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09.08.2006 - Ex-Yukos Director Golubovich warns of trials in Izvestia interview
Alexei Golubovich, former Yukos director for strategic planning and corporate finance, said Yukos officials wanted in their homeland would either be extradited to Russia or tried in the countries of their residence.
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05.08.2006 - Former Yukos Director Alexei Golubovich tells Izvestia about his time with the oil company
Problems "started in early 2001 and concerned my family," Golubovich said. "A bomb exploded near our house when a car carrying my wife was driving past. It was apparently a warning, as the bomb exploded when the car had gone past."
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28.07.2006 - Russian Mafia Use Carrier Pigeons to Deliver Drugs Into Prison
Russian police have thwarted a scheme in which criminals used carrier pigeons to deliver drugs to inmates of a penal colony. The birds also carried the payment for the drugs outside the correctional facility.
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10.07.2006 - Russia looks to the skies as 3 incidents follow Siberia tragedy
Although the reason of the Airbus 310-300 crash has not been identified so far, preliminary reports suggest a fault with the brake hydraulic system might have caused the airliner to veer off the runway upon landing and burst into flames after hitting a concrete wall and plowing into garages.
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29.06.2006 - Vladislav Surkov Divides Democracy
Russian “sovereign democracy” is no different from European and those who criticize it are doing so “with speculative goals,” deputy chief of the presidential staff Vladislav Surkov told the world yesterday.
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29.06.2006 - Tony Brenton: I am interested in British companies entering the Russian market
British ambassador to Russia Tony Brenton spoke about bilateral economic cooperation, as well as about Russian-British political relations in an interview with Interfax
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18.06.2006 - Russian economic miracle to stem from state-controlled capitalism
Former sources of Russia’s economic growth have been virtually used up. Annual growth in natural resources, the most profitable sector of the economy, is a mere 1.5-2%. The search for ways of bringing out an economic miracle in Russia was high on the agenda of the economic forum in St. Petersburg. “It’s about time we switched from economic reforms to economic policy,” as Russian Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref put it.
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18.06.2006 - Russia, Paris Club agree on full repayment of Russian debt
Russia and the Paris Club of Sovereign Creditors have reached agreement on a pattern of full repayment of Russia’ s debt to that association of countries, the Russian Finance Ministry press secretary Pavel Kuznetsov told Itar-Tass.
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09.06.2006 - Kalashnikov Rifle in Terrorist’s Hands Not My Fault
“Whenever I look at TV and I see the weapon I invented to defend my motherland in the hands of these bin Ladens I ask myself the same question: How did it get into their hands?” the 86-year-old Russian gun maker is quoted by Associated Press news agency as saying.
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27.05.2006 - Defiant Gay Activists Held in Moscow as Police Move to End Pride Parade
Moscow police moved quickly Saturday to end an unsanctioned gay pride march and prevent a counter demonstration from organizing in the Russian capital. Local news agencies Interfax and RIA said that as many as 50 people were detained by police, including Nikolai Alekseyev, one of the organizers of the pride march.
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