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ORT Review
www.ortv.ru
Compiled by Luba Schwartzman (luba7@bu.edu)
Research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy
at Boston University
HEADLINES,
Wednesday, February 06, 2002
- Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov has announced that the number of military block-posts in Chechnya will be cut on April 1st. He also said that Interior Ministry officers will now be sent to Chechnya for 6-month rather than 3-month-long assignments.
- The Leningrad oblast regional clemency commission has become operational. Only four requests have been submitted so far, but many more are expected in the near future.
- The two privates who escaped from the Nizhny Novgorod division have been detained.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that the government fix the problem with salary payments to state employees.
- The "Walking Together" youth movement has resumed the action allowing Muscovites to trade in books by Vladimir Sorokin, Viktor Pelevin and... Karl Marx in exchange for books by Bunin, Kuprin and Leskov. Contemporary writer Boris Vasiliev, whose books were originally to be given out in exchange for the "bad" lbooks, refused to cooperate with "Walking Together."
- The heir to the Spanish throne, Prince Felipe of Asturias, came to Moscow to attend the opening of the Moscow branch of the Cervantes Institute.
- Georgian National Security Minister Valeri Khaburzania said that Chechen fighter Ruslan Gelaev may be hiding out in the Pankisi Gorge. According to other information, Gelaev is no longer in Georgia, but in Azarbaijan.
- President Putin met with the commissions preparing for the upcoming celebrations of the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg and the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Kazan.
- Finance Minister German Gref announced that the government does not plan on making the payment of full utility costs mandatory.
- Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko spoke to State Duma deputies about tariffs on natural monopolies. Media Minister Mikhail Lesin also visited the Duma -- he discussed freedom of speech and the government's information policy. Lesin promised that the contest for broadcasting on the 6th Channel will be maximally open and honest.
- Influenza epidemics are raging in Volgograd (where 1,500 children and teenagers have been diagnosed and schools are closed for a quarantine), Astrakhan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Altai, and the Jewish Autonomous oblast.
- The Krasnoyarsk krai court has submitted the case of Valentin Danilov (accused of spying for China) for further investigation.
- An assassination attempt against Chechen Prime Minister Ali Alavdinov was made for the second time this year. A bomb exploded in his vehicle during his morning commute to work; Alavdinov received no serious injuries.
- Two people died in an avalanche on the Transcaucasian highway.
- Environmentalists in Saratov are protesting the construction of new blocks at the Balakov nuclear power station.
- The search is on in Krasnoyarsk for Vitaly Sentyapov, a repeat offender, jailed for murder, who escaped the court building where he appeared as a witness for another trial.
- In the Verkhny Beshtaunit settlement, near Mineralnye Vody, radiation levels exceed normal levels by 15 times and are 4 times higher than the limits set for miners in uranium quarries.
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