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MOSCOW - Tax authorities said Monday that their attempt to liquidate Media-MOST and its subsidiaries was not politically motivated and offered to settle out of court with Vladimir Gusinsky's independent media holding company. "Liquidation of these companies is not the aim of the tax inspectorate," Tatyana Luzhina, chief of the tax inspectorate of Moscow's central district, told reporters. |
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MOSCOW - Russian energy boss and leading Yeltsin-era "reformer" Anatoly Chubais rowed with an adviser to President Vladimir Putin on live television on Sunday over the carve up of Russia's giant electricity firm. |
 MOSCOW - The Kremlin said on Monday that it looked forward to working with new U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, but Russian analysts saw tough talking ahead between Moscow and a no-nonsense foreign-policy team in Washington. President-elect George W. |
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Russian television personality Alexander Lyubimov was in St. Petersburg Monday promoting the Media Union - an organization to rival the decades-old Union of Journalists - whose main goal will be to foster cooperation between reporters and the authorities. |
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MOSCOW - The Union of Journalists demanded the dismissal of Press Minister Mikhail Lesin and called for criminal charges to be brought against him. In open letters Thursday to Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov and Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, union chairman Vsevolod Bogdanov and secretary Pavel Gutiontov said Lesin should be charged with impeding the professional activities of journalists because of his decision to take a Sochi television station off the air. |
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MOSCOW - Perhaps it was the boyish charm of the 34-year-old, sweatshirt-clad candidate. Or maybe it was his close ties to the Kremlin. Or the millions of dollars worth of humanitarian aid he poured into the impoverished region. |
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MOSCOW - As the country's unions kicked off a week of protests against the government's proposed Labor Code, Labor Minister Alexander Pochinok said Thursday he would be willing to sit down with pro-union legislators and hammer out a compromise. But even as he extended an olive branch, he lashed out at the unions for spreading what he said was misinformation about the government's proposal. |
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MOSCOW - The State Duma voted unanimously Friday for measures that would lighten the burden on the country's overcrowded jails, including limits on the amount of time suspects can be held behind bars. |
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Swiss Continue Probe GENEVA (Reuters) - A Swiss prosecutor said Friday he would continue to investigate alleged bribe-taking by former Kremlin officials from two Swiss companies and said Russia's decision to close the case was politically motivated. |
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NAZRAN, Southern Russia - Rebels fired on the mayor's office in Chechnya's capital Grozny on Sunday, prompting a shoot-out with police and guards that left four dead and several bystanders wounded, officials said. |
 OTTAWA - Russian President Vla di mir Putin, fresh from a visit to Cuba to restore ties with Moscow's long-standing ally, arrived in Canada on Sunday to seek common ground on international disarmament and other key issues, Reuters reported. The agenda may also include the environment. |
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MOSCOW - Hundreds and perhaps thousands of religious organizations around the country are unlikely to meet a Dec. 31 deadline for re-registration and thus may be forced to disband or severely limit their activities, a prominent religious rights lawyer said Friday. |
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MOSCOW - Russian scientists warned last week that life as we know it could end as early as Thursday, if any one of the massive asteroids whizzing through the cosmos should happen to be making a beeline for Earth. "There is a threat to humanity," said Vadim Simonenko, deputy head of the Institute of Technical Physics. |
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AOL Merger Is On WASHINGTON (Reuters) - America Online won the blessing of U.S. antitrust authorities on Thursday to buy Time Warner in a $112.5 billion deal that will marry a new-economy Internet giant with a venerable old firm to create the world's biggest media company. |
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Trouble at Home, Abroad Takes Equities to Year Low Equities dropped to year lows on a cocktail of external and domestic factors. Turkey's political scandal escalated to a new level, undermining the government's chances of getting its much-needed bailout package from the IMF. |
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As the head of the prime minister's internal administration, Igor Shuvalov is charged with controlling a strong-willed organization that has poisoned the lives and crushed the careers of many a government official. But Shuvalov is determined to transform Prime Minister Mikhail Kasya nov's office from one that, at times, has seemed out of control to an administrative arm that realizes the interests of the Cabinet. |
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OVER the next two years, President Vladimir Putin's economic managers plan to sell off stakes in about 10,000 companies. Next year, the plan is to raise 21. |
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TAX reform is the most misused and misunderstood phrase in the Russian legislative lexicon. Held out as a positive force, the Russian version typically yields more problems than it solves. The St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly has kept true to this tradition with its recent passage on Nov. |
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GENEVA - A senior Russian official told member countries of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Monday that it was a top priority for the administration of President Vladimir Putin to win entry to the body. |
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Who Holds the Reins On Currency Control. UNTIL recently, there has existed a considerable lack of clarity concerning the powers of the Russian Federation's Federal Currency Control Service (FCCS), in terms of its authority to levy penalties on both residents and non-residents for violations of Russian currency-control legislation. |
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MOSCOW - Data provided by the Yunikon/MC agency shows that loans to industry are currently one of the principal activities of local banks. As of Sept. 1, banks this year had invested no less than 870 billion rubles, or $31 billion, an increase of 19 percent compared with the same period last year. |
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MOSCOW - At a tense meeting with the nation's largest oil companies last week, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasya nov backed down from an earlier threat to raise taxes on the industry and settled for a 40 percent hike in export tariffs. Kasyanov also postponed until February discussions related to auctions for export quotas and a new tax system for oil producers, who many claim are not paying their fair share of taxes to the government. |
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MOSCOW - Aeroflot has completed preparations to float its first shares on international capital markets, and the paper will start trading in early February, the airline said Friday. |
 MOSCOW - After a whirlwind five-year tour of duty as the World Bank's director for Russia, Michael Carter is stepping down. During his tenure, Carter, along with his counterpart at the International Monetary Fund, established himself as one of the most highly respected authorities on the Russian economy. |
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MOSCOW - The State Duma's budget committee on Monday snubbed the Central Bank, refusing to approve its 2001 macroeconomic forecast and ordering it do its homework properly and provide more detailed scenarios of growth. |
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RECENT developments - including plans for enlarging the European Union, uncertainties surrounding the U.S. presidential election and President Vladimir Putin's ongoing efforts to forge a new Russian foreign policy - indicate an opportunity to enter a new phase in Russia's relations with Europe. |
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Green Putin? Why Not Start Now? WE were surprised to learn on Friday that President Vladimir Putin, just 48 years old and in office less than one year, is already thinking about his retirement. |
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Appeasement No Answer to Xenophobia FOR most of its history Russia has been extremely xenophobic. After the collapse of Communism in the beginning of the 1990s, though, this traditional attitude seemed to fade. The idea that evil foreigners are somehow constantly plotting to destroy Russia became merely a bugbear of nationalistic extremists that in no way affected Russia's national security, defense and foreign policy decision-making. |
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Southern Exposure No doubt you're all fed up with hearing about America's post-election morass. Day in, day out, for weeks on end, this thrice-chewed cud has dribbled onto the green pastures of public discourse, filling us to the collective gills with prissy legalese and partisan bile. |
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 JERUSALEM - Israel's parliament met on Monday to set the stage for an electoral battle that could shape Middle East peacemaking while Israelis and Palestinians raced to close a deal in the twilight of the Clinton presidency. Lawmakers gathered in Israel's 120-seat Knesset while Israeli and Palestinian negotiators prepared for Tuesday's start of separate talks with U. |
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Students Murdered ALGIERS, Algeria (Reuters) - Algerian rebels machine-gunned to death 15 teenage students and a teacher as they lay in their beds at a boarding school over the weekend, hospital sources said on Sunday. |
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NEW DELHI, India - India's upper house of parliament began debating on Monday a censure motion against Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's coalition for his apparent defense of the proposed construction of a temple on the ruins of a mosque razed by Hindu zealots. |
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ADELAIDE, Australia - Australia was on the verge of victory over the West Indies on Monday after 15 wickets tumbled on the fourth day of the third test. |
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MILAN, Italy - Roma remained six points clear at the top of Serie A after a 70th-minute own goal from Lazio defender Paolo Negro gave it a 1-0 victory in the Rome derby on Sunday. But Atalanta and Juventus kept up the pressure on Roma with good away wins, while Inter and AC Milan were both held to draws. |
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Boxer Has Surgery SHEFFIELD, England (Reuters) - English boxer Paul Ingle was critical but stable Monday following surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain after he was knocked down in a title fight by South African Mbulelo Botile. |
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