggested the establishment of a Eurasian alliance of gas producers, which would also include Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The presidents also discussed the status of the Caspian, humanitarian supplies to Afghanistan and the restoration of the Afghan economy.
- Yevgeny Kiselev, the general director of MNVK (Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation), has written to the Russian Media Ministry asking it to disregard last week's letter giving up the broadcasting license, since the decision was to be made by the television station's board of directors, rather than the MNVK.
- Renowned choreographer Igor Moiseev celebrated his 96th birthday today.
- A 10,000-ruble note [$12.5] has been introduced in Belarus.
- Only two defendants -- Boris Fadeev and Mikhail Levchenko -- remain on trial in the case of the attack on the Sergievo-Posadsky police unit. The case against Igor Tikhonov has been suspended because of his health. All of the accused plead innocent.
- This morning's assassination attempt against North Ossetia's Interior Minister Kazbek Dzantiev is said to be aimed at throwing off the upcoming presidential elections. A bomb was placed in a snow-bank near the gates of Dzantiev's house; no one was injured.
- The Russian government discussed the schedule of restoration work in flood-damaged Krasnoyarsk Krai today. Special equipment has been sent to the area.
- Two more of the 14 convicts who escaped from the Ulyanovsk oblast maximum security prison have been captured, brining the total up to 8.
- Another Russian soldier -- Sergei Popov -- has been freed from captivity in Chechnya.
- The International Conference on the Reconstruction of Afghanistan began its work in Tokyo today. Representatives from 22 organizations and 60 nations, including Russia, are participating.
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