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July 17, 2008 ¹51
Politics
Soldiers Are Maimed Not With Heredity
The European Court for Human Rights has taken the first decision on harassment count done in the Russian Army. Compensation of 10,000 Euro has been decided to be given to Evgeny Chember, who became invalid due to actions by the “old-timers”.
Elena Kostyuchenko
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our special correspondent
Politics
UNESCO Versus Affairs Management Department Of The Russian President's Administration
After publications by Novaya Gazeta, the 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, held in Canadian Quebec, demanded that any construction be stopped on the Red Square. The matter is about an elite shopping mall and a hotel with the views to the main square in the country, that were to appear instead of the demolished Srednie Torgovye Ryady (fittingly, Middle Trade Rows).
Olga Bobrova
Politics
Russia To Change The Procedure Of International Adoption
Elena Kostyuchenko
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our special correspondent
Politics
Proposed, Then Called Off
“The young and promising” United Russia member won’t represent Russia in Strasburg
Boris Vishnevsky
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observer of the Novaya
Politics
And The Money Remains In Russia
The Hollander Arian Erkel, who worked for the Swiss mission of Doctors Without borders, was taken prisoner in August 2002 in the Dagestan capital, the city of Makhachkala. According to the local law enforcement bodies, he was kept in the village of Balakhani of Untsukulsky district. Mr. Erkel spent 20 months in captivity. All that period Novaya Gazeta investigated the circumstances of the kidnapping and took measures for the release. We believed that people of the recently killed deputy of the People’s Assembly of Dagestan, Gazimagomed Magomedov, had been involved in that case. Erkel was freed only in April 2004. Obviously, that release was not done for free. Immediately before the discharge, the Swiss mission of Doctors Without Borders passed about 1 million euros to the vets of Russian foreign intelligence service. That was about ransom allegedly paid to the kidnappers. It is not known for sure where that money went in reality – to the gang of kidnappers or to “liberators”.
Vyacheslav Izmailov
Politics
Province Edges Growing Sharper
I often hear an opinion saying that the farther from the capital you go, the less local people are interested in politics. However, having visited a number of Russian small towns in Central Russia, I got to believe this is no true statement. People in province are interested in politics no less than we, Moscow people, do.
Pavel Voshanov
Business
Default Option As A Blessing For Gazprom
Prime Minister Putin to intend to put our pension funds into petroleum and gas sector Vladimir Putin appears to have got used to his position of prime minister and to have set about the manual control over Russian economy, like he built the vertical of power in the manual mode. First, he headed the front of the advocates of the dramatic reduction of the VAT and now he is willing to solve at one stroke the problem of pension funds under state operative control.
Alexei Polukhin
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subeditor of economic section
Business
Wing Flaps Of The Motherland
The prices for tickets by Russian airlines have increased for 20-30% since the beginning of the year. It’s no wonder, as a ton of kerosene in Russia costs $1570, while in the USA it is $1300 and in Europe $1270. This oddity was noted not only by experts but also by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who threatened with dismissal to the heads of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), unless they manage to settle the situation in the market of aviation fuel. And the deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov has commissioned recently that the Federal Service for Tariffs began to “set the limits for servicing by filling facilities”.
Anna Ovyan
Culture
75th Anniversary Of The Poet Evgeny Evtushenko
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