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ORT Review
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Compiled by Luba Schwartzman (luba7@bu.edu)
Research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy
at Boston University
HEADLINES,
Monday, October 22, 2001
- Russian President Vladimir Putin, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov and Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani met in Dushanbe last night to discuss cooperation in stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan.
- Upon his return from Dushanbe, President Putin met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The leaders spoke about the situation on the international oil market. Russia will coordinate its oil exports with OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries).
- President Putin chaired a cabinet meeting at the Kremlin today. He congratulated the ministers on the State Duma's approval of the 2002 budget draft in the second reading and spoke positively about the work of the government and its economic block.
- A meeting of the state commission for investigating the causes of the crash of the TU-154 took place in Moscow. Security Council Chairman Vladimir Rushailo announced that the airliner was hit by a missile launched from Crimea. Family members of the victims will be compensated in accordance with international law -- with sums ranging up to $20,000.
- Russian General Prosecutor Vladimir Ustinov declared that the investigation into the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine will be "maximally transparent."
- Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his French counterpart Lionel Jospin conducted a meeting of an intergovernmental commission for economic and scientific-technological cooperation. Kasyanov emphasized the necessity of creating a single economic space for Russia and Europe.
- Wahhibi leader and emissary of the Muslim Brothers organization Abu Omar has been destroyed in Chechnya.
- The Russian General Prosecutor's office has indicted Railways Minister Nikolai Aksenenko in exceeding his jurisdiction and causing the government more than 70 million rubles worth of damage. Six of Aksenenko's deputies have been questioned since the case was opened on 9 October.
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