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The Yabloko faction is likely to support in first reading the draft laws aiming at conducting pension reform in Russia
RIA Novosti, July 13, 2001
The Yabloko faction in the State Duma is likely to support in first reading the draft laws aiming at conducting pension reform in Russia. Such an opinion, says the RIA Novosti correspondent, was expressed at the press conference by Sergei Ivanenko, First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction, which took place in the State Duma on Friday.

 

Irina Khakamada: the liberals will answer for everything
An interview with Irina Khakamada of the Union of Right Forces

By Tatiana Kamoza, Liubov Tsukanova, Novoe Vremya, No. 28, July 15, 2001, pp. 8-13

 

Parliament suggests that President form ad hoc group to finalise pension reform legislation
By Ivan Rodin, RIA "Novosti", July 14, 2001, 23:59
The State Duma, or the lower Russian parliamentary house, proposes that President Vladimir Putin form an ad hoc group to finalise pension reform legislation. A resolution to this effect has been approved by 263 members of the Duma, against the bottom limit of 226, with 6 "no" votes and no abstentions.

 

Nuclear commission in land of waste
By Denis Shevchenko,
Rossiya, July 12, 2001, p. 2
How can we explain Putin's initiative in the matter of spent nuclear fuel? It may be Putin's way of shifting responsibility to Alferov (Ed.Nobel prize winner, member of the CPRF faction and head of the Duma committee on the import of nuclear waste), an ardent advocate of Russia's participation in spent nuclear fuel reprocessing. The scientist is quite sure that the new law will "help Russia retain and develop its nuclear energy sector and other high-tech industries." From now on, Alferov himself will be responsible forevery deadly container of spent nuclear fuel that enters Russia. And if anything should happen - which God forbid - it will be Alferov's head that rolls. The president will not be involved.

 

Looking for trouble
Economic growth could provoke a new political crisis

By Georgy Ilyichev, Izvestia, July 11, 2001
Commenting on economic progress over the past six months, Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Ulyukaev told the nation that economic growth for 2001 may be higher than expected. He believes that the revival in the domestic economy by April was so great that additional budget revenues by the end of the year "may exceed the planned sum by 100 billion rubles", and that "inflation could drop to zero in August and September". Paradoxically, some politicians may take such successful economic development as a personal offence.

 

The Kirsan saga
Why the Kremlin can't do anything about President Iliumzhinov of Kalmykia

By Inessa Slavutinskaya, Profil, No. 25, July 2, 2001, pp. 12-15
The Auditing Chamber Chairman Sergei Stepashin suffered a crushing defeat on June 22. The team of auditors he had sent to Kalmykia (in part, with the goal of proving misuse of state funds by President Kirsan Iliumzhinov) did find some infractions - but these were so small that they can be handled within standard procedures. This means that the expected major criminal charges in Kalmykia are unlikely to materialize.

 

Welcoming Nuclear Waste
By Sophia Kornienko, www.tol.cz, June 11, 2001
ST.PETERSBURG, Russia—Russia’s most recent money-making scheme could bring 20,000 tons of nuclear waste into the country over the next two decades. The plan, enabled by a bill recently passed by the state Duma, the lower house of parliament, has been vigorously criticized by economists, ecologists, and doctors. Meanwhile, even western exporters are questioning their counterpart’s venture, saying that the spent fuels may never reach Russia.

 

Wasting Away
By Anna Badkhen, www.tol.cz, June 5, 2001
The Soviets kept a dirty secret about deadly radiation from the villagers of Muslyumovo, and now the Russians want to cover up old waste with new.s

 

Russia's Duma Approves Crucial Land Code
Reuters, July 14, 2001
...Approval of the second reading of the legislation, fiercely opposed by the Communist Party and their Agrarian allies, was the final measure of the State Duma or lower house's spring session during which many laws promoted by Putin were passed...

 

Weary Duma Signs Off on Land Code
By Yevgenia Borisova The Moscow Times, July 16, 2001, p. 1
With extraordinarily heavy-handed lobbying, the government succeeded in winning the State Duma's approval Saturday for a new Land Code that allows Russians and foreigners to buy and sell commercial and residential land. Duma deputies passed the controversial code after an exhausting, 11-hour second reading on the final day of their extended spring session. The code will come up for a third reading, usually a formality, in the fall.

 

Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing Forces Unite against Spent Nuclear Fuel
Rossiya, July 9, 2001, p. 3

 

Collection of signatures for referendum against the import of spent nuclear fuel to Russia to begin in autumn
Finmarket agency, July 07, 2001

 

The Yabloko Leader Grigory Yavlinsky: sometimes Putin and I talk on our own for half a day
Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky, Komsomolskaya Pravda, July 3, 2001

 

Liberalism for Everybody
By Grigory Yavlinsky, Obshaya Gazeta, June 28, 2001, p. 7
One of the main results of the past Russian reforms is disillusionment of the people over democratic principles and liberal values. Russia has covered a lot of ground over the past ten years. The totalitarian political system and command-and-distribution economy have been left in the past.

 

War-Head Headache (How can Russia respond to NMD plans?)
Interview with Alexei Arbatov, Obshaya Gazeta, June 28, 2001
Quite a few foreign mass media publications continue to voice their bitterness and disappointment as President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation has allegedly dashed the international community's hopes of a new era in Russian-US relations after the Ljubljana summit. In other words, Putin has made three statements over the past seven days, referring to Russian readiness to beef up its nuclear forces in response to America's NMD (National Missile Defence) programme. Alexei Arbatov, deputy chairman of the State Duma's Defence Committee, had this to say on the issue.

 

Police raid Echo of Moscow radio station
Reuters, July 03, 2001
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian security police swooped on Russia's independent Echo of Moscow radio station on Monday, a day before French President Jacques Chirac was to give a live interview on its airwaves.

 

Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky
Marianna Maximovskaya, “Segodnya” programme, TV-6, June 26, 2001

 

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