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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,
Thursday, June 20, 2002
- June 20th has been designated Worldwide Refugee Day by the UN.
- The Committee for Russian-Polish Cooperation Strategy met in Warsaw. The decision to create the committee was made in January, during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Poland.
- Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Ukrainian Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh attended the opening ceremony of a new automobile border crossing between Russia and Ukraine.
- In the Mineralnye Vody region, six months worth of average annual precipitation has fallen.
- President Putin met with Federal Border Troops Director Konstantin Totsky to discuss conditions in the North Caucasus and along the Tajik-Afghan region. Putin also met with Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin to discuss financing for the Armed Forces in 2003 and the meeting of the finance ministers of the G-8 in Canada.
- An exhibit starring Kazimir Malevich's Black Square has opened at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
- The First Annual All-Russian Media Industry Conference has ended in Moscow.
- The Russian cabinet accepted a package of bills regulating the registration of juridical personae in Russia.
- Tariffs on natural monopolies -- railroad transfers, electricity, gas -- will be increased by 15% on July 1st.
- The Russian State Duma has accepted the presidential law on extremism in the second reading by a vote of 272 in favor. About 100 corrections have been made
- Armed bandits attempted to assassinate Moscow Deputy Mayor Joseph Ordzhonikidze. The criminals drove a BMW with false police plates, which stopped the deputy mayor's automobile. Ordzhonikidze's bodyguard was wounded. The deputy mayor and his driver, who had remained in the car, were unharmed. A university student, who passing by in a shuttle-bus was wounded by a stray bullet; he is currently at a hospital.
- Nine anti-tank rocket-launchers were discovered during a special operation in the Chechen-Aul settlement.
- The eight deserters who left a South Ossetian military base will be sent back to Russia.
- Colonel Yuri Budanov's lawyers demand that he be acquitted on all charges.
- A new presidential website -- www.president.kremlin.ru -- begins working today.
- A major fire broke out in Moscow's Sokolnikov region last night. The fire was localized; no injuries have been reported.
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