A
Forum Argues Over Russia's Place
By Gregory Feifer, The Moscow
Times, May. 31, 2002
Experts gathering Thursday on the heels
of three major international summits said the West's
leading policymaking institutions must include Russia
in a broad strategic framework if they want to successfully
tackle the top global priority: terrorism. Despite
that general consensus, there was stark disagreement
on specifics at the two-day conference on Euro-Atlantic
integration, organized by the Washington-based Euro-Atlantic
Institute of International Integration Studies.
12,000
Altai Teachers Protest
The Moscow Times, May 29, 2002
About 12,000 teachers in the Altai
region kicked off a nationwide campaign Tuesday for
education reform and higher wages, Interfax reported.
Teachers unions in the western Siberian region are
collecting signatures through Saturday for a petition
to President Vladimir Putin. Other regions will join
the drive, Interfax said.
Elections
Coming Up Democrats speak about a union again
by Mariya Nikiforova, Vremya
Novostei, May 28, 2002
A large scandal is rising in the Duma
again. Deputy Head of the YABLOKO faction Sergei The
Union of Right-Wing Forces leader Boris Nemtsov has
a new idea. He doesn't think that all democratic parties
should support Vladimir Putin in the next presidential
election. Instead, he believes that democrats should
promote a single candidate, whose identity will be
determined by the time of the parliamentary elections.
Nemtsov is proposing an agreement among all democratic
parties: "The candidate will be nominated by
the party that wins the most Duma seats, and the remaining
parties will accept him." According to Nemtsov,
the agreement may be signed by the Union of Right-Wing
Forces, Yabloko, and Liberal Russia.
Russia
looks to its future role
By Quentin Peel, The Financial
Times, May 27 2002
There is nothing like a good old-fashioned
summit in the Kremlin between erstwhile superpower
rivals, with a treaty on nuclear missiles thrown in
for good measure, to get the pundits excited.
Putin's
wager
By Robert Cottrell, The Financial
Times, May 21 2002
Russia and the US will be doing everything
possible to ensure that the May 23-26 summit between
George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin looks good and sounds
good. On the Russian side this will be a relatively
easy task, since the government controls the national
television channels from which the great majority
of Russians will get their information about the meetings
in Moscow and St Petersburg.
The
Risky Business of Waste Diposal. Russia's Nuclear
Sewer.
Le Monde diplomatique, February
2002 (Archive)
Since Vladimir Putin became President
of Russia, the Kremlin has clashed frequently with
a media company that exposed, among other things,
the government`s handling of the war in A journalist
was sent to prison for four years last year after
filming the Russian navy dumping radioactive waste
into the Sea of Japan. He, like many other Russians
and environmental organisations, opposed the new laws
that allow the privately profitable import of foreign
nuclear waste. by our special correspondent Nathalie
Melis.
Nunn
and Lugar Look To Safeguard Weapons
By Vladimir Isachenkov, The
Associated Press, May 28, 2002.
Worried about the apocalyptic prospect
of international terrorists obtaining nuclear, chemical
and biological weapons, U.S. and Russian officials
and analysts met Monday to help draft possible new
safeguards. Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn and Richard
Lugar, a U.S. senator from Indiana -- who together
launched the decade-old U.S. effort to help contain
the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the former
Soviet Union -- described the threat of "catastrophic
terrorism" as possibly the gravest challenge
to global security.
The
Party of Middle Age
By Mikhail Vinogradov, Izvestia,
May 22, 2002
On Wednesday the officials of the Ministry
of Justice will grant the Yabloko party a certificate
of registration. At the same time a months-long domestic
reform of the organisation is coming to an end. A
strong organisational structure has been established,
and Grigory Yavlinsky thinks the party is now ready
to fight for the electorate.
START
III Putin's Breakthrough, says Russian Reform Activist
RIA Novosti. May 24, 2002
MOSCOW, May 24 [from RIA Novosti's
Arina Dovgan] - Russian-US summiteers have signed
a strategic offensive armaments reduction treaty.
It came as a breakthrough for President Vladimir Putin,
considering that a mere six months ago the USA was
refusing to sign any documents at all, says Grigory
Yavlinsky, prominent Russian politician and leader
of Yabloko, a major reformist parliamentary group.
Turning
the Window on Europe Into a Door
By Grigory Yavlinsky, St Peterburg
Times, May 24, 2002
AFTER Sept. 11, there was an abrupt
shift in Russia's foreign policy. Despite the course
that was still being pursued last summer- symbolized
by Korean leader Kim Jong Il's trip across Russia
in an armored train - and in the face of the opinion
of the so-called political elite, President Vladimir
Putin unreservedly supported the United States in
its fight with Osama bin Laden's terrorists and the
Taliban.
The
Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has
registered the Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO as
an all-Russian political party
RIA "OREANDA", May
23, 2002
Moscow. Deputy Justice Minister Yevgeni
Sidorenko handed over the state registration certificate
of the YABLOKO party to party Chairman Grigory Yavlinsky.
Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky.
SBS television, Australia.
Dateline programme, April 11, 2001[Archives]
Since Vladimir Putin became President
of Russia, the Kremlin has clashed frequently with
a media company that exposed, among other things,
the government`s handling of the war in Chechnya.
A year later, though, the government is very close
to winning the battle against its media critic.
The
Kremlin assumes control over the NTV oppositional
television station
By Vladimir Volkov and Stanislav
Smolin, World Socialist Web Site, 21 April 2001 [Archives]
The battle over the fate of Russia's
largest non-governmental media conglomerate Media-Most-which
was created and controlled by the former business
"oligarch" Vladimir Gusinsky, who has been
in Spain since last autumn-reached its climax in the
first half of April.
Testing
Putin on Iran
By WILLIAM SAFIRE, The New
York Times, May 23, 2002
WASHINGTON - Thirteen days after Sept.
11 Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, met with 21
leaders from the Duma and the Presidium of the State
Council to determine Russia's response to America's
war on terror.
Putin's
Foreign Policy a Private Affair
By Gregory Feifer, Staff Writer,
The Moscow Times, April 2, 2002
Unlike with President Vladimir Putin's
domestic policies, which are usually ascribed to one
or another group of advisers within the corridors
of power, the genesis of foreign policy is a murky
affair.
Opening
the Door to Europe
By Grigory Yavlinsky, The Moscow
Times, May 22, 2002.
After Sept. 11, there was an abrupt
shift in Russia's foreign policy. Despite the course
that was still being pursued last summer, symbolized
by Kim Jong Il's trip across Russia in an armored
train, and in the face of the opinion of the so-called
political elite, President Vladimir Putin unreservedly
supported the United States in its fight with Osama
bin Laden's terrorists and the Taliban.
Waste
Storage Case
The Moscow Times, May 22, 2002.
MOSCOW (AP) -- The appeals board of
the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an earlier decision
blocking the import of nuclear waste from Hungary
for storage in Russia.
Senior
lawmaker predicts swift ratification of U.S.-Russian
arms deal in Russian parliament
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated
Press Writer, May 21, 2002
MOSCOW - Despite nationalists' grumbling
that Russia caved in to the United States to strike
a nuclear arms deal set to be signed during this week's
presidential summit, a senior lawmaker on Tuesday
predicted its trouble-free ratification by the Russian
parliament.
Government
to Review Budget 2002
Vedomosti, May 16, 2002
The government is seeking money to
raise wages for the military and state employees in
the provinces. On May 15, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov
announced that the federal budget for 2002 would be
revised, and unplanned expenditures would be covered
through additional revenues. Duma deputies do not
believe this and say that this is impossible to do
without sequestration, at least a small amount for
the time being.
Russia's
Ivanov Defends US Arms Deal
 By
ANGELA CHARLTON, Associated Press Writer, May 15,
2002
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian Defense Minister
Sergei Ivanov dismissed accusations Wednesday that
Russia had compromised its national interests in agreeing
to an arms control pact with the United States that
slashes arsenals by two-thirds.
The Door
to Europe is in Washington
Grigory Yavlinsky Obschaya
Gazeta, May 16, 2002
After September 11, 200, Russia's foreign
policy abruptly changed. Despite the policy carried
out in summer 2001, symbolised by Kim Chen Ir's travel
by armoured train across Russia, despite the opinion
of the so-called political elite, Vladimir Putin unreservedly
supported the USA in their fight against Ben Laden's
terrorists and the Taliban.
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Yabloko
faction advocates abolition of ban on sale of agricultural
lands in Russia
RIA "OREANDA", May
16, 2002
Moscow. During the voting on May 16,
the Yabloko faction of the Russian Federation State
Duma will support two out of seven draft laws "On
the turnover of agricultural lands" drafted by
the government and SPS faction deputies (the Union
of Right-WingForces). Yabloko considers it a top priority
to protect the title of citizens to their plots of
land from official dictatorship. The faction
will support the two aforementioned laws as they declare
abolition of an anti-constitutional ban on the sale
of agricultural lands.
Putin,
Bush discuss summit arrangements, trade problems,
regional conflicts
By JUDITH INGRAM, Associated
Press Writer, May 7, 2002
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir
Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday
discussed their upcoming summit, trade issues and
cooperation in international affairs including the
regulation of regional conflicts, the Kremlin press
service said.
While
the Radiation Indicator Has Not Gone Too High YABLOKO
against life at the nuclear waste dump
Obschaya Gazeta, May 2, 2002
On the 16th anniversary of the Chernobyl
disaster a protest action against importing nuclear
waste into Russia was held in 82 cities of 53 Russian
regions. The action was organised by the Russian Democratic
Party YABLOKO, different environmental and human rights
organizations. According to preliminary estimates,
about 30,000 activists participated in the action.
Spring
army conscription
By Zarina Khisamova, Expert,
April 29, 2002
The authorities and the media continue
vehement battles about alternative civil service,
the terms of army service, and cancellation of student
conscription deferral. The heaviest of the spring
campaigns is under way, spring conscription. Military
enlistment registration offices and the police are
chasing young men who are avoiding their "sacred
duty". Simultaneously, operations to round up
deserters - those whom enlistment offices manage to
force to don a uniform and take up an automatic weapon
- are being carried out in different places. Now,
these young men have something to fight with the authorities.
Meeting
Against Imports of Spent Nuclear Fuel into Russia.
Photo Gallery, Moscow, Kaluzhskaya
square, Photos by Olga Sweitzer and Sergei Loktionov,
April 26, 2002
Lawmaker
Held on Kickback Charge
By Vladimir Kovalyev, St Peterburg
Times, April 26, 2002
The St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly
was the scene of charges of political prosecution
on Wednesday, following the Tuesday arrest of Union
of Right Forces (SPS) lawmaker Alexei Kovalyov. The
City Prosecutor's Office has charged Kovalyov with
misappropriation of government funds, maintaining
that he organized a kickback scheme to bilk the city
budget of 2 billion rubles ($390,000) in 1996.
Vice-Speaker
of the State Duma Vladimir Lukin: "We should
wait and see how Kiselyov's river will flow in Primakov's
banks."
Rosbalt, April 11, 2002
Ekaterinburg, April 11. Deputy Chairman
of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the
RF, member of the Yabloko faction, Vladimir Lukin
said that he was glad that the TV6 team would be able
to work again "under new banners". He made
this statement at a press conference in Ekaterinburg,
where he went to support the regional branch of YABLOKO
at the elections to the Legislative Assembly in Sverdlovsk
Region scheduled for April 14, 2002. However, according
to Lukin, "we should wait and see how Kiselyov's
river will flow in Primakov's banks."
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Lyudmila
TELEN, Moskovskiye Novosti, May 28, 2002