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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,
Wednesday, January 09, 2002
- Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has been awarded honorary citizenship in the city of Dublin for his contribution to political and economic reforms.
- Pension Fund head Mikhail Zurabov explained the workings of the new pension system: Every worker will have a personal account which will accrue 14 percent of his/her income. This money will later be used to pay the pensions.
- After an emergency shut-off along the high-voltage line, several areas of Sochi are once again left without electricity. Authorities are investigating the cause of the shut-off.
- Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov met with Grigory Pasko's lawyer and expressed his willingness to personally vouch for the journalist in order to have him released from prison. Mironov said that his personal opinion is that the verdict was unfair.
- Former (1996-1998) Yakutian Finance Minister Sergei Yanygin has been detained. He is suspected of attempting to sell $100 million worth of government bonds -- the equivalent of one third of the Republic's yearly budget.
- The Russian General Prosecutor's office has filed a case against three directors of Sibur, the daughter company of Gazprom. President Yakov Goldovsky, Chairman of the Board Vyacheslav Sheremet and Vice President Yevgeny Koshits have been detained and will be accused of abusing their positions.
- Federal forces have completed a special operation in Argun. Presidential Spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembskii declared that the latest federal actions have been very successful: a total of 92 fighters have been killed, while, of the federal troops, five were killed and 24 wounded.
- A mass influx of skiers and snowboarders has been a boon to the Elbrus-region hotels and attractions. At least 15,000 tourists are expected this winter. The Russian government has allocated 80 million rubles for repairs and improvements.
- The Art of Islam exhibit has opened in Kazan. It includes paintings from St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum.
- Six thousand children -- mainly orphans and handicapped children -- gathered at the Kremlin for the lighting of the national Christmas Tree. Tomorrow a group of 5-8th graders from Kaliningrad, whose trip to Moscow is a presidential prize for their good marks, will visit the Kremlin tree.
- The First International Olympiad of the Russian Language has opened in Moscow. Five of the students from former Soviet republics will win university scholarships.
- Protesters in the Pankisi Gorge are demanding the return of two hostages reported to be kidnapped by local Chechens. They are threatening to take the law into their own hands if the government does not take action.
- Two sergeants have deserted the Novosibirsk garrison; 20-year-old Dmitro Maksimov and 22-year-old Renat Zabirov are suspected of stealing between 500,000 and 700,000 rubles from the safe of the division commander
- The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has reviewed the case of former diplomat Valentin Moiseev (arrested in July of 1998 and accused of treason to the favor of South Korea). The Supreme Court did not change the ruling against Moiseev.
- Fifty houses in Rostov-on-the-Don have been left without heat as a result of an accident along the pipes. Temperatures last night dropped to
-25/-30F degrees [-13/-21F] -- almost a record low for the past 72 years.
- The trial of four men accused of carrying out the October 1999 contract murder of State Duma Deputy Viktor Novoselov has began in St. Petersburg.
- Makhachkala residents are commemorating the six-year anniversary of the storming of the city hospital by Chechen field commander Salman Raduev's fighters.
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