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ORT Review
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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,
Tuesday, January 22, 2002
- Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the socio-economic development of Chechnya. Minister Vladimir Yelagin, head of the Chechen administration Akhmat Kadyrov, and Chechen Prime Minister Stanislav Ilyasov were present. Salaries, pensions, public transport, banks and the financial system were on the agenda.
- Russian journalist Grigory Pasko will not ask the president for a pardon, but his lawyer stated that a decision by President Putin to pardon Pasko on the basis of the appeals by human rights organizations would be a humane act.
- President Putin met with the State Duma faction and group leaders to discuss the questions that the parliament will work on this year. The president told the deputies that there are 116 high-priority bills, which include pension laws, land reform, and social guarantees to military servicemen.
- The Russian Ethnographic Museum celebrates its 100th anniversary.
- The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has began reviewing the right of the President to dismiss governors. The case was initiated simultaneously by three claimants -- Chuvash President Nikolai Fedorov, the parliament of Adygeya, and the parliament of Yakutia. Fedorov withdrew his appeal, since there has been no precedent for the use of the law, but the parliamentarians decided to go through with the process.
- TV-6 is no longer broadcasting. Media Minister Mikhail Lesin announced that a contest for the frequency will be held on March 27th. NTV+Sport, which pledged not to apply for permanent broadcasting, will use the channel in the interim.
- President Putin met with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexii II, who awarded the president "for outstanding activity in solidifying the unity of the orthodox peoples."
- Federal Border Troops Commander Konstantin Totsky declared that Americans must leave Afghanistan after completing the operations.
- In Daghestan, Deputy Mayor of Makhachkala Akhmed Aliev and his wife were found shot to death in their home at about 9am this morning. According to witnesses, there were two masked assailants; two guns were recovered from the crime scene. An investigation has been initiated under a terrorism statute.
- Colonel General Vladimir Mikhailov will take over the post of General Air Force Commander from Anatoly Kornukov, who is retiring.
- An airplane carrying 20 tons of medical goods has set off for Kabul. Russian humanitarian to Afghanistan will total 4.5 billion dollars.
- President Putin presented state awards to 41 Russian political experts, scientists, and cultural figures including cardiologist Valery Shumakov, chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, writer Konstantin Vanshenkin, Sberbank Chairman Andrei Kazmin, head of the procurator's international legal department Issa Kostoev, actor Mikhail Boyarsky, singer Oleg Gazmanov and writer Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
- A state of emergency is still in effect in flood-damaged Krasnodarsk krai.
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