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New items - April 2001
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| April 30,
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 CAN
YAVLINSKY BE THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR UNITED
LIBERALS?
Jamestown Foundation Monitor
Boris Nemtsov, who heads the Union
of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) faction in the State Duma,
said yesterday that SPS and Yabloko might possibly
put forward a single candidate in the 2004 presidential
elections and suggested that candidate could be Yabloko's
leader, Grigory Yavlinsky.
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| April 29,
2001 |
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Yabloko
and SPS to nominate a single candidate at the presidential
elections
Gazeta.ruApril 29, 2001, 22;48
At the presidential elections of 2004
Yabloko and the SPS will probably be represented by
a single candidate.
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| April 27,
2001 |
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Russia
Needs a Strong Party and a Right-Wing President
Novye Izvestia, April 27, 2001,
pp. 1, 6
Yelena Serenko
Interview with Boris Nemtsov
One
Half for You...
Does
foreign media ownership constitute a threat to Russia's
national security?
Izvestia, April 27, 2001, p. 2
Alexander Sadchikov
Yesterday the Duma passed in the
first reading a bill which would limit the participation
of foreign investors in Russian media. The deputies
unexpectedly supported the bill - 332 of them voted
in favour, only 22 against, with three abstentions.
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| April 24,
2001 |
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PACE
expresses its concern over the situation with freedom
of speech in Russia
Press release
On Tuesday, April 24,
2001, at a discussion of the report on the freedom
of speech and information in the mass media in Europe,
the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) supported
the amendment where
it expresses concern in connection with recent developments
in Russia.
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| April 23,
2001 |
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Grigory
Yavlinsky speaks in the USA in connection with the
publication of his book on the transformation of the
Russian economy
Press release
On April 23 Grigory Yavlinsky, who
is now in the USA at the invitation of Stanford University,
made a report on the modern problems of the Russian
and world economy.
The
Ambassador of Israel expresses his gratitude to the
deputies of theDuma who respected the memory of the
victims of the Holocaust with a minuteof silence in
the State Duma of the RF
Press release
The
Liberals group at the PACE session passed a statement
in support of the independent mass media in Russia
Press release
The group of liberal deputies in the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) made a statement
in support of the independent massmedia in Russia.
Deputy
Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Lukin: the model
of interaction between Russia and the EU should be
drafted in Kaliningrad Region
Press release
Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir
Lukin thinks that Kalinigrad Region should become
a kind of a model region where interaction between
Russia and the European Union is developed.
Vladimir
Lukin discussed the problem of the freedom of speech
in Russia with representatives of the European parliament
Press release
Deputy Speaker of the State Duma
for the Yabloko faction Vladimir Lukin said that recently
the federal and the regional authorities had increased
their pressure on the mass media.
Members
of the Russian delegation from the Yabloko faction
in PACE rate positively the decision of the Assembly
on the Russian mass media
Press release
Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction
in the State Duma of the Russian Federation and member
of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly
of the Council of Europe Sergei Ivanenko expressed
his hope that the adoption of the amendments on the
Russian mass media by PACE would facilitate improvements
to the situation in this area.
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| April 20,
2001 |
Sergei
Ivanenko: it is unlikely that the number of committees
in the Duma will be reduced
Press release
The First Deputy Head of the Yabloko
faction in the State Duma Sergei Ivanenko said that
it was unlikely that the State Duma would support the
proposal of the People's Deputy Group to reduce the
number of Duma committees. |
| April 18,
2001 |
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What
will a Contract Army Cost the People? '
An interview with Igor Artemyev
(Yabloko).
Roll-call
voting in the State Duma for the adoption of the
Federal Law on the Introduction of Amendments to Article
50 of the Law "On the Protection of Environment" (in
the part of imports of nuclear waste for temporal
storage and recycling).
Second Reading.
Yabloko
will not stop opposing the transformation of Russia
into a radioactive waste dump
Press release
The leader of the Yabloko faction
Grigory Yavlinsky said that the adoption by the State
Duma at its second reading of draft laws allowing
for the import of nuclear waste from abroad represents
an "irreparable mistake in the long-term".
Grigory
Yavlinsky: there was too much politics in Vladimir
Gusinsky's case
Press release
The leader of Yabloko and its parliamentary faction
in the State Duma, Grigory Yavlinsky, said that the
decision of the judiciary of Spain not to extradite
Vladimir Gusinsky to Russia was not unexpected.
The
Youth Organisation of Yabloko plans protest action
against imports of nuclear waste to Russia
Press release
The Youth Organisation of Yabloko
in Moscow plans a protest action against imports of
nuclear waste to Russia, The action is scheduled for
April 18, 2001.
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| April
17, 2001 |
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Grigory
Yavlinsky proposes seven urgent steps to improve pensioners'
well-fare
Press release
The pension reform measures proposed
by the government cannot improve
the welfare of Russian pensioners, which is extremely
hard, and in some
cases even catastrophic, said the leader of the Yabloko
faction in the
State Duma Grigory Yavlinsky at a meeting of the National
Council for
Pension Reform under the President of the Russian
Federation held on
April 17, 2001 in the Kremlin.
Yegor
Versus Boris
Obshchaya Gazeta, No. 17, April
2001, p. 7
Elena Dikun, Anatoly Kostyukov
Yegor Gaidar to challenge Boris
Nemtsov for party leadership
With a month to go until the Union
of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) becomes a party, its leaders
still can't decide who's boss.
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| April 16,
2001 |
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The
differences in the positions of the Union of Right-Wing
Forces (SPS) and Yabloko towards the situation around
NTV will not lead to a split between the two right-wing
parties
Rosbalt
Information Agency, April 16, 2001
Sergei
Ivanenko: creation of a pro-presidential coalition
increases our responsibility for the prospects of
a democratic transformation
Press release
The First Deputy Head of the Yabloko
faction Sergei Ivanenko said that the creation of
a pro-presidential coalition of four factions of the
State Duma (the Unity and the Fatherland-All Russia
factions and the deputies' groups People's Deputy
and the Regions of Russia) had assumed a clear-cut
organisational shape.
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| April 14,
2001 |
Grigory
Yavlinsky: Despite the differences in the assessment
of the situation around NTV, Yabloko will aim for a
coalition with the Union of Right-Wing Forces
Press release
The leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky said that, despite
the differing assessments of the situation around the
NTV by his party and the Union of Right-Wing Forces
(SPS), this won't affect Yabloko's intention to form
a coalition with the SPS.
Grigory
Yavlinsky to initiate a review of the situation at
NTV by the State Duma
Press release
The leader of Yabloko, Grigory Yavlinsky, said that
he would initiate a review of the situation at the
NTV at the next meeting of the State Duma.
Yabloko
to raise the issue of the situation around NTV at
the Spring Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe
Press release
Members of the Russian parliamentary delegation in
the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE) from the Yabloko faction plan to raise the
situation around the Russian television channel NTV
at the Spring session of PACE which will open in Strasbourg
next week.
TV
Station Taken Over. A state-controlled company stopped
Russia's only major independent TV station's journalists
mid-broadcast
By Peter Baker and
Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Foreign
Service, April 14, 2001
La
nouvelle direction investit NTV
Le Figaro, 14 avril
2001
Media
Takeover. Russia's Independent Network Taken Over
by Government
ABCNEWS.com, April
14, 2001
I
Want My NTV. Battle Continues for Russia's Independent
Network
ABCNEWS.com, April
13, 2001
NTV
a perdu son independance
TF1, April 14, 2001
Battle
for NTV reaches climax
CNN, April 14, 2001
New
Managers Take Over Russia's NTV
Associated Press
By Angela Charlton,
Associated Press Writer, April 14, 2001
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| April 12,
2001 |
Yabloko:
Fatherland will dissolve into Unity
Press release
The First
Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma,
Sergei Ivanenko, thinks that the Unity party will virtually
devour the Fatherland movement in the case of a merger
of these two organisations. |
| April 11,
2001 |
The
leaders of the Yabloko faction consider the adoption
by the parliament of the Netherlands of the law allowing
for euthanasia to be a serious mistake
Press release
The law allowing doctors under certain
circumstances to kill patients whose condition is hopeless
at their consent was approved by a majority of the deputies
of the upper chamber of the General States (Ed. parliament)
of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on April 10, 2001. |
| April 10,
2001 |
Igor
Artemyev: we can expect that the speeches of the "St.
Petersburg Dialogue" will be followed by investments
Rosbalt
Information Agency
St.Petersburg. We can expect the words uttered during
the St.Petersburg Dialogue to be followed by investments,
said deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Igor Artemyev in an interview with a correspondent of
the"Rosbalt" information agency. |
| April 9,
2001 |
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The
leaders of Yabloko sign their names to the declaration
"For NTV and Freedom of Speech in Russia"
”Since Monday April 9, 2001 signatures
will be collected on a daily basis (in a move initiated
by the Journalists’ Union) under the slogan “For
NTV and Freedom of Speech in Russia” from 6 p.m.
until 10 p.m. at the Central House of Journalists
in Moscow(Suvorovskiy bulv., 8A).
Grigory
Yavlinsky thinks that millions of signatures may be
collected in defence of freedom of speech
The leader of the Yabloko faction
in the State Duma, Grigory Yavlinsky, thinks that
millions of signatures may be collected in defence
of the freedom of speech and NTV. He made this statement
on Monday April 9, 2001 at the House of Journalists
in Moscow, where the collection of signatures began.
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| April 7,
2001 |
Realistic
and fantastic projects
By
Darya Guseva and Dmitry Chernov
Vremya
MN, April 7, 2001, p. 3 |
| April 6,
2001 |
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TV
Network Resisting Hostile Moves in Russia
By Michael Wines
The New York Times,
April 5, 2001
State-backed
group takes control of Russian TV independent
From Giles Whittell
in Moscow
The Times, Wednesday,
April 4, 2001
Memorandum
on cooperation between the Administration of Tomsk
Region and the Yabloko faction of the State Duma of
the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
March 28, 2001
Kremlin
Moves In on Independent TV
By Peter Baker and
Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Foreign
Service, Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Putin
Allies Seem to Gain in Battle Over Critical Press
Empire
By Michael Wines
The New York Times,
January 27, 2001
Putin
Critic Puts His Media Empire Under Thumb of the Kremlin
By Sabrina Tavernise
The New York Times,
November 14, 2000
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| April 5,
2001 |
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Yavlinsky
takes NTV case to Parliament
Parlamentskaya
Gazeta, April 5, 2001, p. 2
Yabloko
prepares draft appeal to the Supreme Court in connection
with the situation surrounding NTV
Press release, April
4, 2001
Appeal
to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to
take legal proceedings regarding the complaints of
shareholders of OAO “Telekompaniya NTV” to protect
their rights
Draft, Submitted by the deputy of
the State Duma G.A.Yavlinsky, April 4, 2001
NTV
Managers Ousted in Gazprom Coup
By Andrei Zolotov
Jr., Staff Writer
"The Moscow Times",
Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2001. Page 1
Kremlin
Moves In on Independent TV
By Peter Baker and
Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Foreign
Service, Wednesday, April 4, 2001; Page A01
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| April 4,
2001 |
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Grigory
Yavlinsky believes that the Duma has refused the chance
to freely speak to its electorate
Press release, April
4, 2001
Grigory
Yavlinsky proposes that the State Duma consider a
draft resolution of the chamber on the situation surrounding
NTV
Press release, April
4, 2001
Democrats
Prepare to Unite
Nezavisimaya Gazeta,
March 31, 2001, p. 3
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| April 3,
2001 |
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Speech
of Chairman of the Yabloko Association Grigory Yavlinsky
at the meeting to protect NTV and the freedom of speech
Moscow, Pushkin Square,
March 31, 2001
Sergei
Ivanenko: the new law on parties will not affect Yabloko
Rosbalt Information
Agency, March 28, 2001
Large
Rally in Moscow Backs Independent TV
By Peter Baker and
Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Foreign
Service, Sunday, April 1, 2001
Crowd
Gathers to Protect Russia's Freedom of Speech
By Peter Baker and
Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Foreign
Service, Saturday, March 31, 2001; 12:15 PM
Putin
Consolidates Power But Wields It Unsteadily
By Peter Baker and
Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Foreign
Service, Monday, March 26, 2001
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| April 2,
2001 |
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20,000
Turn Out in Support of NTV
Combined Reports
The Moscow Times,
Monday, April 2, 2001, p.3
Big
Rally Defends Russia's Independent NTV Channel
By Ron Popeski
Reuters, Saturday
March 31 8:24 AM ET
Russians
Protest for Press Freedom
The Associated Press
Saturday March 31
11:52 AM ET
Thousands
Demonstrate in Moscow
The Associated Press
Saturday March 31
7:11 AM ET
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