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TV1 Review
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Compiled by Luba Schwartzman (luba_sch@hotmail.com)
Research Analyst, Center for Defense Information, Moscow office
HEADLINES,
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
- Representatives of 51 countries gathered in Moscow to sign a memorandum on the principles of the fight against doping in sports. An International Anti-Doping Code will be accepted in March and will set the standard for the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
- Moscow police officers are looking for the unidentified armed men who stopped an armored truck and the car accompanying it, beat up the guards, forced the cash messengers to open the truck, took a large sum of money and disappeared.
- Representatives of the Federation Council, the State Duma, the Press Ministry and the Industrial Committee signed a Protocol on Cooperation, pledging to join forces in making sure that proper corrections are made to the laws On the Media and On the Fight Against Terrorism. A special committee will be created.
- Members of the Industrial Committee -- directors of Russia's leading television stations, newspapers and journals -- also met with the defense minister, the interior minister, and the directors of the federal security service, foreign intelligence service and federal border troops to discuss coordination of activity between journalists and power organ workers in case of future terrorist acts.
- Temperatures are reaching record lows throughout Russia. Schools were closed in Bashkiria, where the temperature dropped to -30 Celsius, the lowest in 20 years.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin met with human rights workers to discuss the reform of the justice and legal systems, the rights of soldiers, forced migrants and small business owners.
- Head of the Federal Migration Service Andrei Chernenko categorically refuted information that there is pressure on the forced migrants from Chechnya to return.
- Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov declared that international inspectors should receive the full confidence of the world community, and that Iraq must do everything possible to provide good working conditions for the international inspectors.
- Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov met with Belarusian Prime Minister Gennady Novitsky to discuss the introduction of a joint currency.
- President Putin congratulated the winners of the Third All-Russian Contest "Russian Organizations with High Social Effectiveness." These were primarily automobile and metallurgy factories.
- A complex for the destruction of chemical weapons has been opened in Saratov Oblast. It will destroy 1 percent of the Russian chemical weapons under conditions appropriate to all environmental norms.
- Rich adventure-seeking tourists can spend "a night in the GULAG" for several hundred dollars. The Ural tourist organization and the Perm-36 Political Repressions Museum, which organize the trip assert that this will help the reconstruction of the historic monument -- the destroyed camps.
- The security council chairmen of the member-nations of the Agreement on Collective Security met in Bishkek to discuss the problems of international terrorism.
- Nizhny Novgorod firefighters have localized a fire that raged after an explosion along a natural gas pipeline.
- In Yekaterinburg, 84 fires have been registered over the past 3 days. Most were caused by heating appliances. Fourteen people have died.
- Prices for telegrams will go up by 18%.
- Hundreds of families that lost their homes in the June flooding are celebrating their housewarmings in the Kalininsky settlement in North Ossetia.
- Two ships sank in the Novorossiisk Port because of bad weather conditions. No one from the crews was injured.
- Negotiations with the housing and utilities workers on strike in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky were unsuccessful. The workers blame Mayor Yuri Golenishchev for the failure.
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