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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin ordered law enforcement agencies Monday to intensify their efforts to battle a crime rate in which one of every two serious crimes went unpunished last year. More than 7,000 murderers are roaming the country after escaping punishment last year, and 30,000 people went missing without trace, Putin said at an annual Kremlin meeting of high-ranking prosecutors from across the country. |
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MOSCOW - It could have been an ominous sign of new media battles on the horizon, poor organization, or both. When top media executives met Saturday for the closing panel of a two-day conference on thorny relations between the state and the media, there was not enough room on the stage. |
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MOSCOW - The pro-Kremlin Unified Russia Party has prepared a bill to revamp the country's election laws by making it harder for gubernatorial and regional parliamentary candidates to win office. The party's legislators say their changes would level the political playing field and encourage voter participation, but critics claim the initiative would do just the opposite and represents another attempt by the Kremlin to bring politics under its control. |
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Governor Vladimir Yakovlev called for the local City Hall-controlled television station, TRK-Petersburg, to take part in a March 27 tender for broadcast rights on the frequency formerly held by TV6 and promised to support the station's bid, the governor's spokesperson said Friday. |
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MOSCOW - Lawyers and supporters of jailed military journalist Grigory Pasko hope this week to chip away at classified Defense Ministry regulations that have led to a rash of high-profile espionage cases but have been called unconstitutional by human-rights advocates. |
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DATELINE, Arizona - Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn unveiled a package of private initiatives Friday worth nearly $6 million to help Russia minimize threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons - the first installment of an ambitious risk-reduction plan. Nunn, who co-chairs the Nuclear Threat Initiative foundation with CNN-founder Ted Turner, said the project should assist efforts to secure and dismantle weapons of mass destruction, prevent their spread and aid cooperation between scientists on anti-terrorism issues. |
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While lawyers for two detained Sibur officials were making their case with the public on Monday, Gazprom announced that it has sued to bankrupt the giant petrochemical subsidiary. "We have filed to bankrupt Sibur," Gazprom deputy CEO Alexander Ryazanov told journalists on the sidelines of parliamentary hearings on the country's gas sector. |
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Having secured $207 million in fresh capital from its successful debut Friday on the New York Stock Exchange, leading dairy and juice producer Wimm-Bill-Dann now faces a new challenge - holding on to its market share. |
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LONDON - Oil markets rose then fell slightly Monday in a tepid response to President Vladimir Putin's stated goal of selling the country's crude at prices that aren't "excessive." Putin told The Wall Street Journal Europe that Russia aims to sell its crude for $20 to $25 per barrel, which is lower than the goal of $22 to $28 per barrel set by OPEC when it pressured Moscow into making output cuts late last year. |
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Trading Tradition MOSCOW (SPT) - Russian and Chinese trade soared 33.3 percent year on year to a record high of $10.671 billion in 2001, Itar-Tass reported Chinese customs authorities as saying Monday. |
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ON Feb. 1, the Financial Monitoring Committee under the Finance Ministry - a new government agency to fight money laundering and capital flight - commenced operations. There already exist a bunch of other agencies responsible for this: the tax inspectorate, the Tax Police, the economic crimes division, etc. |
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NOTHING is as easily taken for granted as success. Only a decade ago, the Soviet Union collapsed. Walking around Moscow at the time, I found people fearful, as if they expected the sword of Damocles to fall upon them at any moment. |
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THERE were no problems at Enron while Jeffrey Skilling was running the company. Or at least none that he noticed. In short, Mr. Skilling earned the nickname he was awarded by one member of congress as his congressional testimony was nearing an end last Thursday: the Sergeant. |
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Like a number of Russian regions, Mordovia has introduced a number of investment incentives aimed at attracting much-needed capital to its industries. In the final article in a four-part series on regional investment, staff writer Torrey Clark takes a look at the investment climate in this largely agricultural region. |
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VAT Spat KIEV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh said on Monday that Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund had failed to agree on a key tax issue as an IMF mission wrapped up its visit and gave no indication when fresh funds may be disbursed. The IMF wants the government to pay more than six billion hryvnias ($1. |
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Editor, Recently I had a jolly reminder of one of Russia's finest traditions - honoring foreigners with the opportunity to grease the palm of a "poor" worker or two. My companion and I (for "companion" read: Russian friend) on Jan. 18 went to the Mussorgsky Theater to see a performance of "Swan Lake." However, the performance the theater's staff treated us to has probably been staged even more frequently than Tchaikovsky's well-loved ballet. I had been to a piece of fine opera several nights before at the same theater and had paid for a standard ticket the sum of 100 rubles ($3.33). This time, my companion was sold two tickets at 100 rubles each. |
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 At times it seems that Irina Khakamada must have cloned herself. To say that the State Duma deputy speaker wears a lot of hats is an understatement. |
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ENRON'S spectacular collapse has put scores of politicians on the defensive because of their pro-Enron voting records and their war chests full of Enron dollars. Even some U.S. cabinet officials are squirming over their past relationships with the energy company. |
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I'M not really very athletic, although I do enjoy swimming, cross-country skiing and cycling on occasion. Imagine my surprise when I learned that two of my favorite sports have suddenly leapt to the top of the country's political agenda as a result of President Vladimir Putin's initiative to whip us into shape. |
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The state of California killed Stephen Wayne Anderson earlier this month. Quietly, with little fanfare, Governor Gray Davis turned down international appeals for a death-row reprieve and sent the Black Needle of American jurisprudence into Anderson's veins. Who was Stephen Anderson? A nobody, of course. |
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Avalanches Hit Canada JASPER, Alberta - Three people were killed in two separate avalanches, one in Jasper National Park, the other in the Rocky Mountains, authorities and news reports said. A snowboarder was killed when he was caught in an avalanche in the back country of Jasper National Park near the popular Marmot Basin ski area, park officials said Sunday. |
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Olazabal Holds On SAN DIEGO (AP) - Jose Maria Olazabal backed into the Buick Invitational title when J.L. Lewis three-putted on No. 18 to blow a shot at a playoff. |
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