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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, June 21, 2002
- Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Trade and Economic Development Minister German Gref to discuss the progress of natural monopolies reform. The President underlined the necessity of conducting a detailed analysis of the spending patterns of natural monopolies.
- State Duma deputies accepted the law On the Sale of Agricultural Lands. Foreigners will not be allowed to buy agricultural land. Also, no individual will be able to buy more than 10 percent of the agricultural land in a given region. About 300 picketers gathered outside the Duma to support the Communist protest of the law.
- Three days of severe rains in the North Caucasus have caused major flooding. President Putin ordered Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu to fly to Mineralnye Vody to discuss the situation with local officials and take charge of rescue and reconstruction work in the area. Putin also ordered Russian Chief of Staff Anatoly Kvashnin to provide necessary aid to the residents.
- President Putin met with World War II veterans on the eve of the German attack of 1941.
- A parade was held at Moscow's Suvorov Square to commemorate the defenders of the Fatherland.
- Tatyana Sapunova has been awarded with a Medal of Courage for her bravery by a presidential decree. The young woman tried to remove an anti-Semitic poster on the Moscow's Kiev Highway, and was severely injured by a bomb that was attached to the poster.
- The Youth of the XXI Century International Student Festival opened in Rostov-on-the-Don. About 30 representatives of Russian and Ukrainian youth organizations met to discuss the strengthening of ties between Russian and Ukrainian youth.
- Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov attended the Kharkov meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission for Cooperation.
- The 10 winners of the children's essay competition "Our Neighbor -- Ukraine" were honored at the Education Ministry.
- Russia's first president Boris Yeltsin is on a private visit to Minsk. Earlier today, he met with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenka. Tomorrow he will visit the Brest Fortress to honor the soldiers who perished in WWII.
- Moscow's 24th Annual International Film Festival opened today.
- President Putin met with film director Nikita Mikhalkov to discuss problems facing the film industry in Russia.
- The crew of the Magdalena Oldendorf and the members of the polar expedition on board have switched to a regime of rationed food. The weather in the area is getting worse, but the representatives of the rescue mission say they have the situation under control.
- Rock singer Viktor Tsoi, of Kino, who died in a car accident over 10 years ago, would have turned 40 today.
- American President George W. Bush has submitted the Russian-American Nuclear Arms Reduction Agreement to the Senate for ratification.
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