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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, July 09, 2002
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Alpinists and engineers inspected the world's biggest monument -- the
Mamaev Kurgan sculpture. |
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Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus received the Andrei Pervozvannyi award
for his contribution to the development of relations between the people and
religions of Russia and Lithuania. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the Chairman of the Daghestani
State Council to discuss the socio-economic situation and crime in the republic. |
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NATO General Secretary George Robertson has refuted rumors that Ukraine
will enter the alliance shortly. |
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Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu declared that he is unhappy with
the tempo of restoration in Russia's flood-damaged southern regions. In many
Daghestani settlements, people are still using boats to get around. Belarus is
sending aid to the regions. |
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48-year-old Yevgeny Boyarsky was injured when a SMERCH Multiple Launch
Rocket System was used at the weapons exposition in Nizhny Tagil. |
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This week, Russian courts have approved 80% of arrest warrant requests. |
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The director and one of the teachers of the Pazhgn orphanage-school in
Syktyvkar are on trial for child abuse. |
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Gangs of highway robbers are showing up in Moscow. |
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Fourteen medical workers in the Irkutsk Oblast are on a hunger strike. They
are demanding the repayment of their backwages -- held back since February. |
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King Abdullah II of Jordan is in Moscow on a brief visit. Earlier today, he
and President Putin discussed closer relations and cooperation. |
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The Constitutional Court will allow administration heads to appear on a
ballot for the third term. |
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Three new French ministers are on a visit in Moscow. |
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Another dam break in Krasnodarsk Krai threatens the Zaboiskii settlement,
home to 3,000 people. |
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A sample of the cholera virus has been discovered in the Altai Krai. |
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President Putin chaired a meeting of the Security Council. Putin announced
that the economy is one of Russia's primary security concerns. |
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