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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
Monday, August 11, 2003
:: Russian President Vladimir Putin held a working meting with Federal Security Service Director Nikolai Patrushev, who recently returned from a lengthy trip through Russia’s southern regions.
:: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aleksandr Losyukov declared that Russia and China are ready to provide certain security guarantees to North Korea. North Korean Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Sok Ju will arrive in Moscow on Tuesday to meet with Losyukov.
:: Six-sided negotiations on the regulation of the crisis involving North Korea’s nuclear developments will begin in Beijing on August 27 and last three days. Participating nations will be the United States, North Korea, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea.
:: President Putin told Cabinet ministers that Russia must improve its position on the Asian market. Other issues discussed at the meeting were the introduction of a single currency for the Russia- Belarus Union and preparations for the new school year.
:: Officers from the Federal Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs neutralized a bomb located on the territory of the KhimFotoProekt Institute on Lenindradsky Avenue.
:: Federal forces destroyed four rebels in the Vedeno region of Chechnya.
:: Khabarovsk resident Marat Kadyrov took hostage an officer of the court, who brought him an eviction notice. He threatened to blow up himself, his four-year-old son and the officer. Security services evacuated the apartment building. After forty minutes of negotiations they convinced Kadyrov to release the hostage and turn himself in.
:: Federation Council senators discussed the 2004 budget. They have some problems with the effect of the document on budget relations between the center and the regions.
:: Only one of the Russian tourists injured in the bus accident in Poland remains under medical supervision. Her condition is stable. The others have returned home.
:: Three Ukrainian mountain climbers died in an avalanche in Kabardino-Balkaria.
:: A support center for former convicts has been opened in Omsk.
:: One of the owners of the Kamaz truck used to blow up the Mozdok Military hospital was an employee of an Ingush police department. Five more suspects have been detained in the case.
:: A regulation forbidding farming on the land belonging to the Pinezh Reservation in the Arkhangelsk Oblast has been passed.
:: Law enforcement officers are searching for illegally acquired precious metals in the Magadan Oblast. They have already confiscated 40 kilograms of gold stolen from mines.
:: A Festival of Japanese Culture was held in Khabarovsk.
:: Independence Day celebrations were held throughout Kyrghyzstan.
:: A powerful cyclone tore through Kamchatka.
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