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News Archive for 1 December 2004

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01.12.2004 - Over 28m Russians live below poverty line
The number of residents with incomes below the subsistence minimum decreased by 2.8 percent to 28.8m over January-September, 2004, compared to the 2003 level. This number makes up 20.1 percent of Russia’s population, the Federal State Statistics Service reported. in detail...

01.12.2004 - Ever more Russian babies are born out of wedlock
Ten years ago they accounted for a mere 14.6 per cent of the total, and now make more than 30 per cent, says Mikhail Zurabov, federal Minister of Health and Social Development. 10 per cent of Russian couples are living unwedded, according to the latest statistics quoted by the Moscow-based daily, Trud. in detail...

World

01.12.2004 - The unified air defense system of the CIS plans to hold Combat Commonwealth-2005 exercises
The unified air defense system of the Commonwealth of Independent States plans to hold Combat Commonwealth-2005 exercises with combat firing next year. in detail...

01.12.2004 - The Ukrainian opposition will have little chance of success if clashes break out on this country’s streets
The same outcome of the "velvet revolutions" in Belgrade and Tbilisi is no guaranteed in Kiev, despite the fact that many experts specializing in this kind of "revolution" are currently in Ukraine. in detail...

01.12.2004 - Russia sends humanitarian aid for landslide sufferers in Tajikistan
The Russian Ministry for Civil Defense and Emergencies has sent humanitarian aid for Tajik residents affected by landslides in July. in detail...

Politics

01.12.2004 - The social responsibility of business should become the social partnership of business, power and society
"Each party in this process bears its own share of responsibility and a positive result can only be gained if each is efficient", Shokhin told the international congress The State and Business: Socially Responsible Partnership, on Tuesday. in detail...

01.12.2004 - The British Helsinki Human Rights Group is convinced that the election was honest
Western Europe seems to have accepted the American theory that the presidential election in Ukraine was rigged. Washington and Old European capitals, in particular Berlin, demand a repetition of the second round of the election. in detail...

01.12.2004 - Putin against "pressure" in Ukraine issue
Russian President Vladimir Putin received a telephone call from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Tuesday and told him that Russia is against "any external or domestic pressure" as a way of solving the crisis in Ukraine. in detail...

Science & Technology

01.12.2004 - Over 200,000 domain names are registered in the Russian Internet domain (Runet)
According to Mr. Seslavinsky, in 2004 Runet turns ten. "In the early 1990s Internet was available to enthusiasts and specialists and subsequently evolved into a mass phenomena," he noted. in detail...

01.12.2004 - It is proposed to rehabilitate the launch complex of the superheavy rocket for parts delivery to the Moon
Yuri Semenov, head of the Space Rocketry Corporation Energia, voiced this idea at a local meeting on Tuesday with the leading Russian and foreign media men. in detail...

Arts & Theatre

01.12.2004 - Picasso: reflections and metamorphoses
The program of Svyatoslav Richter’s December Nights music festival, which opened in the Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum, includes an exhibition of Pablo Picasso. Compositions by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert Mussorgsky and Mahler will be performed amid his pictures. in detail...