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From: "Pedro Martori"
Newsgroups: alt.politics.org.fbi,alt.politics.org.nsa,alt.politics.republicans,soc.cultu
Subject: The Moscow Times News Summary
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:55:11 -0400
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Asunto: The Moscow Times News Summary
Fecha: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:29 PM
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FRONT PAGE
15,000 Rally for Kuchma to Resign
By Tim Vickery / The Associated Press
Some 15,000 demonstrators marched in Kiev and tens of thousands
of others gathered in public squares around the country Monday,
demanding that President Leonid Kuchma resign or call new
elections.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/001.html
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Capitalism Takes Off At Fighter Jet Factory
By Lyuba Pronina / Staff Writer
A superficial inspection of the Irkutsk Aviation Production
Association's
massive complex off the southwest corner of scenic Lake Baikal
suggests nothing much has changed since the great arms race of
the Cold War hit full stride.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/002.html
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The Right to Be Mentally Disturbed
By Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer
A decade after Russia adopted one of the world's most liberal
laws on psychiatric assistance, psychiatrists and civil rights
activists remain divided over whether the rights of the 4
million
Russians registered as mentally ill are properly protected.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/003.html
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Opinion
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Putin, LBJ and Posterity
By Alexei Pankin
Talk of an impending war has dominated the news in recent days.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/007.html
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Georgia Has Supremacy ... On the Rugby Pitch
By Chloe Arnold
Russia threatened to bomb a remote gorge in the South Caucasus
last week, sparking fury in Georgia and provoking warnings from
Washington.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/008.html
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How to Win War and Peace
By Boris Kagarlitsky
The more helicopters that go down in Chechnya, the more talk
about a peaceful solution to the conflict.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/009.html
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News
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Census-Takers Will Pay Foreigners a Visit
By Natalia Yefimova / Staff Writer
Foreign nationals visiting or living in Russia will be covered
by the nationwide census next month just like their Russian
neighbors,
in part to help the government design its migration and labor
policy, officials from the State Statistics Committee said.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/011.html
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Georgia Steps Up Operation In Pankisi
By Misha Dzhindzhikashvili / The Associated Press
Facing U.S. pressure and a threat of Russian military action
on his territory, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze said
Monday that he had ordered a stepped-up security operation in
the lawless Pankisi Gorge and offered to hand suspected Chechen
militants over to Moscow.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/012.html
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Mayoral Election Goes Into Runoff in Nizhny Novgorod
By Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer
The Nizhny Novgorod mayoral election has gone into a runoff
between
the incumbent mayor and a State Duma deputy, the local election
commission said Monday.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/013.html
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'Ruhnama' Is Required Reading
By Sebastian Alison / Reuters
At first glance, the students strolling into Ashgabat's
neo-classical
university on the handsome, tree-lined Avenue of Saparmurat
Turkmenbashi
the Great are like their counterparts anywhere else in the
world.
But with one difference: almost all are clutching a copy of the
same rather garish pink and lime-green book.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/014.html
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American Center Brings Library Culture to Russia
By Megan Merrill / Special to The Moscow Times
Any homesick American in Moscow can step into the American
Center
and feel a bit better, the center has everything a standard U.S.
public library has, only it's in Moscow.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/015.html
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News in Brief
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/031.html
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Business
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Banks Import More Euros Than Dollars
By Torrey Clark / Staff Writer
Driven by popular demand, banks imported more euros than dollars
in July for the first time since cash euros became available,
the Central Bank said on its web site Monday.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/041.html
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Rosneft Unveils Ambitious Revamp
By Anna Raff / Staff Writer
In a sign of increasing government involvement in the energy
sector, state-owned Rosneft said Monday it planned to triple
oil production and increase natural gas output tenfold by 2020.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/042.html
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Build-to-Suit Market Starts to Look Promising
By Robin Munro / Staff Writer
Local companies are starting to discover that by constructing
their own office space, they can ensure it fits their needs.
They do not have to put up with whatever a speculative developer
offers them to lease.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/043.html
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Power Is Priority for Meat Magnate
By Yelena Yevgrafova / Vedomosti
Igor Babayev grew up in Kislovodsk, southern Russia. Babayev's
mother died when he was young, and his father, Alexei Babayev,
raised the family's four children.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/045.html
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MTS, WBD Tops in Transparency Survey
Vedomosti
MobileTeleSystems and Wimm-Bill-Dann have been named the
nation's
most transparent companies in a new study by ratings agency
Standard
& Poor's.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/046.html
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BP to Start Work on Historic Caspian Link
Reuters
Britain's BP starts work Wednesday on a $2.9 billion oil
pipeline
from the land-locked Caspian Sea to Turkey that will put crude
from the region in reach of world markets.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/047.html
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Battling for London's Skyline
By F. Brinley Bruton / Reuters
The struggle over whether London should erect more tall
buildings
or preserve what remains of the city's historic profile has
heated
up with the approval of several new skyscrapers and the
expectation
of more to come.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/051.html
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37-Story Tower Bucks Negative Tokyo Trend
By Daniel Hauck / Reuters
Rising from the foundations of a symbol of "Old Japan," the new
Marunouchi Building opened in Tokyo's main business district
on Sept. 6 with the aim of bringing the command center of Japan
Inc. into the 21st century.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/052.html
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Business in Brief
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/061.html
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Sports
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30 Years Later, Anger Has Faded
By Steve Jacobson / Newsday
There is no "rest of the story" because there isn't going to
be any rest of the story. The American 1972 silver medals for
basketball lie in the Olympic vault in Switzerland. The men who
refuse them remain adamant, and either angry or not, as they
see fit.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/17/091.html
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