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 MOSCOW - Boris Jordan - a U.S.-born investment banker who took charge of NTV television during a highly politicized takeover by government-controlled Gazprom and oversaw the channel's comeback - was suddenly fired on Friday as general director of NTV's parent company, Gazprom-Media. |
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MOSCOW - Friday's sacking of NTV general director Boris Jordan from his position as CEO of NTV's parent company, Gazprom-Media, has thrust little-known St. |
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Less than a week after saying that he was ready "to build a constructive relationship" with the Legislative Assembly and its newly chosen speaker, Vadim Tyulpanov, Governor Vladimir Yakovlev was much less positive in reported comments about the situation made on Monday. |
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Although repair units are working extra shifts and even the army is helping, thousands of Northwest Region homes are still without heat, the regional department of the Emergency Situations Ministry reported on Monday. |
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MOSCOW - Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on Friday skipped a State Duma session where he was supposed to report on government measures to fix heating in the regions. Angry lawmakers refused to recognize the minister sent in his stead - Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko - as well as Gosstroi head Nikolai Koshman and Unified Energy System CEO Anatoly Chubais. |
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Seven people were killed when fire swept through an apartment in a two-story wooden building in the Leningrad Oblast town of Luga early Monday. Fire fighters took an hour to put out the fire, which was reported at 4:47 a. |
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MOSCOW - A military court in Makhachkala opened hearings Friday against seven soldiers and a civilian charged with stealing and selling weapons and ammunition, including a powerful anti-personnel land mine similar to the one that killed 45 people at a military parade in May. |
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A group of relatives of sailors who died when the nuclear submarine Kursk sank in August, 2000, are to appeal to the Moscow Okrug Court against the decision by Russia's Chief Military Prosecutor to close the investigation on the catastrophe that killed all 118 crew members. |
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MOSCOW - Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes and Russian officials signed an agreement Friday to expand the burgeoning military cooperation between the two states to include the joint development of a next-generation fighter jet and other weapons projects. |
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MOSCOW - Standard & Poor's on Friday moved to project some reality onto perceptions of Russia's economic health, saying that, despite growing speculation to the contrary, an upgrade to investment status remains a long way off. |
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MOSCOW - After more than three years of detective work and nearly 2,000 lawsuits, state-bank-restructuring agency ARKO on Monday finally closed the book on Alexander Smolensky's SBS-Agro, the largest private-retail bank in Russia before it collapsed in 1998, helping to bring down the entire economy with it. |
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MOSCOW - The economy expanded 4.1 percent in 2002 after 5 percent growth the year before, beating the initial target of 3.8 percent, an official at the Economic Development and Trade Ministry said Friday. |
 MOSCOW - Iraq awarded two new contracts to Russian oil companies Friday and gave preliminary approval to another deal in what appeared to be a last-ditch attempt to get Russia on its side as the threat of a U.S.-led military attack mounts. But the fate of Iraq's biggest deal with Russia, a LUKoil contract to develop the vast West Qurna field, remained undecided following talks between Russian officials and Iraqi Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan. |
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MOSCOW - After nearly a year of infighting, the government finally gave the go-ahead to an ambitious $170-million overhaul of Novosibirsk's Tolmachevo airport, the home base of leading domestic-route carrier Sibir and a key hub in future passenger and cargo transit between Europe and Asia. |
 MOSCOW - Although foreigners may not be thrilled about paying the unified social tax, a Tax Ministry official said Thursday that they will reap some of the benefits of the government's safety net. Nadezhda Shelemekh, head of the Tax Ministry's unified social-tax department, said that the constitution grants foreigners the right to some benefits of the tax. |
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BERLIN - European farmers should follow the lead of "Russian peasants," who managed to boost grain exports 150 percent last year to a record 12 million tons without state subsidies, Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev said Friday. |
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MOSCOW - The Soviet Union has been given a new lease on life ... on the Internet. Ru-Center, which registers Internet addresses in Russia, has resumed doling out domain names in the .su zone more than a decade after the country collapsed. RosNIIROS, the government organization that administers the Russian Internet and the parent of Ru-Center, began debating whether to discontinue the Soviet zone in 2001 - much like the Czech Republic eliminated Czechoslovakia's . |
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MOSCOW - Alexander Lapin created his web site at www.lapin.ru with one purpose in mind: to unite all Lapins. "Many people throughout the entire world have this name, and we live all over," he says on the site. |
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THIS year will be one of the most decisive in Russia's relatively short and turbulent economic history. If the government's objectives are achieved then, at the end of the next 12 months, the economy will finally start to develop away from crisis recovery and toward sustainable growth. |
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U.S. President George W. Bucg gets good press. "Bush Offers a Cure" was the banner on the Chicago Sun-Times on Jan. 8 - to take just one example. |
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PRESENTING the figures for 2002, statisticians will no doubt tell us that production has risen, wages have increased, and that, after three years of growth, the standard of living has returned to pre-1998 crisis levels. However, what the statistical reports will not show is the sharp increase in the number of labor disputes over the past few months. |
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Editor, There can be no two opinions about the danger of nuclear weapons and their proliferation in countries ruled by tyrant regimes. However, certain issues need to be discussed more openly, rather than being shoved under the carpet. |
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WHO should lead the European Union? That is one question that the convention on the future of Europe has so far failed to answer. Federalists have called for the European parliament to elect the Commission president - currently chosen by the heads of government - in order to boost their authority. |
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AFTER weeks of preliminary hearings, Moscow's Tverskoi district court last week begun hearing evidence in the multimillion-dollar complaint filed against the Moscow city government by victims of the October hostage crisis and their relatives. |
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RUSSIAN generals have been coming up against a new problem: Their soldiers are deserting en masse. Until recently, soldiers deserted in ones and twos, shooting a few people and then running off. In each instance, there was a very thorough investigation: The soldier had yet to be found, but nonetheless the military authorities confidently announced that the soldier in question was a drug addict, hooligan and mentally unbalanced; and that the conditions enjoyed by the soldier in his unit were exemplary - he had everything short of senior officers serving him oysters in bed. |
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Cold Draft Last week, Global Eye wrote of the brutal contempt shown by the Bush Regime toward the troops sent out as cannon fodder for its wars of profit and domination. |
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Kibaki Hospitalized NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - President Mwai Kibaki has been hospitalized to remove a blood clot from his leg and treat slightly high blood pressure, his doctor said Monday. The 71-year-old Kibaki, who led the opposition to a historic victory in Dec. |
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Italian favorite Fabio Carta led his country's short-track speed skaters to a dominating performance in the European Short Track Championships at St. Petersburg's Ice Palace over the weekend. |
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