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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, June 19, 2002
- A street in the Moscow suburb of Peredelkino has been named after the great poet Robert Rozhdestvensky.
- Larisa Gamova, the widow of Border Troops General Valery Gamov has undergone her fifth skin graft operation. Doctors say that her condition is stable. She does not yet know that her husband died on May 28th.
- The flow of traffic along the Penza-Ulyanovsk highway has been restored in spite of the protests by local residents who are fed up with electricity shut-offs (which also deprive them of running water).
- Former Russian Aluminum (KrAZ) head Anatoly Bykov was sentenced to 6.5 years imprisonment for organizing the attempted murder of rival entrepreneur Pavel Struganov, (known as Pasha Tsveto-Muzyka). Due to time served during the investigation as well as to his health condition, Bykov will not have to serve the time unless he gets in trouble with the law again.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin met with State Savings Bank director Aleksei Kazmin to discuss the results of the work of the bank in 2001.
- Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov has ordered ice-breaking steamships to prepare for a possible rescue effort of the German Magdalena Oldendorf ship. A 74-member Russian expedition and a Ukrainian crew are on board.
- Russia's Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of Chernobyl victim Anatoly Burdov, who sued the government for greater pension payments.
- President Putin met with Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and Chief of Staff Anatoly Kvashnin to discuss military reform and development of the Armed Forces, as well as the post-ABM Treaty environment.
- President Putin asked the Russian government aid the return of Russian capital from abroad.
- At the opening of the Media Industry Conference, Media Minister Mikhail Lesin declared that the Russian government will decrease its presence in the media market. He added that he could foresee the closing of the ministry in 2-3 years, with only a couple of commissions remaining to handle licensing and supervision of compliance with the laws.
- President Putin met with Justice Minister Yuri Chaika to discuss the progress of the draft law on extremism in the State Duma as well as the work of the ministry to optimize federal justice structures in the Federation subjects.
- A special photo exhibit dedicated to the Kursk nuclear submarine has been opened in Murmansk.
- The State Committee for the investigation of the sinking of the Kursk has excluded the theories of a collision with another submarine or hitting a landmine. Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov said that the commission has found that the tragedy was caused by an explosion of the 650-mm torpedo.
- Five Chechen fighters in the Zandak settlement have given themselves up to the federal forces. After much deliberation, they decided to return to civilian life.
- The parents of Elza Kungaeva spoke today at the trial of Colonel Yuri Budanov. They expressed their indignation at the suggestion of the prosecutor to drop murder charges against Budanov and retain only the charges of exceeding his authority.
- The Russian State Duma has accepted the declaration on the Kaliningrad Oblast, which demands a visa-free regime for transit to the region. Deputies also reviewed the law On Alternative Service in the second reading. No one objects to the idea itself, but there is controversy concerning the length of the alternative service term -- from 2.5 to 4 years.
- Prime Minister Kasyanov announced that Russia could get out of the mire of inflation and stagnation as early as next year.
- The Scientific Conference entitled Russia and Ukraine in the European Arena of Science has opened in Moscow.
- Flooding in the Tyumen Oblast has lasted over for a month.
- The last two of eight deserters have been found in South Ossetia.
- The fate of Kaliningrad will be at the top of Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's agenda during his visit to Poland.
- President Putin spoke at the Congress of the Trade and Commerce Chamber.
- An operation to clear Vladivostok's ports and bays of ships that have been abandoned or written off has begun. The first step will be conducting a survey of the ships.
- The International Economic Forum begins in St. Petersburg.
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