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ORT Review
www.ortv.ru
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, June 25, 2002
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov
to discuss economic modernization and the development of the social sphere in
2002-2004.
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Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov met with his Chinese colleagues to discuss their experiences.
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4,800 high school graduates were invited to a formal dance at the Kremlin. |
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President Putin met with graduates of military academies, congratulated
them, and promised that the reform of the Armed Forces would be one of Russia's
priorities. |
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Prime Minister Kasyanov is in Tatarstan on a working visit. Today, he took
a tour of the Kazan aircraft factory. Tomorrow he will visit the KamAz
automobile plant. |
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Central Election Commission Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov announced that
the upcoming parliamentarian and presidential elections will cost the Russian
government 8.4 billion rubles. |
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Russian military forces thwarted an attempt by Aslan Maskhadov's group of
rebels to capture Grozny. Several dozen of Maskhadov's fighters were liquidated
before the planned attack. |
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Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu visited flooded regions in
Daghestan. He promised to provide necessary aid to the republic. |
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Russian Chief of Sanitation Gennady Onishchenko noted that there is a
danger of infections in the flooded regions of Russia's south. |
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Krasnodar Krai has been hit hardest by the flooding -- 68 people have died
there so far. |
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Hollywood star Harvey Keitel arrived in Moscow to attend the 24th Annual
Film Festival. |
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Daghestani President Magomedali Magomedov has been reelected Chairman of
the Daghestani State Council. |
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The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has reviewed the case
against journalist Grigory Pasko. The sentence will remain in effect; only
minor adjustments have been made. |
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Former Federal Security Service officer Aleksandr Litvinenko (currently living in London) has been convicted in absentia and sentenced to 3.5 years in jail and a fine of 80,000 rubles. |
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