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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, January 3, 2002
- A new season of broadcasts has begun on Chechen television.
- This year's first Cabinet change was the dismissal of Transportation Minister Nikolai Aksenenko. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Nikolaev made the suggestion at his meeting with President Vladimir Putin, who agreed and signed a corresponding decree. According to the department of government information, Nikolai Aksenenko finds himself morally responsible for the problems in the work of the transportation ministry and thinks that working conditions at the ministry will be better without him.
- In the Leningrad Oblast's city of Volkhovo, 128 apartment buildings (housing about 11,000 people) have been left without heat due to an accident along the heating line. 150 people and 50 pieces of machinery have been involved in repair work, but it is expected to take 5-7 days.
- An international thief, Gennady Vostretsov (A.K.A. Gennady Arzhanik, A.K.A. Henry Oknyansky), who stole almost $3 million from Cuban entrepreneurs, was detained in Moscow.
- In the Tsotsin-Yurt settlement of the Kurchalovsk region, the military is continuing a special operation to destroy a large division of Chechen fighters. They have already liquidated a group of fighters and its leader, Abdull Said Magomed, and removed a large amount of arms and ammunition.
- The first tax declarations are arriving from Russian citizens. Tax officials hope that this year, with the changes to the tax code, more declarations will be received.
- In the Crimea, forests lost more trees to poachers in the two weeks preceding the New Year celebrations than to forest fires during the entire summer. Lebanese Cedar and Cypress trees are sold to rich Ukrainians and Russians for hundreds of dollars.
- Protests against the court decision sentencing journalist Grigory Pasko to 4 years imprisonment for espionage have begun in Vladivostok.
- Secret documents have been discovered onboard the Kursk nuclear submarine. None of the information is relevant to the sinking of the submarine.
- Starting this year, Russian classes will be compulsory in Moldavian schools. It is possible that, in the future, Moldavia will follow in the footsteps of Kirghizia by adding Russian as a state language. Forty percent of the population consider Russian their native language, while only 5 percent assert that it was forced upon them.
- As of today, Russian banks will begin selling the Euro.
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