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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,
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
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Today's Federation Council meeting was the most productive one of the
Spring Session. The senators discussed laws they expected to spend two days on:
the Land Reform Law, the Tax Code for transportation taxes, and the Law on
Extremism. |
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The Federation Council also approved Lieutenant General Aleksandr Savenkov
for the position of General Military Prosecutor. Mikhail Kislitzyn, his
predecessor, resigned in June for health reasons. |
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Russian President Vladimit Putin ordered Main Presidential Control Office
Director Yevgeny Lisov and Presidential Plenipotentiary to the Southern Federal
District Viktor Kazantsev to enforce measures for liquidating the effects of
flooding in the Southern Federal District. The President ordered them to give
weekly reports on their progress. |
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Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu criticized Krasnoyarsk Krai
authorities for the slowness of restoration work. |
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A fire that broke out at the Main missile-artillery Directorate of the
Moscow Military District, near Syzarno, has been liquidated. A storehouse with
flares and gunpowder was destroyed. No information on casualties is available.
According to Defense Ministry information, the fire was caused by a lighting
bolt. |
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New information is available on the final actions of the TU-154 pilots.
Aleksandr Neradko, the head of Russia's State Civil Aviation Service declared
that the pilots made no errors. |
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Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev's fans celebrate the 100-year anniversary of
the singer's birth. |
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President Putin met with Nationalities Minister Vlaimir Zorin to discuss
nationalities policies. Putin said that the procedure for acquiring Russian
citizenship should be simplified for the residents of the Commonwealth of
Independent States. |
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The Russian Interior Ministry declared that Russia's residents should be
more careful in dealing with suspicious objects. Several people have been
injured over the last month as they tried to remove exploding posters with
anti-Semitic slogans. |
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A dozen gravestones at a Muslim cemetery in Volgograd were vandalized with
swastikas. |
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Representatives of Russian media and business organizations met for a
round-table discussion on "Advertising as a Guarantee of the Freedom of
Speech." |
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The "Children and Medicine" forum, sponsored by the Unity faction
and the State Duma Committee for Health and Sports, opened in Moscow. |
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Major General Mikhail Vanichkin has been assigned to replace Venyamin
Pastukhov as the head of the St. Petersburg branch of the Interior Ministry's
Main Directorate. |
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In Kaluga, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov met with the leaders of
the regions of the Central Federal District to discuss budget relations and the
allocation of powers between the center and the regions. |
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President Putin met with Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber to discuss
economic relations. Stoiber, who is on a visit in Moscow, expressed his
condolences on the TU-154 catastrophe. |
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Edmund Stoiber also met with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and
several other Russian officials. |
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Large-scale restoration work in Kostroma will prepare the city for the
upcoming (September) celebration of its 850th anniversary. |
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