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 The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has named Russia's president among its top 10 Worst Enemies of the Press for 2001. Vladimir Putin came in fifth on the list after Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei, Liberia leader Charles Taylor, Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Ukrainian President Leonid Kuch ma has also enjoyed the dubious distinction of making it into the top 10: He came in seventh, sandwiched between Carlos Castano, head of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, and Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a seven-year veteran of the list. |
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 Valentin Dremlyug was on board a small ship patroling the Barents Sea in July 1942 when an Allied convoy carrying supplies to the Soviet Union came under attack. |
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Vladimir Gusinsky traveled to Washington last week to urge the West to base its relations with Russia on Moscow's willingness to protect press freedom and human rights. Moscow reacted immediately, blasting Washington for not arresting the media mogul under warrants Russia issued through Interpol. Speaking on Thursday at the National Press Club on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, Gusinsky urged the United States and other Western democracies to establish "red lines" that Russia must not cross if it is to be called a "civilized country. |
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After children's pamphlets and plaster busts, now it's cars. The people's car, in fact. The pro-Kremlin Unity party hopes to hand President Vladimir Putin the keys to tens of thousands of Mishkas - a car it is promoting as the vehicle for the ordinary man and woman - in 2003. |
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TUNIS - Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov arrived in Tripoli Sunday for a visit during which he is expected to meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and hold talks aimed at boosting trade and military ties. |
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While President Bush is proposing to spend tens of billions of dollars to defend the United States from nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, critics contend he is overlooking a more immediate threat that could be eased less expensively. The most probable vehicle for a U. |
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President Vladimir Putin, striking an unusually upbeat note, said Friday that a controversial decision by U.S. President George W. Bush to build a shield against ballistic missile attacks was a good basis for talks on international security. |
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Chemical Committee MOSCOW (AP) - President Vla di mir Putin on Friday set up a new committee to accelerate the destruction of Russia's chemical-weapons stockpile, and the head of the agency in charge of eliminating the arsenal said the first large batch would be destroyed by next spring. |
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Less than two weeks after the Kremlin-backed civilian administration in Chech nya moved to Grozny, officials announced it will move out temporarily because of security concerns. |
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MOSCOW - The Railways Ministry is aggressively moving to become a national telephone operator with plans to sink hundreds of millions of dollars this year into its existing telecoms network, a ministry official said. The ministry also intends to speed up its operations by automating its services this year, said Vladimir Voronin, head of the Railways Ministry's communications and information department. |
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MOSCOW - The deadline for filing individual income- tax declarations has passed. And fewer people filed than in the past two years. But the Tax Ministry is unworried. |
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MOSCOW - Russia's gross domestic product growth is set to ease this year from last year's fast pace and then rebound again in 2002, said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. But the organization warned late last week that an overall economic slowdown worldwide could undercut Russia's growth. |
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HOSTOMEL AERODROME, Ukraine - The world's largest plane took to the air in Ukraine on Monday, successfully completing a short test flight and fuelling hopes for a recovery in the country's struggling aviation and airfreight industries. |
 MOSCOW - National power utility Unified Energy Systems said Friday it would fully cut off Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant's power supplies Thursday if an agreement was not reached in a dispute over payments. Earlier in the day, Krasnoyarskenergo, which is owned by UES, had cut electricity supplies to KrAZ for about five hours leading to losses of around $1 million, the plant said. |
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In the near future, real-estate firms may no longer be required to hold government-issued licenses to operate in the Russian market, and the St. Petersburg Association of Real Estate Professionals is not pleased with the prospect. |
 MOSCOW - Oleg Rumyantsev wakes up at 6:15 a.m. to the sounds of Ekho Moskvy radio, brews himself a cup of coffee, puts on a tailored suit and slides into his Ford Taurus to drive to work. Once he walked the corridors of political power and was called Russia's James Madison for his efforts to give the country a democratic constitution. |
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WASHINGTON - Russia will soon discuss a new plan to manage state debt that aims to help the country through peak payment years, said Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Kolotukhin. |
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Baltika Sues Minister MOSCOW (SPT) - Baltika, the nation's largest brewer, on Monday filed a suit against Russia's chief sanitary inspector, Deputy Health Minister Gennady Onishchenko, over losses it says it suffered after he called for a crackdown on beer. |
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ON Feb. 16, 2001, the Presidium of the Higher Arbitrazh Court of the Russian Federation issued Informational Letter No. 59, in which it provides a review of the court practice concerning the application of the Federal Law "On the State Registration of Rights to and Transactions with Real Estate. |
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NEXT to communal apartments and monstrous abandoned Soviet Cold War factories, the bleakest characteristic of the St. Petersburg real estate scene is the typical apartment building staircase. Most apartment building entrances are unlocked or have almost useless code locks. |
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut - Tony Blair's re-election campaign opens a trans-Atlantic dialogue on the future of equal opportunity. While President George Bush pushes for an enormous tax cut, Blair, the British prime minister, proposes giving the next generation a start toward economic security and independence. |
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Tobacco Gets Stay NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three U.S. tobacco companies have arranged a stay of the massive punitive damage awards against them in a landmark class-action sick-smokers suit, assuring that they will not have to pay their share of the $145 billion Engle verdict while their appeals are pending. |
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PRESIDENT Bush has presented the outline of his missile-defense program. But it's important to compare his ambitious rhetoric with the realities of existing missile defense projects and the likely reactions that such a missile-defense program will provoke around the world. |
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"U.S. company Spacehab is set to build the Enterprise module, the [International] space station's first truly commercial unit. This segment could be useful to tour operators in numerous ways, perhaps converted into condominium-like living quarters specially geared for sightseeing stopovers. |
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RUSSIAN troops began the "antiterrorist operation" against separatist forces in Chechnya in 1999 at the same time as the Defense Ministry was preparing a special all-volunteer airborne brigade to serve as peacekeepers in Kosovo under NATO command. Russian peacekeepers in Yugoslavia are paid lavishly in comparison with troops serving at home - up to $1,000 per month. |
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They had millions of dollars and a mandate from Washington: Help demilitarize the Russian economy, and feel free to get rich along the way if you can. But six years later, a former employee has accused them of frittering away the money, and the Pentagon is conducting a criminal investigation. |
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How would you like the U.S. Congress to set you up with a six-figure salary, swank office space and a government-funded venture capital fund to play with - and then make it part of your job to fly around Europe and America trying to launch a second venture capital fund, this one a private affair you can own and operate yourself? If the private fund flies, then you can be like John Birkelund and Robert Faris, who are, respectively, the chairman of the board and the chief executive officer of the wildly successful Polish-American Enterprise Fund. |
 GOLAN HEIGHTS, Syria - Pope John Paul, visiting one of the Holy Land's most bitterly contested places, Monday urged the region's people to be as merciful as their God, forgive past wrongs and commit themselves to peace. The Pontiff said the killing of a Palestinian baby girl in the Gaza Strip earlier in the day made his prayer for peace more intense. |
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Stadium Collapses SARI, Iran (Reuters) - Two men died Monday from injuries they received when metal awnings collapsed onto fans at a soccer stadium in northeast Iran Sunday under the weight of hundreds of spectators perched on top. |
 NEW YORK - The NBA playoffs are enjoying an infusion of new blood, but the first weekend of conference semifinal action produced just one win from a quartet of second-round upstarts when the Toronto Raptors drew first blood against the Philadelphia 76ers Sunday. |
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TURIN, Italy - Japanese substitute Hidetoshi Nakata inspired Serie A leaders AS Roma to a late comeback that gave them a 2-2 draw at Juventus in the top-of-the-table clash Sunday. |
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BALTIMORE - The New York Yankees completed a four-game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles with a 2-1 victory Sunday. Mike Mussina won in his return to Camden Yards and Scott Brosius hit what amounted to his second game-winning homer in three days to spur the defending World Series champions to a hard-fought triumph. |
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HAMBURG, Germany - Top seed Venus Williams took just 54 minutes to overcome surprise finalist Meghann Shaughnessy, 6-3, 6-0, Sunday and win the $565,000 WTA event in Hamburg. |
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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Kings forced a decisive seventh game in their Western Conference semifinal series with a 1-0 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday. Glen Murray scored 2:41 into double overtime to end a goaltending duel between Patrick Roy and Felix Potvin on the game's 65th shot. |
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