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Historian Dr. Vladelen Sirotkin claims on Izvestiya website forum that Anastasia Romanova is still alive
by Izvestiya
issued on 28 June 2002 MCK
Historian Dr. Vladelen Sirotkin has claimed on Russian daily "Izvestiya's" website forum that Anastasia Romanova is still living. He maintains that genetics experts have carried out 22 specialized studies. Moreover, photograph specialists conducted comparative expertise studies of young Anastasia and the elderly woman in question, and handwriting analyses were carried out.
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No news would be better news for Russia's sun worshippers
by Victoria Whall
issued on 27 June 2002 MCK
Russian charter flights will continue despite high accident rates, transport ministry official insists.
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Lost generations and values crisis mark a people's struggle for survival, says major study
by Michael Stedman
issued on 27 June 2002 MCK
Social scientists probing how Russia's disparate population goes about living have peeled back a graphic gauging the pain and gain of a society enduring more than a decade of turmoil.
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| Photo: (c) Strana.ru, Fedor Markushevich
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"We will (soon) witness the formation of a party of ruling authorities, and perhaps even two parties with right- and left-centrist leaders ┘ " Sergei Markov
by Strana.ru
issued on 25 June 2002 MCK
The Civic Debate Club's roundtable session that opened on Tuesday, June 25, at Alexander House in Moscow, is summing up the results of the past political year and the prospects for the upcoming political year, a Strana.ru correspondent reports.
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Water, waste and oil spills eyed in Siberia, Far East projects
by Michael Stedman
issued on 25 June 2002 MCK
International financiers are backing a Siberian city's drive for better municipal services in a first-ever rouble loan to a second-tier authority unsecured by a sovereign or bank guarantee.
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High Spirits at Refugee Fair
by Victoria Whall
issued on 21 June 2002 MCK
Somali, Iranian, Angolan and Afghan refugees marked International Refugee Day on Thursday. With the support of the Moscow Refugee Reception Center and charity organization Solidarity, an indoor fair was organized.
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The creation of its English language version, however, must not be work "for export"
by Strana.ru
issued on 21 June 2002 MCK
The next logical stage in the development of the new incarnation of the presidential site should be the creation of its English language version.
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Moscow International Film Festival - if not better, then as good as all the others?
by Victoria Whall
issued on 21 June 2002 MCK
The planning of this year's festival has been customarily disorganized. Those clicking on MIFF's official website to find out which stars will be at the festival will find that, "The information will be available after 10 June 2002."
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"Directions For Media Reform' discussed in Moscow
by Victoria Whall
issued on 19 June 2002 MCK
Media professionals gathered for the first day of a mass media conference dedicated to working out a common stance on reforms in the Russian media market Wednesday. On the agenda executives outlined in the first half of the plenary session, were the role of the state and advertising industry and the creation of an industrial committee.
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Media industry representatives look at ways of operating on market principles
by Victoria Whall
issued on 18 June 2002 MCK
The dependence on corporate investors is preventing the constitutional right of offering unbiased news from being fulfilled, Russian president Vladimir Putin declared at a meeting with media conference delegates in the Kremlin. The solution, the president said, is to allow the industry economic independence, and to make the advertising industry - the most important source of the media industry's financial prosperity - as transparent and free from obstacles as possible.
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