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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,
Friday, January 04, 2002
- Ruslan Yunusov, the Chechen deputy emergency minister was seriously wounded in Grozny. He was brought to a hospital, but died on the operating table.
- Gennady Fadeev has been appointed the new Transportation Minister. Fadeev held the position between 1992 and 1996; he began working for the ministry in 1987. During the last two years he was the general secretary of the International Committee on Transsiberian Transit and the head of the Moscow Railways system. First Deputy Transportation Minister Aleksandr Tselko had been appointed Acting Transportation Minister by the former minister, Nikolai Aksenenko.
- The Governmental Committee on the protection of domestic trade and customs-tariff policy will make a recommendation to the Russian Cabinet to lower the customs tax on oil exports from 23.4 Euros to $8 per ton.
- A major fire broke out at an oil refinery in Moscow's Kapotnya region. According to preliminary information, two people have been injured.
- Admiral Vyacheslav Popov has been selected as the Federation Council representative for the Murmansk oblast.
- About 100,000 Arkhangelsk residents have been without water since early yesterday morning. The main pipe from the city's water reservoir burst yesterday and had been repaired, but a new rupture followed.
- According to State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, Russia and the United States have no disagreements about Chechnya; the American administration supports the Russian government's approach to the Chechen problem.
- Russia has made its first IMF payment of the year - 113.4 million of the more than 1.5 billion it will pay in 2002.
- Three people were injured when a bomb went off in the Vladivostok office of two oil-trading companies - Rai and Primoil. The office is located in a movie theater and a children's New-Year show was going on next door -- none of the children were hurt. The bomb was hidden in a present (a desk lamp) brought by two women dressed as Santa's helpers [Snegorochki]. It exploded when the lamp was plugged in. Federal Security Service officials suspect that the attack was directed against Ivanov, the head of one of the firms, but he was on holiday in Thailand. An investigation is in progress.
- Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov will be on vacation until January 14th. He will spend his holiday in Slovenia, where he was invited by the Slovenian Prime Minister. Fourteen other ministers will also take their vacations in early January, so the next Cabinet meeting will be held on January 17th.
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