#2 - JRL 7303
TV1 Review
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Compiled by Luba Schwartzman (luba_sch@hotmail.com)
Research Analyst, Center for Defense Information, Moscow office
HEADLINES
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
:: Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder discussed bilateral relations and international issues, including the situation in Iraq and in the Middle East, over the telephone.
:: Almost all delegations have arrived to Beijing for the six-sided negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear programs. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aleksandr Losyukov heads the Russian delegation.
:: Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov declared that he is trying to protect the interests of Muscovites by strengthening control over illegal immigration. Nikolai Filatov, the Main Sanitary Inspector for Moscow stated that illegal immigrants are a sanitary threat to the city, since they do not receive regular health care. According to official information, 82,000 foreign workers are registered in Moscow, while the actual number is almost 15 times greater. 43 percent of migrants work in construction and 20 percent on markets.
:: Central Electoral Commission Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov reported that the state budget will allocate 3.5 billion rubles for the State Duma elections.
:: The 2004 draft budget has been forwarded to the State Duma. According to the Ministry of Finances, this is the best budget in years. Minister of Finances Aleksei highlighted a number of structural changes, including a stabilization fund and delimitation between the federal center and the regions.
:: Russian companies lost a total of $40 million as a result of the war in Iraq. In negotiations with their American colleagues, Russian diplomats have won certain rights for Russian companies to participate in the restoration of the Iraqi economy.
:: The General Prosecutor’s Office is preparing documents for the extradition of Vladimir Gusinsky from Greece to Russia.
:: Georgian Minister of State Security Valery Khaburdzaniya is coming to Moscow to discuss the extradition of a man detained in Moscow, who is accused of kidnapping and international terrorism.
:: Sakhalin residents are saying their good-byes to regional officials who died in the Mi-8 helicopter crash. The funeral is scheduled for tomorrow.
:: Six people died when two military Mi-24 helicopters collided during landing in the Maritime Region. The helicopters were participating in the large-scale training exercises underway in the Far East. One of the helicopters grazed the tail of the other with its lifting propeller. Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov declared that the catastrophe was a result of carelessness, bravado and rowdiness. In addition, the flights commander who permitted the unanticipated landing has been suspended.
:: Maximum electricity and gas tariffs have been established for 2004.
:: Police officers are searching for another suspect in the Krasnodar terrorist acts. They have a description and a composite picture. Minister of Internal Affairs Boris Gryzlov believes that the three explosions at public transportation stops were organized and carried out by one organization.
:: Danilkhan Elikhadzhiev, an associate of Shamil Basaev, has been detained in Ingushetia.
:: A US court has sentenced an American citizen of Syrian descent, Enaam Arnaut, to 11 years imprisonment. He was found guilty of providing assistance terrorists in Chechnya and Afghanistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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