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June 2, 2008 ¹39
Politics
Yellow Card For Struggle With Inflation
Yanukovich to win again in the face-off of Yushchenko and Timoshenko
Yanina Vaskovskaya
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our correspondent, Kiev
Society
Zenith Coach Dick Advocat To Become Honorary Freeman
Last Wednesday 39 deputies of St Petersburg city hall voted for a corresponding bill that had to be passed in a special way. The matter is that the “regular” giving of the honorary title had been done a week before and the Metrostroi head Vadim Alexandrov and academician Natalia Bekhtereva became honorary freemen of St Petersburg. But then Zenith won the UEFA Cup, which was used widely for PR campaign for the city’s and the Kremlin’s administrations. So it was decided to make an exception for Dick Advocat. Doing so took violation of the standing law on honorary freemanship in respect of three points: first, nomination must be made before 1 March; second, the title is given at the last meeting of the Legislative Assembly on the eve of the City Day on 27 May; third, annually the title is given to no more than two persons.
Boris Vishnevsky
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observer of the Novaya
Politics
Relentless Model Of The Free State
Politically incorrect reportage from Georgia
Yulia Latynina
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observer of the Novaya Gazeta
Politics
How Great Britain Struggles With Russian Mafia
While films telling about Russian mafia were being shot and Russian businessman Mikhailov was being kept behind bars in Switzerland and some Russian citizens were buying up the gambling business in Spain, Great Britain remained a quiet place. Russian mafia did not make any shooting there, as the London City was chosen by the criminal as the place for transition to the legal ground. It wouldn’t be correct saying that British did not know what they were dealing with. And yet there is no ground to say they managed to invent the adequate response.
Andrei Soldatov
Politics
Taken On Swear
Amnesty International to ask Dmitry Medvedev to see about Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Ilia Krieger
Society
White Olympiad In Waste
Ecological catastrophe may happen in Sochi before 2014
Evgeny Titov
Society
Not Unconditional Value
The world-scaled poll about attitude towards the media to prove Russia to be closer to Iran. Sociologists from Levada-Center have published the results of poll made with 14,896 people by World Public Opinion in cooperation with research centers from different countries within PIPA program (Maryland University, USA). Interrogation regarding attitude towards the media was done in 20 countries representing 59% of the world population. The poll in Russia was done with the representative sample of 1,600 people.
Natalia Rostova
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