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Saddam’s regime topples
A statue of the Iraqi
leader is destroyed as his
rule ends in Baghdad
By Hamza Hendawi
and Ellen Knickmeyer
JOHN R. BOLTON
U.S. warns
‘rogues’ to
watch Iraq
By Philip Pullella
Reuters
R
OME — The United
States on Wednesday
warned countries it has
accused of pursuing weapons of
mass destruction, including Iran,
Syria and North Korea, to “draw
the appropriate lesson from
Iraq.”
John R. Bolton, U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control
and international security, also
appealed to Syria and other
countries in the Middle East to
open themselves up to “new
possibilities” for peace in the
region.
“With respect to the issue of
the proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction in the postconflict period, we are hopeful
that a number of regimes will
draw the appropriate lesson
from Iraq that the pursuit of
weapons of mass destruction is
See ROGUES, Page 4
B
AGHDAD — Jubilant
crowds swarmed Baghdad’s
streets Wednesday, dancing, looting and cheering U.S. convoys before Iraqis, with help from
an American tank, toppled a 12meter-tall statue of Saddam
Hussein in
a sweeping,
WAR IN IRAQ s y m b o l i c
esture.
— D A Y 2 1 gAmerican
commanders declared that Saddam’s rule
over the ancient capital had ended.
In the most visible sign of
Saddam’s evaporating power, the
towering statue of the Iraqi president was brought down in the middle of Fardos Square. Cheering
Iraqis, some waving the national
flag, scaled the statue and danced
upon the downed icon. As it fell,
some threw shoes and slippers at
the statue — a gross insult in the
Arab world.
“The capital city is now one of
those areas that has been added to
See BAGHDAD, Page 4
AP
AP
The Associated Press
MEN JUMP on a statue of Saddam Hussein, pulled down in Baghdad with the help of U.S. Marines on Wednesday.
Thousands
protest in
Moscow
Russians
deny hiding
Saddam
The Associated Press
R
ussian's Foreign Ministry
spokesman denied what
state-run
television
said
Wednesday were Western
media reports that Saddam
Hussein has taken refuge at the
Russian Embassy in Baghdad,
saying they “do not correspond
with reality.”
“Such statements absolutely
do not and cannot correspond
with reality,” Foreign Ministry
By Jim Heintz
INSIDE
The Associated Press
T H E
S E R V I C E
T
ens of thousands of people
flooded the eight-lane
avenue outside the U.S.
Embassy on Wednesday in the
largest Russian protest so far
against the war in Iraq.
Police detained several protesters who threw plastic objects at the
embassy, Itar-Tass reported, and a
few demonstrators stomped on an
See MOSCOW, Page 4
C O M P A N Y
AP
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See SADDAM, Page 4
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THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 2
WAR IN IRAQ
Tunnels still holding their secrets
U.S. forces yet to find bulk of
allegedly vast underground
network dug beneath Iraq
By Robert Tanner
The Associated Press
AP
N
EW YORK — The mysterious
tunnels of Iraq are rumored to
stretch for scores of kilometers,
linking palaces, military strongholds and
safe houses concealing leaders, treasure
or weapons of mass destruction.
For U.S. troops strapping on night
goggles and venturing underground,
the tunnels are a new kind of battlefield in this war. No maps, no light
and no handle — yet — on what they
might find.
“For the type of regime we’re dealing
with, the tunnels represent an ideal spot
to conceal weapons and serve as a hideout and in some cases an escape route,”
said Lt. Mark Kitchens, a spokesman for
U.S. Central Command.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is
said to have built so many tunnels that
just about anything could be underground — troops, weapons or even the
Iraqi president himself.
“There were all sorts of tips and
rumors, ‘dig under this and you will find
that,’” said Ewen Buchanan, a
spokesman for the U.N. Monitoring,
Verification and Inspection Commission.
Buchanan said U.N. arms inspectors
in 1998 found a combination of bunkers
and tunnels below some of Saddam’s
palaces, but not the sophisticated net-
SOLDIERS with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne division outside Saddam International
Airport as they finish conducting their final clearing checks. The soldiers discovered a
12-room complex in a cave beneath the airport after seizing control Sunday.
work that had been speculated about.
“But that doesn’t say that they don’t
exist,” he said.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
reported Tuesday that U.S. Marines
have secured a city south of Baghdad
— Al-Tuwaitha — where a nexus of
underground labs, warehouses and
bomb-proof offices extends beneath a
site owned by the Iraqi Atomic Energy
Agency.
It said 14 buildings betray high levels
of radiation and nuclear residue.
Weapons
inspectors
from
the
International Atomic Energy Agency
recently toured the city, “but did they
go underground?” the paper quoted
David Albright, a former IAEA inspector in Iraq from 1992 to 1997 as saying.
On Tuesday, at the airport outside
Baghdad, 150 soldiers of the 101st
Airborne’s 3rd Battalion, 3rd Brigade
searched a 12-room complex inside a
cave with white marble floors, 3-meter
ceilings and fluorescent lighting. They
found cigarette butts, tea bags and
other signs of recent abandonment —
but no Iraqis.
“We’re going to have to try to figure
out where they go,” brigade commander
Lt. Col. Lee Fetterman told The
Associated Press at the airport. “There’s
no telling.”
On Monday, U.S. forces captured an
Iraqi colonel in one tunnel who was calling in artillery fire from his hideout.
Reports, some stretching back years,
allege the existence of tunnels and
bunkers built by Serbian, German or
Chinese engineering firms, leading from
palaces to secret hideaways and more.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld repeated those claims in
December, arguing the futility of
U.N. searches for weapons of mass
destruction.
“They’ve got enormous miles and
miles and miles of underground tunneling,” Rumsfeld said. “I don’t know how
inspectors on the surface of the Earth
can even know what’s going on in the
underground facilities.”
Hussein al-Shahristani, a scientist
who was imprisoned by Saddam and
fled during the 1991 Gulf War, told CBS’
“60 Minutes” in February that plans
originally called for a subway beneath
Baghdad.
Saddam “got all the drawings; he
told his military, `Go ahead and do
them but not for a metro, for our
weapons of mass destruction. We can
hide them, move them around,’” alShahristani said. “We believe now it
is more than 100 kilometers of very
complex network, multilayer tunnels.”
But al-Shahristani never saw the tunnels himself, he said.
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THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 3
A RUSSIAN PAPER
claims that a convoy of
Russian diplomats
saved Iraqi archives
as it left Iraq.
— PAGE 5
The Associated Press
N
EW YORK — The
International Red Cross
said Wednesday that one
of its staffers was missing in Iraq.
Medecins Sans Frontieres, meanwhile, suspended its work after
two of its staff vanished in
Baghdad.
Other humanitarian groups
also were assessing their ability to
work in an Iraq beset by combat
and civil disorder even as the
need for international assistance
grows.
The International Committee
of the Red Cross said Wednesday
that it feared Vatche Arslanian
was seriously injured when the
vehicle he was traveling in was
hit by gunfire in Baghdad.
Arslanian,
a
48-year-old
Canadian in charge of ICRC logistics in Iraq, has not been seen
since Tuesday afternoon, the
agency said. Two other ICRC staff
members who were with
Arslanian when their vehicle was
hit escaped and were able to
reach the agency’s offices and
raise the alarm.
“The ICRC has so far been
unable to approach the area
where its staff member was last
seen. Delegates who tried to rescue him had to turn back because
of the ongoing fighting,” the Red
Cross said in a statement. “There
is at present no news of his
whereabouts or condition.”
The ICRC is virtually the only
aid agency working in Iraq at the
moment and has six international
employees in Baghdad along with
local staff.
Two of six people working in
Iraq for Medicins Sans Frontieres,
also known as Doctors Without
Borders, disappeared April 2, said
Nicolas de Torrente, the group’s
U.S. executive director in New
York. “When two staff members
go missing, we can’t work under
those conditions,” he said.
“Unfortunately, we have to suspend operations at a time when
civilian needs are mounting.”
The organization says it
believes that Iraqi authorities
may be holding mission head
Francois Calas, 43, of France, and
Ibrahim Younis, a 31-year-old
logistics expert from Sudan.
Saddam loyalists remain
in pockets around Iraq
By Nicole Winfield
The Associated Press
C
AMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar
—
President
Saddam
Hussein’s government is no
longer in control of Baghdad, but
coalition forces still face possible
combat in some parts of the capital,
an
American
general
said
Wednesday.
“The capital city is now one of
those areas that has been added to
the list of where the regime does not
have control,” U.S. Brig. Gen. Vincent
Brooks said at the U.S. Central
Command headquarters. “The
regime is in disarray and much of
Iraq is free from years of oppression.”
U.S. Central Command spokesman
Jim Wilkinson said the regime had
lost control in “most parts of Iraq,”
though pockets of regime control
remained in the north.
Brooks said Saddam loyalists were
holding out in the north, including
Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit, and
still posed a threat, including the possible use of weapons of mass destruction. British and U.S. aircraft struck
military targets in Tikrit on
Wednesday; U.S. troops have tried to
block roads from Baghdad to Tikrit
to stop Iraqi leaders from fleeing.
“We certainly are focused on
Tikrit,” Brooks said at U.S. Central
AP
By Mark Fritz
Combat in Baghdad not over
U.S. SOLDIERS take their positions as Iraqi people watch in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Wednesday. A piece
of a statue of Saddam Hussein, brought down by U.S. Marines, is behind the soldier on the ground.
Command headquarters in Qatar.
“There is still work to be done.”
Noting scenes of celebration in the
Iraqi capital, Brooks said there were
still some “engagements” in the center of the city around bridges. “We
believe the population recognizes
that the end is near [for Saddam’s
By Adrian Croft
Reuters
N
ASSIRIYA, Iraq — U.S.
Marines said on Wednesday
they had found photographs of
burned bodies and a device to deliver
electric shocks in what they suspect
was a torture center used by Saddam
Hussein’s security services.
Files, documents and identity
cards litter the floor of the low building in the southern Iraqi city of
Nassiriya. U.S. Marines who occupy
the city believe it used to be an office
of Saddam’s Baath Party or of the
Iraqi intelligence service.
The most sinister part of the building is a dark corner room without
windows. The only chink of light
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fighters, Brooks said. He said there
were also attacks on Iraqi positions
south of Irbil, and that special operations forces supported by aircraft
destroyed tanks and cargo trucks
there. Coalition forces have taken
more than 7,000 Iraqi prisoners of
war, he said.
enters through a gap around a fan.
Five small cells lead off this room
and in one of them was a battery connected to an iron rod which Marine
Capt. Pete McAleer said was “probably a primitive torture device.” The
corner room is now blackened by fire.
Since U.S. Marines found the building, local people have entered it and,
McAleer said, deliberately set fire to
the room: “I think they’re trying to
eradicate what was going on here.”
At a different location in southern
Iraq last weekend, British troops
found the desiccated remains of up to
200 people in an abandoned warehouse, along with catalogs of grisly
photographs of what could be torture victims. It was not immediately
clear how old the remains were.
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“Downtown Baghdad remains a dangerous place. There’s still potential
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In the north, U.S. special operations troops and Kurdish soldiers
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WORLD
Baghdad: Regime topples
A PROTESTER in Moscow tears up a U.S. flag outside the embassy on Wednesday.
Moscow: War protest
Continued from Page 1
American flag.
But aside from those incidents
and some obscene gestures made
toward the embassy, passions
appeared low.
A half-dozen speakers briefly
denounced the war and prompted
some chants of “Down with Bush”
and “Shame, shame,” but one of
the most enthusiastic responses
came from an ironic joke.
Alexander Tolsty, a leader of
the Moscow branch of the proKremlin Young Unity group,
called on students to boycott
American fast food and “go to
your schools’ cafeterias instead,”
prompting a wave of laughter
reflecting the cafeterias’ notoriously low quality.
The rally was more a testimony
to the organizational skills of
groups
backing
President
Vladimir Putin.
The protest was put together
by the Moscow office of the proPutin United Russia party and
the Moscow Federation of Trade
Unions, a grouping that cooperates with the government — suggesting that if the rally was not
arranged expressly on Putin’s
orders, at least it had strong
Kremlin backing.
One protester, a teenager who
identified herself only by her first
name, Yulia, said she had heard
about the rally from friends.
Another participant, Viktor
Pashenko, said he didn’t know
who had organized it.
A third, linguistics student
Gennady Shamidov, said he came
as a member of “Moving
Together,” a pro-Putin youth
group often compared to the
Soviet-era Komsomol, or League
of Young Communists.
Russian radio stations reported
that employers were ordering
workers to attend and that classes
at higher-education institutes
were canceled for the day.
Vladimir Varfolomeyev, an
announcer at the Echo of Moscow
station, compared the protest
rally to the sham public demonstrations of the Communist Party
in the Soviet era, saying, “I have
only one word for the organizers:
shame.”
The protest clearly had heavy
official cooperation.
All the neighborhood kiosks
that are the lifeblood of Russian
shopping were closed from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m., apparently by order, and
police closed a three-km stretch
of the Garden Ring, one of the
city’s main thoroughfares, to
allow protesters to converge on
the embassy from three directions.
Despite the organizational
efforts, crowd estimates ranged
from 30,000 to 50,000 — far smaller than the 100,000 that organizers had predicted.
Many of the demonstrators’
banners and placards were neatly
printed, showing substantial
preparation. “Bush, hands off
Iraq,” said one. “Kosovo. Baghdad.
Who will be next?,” said another.
The demonstration was as
much pro-Putin as anti-war.
“Peace, Russia, President” was a
common banner slogan and the
chant that ended the rally after
about 30 minutes of speeches.
Rogues: U.S. warning
Continued from Page 1
not in their national interest,”
Bolton told a news conference.
Bolton, in Rome for meetings
with Vatican and Italian officials,
specifically mentioned Syria,
North Korea and Iran in his comments in response to a question
about what the postwar period
would hold.
Iran has said its nuclear programs are for peaceful purposes.
Syria, meanwhile, has denied
U.S. charges of shipping military
supplies to Baghdad and lawmakers have accused the United
States of double standards in its
support for Israel.
Bolton was asked about a U.S.
poll that showed that half of the
United States population supports U.S. military action
against Iran if it continues to
move toward nuclear weapons
development.
Another 42 percent of those
surveyed said the United States
should take action against Syria
if it was helping Iraq.
“I think Syria is a good case
where I hope that they will conclude that the chemicals weapons
program and the biological
weapons program that they have
been pursuing are things that
they should give up,” said Bolton,
who is known as a leading U.S.
hawk.
“It is a wonderful opportunity
for Syria to foreswear the pursuit
of weapons of mass destruction
and, as with other governments
in the region to see if there are
not new possibilities in the Middle
East peace process,” he said.
the list of where the regime does
not have control,” said Brig. Gen.
Vincent Brooks at U.S. Central
Command in Qatar.
While Baghdadis celebrated,
the fate of Saddam and his sons
remained unknown, two days
after they were targeted by four
900-kilogram
bombs.
In
Washington, U.S. officials said
multiple sources told them
Saddam was inside a building
bombed two days earlier. Britain’s
Foreign Office, however, said it
was possible he escaped.
Pockets of Saddam loyalists
continued to engage U.S. forces
in fighting, said Capt. Frank
Thorp, U.S. Central Command
spokesman. Members of the 3rd
Infantry Division were conducting armored raids within
the city, he said.
In the north, U.S. and Kurdish
troops seized a key mountaintop base outside Mosul while
American special forces continued to fight Saddam loyalists in
both Mosul and Tikrit to the
south, U.S. military officials said.
Despite fire and fierce resistance from roving bands of holdout fighters, U.S. Marine and
Army units swept through
Baghdad, seizing or destroying
buildings that once housed some
of Saddam’s most feared security forces. Gunshots and explosions rocked the University of
Baghdad, where smoke rose over
the campus after a firefight,
CNN reported.
Marine tanks rolled into the
heart of the city, on the east
bank of the Tigris, greeted by
people clapping and waving
white flags. Civilians gestured
to the Americans with V-forvictory signs. “We were nearly
mobbed by people trying to
shake our hands,” said Maj. Andy
Milburn of the U.S. Marines. One
Army contingent had to use
razor-wire to hold back surging
crowds of well-wishers.
The scene of Iraqis and U.S.
marines topping Saddam’s statue
was telecast worldwide.
Later, the statue’s head was
dragged through Baghdad’s
streets with a noose wrapped
around its neck; people alternately climbed aboard for a ride
or pounded it with their shoes.
Before the statue was pulled
down, its head was briefly covered with a U.S. flag by one
American marine.
“I’m 49, but I never lived a single day,” said Yusuf Abed Kazim,
a Baghdad imam who pounded
the statue’s pedestal with a
sledgehammer. “Only now will I
Saddam
Continued from Page 1
spokesman Alexander Yakovenko
said on Channel One television.
“This is an attempt yet another
time to place the Russian Embassy
in Baghdad under threat.”
Channel One did not say where
the reports about Saddam’s location originated.
Lebanese Parliament Speaker
Nabih Berri suggested Wednesday
that Saddam might have taken
AP
AP
Continued from Page 1
AN IRAQI MAN swings a hammer at the base of a statue of Saddam
Hussein in Baghdad on Wednesday, shortly before it was pulled down.
start living. That Saddam Hussein
is a murderer and a criminal.”
British Prime Minister Tony
Blair and members of his staff
watched the events in Baghdad
live on television, and were
“delighted at what we see in
the reaction of the people,” his
official spokesman said in
London.
At police stations, universities,
government ministries, the headquarters of the Iraq Olympic
Committee, looters unhindered by
any police presence made off with
computers, furniture, even military jeeps. One young man used
roller skates to wheel away a
refrigerator.
In the north, celebrations also
broke out in at least two cities in
the Kurdish autonomous region
where animosity toward Saddam
runs deep. Some honked their
horns, others chanted, “George
Bush! George Bush!”
The Iraqi government’s efforts
to sustain its public relations
campaign collapsed. State television went off the air Tuesday,
and on Wednesday, foreign journalists said their “minders” —
government agents who monitor their reporting — did not
turn up for work.
Also, there was no sign of Iraqi
Information Minister Mohammed
Saeed al-Sahhaf, whose daily
briefings have constituted the
main public face of the regime
during the war.
Not everyone rejoiced.
“This is the destruction of
Islam,” said Qassim al-Shamari,
50, a laborer wearing an Arab
robe. “After all, Iraq is our country. And what about all the
women and children who died
in the bombing?”
Civilian
casualties
have
increased sharply since the arrival
of coalition forces in Baghdad. At
Al-Kindi Hospital, doctors reported receiving more than 30 bodies
and 250 wounded.
U.S. military officials warned
that the fighting wasn’t over.
“There are still many days of
perhaps fierce fighting to follow,”
said Capt. Frank Thorp said at U.S.
Central Command headquarters.
“There are other areas of the
country where we have yet to be
at. ... So it’s not over.”
shelter at the Russian embassy in
Baghdad as part of a U.S.-Russian
deal. “Why did the Russian ambassador return to Baghdad? What
did Condoleezza Rice do in
Moscow? Is Saddam Hussein in the
Russian embassy in Baghdad?”
Berri told reporters when asked to
comment on developments in the
U.S.-led war on Iraq.
Rice visited Moscow on Sunday
and Monday.
In Washington, a senior State
Department official said there
is absolutely nothing to indicate there was any truth to
any reports that Saddam was
at the Russian Embassy.
Iraq’s ambassador to Moscow
could not immediately be reached
for comment.
Russian Ambassador Vladimir
Titorenko and most of the remaining diplomats at the Baghdad
embassy left Iraq this week, but
Russian officials say a skeleton
crew is still there.
Titorenko left Iraq on Monday,
but returned Tuesday to bring an
embassy driver — who had been
hospitalized in Fallujah, west of
Baghdad, when the Russian convoy came under fire Sunday — out
to Syria.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 5
CHECHEN REFUGEES
in Kabardino-Balkiria are
being prevented from settling in the republic despite
the Supreme Court’s help.
—PAGE 7
REPUBLICAN leaders
look likely to drop their
opposition to non-coalition involvement in Iraqi
reconstruction.
— PAGE 9
RUSSIA
Convoy had Iraq files, paper says
AP
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
claims Russians were
saving Saddam archive
The Associated Press
SERGEI YASTRZHEMBSKY
By Sarah Karush
The Associated Press
A
top Kremlin aide accused
the European Union of
“hysteria” on Wednesday
after the EU and seven other
nations submitted a resolution to
the U.N. Human Rights
Commission criticizing the human
rights situation in Chechnya.
The 15-nation EU and seven
other European countries submitted a draft resolution
Tuesday that accuses Russian
forces of forced disappearances, summary executions
and torture, and calls on
See KREMLIN, Page 7
A
AP
EU angers
Kremlin
Russian diplomatic convoy
that came under fire as it
evacuated Baghdad might
have been carrying secret Iraqi files
that U.S. intelligence officers wanted
to seize, a newspaper reported
Wednesday.
The report by the daily
Nezavisimaya Gazeta was quickly
denied by the Russian Foreign
Intelligence Service (SVR), a KGB
successor. “It’s sheer nonsense,”
SVR spokesman Boris Labusov
said in a telephone interview.
Russia’s ambassador to Iraq,
Vladimir Titorenko, has accused
American troops of intentionally
firing Sunday on his convoy outside of Baghdad, but U.S. officials
have insisted that it was still
unclear who was responsible for
the shooting, in which Moscow said
at least four people in the convoy
were wounded.
Russian media have reported
that there were two cars with
Iraqis in front of the column, and
that several of their occupants
were killed in the firing.
U.S. Ambassador Alexander
A POLICEMAN stands guard as the convoy of the Russian ambassador to Iraq arrives at the Russian Embassy in
Damascus on Monday after coming under fire. A Russian newspaper claimed it was carrying secret Iraqi files.
Vershbow told Echo of Moscow
radio on Tuesday that the Russian
convoy had apparently changed its
itinerary without informing U.S.
officials.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta claimed
U.S. forces opened fire on the convoy
in an bid to seize classified materials
it was taking out of Iraq — the out-
come “of a dangerous game involving the SVR and the CIA.”
“One was taking out classified
Iraqi archives, and the other was
trying to hamper it by force,” the
newspaper said.
It said that the firing on the
Russian convoy appeared intended
to incapacitate the vehicles but
spare the diplomats, explaining
why just one person had received a
serious wound.
The paper had earlier reported
that Russian intelligence agents
had been sent to Baghdad to gather archives of the Iraqi secret service in case Saddam Hussein’s
regime fell.
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RUSSIA
Ploy marks start of campaign
R
OSTOV-ON-DON — A
Russian colonel who has
admitted he killed an 18-yearold Chechen woman said he
began a hunger strike
Wednesday to protest the way
the case against him — now in
its third year — has dragged
through the legal system.
Col. Yuri Budanov announced
his protest as the North
Caucasus Military Court convened to start his retrial, his
lawyer Alexei Dulimov said.
Wednesday’s session focused
solely on procedural issues and
was held behind closed doors.
Budanov was the first
Russian military officer to face
trial for abuses in Chechnya. His
case has attracted wide publicity and is seen as a measure of
the military’s commitment to
punish abuses.
The former commander of a
tank regiment admitted strangling Heda Kungayeva in 2000,
but said he suspected her of
being a rebel sniper who had
killed some of his comrades and
that he acted in a fit of rage during
her
interrogation.
Kungayeva’s family says she
was dragged from her home at
night, raped and murdered during a drunken rampage by soldiers.
Budanov’s trial began in
February 2001, but was subject
to numerous delays. Last
December, judges of the North
Caucasus court ruled that
Budanov was not criminally
responsible for the killing
because he was temporarily
insane at the time.
That decision, which outraged human rights campaigners and many Chechen civilians,
was overturned by the
Supreme Court in February and
a new trial was ordered.
Budanov’s
lawyers
have
requested that the trial be held
before a jury.
Astronauts wrap up
C
APE
CANAVERAL,
Florida — Astronauts
aboard the international space
station ventured outside for
more than six hours to wrap up
maintenance tasks on what
was probably the last spacewalk for months.
Commander Ken Bowersox
and science officer Don Pettit
finished their work early and
spent another 80 minutes collecting tools and tethers that
had been left outside during
previous spacewalks.
Russian flight engineer
Nikolai Budarin assisted from
inside the station, orbiting 240
miles above Earth.
“I want you all to know how
happy everybody is, what a
great job you guys did,” Carlos
Noriega, the spacewalk communicator in Houston, told the
astronauts
when
they
returned to the station. “You
guys basically set the standard.”
The three men are supposed
to return home in early May
after they are replaced by
astronaut Ed Lu and Russian
cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.
— AP
Politicians are sniping
ahead of Duma vote
By Andrew Hurst
Reuters
I
n many democracies it would
cause uproar if a senior cabinet minister openly attacked
his own government’s economic
policies.
In Russia, far from signaling disarray in government ranks, recent
sniping among Cabinet colleagues
may be no more than a none too
subtle ploy to revive flagging support for a pro-government political
party as elections near.
Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov
was drafted in last month to revive
the fortunes of the pro-Kremlin
United Russia Party and lead it
into December’s parliamentary
election. Within weeks he had
fired a salvo against free market
reforms, using the platform of a
party congress to attack government plans to raise energy prices.
“I think it’s a game,” said
Yevgeny Gavrilenkov, chief economist with the Moscow investment
house Troika Dialog. “They are
trying to win electoral sympathies
from the communists. They can’t
get votes by supporting the government.”
Communist support
Opinion pollsters VTsIOM show
the United Russia Party — the key
party in a constellation of centrist
groupings backing the government — won only 21 percent of
voter support in a recent survey,
trailing the opposition Communist
Party which had 31 percent.
With campaigning for the election to the State Duma, the lower
house of the legislative assembly,
fast approaching, populist broadsides may start to fly thick and
fast, even from within the government’s own ranks.
Unlike President Vladimir
Putin, whose position is seen as
unassailable as he prepares for
presidential elections in a year’s
time, United Russia has never won
massive voter endorsement and is
lagging badly in the opinion polls.
“The interesting point is that
there is not a fundamental split in
the government,” said Christopher
The Russia Journal
Budanov protesting
POPULIST broadsides are expected to fly thick and fast during campaigning for the State Duma lower house of parliament.
Granville, a former diplomat who
is a strategist with investment
bank United Financial Group.
The party’s criticism of government policy, he said, was “a reflection of the political weakness of
United Russia”.
United Russia, which together
with other centrist parties votes
consistently in support of government legislation in the Duma, is
not a grassroots movement but
relies on the patronage of the
Kremlin for legitimacy.
“The party of power formula is a
dud and always has been,”
Granville said.
United
Russia
and
the
Communists have the largest representation in the 450-seat Duma,
with 82 seats each.
Gryzlov’s answer to the party’s
problems appears to be to beat the
populist drum unashamedly.
At its congress last weekend
United Russia also said it would
campaign to keep Russia out of the
World Trade Organization (WTO).
Accession to the WTO is seen by
reformers in Putin’s administra-
tion as a key step to integrating
Russia into the global trading system and helping complete the
transition from Soviet state to capitalist economy.
“I don’t think this criticism can
have any real consequences,” said
Andrei Ryabov of the Carnegie
think tank in Moscow. “I don’t
think Putin wants radically to
change his team. He sees stability
as a key achievement.”
The European Union has said
Russia should not be admitted to
the WTO unless it raises the price
of gas, which the EU alleges is
being sold below cost to subsidize
industry.
parties profiting from antiAmerican sentiment,” said Ed
Parker, a sovereign risk analyst at
ratings agency Fitch in London.
A senior government official
said he was aware of Gryzlov’s
remarks, but insisted that the government was unswerving in its
determination to join the WTO.
“It is the opinion of the government and of the president that
Russia should continue accession
negotiations and join as soon as
possible on terms that are acceptable to Russia,” said Maxim
Medvedkov, deputy minister for
Economic Development and Trade.
But if United Russia orchestrates a crescendo of populist
rhetoric in the run-up to elections,
some analysts believe it may carry
risks for the future.
“The more they repeat these
mantras the more they have to
stand by what they say,” said a
London-based political analyst
who asked not to be identified.
“It remains to be seen if it is a
harbinger of a shift by the Kremlin
towards reform,” he added.
Tough line on WTO
Gryzlov’s tough line on the WTO
has also been linked to Putin’s
strongly critical stance toward the
United States-led invasion of Iraq.
The Anglo-American offensive is
deeply unpopular in Russia.
“Putin and the centrist parties
have to position themselves to stop
the communists and anti-reform
Russia has granted 5 mln citizenships
The Associated Press
N
early 5 million ethnic
Russians scattered across
the former Soviet Union
after its breakup were granted
Russian citizenship over the last 10
years, Deputy Interior Minister
Alexander Chekalin told Russia’s
lower house of parliament on
Wednesday.
More than 1 million moved to
Russia from the Central Asian
nation of Kazakhstan, some
600,000 from Ukraine and 256,000
from Uzbekistan, Interfax quoted
Chekalin as saying.
He said that about half a million
people are given Russian citizenship
every year. He also said that up to
2.5 million people are staying in
Russia illegally, and that some
200,000 arrive every year. “In the
The Russia Journal
Briefs
RUSSIA wants to do more to track foreigners arriving in the country,
including through Sheremetyevo II airport just outside of Moscow.
current situation, the federal budget misses out on considerable
income in unpaid taxes from the use
of a foreign labor force,” Chekalin
was quoted by Itar-Tass as saying.
Last year, Russia adopted a new
law making it more difficult to
obtain Russian citizenship.
The law requires applicants to
spend at least five years in Russia,
pass a Russian language exam and
have a job to receive citizenship. It
also demands that applicants reject
the citizenship of other nations.
The previous law required only a
three-year residence and no language testing.
Meanwhile, the Russian government on Wednesday officially gave
seven government agencies the right
to declare a foreigner persona non
grata, and expel or bar the person
from the country.
The agencies are the Interior
Ministry, the Defense Ministry, the
Health Care Ministry, the Financial
Monitoring Committee, the Foreign
Intelligence Service, the Justice
Ministry and the Federal Security
Service, the successor agency to the
Soviet-era KGB.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 7
RUSSIA
Chechens greeted by residence woes
Refugees in Nalchik say
it is impossible to
obtain legal registration
By Kazbek Kushkhov
IWPR
Kremlin
Continued from Page 5
Moscow to investigate.
The draft resolution came less
than a week after the
Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe, the continent’s
top human rights body, voted for
a proposal to set up an international war crimes tribunal for
Chechnya.
Sergei Yastrzhembsky, an aide
to President Vladimir Putin and
Russia’s top spokesman on
Chechnya, said the two proposals
were a response to last month’s
referendum in Chechnya.
“When the referendum proved
the rightness of Moscow and
Chechen society, showing that
there can be other political solutions of the Chechen problem,
this caused hysteria among those
who were counting on different
methods of involvement in
Russia’s affairs, in order to constantly keep Russia on a hook,”
Interfax quoted Yastrzhembsky
as saying.
The Russia Journal
N
ALCHIK — Chechen
refugees trying to settle in
Kabardino-Balkaria cannot get registered in the republic,
despite backing from the highest
court in the land.
Last month, the court, for the
third time in just over two years,
ruled that new regulations restricting the rights of immigrants were
illegal under Russian law.
In most cases the incomers are
Chechens taking refuge from the
conflict in their native republic.
They maintain that it is almost
impossible to get legal residence in
Kabardino-Balkaria, which lies to
the west of Chechnya.
Around 4,500 immigrants have
registered officially, while at least
12,000 are continuing to live illegally, and pay regular fines to the law
enforcement authorities.
Alamat Umalatov, head of a
family of seven, has just paid
another 50-ruble ($1.65) fine for
being unregistered. “I come from
Grozny and I will go back to
Chechnya as soon as there is a normal life there,” he told IWPR. “I’ve
lived in Kabarda with my family
two years now and tried more than
once to get formal residency — but
without any luck.”
When this journalist, seeking
some explanations for this situation, went down to Nalchik’s visa
and registration department,
OVIR, in the local interior ministry,
there were scenes of chaos in the
building. The corridors were full of
Chechens complaining that they
were being asked for a whole series
of documents, which it was almost
impossible for them to obtain.
Yet there is no legal reason why
they should be put through such an
ordeal. The old “propiska” compulsory registration system was
scrapped in Russia in 1997, and a
Russian citizen now only has to
inform the local authorities that he
CHECHEN refugees like those pictured in this file photo at a camp in Ingushetia sometimes find it hard to win acceptance
as Russian citizens. Those trying to make a new life in Kabardino-Balkaria say it is impossible to obtain registration.
intends to live at a certain address.
Clamping down
Officials at OVIR said that the
tougher registration laws came
from an act passed by the local parliament on Dec. 26 last year.
The new legislation does not
allow immigrants to register permanently.
It instead orders the local
authorities “to halt the registration of marriages if a person getting married is not permanently
registered on the territory of the
republic,” and also decrees that
a child born to parents living in
the area unofficially cannot be
registered either.
Magazali Endreyev, a local parliamentary deputy and former
deputy interior minister in the
republic said that the new measures were adopted under duress
as Kabardino-Balkaria could not
cope with the flood of migrants.
He told IWPR that they had ini-
tially received thousands of
Chechens, but now parliament was
getting dozens of letters complaining that immigrants were taking
local jobs and increasing the crime
rate.
Endreyev blamed Moscow for
the situation, saying it had not
anticipated that its so-called “antiterrorist campaign” in Chechnya
would cause a tide of refugees in
neighboring regions.
“Someone has to give these people accommodation, work, education and medicine. But they
simply abandoned them here. If
this issue had been resolved sensibly at a federal level we would
not be taking these extreme measures to defend the interests of
our voters.”
Laws overturned
He admits that the trouble
started when the parliamentary
acts were declared illegal on
March 13, when the republican
Supreme Court ruled that the
most recent law contradicted federal legislation.
This was not the first time
the court has struck down legislation that has been voted
through parliament. A previous
bill restricting immigration was
annulled in November 2000 and
another law restricting the right
to be registered was cancelled
in July last year.
The
parliamentarians
are
unapologetic. “We knew that this
act contradicts existing legislation
and we all unanimously voted to
adopt it, so as to stop, if only temporarily, the flood of immigrants,
especially those from the Chechen
Republic,” said Endreyev.
Kabardino-Balkaria is not alone
in defying the courts. For the past
eight years or so, ever since the
first Chechen campaign began in
1994, the city of Moscow and its
outlying region — as well as the
southern areas of Krasnodar and
Stavropol — have restricted registration rights for migrants. They
have continued to do this despite
the federal government’s strong
efforts to bring regional legislation
into line with its own.
The Kabardino-Balkarian parliament’s legal officer Aslan
Khamukov conceded in court that
the measures the assembly had
adopted “are not compulsory and
are of a recommendatory nature.”
But Said-Ali Abdulkhalimov,
Chechnya’s representative in the
republic, complained that the local
law enforcement agencies enforced
these “recommendations” very
strictly indeed. “My fellow countrymen, who have found a second
homeland here, are being forced to
prove that they are citizens of
Russia at every step,” he said.
“This situation is hardly going to
help stabilize our region, which has
enough problems as it is.”
(Kazbek Kushkov is the pseudonym
of a journalist based in Nalchik. This
article was published by the Institute
for War and Peace Reporting,
www.iwpr.net.)
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F
ew events in recent history brought the Russians so much false
pride and celebration as the dash to Pristina airport and its occupation in the aftermath of the Kosovo war.
Russian forces moved into the airport during the night without notifying anyone, a few hours ahead of the scheduled NATO deployment of
troops. This, after staunch opposition to the war that almost ruined
Russia-U.S. relations. It was a colorful stunt, but Russia gained little
from it besides alienating much of Western opinion. In fact, it could
have led to a Russia-U.S. shooting match.
For months thereafter, Russian generals were given medals, their
egos were stoked and endless rounds of self-congratulation were heard
in Moscow. Is something similar about to happen in Iraq — not just
involving Russia this time, but also certain NATO member countries?
A Russian Army embarrassed by its poverty in the face of the opulence, technical prowess and might of NATO — and especially the
United States — took enormous pride in the Pristina dash. TV commentators and newspaper columnists were so euphoric that one might
have thought it was the Russians that had won the Balkan conflict, in
which they failed to save their Slav brother Slobodan Milosevic from
then-U.S. President Bill Clinton’s assault. Milosevic is now in The Hague
undergoing a long trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Since then, the Russian Army has had to face the ignominy of an
embarrassing campaign in its own Chechen republic. Three years
after President Vladimir Putin sent troops into this breakaway territory, more than 50,000 people may have died, including some
5,000 servicemen. But that is not all — bomb blasts, ambushes and
skirmishes are daily occurrences. Chechen terrorists drove right
into the center of Moscow and took a theater full of people hostage.
Then, others managed to blow up the headquarters of the Chechen
government installed by Moscow in Grozny.
Now, after an impressive military campaign on the part of
the Americans and English, the Russians and French want to
get back into the game.
According to some sources, there are proposals to do “another
Pristina” on the Americans, this time in Baghdad — and on a much
larger scale, with many more players involved. And this could be the
true subject of the upcoming summit between U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan, Russia, Germany and France in St. Petersburg.
This time, Annan, himself feeling marginalized by the United States,
could offer the white-painted aircraft and infrastructure of his organization as the Trojan Horse to deliver Russian and French forces to
Baghdad and other key Iraqi cities.
If it works, without firing a shot, just as in Afghanistan, Russia would
achieve a considerable strategic victory. It would be a diplomatically
daring, rather underhanded but smart move to protect Russian interests
in postwar Iraq. If this course of action is decided upon, the French and
Germans are also likely to go along and sponsor its daring goals.
Naturally, just as the United States and Britain did when they named
their war “Iraqi Freedom,” Russians appreciate that such an operation
must be done under the cover of a humanitarian effort.
Even if the United Nations is marginalized in its role in Iraq,
it is unlikely that it will be excluded from distributing rations
to the Iraqi people. And what is there to stop Annan from
requesting security from Russia and France?
A move into Baghdad to provide humanitarian assistance would
bring even more public and international support to the troika of
Russia, France and Germany than their opposition to a UN Security
Council resolution legitimizing the war has already garnered.
Arab countries would also welcome the presence of countries
that had opposed the invasion.
We may be about to see a new, almost-unprecedented geopolitical
move. The war may almost be over, but the games are just beginning.
HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS — U.S. astronaut Edward Lu is assisted by a Russian
staffer (right) before training at a centrifuge at the Cosmonauts’ Training Center in
Star City outside Moscow on Tuesday. Lu and Russian cosmonaut Yury
Malenchenko will ride a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on April
26 for a six-month mission and replace the current crew.
The shoe’s on the other foot
Thoughts from our readers
A case of hypocrisy
To the editor,
I read with utter disappointment last week the U.S. State
Department’s report on global
observance of human rights.
Usually, it singles out countries
with notorious records of indiscriminate violations of human
rights and their low esteem for
human beings generally in their
respective countries.
Personally, I’ve always looked
forward to similar reports in the
past, which are mainly based on
U.S. civil-rights laws, hitherto
regarded as worthy benchmarks
on these issues as guidelines on
human-rights problems on the
global scene.
Then, such reports more or less
reflected the real human-rights
picture around the world, as
they usually pointed out countries whose tyrannical leaders
had committed many violations
in the period under review,
including murder, snuffing out
opposition, curbing civil liberties
and/or unleashing unnecessary
suffering on the very people they
have sworn an oath to serve.
This time around, I waited for
the release of the report with
a special interest to see how it
would reflect the sordid war
atrocities the U.S.-led forces
have unleashed in countries
where they are purportedly
fighting the disciples of the
“Axis of Evil” or the exporters
of al-Qaida-style terrorism.
However, the United States,
apart from the ongoing war
atrocities, has been applying
Mafia-style methods in obtaining
information from POWs from
Afghanistan in its base in Cuba
and reigning in hard-fought-for
civil liberties at home. Britain has
passed laws allowing for detaining suspected terrorists without
granting them access to relatives
or lawyers and revoking duly
earned U.K. citizenship from
immigrants if their activities are
deemed not loyal enough. Both
were left off the list.
There are two obvious observations to make on the latest report.
First off, it has given me the
impression that the rights of
Afghans tortured by Taliban
thugs for failing to observe their
twisted interpretation of the
Koran differed from those in
Cuba being tortured by the CIA
or other official structures
extracting information from
them.
Please don’t try to argue that
Taliban agents have been willingly divulging information in Cuba
to U.S. officials.
Second, for the past several
years, the State Department has
dedicated a substantial part of
such reports to the Russian
Army’s
atrocities
against
Chechen civilians. Looking at the
current report, I’d naively
expected to find a similar raft of
facts and figures on the atrocities
of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
On the relevant figure for
Iraq, I agree that the compilers of the report might not have
been able to calculate in the
ongoing atrocities there because
of the time factor.
But, going by the Afghanistan
case, I don’t have any illusions
that the State Department will
ever document the ongoing violations in the Persian Gulf — such
as naming the 12-year-old Iraqi
whose head was split in two in
the first days of the war.
As U.S. officials have said several times, the world has changed
since Sept. 11, 2001. And, so, also,
has the United States’ self-
appointed position as the global
monitor of human rights.
Presenting such reports under
the prevailing war-mongering
conditions — which show utter
disregard for civilians, diplomats
and journalists — is nothing
short of barefaced hypocrisy.
Amy C. K. Davids,
IT specialist,
Johannesburg,
South Africa
A dangerous town
To the editor,
I, a dark-skinned person, have
lived in Moscow for more than 10
years and have seen a continuous
decline in the way I am treated.
Even more so, threats of violence
have grown increasingly common — and more than once I
have come to blows.
When will people realize that
foreigners are not the cause of
their problems here?
And when will the police and
government start to care?
Name withheld
Moscow
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Post-war
Iraq trade
in debate
U.S. House rethinks Iraq contracts
Ban on Russian, French,
German firms likely to
be dropped from bill
By Laura Litvan
By James Kirkup
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
W
ASHINGTON — A provision barring French,
German, Russian and
Syrian companies from winning
U.S. contracts to rebuild Iraq is likely to be dropped from an $80 billion
bill to pay for war costs, a House
leader said.
Republican leaders are prepared
to drop a House amendment blacklisting four countries that opposed
the conflict if the White House
requests it, said House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay, the No. 2
Republican. A parallel Senate bill
lacks the provision.
“I think it was an important point
to make,” DeLay said in a meeting
with reporters. “But we need to
work with the president, who needs
to make those types of decisions,
and we shouldn’t be making them
for him.”
The administration has already
made clear its opposition to the provision through the U.S. State
Department. Deputy Secretary of
State Richard Armitage sent a letter to House Speaker Dennis
Hastert before last week’s vote,
urging lawmakers to reject it.
Secretary of State Colin Powell
later spoke out against it.
“We believe it would be better if
there were not such conditions
placed in the supplemental,” Powell
said April 4 at a news conference
with European Union foreign policy
chief Javier Solana.
The amendment was added April
3 on the House floor without a rollcall vote. House and Senate negotiators are working to complete a final
version of the legislation in time to
send it to President George W. Bush
by his April 11 deadline.
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L
ONDON — Iraq’s postwar government should
not trade with companies
that worked with Saddam
Hussein’s regime, U.K. Trade
Secretary Patricia Hewitt said
in comments aimed at France
and Russia.
“If I were an Iraqi minister
in the new Iraqi government,
I think I would personally take
a poor view of companies that
have been breaking United
Nations sanctions and supporting Saddam’s vile regime,’’
Hewitt
told
British
Broadcasting Corp. radio.
France’s Total Fina Elf SA
reached agreements with
Hussein’s government during
the 1990s to develop Iraq’s oil
reserves, the second largest
after those of Saudi Arabia.
Because of U.N. sanctions, those
agreements weren’t signed. The
only publicly traded European
oil company to have signed an
accord with Iraq is Russia’s
LUKoil.
Hewitt’s remarks may inflame
an international dispute about
which countries will share in
Iraq’s economic redevelopment
should the U.S.-led invasion of
the country succeed in toppling
Hussein. France and Russia have
opposed the war. Hewitt’s
remarks “are not acceptable,”
Francois
Rivasseau,
a
spokesman for the French
Foreign Ministry, said in Paris.
“We are forced to ask for explanations from the British authorities.” Bush’s plans mean U.S.
companies may be top beneficiaries of contracts to rebuild Iraq.
U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE Colin Powell and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov (right) in Brussels for talks
last week. Powell warned against a U.S. House amendment that would block Russia from contracts to rebuild Iraq.
George Nethercutt of Washington,
said the amendment is a message
that “should serve as fair warning
to those who would seek to profit
from the sacrifice of Americans.”
The amendment wouldn’t affect
U.S. subsidiaries of companies based
in the affected nations, a loophole
designed to protect U.S. jobs.
The French, German and Russian
foreign ministers, whose countries
have been the most vocal opponents
of the U.S.-led military effort, said
last week that reconstruction won’t
just be left to coalition forces.
French Foreign Minister Dominique
de Villepin said efforts to restrict
contracting “aren’t realistic.”
In his letter to Congress last
week, Armitage said the provi-
sion would undermine U.S. trade
ties with other nations. “It would
also jeopardize the type of support we are attempting to build
within the United Nations, support which aims to unite the
international community in a forward-looking effort to build a
better future for the people of
Iraq,” he wrote.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 10
MONEY | Russia report
Need to protect investors’ rights growing
Concrete legislation is
required to fully restore
the Russian economy
By Christopher Kenneth
The Russia Journal
The Russia Journal/Gleb Shchelkunov
W
GEORGY POLTAVCHENKO, presidential envoy to the Central Federal District, called protection of investors’ rights a
‘top priority task’ for his district’s administration. He spoke at a conference Tuesday.
rights in Russia, which will only be
possible if these mechanisms combine the efforts of the state with
free-market economic structures for
protecting the investors and the
rights,” read an excerpt from the
deliberations.
Titled “Guaranteeing Investors’
Rights: Problems and Mechanisms,”
the conference at the President Hotel
late Tuesday was attended by over 20
regional governors as well as representatives
of
the
Supreme
Arbitration Court, the Supreme
Data to be revealed
Reuters
T
he Russian government is
preparing to reveal data on
its stocks, output and sales of
platinum group metals and diamonds, business daily Vedomosti
reported on Wednesday.
Currently data on platinum metals (PGMs), which are widely used
in jewellery and in the automotive
and electronics industries, are considered a state secret.
The paper, quoting amendments
to the law on state secrets prepared
by the finance ministry, said data
on stocks of PGMs and diamonds
kept in the central bank and the
state precious metals and gems
repository Gokhran would remain
secret.
Vedomosti quoted an explanatory note to the amendment as saying
the market could already deduce
output and sales volumes of the
metals and stones, but an attempt
to further conceal official data
would destabilize the market.
“After 30 years of selling Russian
diamonds De Beers has quite a
clear view as to the average price of
Russian diamonds, their kinds and
quantity,” Vedomosti quoted the
document as saying.
Russia should stop being secretive about diamonds to join United
Nations efforts to crack down on
diamonds which support military
actions. Otherwise Russian diamond exports could be suspended,
the paper quoted the explanatory
note as saying.
The Finance Ministry declined to
comment.
In January, Finance Minister
Alexei Kudrin said before the end
of this year the government would
draw up a plan to liberalize the
PGM market aiming at gradually
lifting export restrictions.
All holders of PGMs in Russia,
with the exception of the world’s
largest
palladium
producer
Norilsk Nickel, can only export
via precious metals agency
Almazjuverlirexport
(Almaz)
under government-issued export
quotas.
Norilsk has a joint venture with
Almaz USA to sell all PGMs
abroad and has a 10-year palladium quota and a five-year quota
for exports of sister metals platinum and rhodium.
IMF payment ready
Prime-Tass
T
he Russian Finance
Ministry has reserved
$25.38
million
and
930,000 euros to be paid on its
debt to the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) on
Thursday, a finance ministry
official told Prime-Tass on
Wednesday.
The official said that the
payment would be made on
schedule.
The country’s current debt
to the fund stands at about $7
billion, including $1.9 billion
due this year.
Russia stopped borrowing
from the IMF in the summer
of 1999.
Russia’s total foreign debt
due this year stands at $17.3
billion.
Court and other law-enforcement
agencies. Delegates concluded there
is an urgent need to set out concrete
ways to protect investors’ rights and
investments.
“To adequately protect investors in
our district and Russia at large, there is
F A C T B O X
RAIFFEISEN ZENTRALBANK OSTERREICH AG (RZB)
Web site: www.raiffeisen.ru
Founded in 1862
OVERVIEW
• Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich AG (RZB) is
the central institution of the Austrian Raiffeisen
Banking Group, a universal banking group with
a comprehensive range of financial services
• One of the leading commercial and invest−
ment banks and a leading player in Central and
Eastern Europe
• Has 14 network banks and 2 representative
offices in 14 Central and Eastern European
countries, including Russia, Belarus and
Ukraine
• Has a branch in London and representative
offices in Brussels, Paris, Milan and Malta
• Has branches in Beijing and Singapore and
representative offices in Seoul, Hong Kong,
Bombay, Ho Chi Minh City and Tehran
www.BusinessFinder.ru
• Operates in Russia since 1996 as CJSC
Raiffeisen Bank Austria
• Member of the Association of Russian Banks
• Has 4 branches in Moscow and 1 in St.
Petersburg
• In February 2003 CJSC Raiffeisen Bank
Austria opened a line of credit worth $50 mln
for MTS
SHAREHOLDERS
Raiffeisen Zentrabank Osterreich — 99%
Raiffeisen International Beteiligungsgesellschaft
— 0.5%
Raiffeisen−Invest Gesellschaft — 0.5%
MANAGEMENT
Walter Rothensteiner — chairman of Raiffeisen
Zentralbank Osterreich AG
Michel Perien — chief of the Moscow Branch
Board
The largest Russian industry database online.
Raiffeisen Bank plans
to up Priorbank stake
Part of expansion in
former Soviet Union
By Todd Prince
Bloomberg
M
INSK — Raiffeisen
Zentralbank
Oesterreich AG, Austria’s
fourth-biggest bank, plans to raise
its stake in Priorbank, Belarus’
third-largest lender, as Raiffeisen
expands in the former Soviet
Union.
Raiffeisen, the No. 1 foreign
bank in neighboring Ukraine and
the second-largest foreign lender
in Russia, will make an offer for
the 50 percent it doesn’t own, said
Jeff Millikan, managing director
of
Raiffeisen
International
Beteiligungs AG, the holding
company controlling Raiffeisen’s
banking subsidiaries in Central
and Eastern Europe.
The Austrian lender bought a
50 percent stake in Priorbank in
January for 30.6 euros ($32.7), or
76 cents a share, becoming the
first foreign bank in the former
Soviet state. Raiffeisen will offer
76 cents for each of the remaining
shares.
“The Belarus market has been
ignored by Western banks and
this country will soon share a border with the EU,” said Millikan.
A presence in Belarus might
also help the bank win a mandate
to advise the government on its
plans to sell state assets, he said.
The European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development
owns a 13.5 percent in Priorbank
and may not sell its stake,
Millikan said.
The rest is owned by companies
and individuals.
Priorbank had 70 branches with
almost 400,000 clients as of
January.
It had 202 million euros in assets
as of June 30, 2002.
AP
ork to develop a more
effective legal framework
to protect investors’ rights
in Russia is underway following a
conference by business community
representatives and top government
functionaries in central Russia.
Vasily Kichedzhi, the deputy
presidential envoy to the Central
Federal District, said the forum
aimed to build a bridge between
the business community and
authorities, and work out a functioning mechanism to solving problems facing investors in the district.
According to conference deliberations and special reports, prepared in
collaboration with investment house
Aton and made available to The
Russia Journal on Wednesday, full
restoration and development of the
Russian economy will not be possible
without attracting and pooling
investors’ capital for the local market.
“And, this in turn, will not be
possible without setting up reliably
functioning mechanisms of protecting and guaranteeing these
investments and their owners’
a need to keep track of all cases of violation of investors’ rights as well as setting up a mechanism for effective coordination of government and investors’
efforts to remedy the situation.
“Other means include enacting
legislation to enshrine these requirements and making sure that all participants, including the investors and
the authorities, follow these requirements on the local market,” the
report said.
Georgy Poltavchenko, the presidential envoy to the Central Federal
District, said the protection of
investors’ rights is a top priority task
in his policy for the district, which
comprises 18 regions covering a territory several times the size of the
Netherlands and Belgium combined.
“One of the surest ways to guarantee investors’ rights is to try and draft
business-friendly legislation, and
ensure a willingness from the business community to play by the rules
of the game,” he noted. “And second,
we will try to work out a fair and civilized mechanism of resolving corporate conflicts in the business community to prevent ugly situations usually associated with such disputes.
“Unlike other countries with longer
histories of resolving corporate disputes, resolving corporate disputes
always has a negative undertone in
Russia, and one of the aims of this
conference is to change this negative
trend,” Poltavchenko said.
A LINEUP for a piracy exchange
program in Moscow.
Putin signs
law on
copyright
Prime-Tass
P
resident Vladimir Putin has
signed into law amendments to Clause 146 of the
Criminal Code providing for
tougher measures against intellectual piracy, the presidential press
service reported Wednesday.
Under the law, plagiarism, if it
caused considerable damage to an
author or another copyright holder, is punishable by a fine of 200 to
400 minimum wages or a fine equal
to two to four monthly salaries of
the lawbreaker. Currently, the
minimum wage is set at 450 rubles
a month.
Otherwise, a lawbreaker can be
sentenced to 180 to 240 hours of
compulsory labor or jailed for
three to six months. Similar punishment, different from the one
above only in the maximum duration of confinement, which in this
case can be up to two years, awaits
those who violate copyrights by
purchasing, keeping or transporting pirated copies of works in order
to sell them.
For persistent violations, confinement can reach up to five
years.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 11
MONEY | Russia report
Sual finds French partner Commodity price
index dropping
Sual, Pechiney to join
in building facility in
northern Komi region
A reversing of earlier
trends sends the price
index below its threemonth moving average
Reuters
F
Prime-Tass
AP
rench metals giant Pechiney
SA and Russia’s secondlargest aluminum producer,
Sual, plan to set up a joint venture to
build an aluminium facility in
Russia’s northern Komi region, Sual
said on Wednesday.
“Sual is expected to keep a controlling stake in the project, while
Aluminum Pechiney may buy a
35-40 percent stake,” a Sual statement said.
It said the two companies had
signed a cooperation agreement
for the Komi Aluminum project
in the Komi region. Sual controls
the Sredni Timan bauxite deposit
with proven reserves of 250 million metric tons.
The $2.1 billion project includes
building a refinery for alumina,
an intermediate product for aluminum smelting, with 1.4 million
metric tons of annual capacity,
and an aluminum smelter, with
an annual capacity of up to
500,000 metric tons. Sual said it
would begin building the facility
by the end of the year.
“The association of the Sual
group, Russia’s second-largest
primary aluminum producer, with
Pechiney’s experience and technologies in alumina and aluminum
production give us a real possi-
STEEL ROLLS are loaded on a platform for shipment at a St. Petersburg port.
bility of fruitful cooperation with
the Russian aluminum industry
in the future,” the statement
quoted Jean-Dominique Senard
of the Pechiney executive committee as saying.
Sual manages 21 subsidiary companies involved in the aluminum
business. It produced around two
million metric tons of alumina and
865,000 metric tons of primary aluminum last year.
This is Sual’s second venture with
a foreign partner this year. Sual
announced in January it planned to
form a new international mining
company, in partnership with
Fleming Family and Partners, a private group owned by the Scottish
Fleming banking dynasty. The company would include existing Sual
enterprises, as well as FF&P’s ferronickel project in Cuba and a tantalum project in Mozambique.
Armenian flights cut
Prime-Tass
R
ussia plans to prohibit
Armenian airlines from flying over Russian territory if
they do not immediately pay off all
their debts to Russia’s traffic controllers, the director of Russia’s Main
Air Traffic Control Center, Ernik
Teimurazov, told Itar-Tass Tuesday.
The debts of Armenia’s airlines
now exceed $2.5 million, he noted.
“We are undertaking expensive
upgrading of control equipment and
therefore we need funds,”
Teimurazov said, adding that the
center’s debts to Russia are increasing. “Russia understood well the
financial difficulties of its Armenian
colleagues and tried not to use ultimate measures. However, since
autumn 2002 the debts have risen
critically and Armenia is doing nothing to pay them off,” he said.
F A C T B O X
SUAL HOLDING
One of the top ten aluminum companies
in the world, the second largest in Russia
Web site: www.sual−holding.com
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Founded in 2000
OVERVIEW
• Annually extracts 4.4 million tons of
bauxites; produces 1.7 million tons of
alumina, over 50,000 tons of cryolite, over
45,000 tons of silicon and almost 675,000
tons of primary aluminum
• Makes over 90% of Russia’s bauxite,
over 55% of Russia’s alumina, 20% of
Russia’s primary aluminum production
• Russia’s largest producer of silicon
• 43% of products are sold on the open
market at the London Metal Exchange
www.BusinessFinder.ru
Access Industries (Eurasia) will
be the third partner in the venture,
contributing its coal mining assets in
Kazakhstan.
M
oscow Narodny Bank’s
(MNB)
commodity
price index for Russia
reversed its recent trend and
declined by almost 5 percent in
March to 98.9, falling below the
three-month moving average,
MNB reported Wednesday.
MNB’s Russian commodity
price index is a fixed-weight,
export-based
index
that
includes the price movements
of 22 commodities key to
Russian exports.
The weights signify each commodity’s average share of export
values from 1996-2001.
MNB said in its report that
despite a modest increase in the
forestry products index, the
remaining sub-indexes were all
down.
The largest losses occurred in
the energy index, with 5.8 percent, and in the precious metals
index, with 5.4 percent.
“While events in Iraq and the
subsequent impact on oil markets
continue to dominate, such losses
were also influenced by an easing
in supply-side concerns, notably
the rise in U.S. commercial stockpiles, Venezuelan production
approaching pre-strike levels and
a perceived settlement in ethnic
unrest in Nigeria,” MNB said.
Notwithstanding the likelihood
that ‘event’ risk will lead to further volatility in global commodity markets, at current levels the
overall index remains 8.3 percent
higher than levels recorded at
end-2002, MNB added.
The recent rally in the energy prices appears to have halted somewhat in March, with the
MNB energy sub-index falling
5.8 percent to 103.6, as declines
were registered across all components.
The metals and minerals index
fell 1.6 percent on the month
from last month’s two-year high
to 95.2 in March.
Gains in zinc, tin and fertilizer were offset by losses in the
aluminum, copper, lead and
nickel components.
The forestry products index
increased 1 percent on the
month, rising to a preliminary
98.9 in March from a revised
97.9 in February.
The
agriculture
index
declined marginally in March,
down 0.6 percent on the month
to 96.7. Falls in both wheat and
barley price components drove
the index down.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 12
MONEY | Russia report
Sterling cooperation rewarded
Moscow-based telecom
company recognized for
work in local partnership
F A C T B O X
STERLING GROUP
Web site: www.sterling.ru
Founded in 1992.
OVERVIEW
• The main activity — consulting and pro−
viding complex solutions and services in
IT and telecommunication; automation
and monitoring of production processes;
business−consulting and project manage−
ment
• Has 12 branches in Russia and the C.I.S.
• In 2002, Sterling Group was a Top 10
system integrator in Russia
• 7th among the 50 largest Russian con−
sulting companies according to the total
revenues from consulting services in 2002
• Over 1/3 of clients work in oil, gas and
energy industries
• Number of employees — 132
By Christopher Kenneth
The Russia Journal
Sterling
S
terling Group, a Moscowbased IT consulting company which provides IT programs, services and computersoftware products to large
Russian companies, has been
awarded the status of SAP Local
Alliance Partner, in reflection of
the high level of partnership
cooperation between the two
companies.
The status, awarded Tuesday,
is the fourth such recognition of
cooperation for telecom companies in C.I.S. and Baltic States that
are working with SAP AG, the
Germany-based global provider
of IT services and computer software products, the companies’
officials said.
Sterling Group, which focuses
on systems integration, is one of
the oldest and most reliable partners of SAP, said Alexei Shlykov,
general director of SAP operations in the C.I.S. and Baltic
States. “The group has been
actively and successfully working
with SAP’s Russian corporate
clients, especially in the oil and
gas sectors. And we know that we
can always find support from the
group for our new products and
MOSCOW IT company Sterling Group’s president, Sergei Tokmakov.
initiatives for companies on the
Russian market,” he added.
To receive the status, the aspiring company has to have a pool of
highly skilled and duly certified
experts with at least five-years of
experience working with SAP
software products. “It’s only a
large company with expertise on
enterprise-resource planning and
a substantial share of consulting
in the sector that can be awarded
this
status,”
said
Sergei
Tokmakov, Sterling Group’s
president.
The volume of consulting services provided to Russian clients
on the implication of SAP prod-
MANAGEMENT
Sergei Tokmakov — president
www.BusinessFinder.ru
ucts constituted a third of the
group’s operations undertaken in
2002. On the whole, the growth of
consulting services in the group’s
turnover was 60 percent over the
previous year’s figure, he noted.
The group’s gross turnover in
2001, excluding taxes, stood at
24.5 million rubles. That jumped
by about 26.5 percent to 31 million rubles in 2002. The company
has ambitious plans to increase
this figure by 30 percent in 2003.
Local companies that have
used the services of Sterling
Group include oil major Tatneft;
Motor Sich, a Ukraine-based
aviation engine manufacturer
and Aeroflot, the nation’s No. 1
airline.
“A major positive effect from
the installation of SAP products
is that it has enabled us to get
complete and fully reliable data
which are necessary to take managerial decisions in real-life
regime,” said Nikolai Yegorov,
Aeroflot’s deputy general director in charge of information technology. “Effective management
of administrative expenditures
enabled us to drastically reduce
management costs, which in turn,
helped to boost our profits in
2002,” he noted.
Federal War ups rail cargo volume
surplus at
$60.7 mln S
Prime-Tass
R
ussia’s preliminary federal budget surplus in
the first quarter totaled
0.1 percent of the country’s
expected gross domestic product,
the Finance Ministry reported.
The
preliminary
surplus
totaled 1.9 billion rubles ($60.7
million), the ministry said in a
statement e-mailed to news services. Revenue rose 0.2 percent to
580.2 billion rubles, or 20.9 percent of GDP. Spending was 578.2
billion rubles. The ministry did
not provide spending figures for
the year-ago period.
Most of the budget’s revenue
came from taxes, which totaled
391.5 billion rubles, the ministry
said. Custom fees accounted for
154.9 billion rubles.
Russia, the world’s secondbiggest oil exporter after Saudi
Arabia, is expected to run a budget surplus for the fourth consecutive year after oil prices rose to
decade highs in 2000.
Russia’s surplus before interest
payments, often called the primary surplus, totaled 85.2 billion
rubles, or 3.1 percent of GDP.
Russia’s preliminary budget
figures usually overstate spending because they record all
money allocated as expenditures.
The final surplus may be greater
because those figures only record
money actually spent.
T.
PETERSBURG
—
Container cargo shipments
via the Trans-Siberian
Railroad to and from Asia-Pacific
countries may increase 30-35 percent as a result of the war in Iraq,
Transportation Minister Sergei
Frank told reporters Tuesday.
Frank said the amount of container shipments via the railroad
has already started to rise and the
Transportation Ministry is now
developing a program to cope.
Frank said cargo shipments are
being redirected because shippers
find alternative routes safer.
The Russia Journal
Prime-Tass
Boris Lapidus, head of the
Railways Ministry’s economic
department, was quoted by Itar-
Shatura sees Q1 sales
increase 27 percent
Prime-Tass
Russia’s furniture market.
T
Diamond ruling
he sales of Moscow
Region-based furniture
maker Shatura increased
27 percent on the year in the first
quarter to $23.746 million, an
official with the company told
Prime-Tass Wednesday.
The official attributed the
increase in the company’s sales to
Shatura’s investment strategy.
In 2002, the company spent
more than $14 million on production development and on improving the quality of its products, the
official said.
Shatura, which was established in 1961, is estimated to
account for about 12 percent of
R
ussia’s Finance Ministry
ruled Wednesday on the
amount of commission that
Almazyuvelirexport, Russia’s
governmental trading agent and
the only body authorized to trade
in precious stones and metals
abroad, receives when exporting
cut and natural diamonds.
Under
the
ruling,
Almazyuvelirexport will receive
4 percent of the contract value of
cut diamond exports and 3 percent of the contract value of
uncut diamond exports.
Tass as saying Tuesday that the
Trans-Siberian Railroad could
make up to $1 billion a year on
cargo shipments from AsiaPacific countries. As a result of
the war in Iraq, container shipments on the Trans-Siberian
Railroad have already increased
“almost three times.”
Container cargo shipments via
the Trans-Siberian Railroad from
Asia-Pacific countries to Europe
increased 7 percent on the year in
2002 to 48,300 containers.
Sibneft
gains on
rumors
Reuters
S
hares in Russia’s fifthbiggest and fastest-growing
oil firm, Sibneft, extended
this week’s gains on Wednesday
on a fresh round of rumors that a
western major is poised to buy a
stake in the company.
Vedomosti reported a source
close to Sibneft shareholders said
the rumors circulating in the
market were not without foundation, which boosted Sibneft
shares 0.9 percent to percent to
$2.21. The stock has gained about
6 percent this week.
The report named Royal
Dutch/Shell, ExxonMobil Corp
and TotalFinaElf as potential
buyers of 25 to 51 percent of
Sibneft. None of the companies mentioned would comment
on the reports. Last year similar rumors circulated at least
three times.
“The rumors seem to be getting
ahead of themselves. We’d be surprised if anything concrete came
out of it soon,” said Michael Sito, a
salesman at Troika Dialog.
BP, the world’s third-largest
oil company, pledged a $6.75 billion investment in Russia in
February through a deal to buy
a 50-percent stake in Russia’s
third-largest oil firm TNK. The
move was the biggest foreign
investment in Russia of the postSoviet era.
Sito said the rumors, coming so
soon after the BP deal, were
bound to excite the market. “That
deal was a long time in the making and we don’t think anybody
else is positioned well enough yet
to do anything,” he said.
Martin Diggle, a director at
Brunswick UBS Warburg, said
the rumor had surfaced last week.
“The market is treating it with
a high degree of skepticism,” he
said.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 13
MONEY | Russia report
Russian stock market roundup
Global market roundup
RTS hits 3-week high
Asian stocks slide on SARS
Bloomberg
R
ussian oil stocks rose, led
by Surgutneftegaz, the
nation’s fourth-largest oil
producer, as a record number of
shares changed hands amid speculation the company was buying
its stock.
Investors sold Mosenergo, the
Moscow utility, after the cut-off
day to buy and register holdings
to elect board members.
Almost 90 million Surgut
shares changed hands, or about
six times the daily average over
the last three months, amid speculation management may be
buying the stock, traders said.
Surgut is not buying shares, said
Dmitry Zhdanovich, head of
investor relations.
“The very large buying in
Surgut certainly heated up interest in other oils,” said Vladimir
Tchkikvadze, a trader at NIKoil.
The Russian Trading System
Index rose 0.6 percent to 370.80,
its highest in more than three
weeks.
Surgutneftegaz,
Russia’s
fourth-largest oil producer,
advanced 0.9 cents, or 3 percent,
its largest gain in about four
weeks, to 30.6 cents.
Yukos, Russia’s second-largest
oil producer, rose 9 cents, or 0.9
percent, to $9.73.
LUKoil gained 15 cents, or 1
percent, to $14.80, more than a
three-week high.
Mosenergo fell 0.29 cents, or 5.6
percent, its sharpest fall in a
month, to 4.9 cents. As of today,
investors buying Mosenergo
through the RTS can no longer
qualify to vote at the upcoming
board election.
The monopoly supplier of heat
and electricity to Moscow has
gained 55 percent this year partly
as investors tried to boost stakes
to elect board members next
month.
Reuters,Bloomberg, The Associated Press
N
EW
YORK:
Stocks
dropped on Wednesday
as worries over the state
of the U.S. economy and corporate profits stopped an early rally
sparked by television images of
Iraqis celebrating the apparent
end of Saddam Hussein’s rule.
By late afternoon (10:30 p.m. in
Moscow), the Dow was down
52.31 points, or 0.63 percent, to
8,246.61. The Nasdaq was also
down, 15.93 points or 1.15 percent
to 1,367.01.
LONDON: U.K. stocks fell for a
second day amid concern an end to
the war in Iraq may not revive
economic growth. GUS, Britain’s
biggest catalog retailer, led the
decline.
The benchmark FTSE 100 Index
lost 7.4, or 0.2 percent, to 3861.4, for
a two-day decline of 1.9 percent.
The FTSE All-Share Index shed
0.2 percent to 1847.59.
The FTSE 100 surged 9 percent
in the five days ended Monday as
investors bet a quick resolution to
the war would restore business
and consumer spending. U.K.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Gordon Brown today cut his economic growth forecast for the second time in five months to
between 2 percent and 2.5 percent
this year.
Eight of Western Europe’s 17
benchmark
indexes
fell.
Germany’s DAX Index declined
0.7 percent, and France’s CAC 40
Index lost 0.2 percent.
HONG KONG: Most Asian
shares declined Wednesday, as
sluggish sentiment on Wall Street
hurt Tokyo prices and Hong Kong
investors remained spooked by the
outbreak of a deadly respiratory
disease.
Tokyo’s 225-issue Nikkei Stock
Average fell 73.80 points, or 0.91
percent, to close at 8,057.61.
Earnings warnings from several
U.S. companies raised concerns
about the profit outlook of
Japanese firms. Sony, Matsushita
Electric Industrial, copier manufacturer Ricoh and pharmaceuticals maker Takeda Chemical
Industries all closed down.
Hong Kong shares fell as
investors sold property stocks
amid fears that the outbreak of
severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, could spark further declines in residential prices
and commercial property rents.
The Hang Seng Index plunged
169.81 points, or 1.9 percent, to
8,636.85.
SEOUL: South Korean shares
were dragged lower by worries
about first-quarter corporate
results. The Korea Composite
Stock Price Index fell 17.85 points,
or 3 percent, to 569.47.
TAIPEI: Taiwan shares edged
down, led by losses in technology
issues, as investors focused on eco-
nomic worries. The Taiwan Stock
Exchange index shed 15.06 points,
or 0.33 percent, to 4,537.39.
SYDNEY: Australian shares
dipped on earnings worries and
uncertainty over the fate of Iraqi
president Saddam Hussein. The
All Ordinaries index fell 24.90
points, or 0.85 percent, to 2,915.70.
WELLINGTON: New Zealand
shares closed marginally higher,
with investors turning attention
away from the Iraq war to focus on
economic fundamentals. The
NZSE-50 index gained 2.48 points,
or 0.1 percent, to 1,974.53.
SINGAPORE: Shares sank,
with sentiment dampened by concerns over the spread of SARS and
its economic impact. The Straits
Times index closed at 1,292.85,
down 25.27 points, or 1.9 percent.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian
shares plummeted, with investors
concerned about SARS after
reports that Malaysia will stop
issuing entry visas to travelers
from China. The Composite Index
of 100 blue chips lost 5.67 points, or
0.9 percent, to 634.41.
MANILA: Philippine shares slid
as investors cashed in on recent
gains. The 30-company Philippine
Stock Exchange Index lost 12.11
points, or 1.1 percent, to 1,095.64.
BANGKOK: Thai shares edged
up slightly, boosted by speculative
buying. The Stock Exchange of
Thailand Index added 0.38 point,
or 0.1 percent, to close at 376.20.
Gazprom eyes Turkmen gas French deal signed
Bloomberg
G
azprom, the world’s top
natural gas producer, may
sign a 25-year contract to
buy gas from Turkmenistan as it
struggles to find $12 billion it must
spend in the next two years to
maintain output from depleted
Russian fields.
President Vladimir Putin will
meet
Turkmen
President
Saparmurat Niyazov and Gazprom
Chief Executive Alexei Miller to
talk about long-term gas purchases
by the company from 2004. The two
presidents also plan to sign an
agreement to cooperate on gas projects, Gazprom said in a statement
posted on its Web site.
Gazprom, which holds about a
fifth of the world’s gas reserves,
wants to extract more gas to keep
market share in Europe. Demand
for Russian gas from companies
such as Gaz de France and Ruhrgas
AG is expected to rise as economic
growth picks up and domestic supplies dwindle.
“If this contract is signed it would
give Gazprom a break for the development of new fields,” said Pavel
Kushnir, an analyst at United
Financial Group brokerage in
Moscow. “The question is the gas
price — whether it’s profitable for
Gazprom to market this gas in
Russia or Europe.” The company
last year reversed three years of
declining production, during which
its output shrank 7.5 percent.
Turkmenistan, which has the
second-largest gas reserves in the
former Soviet Union after Russia,
plans to export 38 billion cubic
meters this year, enough to meet
more than half of Italy’s gas needs.
“The agreement will change the
entire configuration of the gas market in the former Soviet Union and
maybe in Europe,” said Grigory
Kolodin, a spokesman at the
Turkmen embassy in Moscow.
“Turkmenistan can yield a lot of
gas, but it’s constrained by the
capacity of the pipeline.”
Gazprom is in talks with
Turkmenistan to build a $1.7 billion
pipeline to carry as much as 30 billion cubic meters of gas a year from
2006,
almost
doubling
Turkmenistan’s exports, Gazprom
Deputy Chief Executive Alexander
Ryazanov said in February.
Reuters
T
he world’s biggest natural
gas
company,
Russia’s Gazprom, said
on Wednesday it had signed a
deal to supply Gaz de France
with 8 billion cubic meters of
gas yearly until 2015.
“The agreement guarantees
the stability of gas supplies to
France and strengthens cooperation between our companies,” a
Gazprom statement quoted Gaz
de France President Pierre
Gadonneix as saying.
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— PAGE 18
IRA bombers jailed
L
ONDON — A judge sentenced five Irish Republican
Army dissidents Wednesday to
between 16 and 22 years in
prison for a series of bombings
in London and Birmingham.
Robert Hulme, 23, his brother
Aiden Hulme, 26, and Noel
Maguire, 34, were convicted
Tuesday of endangering life and
severely damaging property in
connection with the 2001 bomb
attacks, which police have
blamed on a group known as the
Real IRA.
Judge Richard Gibbs sentenced Maguire and McCormack to 22 years in prison and
gave each of the Hulmes 20
years. Hannan received a 16year sentence.
Afghans killed
B
AGRAM, Afghanistan —
Eleven Afghan civilians
were killed when an American
warplane pursuing enemy
attackers mistakenly bombed a
house near Afghanistan's eastern
border with Pakistan, the U.S.
military said Wednesday.
The civilians were killed
when the bomb landed on
the home on the outskirts of
Shkin, 220 km south of the
capital, said U.S. military
spokesman Lt. Col. Douglas
Lefforge, who called the
deaths a “tragic incident.”
The killings occurred after
unidentified assailants attacked
a checkpoint manned by soldiers allied to American forces
near the town, the military said
from its Bagram Air Base.
Before the attack, Lefforge
said the assailants had also
engaged Pakistani soldiers
across the border with automatic weapons fire.
— AP
N. Ireland plan set for release
Leaders prepare to unveil
new blueprint for peace
By Shawn Pogatchnik
The Associated Press
B
ELFAST — Britain and
Ireland prepared Wednesday to unveil a long-awaited blueprint for advancing the
Northern Ireland peace accord and
reviving a power-sharing government of Protestants and Catholics.
The British and Irish prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie
Ahern, were expected to publish
their plans Thursday, the fifth
anniversary of the Good Friday
pact. Both governments have been
working on them since October,
when Northern Ireland’s CatholicProtestant administration was shut
following allegations of Irish
Republican Army spying.
The Anglo-Irish document
would be designed, in part, to spur
the IRA to renounce violence and
resume disarming within weeks.
That, in turn, could pave the way
for power-sharing to be revived
before or after a May 29 legislative
election here.
U.S. President George W. Bush,
who met Blair and Ahern in
Northern Ireland earlier this week,
joined with them Tuesday in
appealing for bold peacemaking
moves from the IRA.
“None of this will work unless
there is a commitment from the
AP
Briefs
WORLD
LUIS FIGO and Raul
led Real Madrid to a
spectacular 3-1 win
over Manchester United
on Tuesday.
— PAGE 24
U.S. PRESIDENT George W. Bush (left) with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern near
Belfast on Tuesday. The leaders appealed for peace in Northern Ireland ahead of the release of a plan on Thursday.
IRA, and from paramilitaries in
general, to ensure we live in a
peaceful and democratic Northern
Ireland. There has to be a cessation
of paramilitary activity — real,
total and permanent,” Britain’s
governor for the province, Paul
Murphy,
told
lawmakers
Wednesday in London.
But Sinn Fein leader Gerry
Adams, whose IRA-linked party is
at the center of the political deadlock, said he wouldn’t accept any
new proposals that made his
party’s involvement in any future
administration conditional on IRA
good behavior.
The major Protestant party, the
Ulster Unionists, insists that
Thursday’s expected proposals
must include new powers that
would allow Sinn Fein to lose its
Cabinet seats if the IRA is linked to
any further activity at odds with its
1997 cease-fire. Britain and Ireland
planned to recommend something
along these lines.
“This party is not going to be
accountable for anything other
than ourselves,” insisted Adams,
whom historians identify as having
served as a senior IRA commander
for the past quarter-century.
U.S. to relocate South Korea garrison
Reuters
S
EOUL — The United States said
on Wednesday it would relocate
a sprawling garrison in central Seoul
as soon as possible as part of a
realignment of its 37,000-strong
troop contingent in South Korea.
Washington has kept troops stationed on the divided peninsula for
50 years to deter North Korea, but
many South Koreans — particularly those with no memories of the
U.S. role in the Korean War —
have come to resent their presence.
After an initial two-day meeting
of senior South Korean and U.S.
officials on how to alter the size and
location of the U.S. forces, a joint
statement said the two sides had
agreed to shift the Yongsan garrison in Seoul “as soon as possible.”
The statement said the aim was
“to resolve inconveniences to Seoul
citizens.” The United States would
“consolidate” the structure of its
bases, the statement said.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 16
WORLD
SARS outbreak hits Hong Kong retailers
By Elaine Kurtenbach
The Associated Press
H
ONG
KONG
—
Something’s missing in
this city, where haggling
in the markets is a favored pastime of locals and tourists alike:
the customers.
The spreading outbreak of
severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, is a nightmare for
retailers abandoned by shoppers,
and the downturn appears to be
dealing its hardest blows to small
Balkan
leaders
meet
By Katarina Kratovac
The Associated Press
B
ELGRADE,
SerbiaMontenegro — Leaders
from
southeastern
European nations gathered
Wednesday to discuss a range of
issues — from boosting Balkan
relations and tackling organized
crime to the war in Iraq.
At the regional summit,
heads of state and government
of Serbia and Montenegro,
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia,
Croatia, Greece, Macedonia,
Romania and Turkey were
exploring ways of improving
regional stability and economic cooperation.
The participants of the oneday meeting in Belgrade were
also to issue a joint statement
on the Iraq war. Most back
U.S.-led efforts to oust Saddam
Hussein but face public disapproval of the war.
In an opening speech,
Croatia’s President Stipe Mesic
said the “world today is an interdependent place” and that he
believed Balkan nations “support a strengthened United
Nations role” in postwar Iraq.
The summit took place as
Serbia was still reeling from the
March 12 assassination of Prime
Minister Zoran Djindjic, a
reformist leader who was instrumental in improving Serbia’s
postwar ties with its neighbors.
Djindjic’s slaying prompted
a nationwide crackdown on a
network of organized crime and
Serb paramilitaries from the
Balkan wars of the 1990s,
groups which Belgrade leaders
blame for the killing.
The summit was the sixth
annual meeting of the SouthEast European Cooperation
Process, a group founded to
promote political and economic ties in the region.
“This meeting is the best
acknowledgment of the democratic reforms our region has
accomplished so far,” President
Svetozar Marovic of Serbia and
Montenegro said.
storekeepers, who usually scrape
by on skimpy margins.
“A lot of them are probably
going to go bust,” said Angela
Moh, a retail analyst at investment bank Morgan Stanley.
Local supermarkets and drug
stores, dominated by big retail
chains, have more resources to
ride out the slump and may fare
better as families fearful of contracting SARS in restaurants buy
food for home cooking and stock
up on daily necessities.
As in the United States and elsewhere, big retailers — such as the
ParkNShop supermarkets and the
Watsons drug stores run by Hong
Kong’s richest man, tycoon Li Kashing — have replaced many
mom-and-pop shops. SARS may
speed up the trend.
“The smaller guys will be harder hit because they don’t have
the bargaining power of the big
boys. But the big ones also have
no escape,” said Phoebe Wong, a
retail analyst at Nomura
Securities in Hong Kong.
David O’Rear, chief economist
for the Hong Kong General
Chamber of Commerce, says he
believes the slump is so bad that no
one is profiting. “There is blood in
the streets,” O’Rear said.
One recent weekday afternoon,
sales clerks easily outnumbered
customers throughout the upscale
Pacific Place shopping mall.
Usually bustling downtown streets
and sidewalks were quiet. The
brightly lit furniture and interior
decor shops along Queens Road
East were virtually deserted.
“It’s terrible, the worst it’s ever
been. There just aren’t any customers,” said Jimmy Ng, manager of the Mandarin Woodware
furniture shop.
Ng wouldn’t provide sales figures, but he said he believed the
SARS fallout is much worse than
what he saw during the 1997-98
Asian financial crisis.
Seeking to entice customers
with one of the hottest-selling
items in the city, scores of shops
— shoe and cap sellers, stationery
stores, umbrella peddlers — displayed surgical masks.
Many Hong Kongers are wearing the masks in hopes of curbing
the disease that has killed 25 people
and sickened more than 900 in this
territory of 6.8 million.
The
Retail
Management
Association, which includes 500
companies with more than 5,000
retail outlets that employ twothirds of Hong Kong’s retail sector work force, said business has
been halved.
Retailers are asking landlords
to cut rents temporarily, but the
real estate companies — who
charge some of the highest prices
in the world — are being hurt
by SARS, too, and it’s unclear
if many would be willing to give
tenants any relief.
Abu Mazen delays forming Cabinet
By Hadeel Wahdan
The Associated Press
R
AMALLAH, West Bank —
Mahmoud Abbas, the
Palestinian prime ministerdesignate, has asked for a two-week
extension to form his long-awaited
government, Palestinian officials
said on Wednesday.
Abbas, better known as Abu
Mazen, was expected to name his
Cabinet by Thursday but said he
needed more time, said Saeb
Erekat, Palestinian Cabinet minister. A senior Palestinian official
who spoke on condition of
anonymity said the delay stemmed
from a dispute over Abbas’ choice
of interior minister.
German
Foreign
Minister
Joschka Fischer, meanwhile, met
with Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat on Wednesday, becoming
the first senior government minister to visit Arafat since the Israelis
destroyed most of his office compound last year.
Arafat said much of the meeting
with Fischer focused on the U.S.backed “road map” to Palestinian
statehood. Arafat also said he
expected a new Cabinet to be
named by Saturday, even though
Abbas asked for a two-week
extension.
“We had a long meeting and I
think it [the Cabinet] will be
appointed in a few days ... maybe it
will be Saturday,” Arafat said.
New government
The publication of the threephase “road map” to Palestinian
statehood depends on Abbas
assuming power and him creating a new government. Arafat
reluctantly appointed Abbas, his
longtime PLO deputy, giving in
to intense international and
domestic pressure to reform his
corruption-plagued regime.
The United States, the
European Union, the United
Nations and Russia — which
make up the so-called “Quartet”
of Mideast mediators — have
given Israel and the Palestinians
several drafts of the peace plan,
the last dated December 20, 2002.
They say they will formally present the plan, thereby setting it in
action, after the Palestinian parliament confirms the Abbas Cabinet.
“A real breakthrough in the
reform process is necessary,”
Fischer said Wednesday.
AP
Shoppers stay at home
as the virus spreads
PALESTINIAN LEADER Yasser Arafat talks to reporters outside his office after meeting German Foreign
Minister Joschka Fischer in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Wednesday.
Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rdeineh
said that Abbas asked Arafat for
the extension and Arafat agreed.
Although under the Palestinian
reforms passed a month ago Arafat
has no formal say in the composition of the Cabinet, Abbas appears
reluctant to trigger a confrontation
with him and officials said there is
a dispute over the appointment of
the interior minister, who commands the security forces.
Abbas favors former Gaza
strongman Mohammed Dahlan,
who is also backed by international mediators and is seen as
likely to reform the competing
and sometimes autonomous security branches and crack down on
militant groups.
Arafat wants to retain his longtime aide Hani al-Hassan, who
has served as interior minister
for months but has made no significant move to reform the security services.
Meanwhile, clashes between
Israeli troops and Palestinians
killed at least three people
Wednesday, including a 16-yearold boy, as thousands poured into
the streets to mourn seven killed
in a missile strike.
Israeli troops shot and killed a
21-year-old member of the Islamic
militant group Hamas, a 35-yearold policeman and a 16-year-old
boy, witnesses said Wednesday.
The army said it fired at the 21year-old who was near a rocket
launcher but was unaware of the
other two deaths.
Earlier on Wednesday, Hamas
militants fired a homemade rocket
at an Israeli town in retaliation for a
missile strike that killed a top
Hamas commander and six others.
There were no injuries in the rocket attack on the town of Sderot.
Missile strike
Thousands poured into the
streets on Wednesday for the
funerals of the six people killed in
the missile strike on Tuesday.
An Israeli F-16 warplane fired a
missile that slammed into a white
car, turning the vehicle into a pile
of flaming rubble. A second missile
exploded in the street, wounding at
least 50 bystanders, witnesses said.
The coffins of the dead were covered in green Hamas flags. Angry
mourners shouted “God is great,
revenge, revenge!” Some fired
guns in the air.
Israeli security sources said the
target of Tuesday’s airstrike was
Saed Arabeed, 38, a senior Hamas
commander responsible for a series
of deadly raids against Israelis over
the past decade. Two of the dead
were Hamas militants, Palestinians
said, while the other dead and
wounded were civilians.
An explosion in a West Bank
high school, meanwhile, injured at
least 29 students Wednesday,
Palestinian police said. At least four
of the students were seriously
wounded.
One of the students at the school
in Jaba, a village outside the West
Bank city of Jenin, was playing
with the explosive device before it
exploded, police said. The student
found it outside the school and
brought it to the classroom, said
Haider Ershade, Jenin’s mayor.
The Israeli army said there were
no forces in the area at the time but
troops have often patrolled the village searching for militants.
Palestinian police said the device
was Israeli-made, Ershade said.
MONTHLY MAGAZINE
March 2003
On the cover
74 Car insurance pitfalls
Russia now has mandatory auto insurance. But are insurers sufficiently up to speed?
By Ivan Vorontsov
12 Intellectual Capital
Consumer market
Putin may be Russia’s last chance, says Ajay Goyal.
22 Energy-sector reform: Looking backward
79 Russian brands hit Europe
and forward
Is the worry over the breakup of Russia’s electricity-grid monopoly really about politics?
28 Russian retail
Kalashnikov isn’t just a rifle any more. By Christopher Kenneth
Corporate governance
Hypermarkets and other retail outlets are slugging it out with the traditional kiosk.
By Christopher Kenneth
81 Corporate governance ethics
54 Russian science, Western money: A happy marriage?
Recent studies say businesses are starting to play by the rules of the game.
By Christopher Kenneth
Can foreign cash bring back the old Soviet scientific powerhouse? By Martin Ritchie
84 Big business to bring order to corporate governance?
6 Index
14 Quotes of the month
Russia’s tycoons say they want to bring order to the market.
By Svetlana Letova
Straight from the horse’s mouth.
15 Society and economy
Russia may be flush with money right now, says Otto Latsis, but this has yet to help the
poor.
18 Dances with the bears
The Kremlin is beating the oil oligarchs at their own game, says John Helmer.
86 Financial consultants could be shut out
of market
The Federal Securities Commission is taking aim at conflicts of interests in the consulting
world. By Olga Tofina
Real estate
20 In the corridors
88 All roads lead to retail
It’s do or die time for the Communists, argues Ekaterina Larina.
Moscow’s center is already crammed, but retailers say there’s much to be made farther
out.
By Irina Nemirova
26 Business in the Ring
The latest gloves-off deals on the Russian market.
90 Fragmented apartment market in Petersburg
Banking
34 Banking on Russia’s future
New legislation and the appearance of foreign banks may boost Russian’s low trust in the
sector. By Christopher Kenneth
Investments
The segment has its ups and downs.
By Fyodor Rubanov
93 Getting the goods on Moscow
The ins and outs of the city’s warehousing market. By Maxim Bukin
Hotels and restaurants
37 Climate revs up market
Russia’s newfound stability is boosting domestic investors’ confidence. By Christopher
Kenneth
38 Cyprus opens up Russian business secrets
Under pressure from the EU, the island is changing its policy on transparency.
94 More than just four walls
The inside of a hotel is just as important as the outside.
Report by Maxim Bukin
97 Moscow discovers the bean
Coffeehouse chains are discovering the Russian capital. Report by Maria Popova
Oil and gas
100 The hotel market discovers a gold mine
40 Supply versus demand
Moscow’s hotels are moving toward a new niche — conference tourism.
Report by Ignat Volanaitis
Russia wants to export more crude. But can it?
42 Is Russian oil a safe haven?
102–106 Ratings
The country’s booming oil giants are seeing interest — and money — come their way.
By Yevgeny Kalyukov
Life style
46 Caspian contradictions
107 Wealthy Russians living on the edge
The politics around Caspian oil are even murkier than its seabed.
It’s not just trips to Egypt and Cyprus anymore for the Russian elite. A whole new variety
of — controversial — pleasures are to be had.
By Christopher Kenneth
48 The impact of the BP-TNK deal
What does the groundbreaking merger mean for Russian business in general?
Profiles
52 Young Bear with billions
110 A cheesy experience
An evening out at Moscow’s cheese-themed restaurant, Syr.
By Sasha Kowalski
Andrei Klishas, the young CEO of industrial-financial giant
Interros, speaks with Christopher Kenneth.
77 Protek rules the pharma market
The lowdown on Russia’s leading pharmaceuticals-distribution company and what it thinks is wrong with the market.
By Alex Kwiatkowski
Metals
60 The 10-year saga of Russian steel
The industry suffered a heavy blow after the Soviet collapse,
but the story is different now.
By John Helmer
Mining and minerals
64 Gold miners are no fools
There has never been a better time for mining gold in the
Russian Federation. By John Helmer
Telecoms and IT
68 The great mobile leap forward
Moscow’s rich telecoms market is seeing conflict as rival
companies duke it out. By Maxim Bukin
Transport
71 Foreign cars hit the track
Automakers from abroad are eyeing the Russian market and
production. By Alex Kwiatkowski
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SHOW | Entertainment
IN ENGLISH:
Dome Theater
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS
MIND*
7 p.m., 9:15 p.m.
IN RUSSIAN:
Pushkinsky
ANALYZE THAT
11 a.m., 1 p.m., 5 p.m.
TAXI 3
3 p.m.
JOHNNY ENGLISH*
7 p.m., 11 p.m.
THE HUNTED
9 p.m.
America Cinema
35 MM
THE HOT CHICK*
6 p.m.
MAGDALENE SISTERS
8 p.m. (New British Film festival
2003)
THE HOURS*
10 p.m.
OASIS (IN KOREAN)
9 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m.,
4:30 p.m.
EURO PUDDING (IN FRENCH)
10 p.m., 12:15 a.m.
DARKNESS FALLS
1 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 8:45 p.m.
ANALYZE THAT
1:25 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 9:10 p.m.
Rolan
MDM-Kino
Khudozhestvenny
THE HOURS*
10 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 7 p.m.
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS
MIND*
10:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 3:30 p.m.,
6 p.m., 8:30 p.m.
BOAT TRIP
12:30 p.m., 5 p.m., 9:30 p.m.
Karo Film
THE HOT CHICK*
11 a.m., 2:50 p.m., 6:45 p.m.,
10:35 p.m.
BOAT TRIP
11:05 a.m., 3:20 p.m., 7:15 p.m.,
11 p.m.
THE HUNTED
11:10 a.m., 1:05 p.m., 3 p.m.,
4:55 p.m., 6:50 p.m., 8:50 p.m.,
10:50 p.m.
JOHNNY ENGLISH*
11:20 a.m., 1:20 p.m., 3:15 p.m.,
5:10 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:10 p.m.,
10:55 p.m.
BOAT TRIP
9 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 4:45 a.m.
THE RING
9 a.m., 3:30 p.m., 12:45 a.m.,
3:30 a.m.
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS
MIND*
9 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:45 p.m.,
4:45 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:15 p.m.,
11:30 p.m., 1:30 a.m., 3:30 a.m.,
4:30 a.m.
TAXI 3
9:15 a.m., 1 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m.,
4:30 a.m.
GANGS OF NEW YORK
9:15 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 7 p.m., 11
p.m., 12:30 a.m.
DAREDAVIL
11:15 a.m., 9:15 p.m., 2:15 a.m.
THE HOURS*
11:15 a.m., 3:45 p.m., 6 p.m.,
8:15 p.m., 10:30 p.m., 2:45 a.m.
CHICAGO
1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 10:15 p.m.
CHIC
5:45 p.m., 3 a.m.
SKY, AIRPLANE, GIRL
9 p.m.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO
TOWERS
11:45 p.m.
* reviewed below
THE HOURS*
Noon, 5:30 p.m., 10:45 p.m.
JOHNNY ENGLISH*
1 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m., 11:30 p.m.
GANGS OF NEW YORK
2:15 p.m., 7:45 p.m.
THE HOT CHICK*
7 p.m., 11 p.m.
Kinoplex na Leninskom
TREASURE PLANET
11 a.m., 3:20 p.m.
DAREDAVIL
11:10 a.m., 3:30 p.m., 8 p.m.
THE RING
11:30 a.m., 3:40 p.m., 7:50 p.m.,
11:50 p.m.
CHICAGO
1 p.m., 5:20 p.m., 7:40 p.m.,
10 p.m.
THE HOURS*
1:15 p.m., 5:35 p.m., 10:10 p.m.
GHOST SHIP
1:45 p.m., 6 p.m., 10 p.m.
Orbita
THE HOURS*
9 a.m., 1 p.m., 7:30 p.m.
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS
MIND*
11 a.m., 3:10 p.m., 9:40 p.m.
CHICAGO
5:20 p.m., 11:50 p.m.
Schedules are subject to change. Please call theater to confirm show times.
America Cinema:
Tel: 941−8747
Dome Theater:
Tel: 931−9873
Karo Film:
Tel: 937−2616
Khudozhestvenny:
Tel: 291−9625
Kinoplex:
Tel: 105−1130
MDM-Kino:
Tel: 245−8438
Orbita:
Tel: 115−6580
Pushkinsky:
Tel: 229−2111
Rolan:
Tel: 916−9412
35 mm:
Tel: 917−5492
Film: Capsule Reviews
THE HOT CHICK
The Players: Rob Schneider, Rachel McAdams,
Anna Faris, Andrew Keegan, Matthew Lawrence
The Play: One day,
Jessica (Rachel
McAdams), a perky,
pretty, popular cheer−
leader with a mean
streak, acquires a set
of Abyssinian earrings
with magical powers
of which she’s
unaware. She loses
one of them, and it’s
found by a 30−year−old criminal of low prospects
(Rob Schneider). Overnight, the earrings cause
the two characters to change bodies. So Jessica
wakes up in her own bedroom, but in Schneider’s
body. And Schneider, as the criminal, wakes up in
a young woman’s body. Most of the action
focuses on Jessica’s personality, which inhabits
Schneider’s body. Girlfriends find this turn of
events shocking and amusing, and the girl−in−
the−man’s−body keeps dropping her pants and
showing her new appendage to them.
THE HOURS
The Players: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore,
Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Miranda
Richardson
The Play: In 1929,
Virginia Woolf
(Kidman) is starting to
write her novel, 'Mrs.
Dalloway,' under the
care of doctors and
family. In 1951, Laura
Brown (Moore) is
planning for her hus−
band's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading
Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn (Streep)
is planning an award party for her friend, an
author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one
day, all three stories are interconnected with the
novel mentioned before, as one is writing it, one
is reading it, and one is living it.
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND
The Players: Sam Rockwell, George Clooney,
Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer
The Play:
ITelevision made
him famous, but his
biggest hits hap−
pened off screen.
"Confessions of a
Dangerous Mind" is
the story of a leg−
endary showman's
double life − televi−
sion producer by
day, CIA assassin
by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck
Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to
become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
JOHNNY ENGLISH
The Players: Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich,
Natalie Imbruglia, Ben Miller, Douglas McFerran
The Play: When the
British Secret Service
loses all its secret
agents in a bomb
attack at the funeral
of Agent One, the top
brass have only one
man to turn to save
the world: Johnny
English (Rowan
Atkinson), a low level
desk jockey inside
the service who has fantasized about being an
agent like One. The world needs saving because
there seems to be a maniac plotting something
sinister − which turns out to be a French billion−
aire maniac Pascal Sauvage (John Malkovich)
plotting to force the Queen's abdication so he can
take his rightful place as King of England, and
then turn the place into the world's biggest prison
(prisons are his business). It's up to Johnny and
a truly secret agent (Natalie Imbruglia) to unmask
Sauvage for the master crime he is, and save
England (and hence the world).
Beethoven manuscript
may fetch $4.6 million
By Jack Garland
The Associated Press
L
ONDON — Beethoven’s
final manuscript of the
Ninth Symphony, marked
with the composer’s revisions
and insults to the copyist who
produced it, could fetch up to
3 million pounds ($4.6 million)
at a sale in London next month,
an auctioneer said Tuesday.
“This is one of the greatest
works ever written by man, and
it isn’t likely there will be another complete Beethoven manuscript up for sale ever again; the
rest are lost or in libraries,” said
Stephen Roe, Sotheby’s head of
manuscripts.
The owner, described only as
a “private foundation,” is planning to set up a charitable fund
for musicians with the money,
Roe said.
The estimate for the May 22
sale may prove to be conservative.
A single sheet of Beethoven’s
early draft of the opening of the
Ninth Symphony sold last year
for 1.3 million pounds ($2 million),
eight times more than the estimated price.
That sheet was in the composer’s hand, but the Ninth
Symphony manuscript was made
by a copyist. However, almost
every one of the 575 pages has
notes and revisions scrawled by
Beethoven, Roe said in a telephone interview.
These range from minor
adjustments to the tempo and
rhythm of the symphony to
entirely new sections pasted over
previous work. These hidden
pieces of music have never been
published.
Beethoven was most vitriolic in
the final choral passage section of
the symphony, extolling freedom
AP
Today’s cinema highlights
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN pictured in an undated sketch. Beethoven was
born in Bonn on Dec. 17, 1770 and died in Vienna on March 26, 1827. The final
manuscript of his Ninth Symphony is to be auctioned in London in May.
but failed to solve the composer’s
financial problems.
Beethoven died three years
later at the age of 57.
The record for a music manuscript is 2.6 million pounds ($4
million) paid for a collection of
Mozart symphonies sold at
Sotheby’s in 1987, Roe said.
and the brotherhood of man. At
one point he scribbled, “du verfluchter Kerl!” (“you damned
fool!”).
The Ninth Symphony was first
performed in Vienna in 1824, by
which time Beethoven had been
deaf for at least eight years.
It was met with wild acclaim,
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20:55
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TCM
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19:45 Meet Me in Las Vegas. Musical, USA,
(1956)
20:15 The Last Musketeer
21:35 Edge of the City. Drama Movie, USA,
(1957)
Gleason
Somebody Up There Likes Me. Drama Movie,
USA, (1956)
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363−1004.
Park Kultury, 140 sq.m., elite building, western, exclusive design, heat floors, modern furniture, kitchen equipment, 3 bathrooms, PVC,
cosmos-TV, underground garage, guarded.
Chistiye Ponds, elite building, western, 2
phone lines, fully equipped kitchen, modern furniture, 2 bathrooms, Jacuzzi, shower cabin,
underground garage, video-intercom. INCOM
363−1004.
Paveletzkaya, Bolshaya Pionerskaya. Total
area: 90 sq.m, studio: 40, bedrooms: 20, 14,
cloakroom:10. European renovation, painted
walls, parquet floor, fully equipped, Jacuzzi,
IKEA furniture. Clean entrance, no elevator,
intercom, brick house, high ceilings. Rent:
$2,300 FLATLINK, 363−4435, www.flatlink.ru,
flatlink@mtu−net.ru
KRUTITSKAYA EMB.: 120 sq.m in a new elite
building with underground parking 5 min. drive
from Kremlin; fresh western renovation; new
furniture; all appliances; climate control system;
built-in vacuum cleaner; panoramic view.
$3499. G&G Realty: 995−9651, 254−2876.
Offered
Daev Lane.
Big LR. 2BRs. Totally furnished. All amenities.
HDWD flrs. Parking facilities. PENNY LANE,
232−0099.
M. Molodezhnaya, Kuntsevskaya ul, 10/17storey building,73 sqm, bathroom, toilet, 2
bedrooms, living-room, renovated, furniture,
kitchen equipment, garage on secured terrritory, $1600 a month, tel. 933-27-21/04,
Mayakovskaya Area.
160 sq.m. Brand new. Huge LR. 2BRs.
2.5Bas. Unfurnished. All equipment. Modern
bldg. 24 HR security. PENNY LANE, 232−
3 ROOMS
Pushkinskaya, Trekhprudny pereulok. 6th
floor of 8. Total area: 60, rooms: 25, 15,
kitchen: 9. Parquet floor and tiles in the kitchen.
Bedroom and living room sets, large built-in
closets; white built-in kitchen with balcony, the
living room has two big windows. Washing
machine in the bathroom. Modern spacious
apartment. Rent: $2,000FLATLINK, 363−4435,
www.flatlink.ru, flatlink@mtu−net.ru
Mayakovskaya, Sadovaya−Triumfalnaya,
10th floor of 17. Total area: 56,3, rooms: 16+8
loggia, 17 bedroom. Kitchen 8 sq.m., foreign
sanitary ware, washing machine, water heater,
bidet, shower cabin. European renovation,
laminated floor, wall paper, air-conditioner.
Clean entrance, intercom, concierge. Rent:
$1,500. FLATLINK, 363−4435,
www.flatlink.ru, flatlink@mtu−net.ru
Excellent location in a North−
Western suburb of Moscow,
24 km from Red Square
and 25 km from Sheremetievo
International Airport
Eight types of 3, 4 and
5−Bedroom Luxury
Townhouses,
ranging from 150 to
350 square meters
Fully Equipped Kitchen
Air−conditioning and Central
Heating System
Two Car Garage
Professional Security
24 hours a day
Rosinka Property Management
with a Service Team
24 hours a day
On−Site Convenience Store
Local and International
Telephone and Satellite TV
Day Care Facility, Pre−School
Outdoor Playground for
Children
Shuttle Bus Service
and School Bus to
Anglo−American School
On−Site Lake with a sandy
beach
13,000 square meters On−Site Sports Center includes
Real estate department
Tel.: 363−0450
www.incom-reality.ru E-mail: elirent_pk@incom-reality.ru
M. Barrikadnaya, Kudrinskaya pl (Stalin
building), 57 sqm, 4th floor of 8-storey brick
building, furnished, rooms: 18,15, bathroom,
toilet, kitchen -10 sqm, European standard,
furniture, garage, domofon, $ 1500 a month,
tel. 933−27−21/04, Crown−Galaxy, Angelika.
Full Size Swimming Pool
Indoor and Outdoor Tennis
Squash & Racquetball
Basketball &Volleyball
State−of−the−Art Fitness and
Bodybuilding Equipment
Aerobic and Shaping Classes
Professional Coaches
Bowling and Billiards
Sauna, Bar, Massage,
Haircut, Beautician
Dry Cleaning, Video Rental
Full Size Outdoor Soccer
Field
Ice skating rink in winter time
And Many Many More
Tel (095) 730 33 00 Fax (095) 730 32 32 E−mail: info@rosinka.ru www.rosinka.ru
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REAL Estate
DIRECTORY
CLASSIFIEDS
REAL ESTATE
0099.
Kotelnicheskaya Nab.
Very attractive location. 90 sq.m. Studio. Partly
furnished. Impeccable cond. Parking facilities.
Quiet yard. All-city view. $2,300 per month.
PENNY LANE, 232−0099.
Perfect location!
Southwest. Modern bldg. 120 sq.m. Perfect
layout. Spacious studio. Designed. All amenities. Walk-in closet. Heated flrs, Internet,
Satellite. Two deeded parking lots. Truly mint
cond. PENNY LANE 232−0099.
residential real estate
tel: 787-24-26
e-mail:contact@aventec.ru
www.aventec.ru
SHORT TERM
RENTAL
COMMISSION FREE OPTIONS
INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE ADVISERS
Commercial & Residential real estate activities
Tel: +7 095 937-6797
Fax: +7 095 292-4580
artrealty@inbox.ru
www.art-realty.ru
Green&Green Reality
Tel: 995−9651, Fax: 254−2876
moscowrealty@yahoo.com
http://www.moscowrealty.org
Tel: (095) 730 33 00 Fax: (095) 730 32 32
• E-Mail: info@rosinka.ru
• www.rosinka.ru
World Trade
Center Moscow
Tel: 253−1481
Fax: 253−2347
Kuntzevskaya, Pionerskaya, Zveni-gorodskaya Str., 8. Total area: 150, rooms: 22, 20,
45, kitchen: 15, two full bathrooms, marble
floor; new European renovation, PVC-windows,
painted walls, parquet floor, all appliances, furnished (one room is empty), 1-car parking in
the underground garage, fenced yard, video
watching, security. Rent: $6,000. FLATLINK,
363−4435, www.flatlink.ru, flatlink@mtu−
net.ru
OKHOTNY RYAD, charming apartments with
working fire place in ancient building updated
with the best 21st century technology, as soon
as you enter the gracious century lobby you’ll be
surrounded with rich wood and polished marble
and your trip into a past world begins; TSVET−
NOY BOULEVARD This full service luxury residence is located in the heart of Moscow with
outstanding view, large apartments (150m.) with
3 bedrooms, fully furnished and equipped,
guarded with professional armed security; 363−
08−48 INCOM
4 ROOMS
Offered
Kutuzovskaya, Kutuzovsky prospect, 4th
floor of 6. Total area: 100, studio: 20, dining
room: 20, bedrooms: 18, 16. Western renovation, fully furnished, Jacuzzi. Intercom,
concierge. Rent: $2,000(neg) FLATLINK, 363−
4435, www.flatlink.ru, flatlink@mtu−net.ru
• http://www.wtcmo.ru • E-mail: intof@wtc.msk.ru
M. Arbatskaya, Filippovsky lane, elite building,190 sqm, 3 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms, livingroom, study, maintainance service, security,
underground parking, $12000 a month, tel.
933-27-21/04, Crown−Galaxy, Oksana.
SERVICED APARTMENTS
M. Belorusskaya, Aleksandra Nevskogo st.,
139 sqm, 5th floor of 14-storey brick building,
furnished, rooms: 23,20,20,15,bathroom, toilet,
security, $ 4500 a month, tel. 933-27-21/04,
Crown−Galaxy, Lera.
Global Link-R
located in the center
daily, weekly, monthly rental
tel. 729-8493
e-mail: globallink-r@mail.ru
www.servicedapartments.ru
GlavUpDK
Main Administration for Service
to the Diplomatic Corps
(GlavUpDK)
(095) 245 8219/85 75/85 94
E-mail: arenda@updk.msk.ru
www.updk.ru
Tel.: 748-1111
Fax: 748-1112
6,500 staff operating
from 125 offices in 33 countries
www.dtz.com
E-mail: info@dtz.ru
You will enjoy professional management, secure environment,
respectable neighbors, numerous amenities, child−care center,
sport facilities and more…
Kitay Gorod, Taganskaya, skyscraper at
Kotelnicheskaya embankment, 115 sq.m. living
room: 30, bedrooms: 28, 29, kitchen: 8, new
classical Euro renovation, painted walls, oak
wooden floor, antique lamps, modern bathroom, French sanitary ware, hand-painted
stained glass, air-conditioners in every room,
16th floor, view of all Moscow, unfurnished /
can be furnished, expensive kitchen, Siemens
appliances, concierge, foreign landlord, rent:
$3,800,
FLATLINK, 363−4435, www.flatlink.ru
Poljanka, 100sq.m., western, studio, fully furnished, all built-in kitchen appliances, 2 WCs,
fire place, big terrace with barbecue, video
observation, concierge; Mayakovskaya,
Tverskaya, VIP-building, 160sq.m., western
renovation of exclusive design, furnished, 3
WCs, conditioning, Jacuzzi, security, underground garage, it is suggested for rent the first
time;
VILAR−INCOM, 363−04−50
Apartments, dachas and Offices for Rent & Sale
THE MOST IMPRESSIVE RESIDENTAL COMMUNITY
offers
WESTERN STYLE APARTMENTS
at
AFFORDABLE PRICES
Kropotkinskaya, Sivtsev Vrazhek. Total area:
83, 22 (studio), 18, 16, 14. European renovation, parquet floor, PVC-windows, painted
walls, heated floors, Jacuzzi, water-heater, all
appliances. Unfurnished. Entryphone, security,
parking. Rent: $3,200. FLATLINK, 363−4435,
www.flatlink.ru, flatlink@mtu−net.
BARRIKADNAYA: Klimashkina Str.; new
elite building; fenced yard; security; underground parking; gym; total area 200 sq.m; 2
bathrooms; large winter garden. G&G Realty:
995−9651, 254−2876.
F U R N I S H E D A PA R T M E N T S AVA I L A B L E
Management and Leasing:
Hines
113/1 LENINSKY PROSPECT, 117198, MOSCOW, RUSSIA
TEL.: (7 095) 956−5050 FAX.: (7 095) 956−5920
www.mbtg.ru/ppm
Kropotkinskaya, 200sq.m., VIP-building, one
apartment is on each floor, western renovation
of classical style, 2 WCs, unfurnished/furnished, security, closed yard, underground
garage;
VILAR−INCOM, 363−04−50
Metro Akademicheskaya, Profsoyuznaya
street, 4th floor of 6. Total area: 102, three
bedrooms (16, 16, 9), two bathrooms. All appliances. New super European renovation.
Modern kitchen-dining (exclusive design) 22
sq.m., fully equipped. Furnished. Intercom,
concierge, guarded parking. Rent: 5,500 Euros
FLATLINK 363−4435, www.flatlink.ru,
flatlink@mtu−net.ru
Oktyabrskaya: Spasonalivkovsky Lane; 86
sq.m; fresh renovation; un/furnished.
$1,300.G&G Realty: 995−9651, 254−2876.
SOKOL, this apartment is located in a guarded
full service residence, fully furnished and
equipped, 2 restrooms with Jacuzzi, air conditioning, and everything also to make your stay
in Moscow absolutely comfortable; TWO
COUNTRY COTTAGES, Rublevskoe and
Pyatnitskoe high ways, located in highly
secured cottage compound, near yacht club,
fully furnished and equipped, has everything for
your maximum comfort and security, like sauna,
swimming pool, billiard, working fire place,
cable TV, Moscow phone and separated
Internet line. 363−08−48 INCOM
Serebryany Bor
• Close to the Moscow River
• 160 sqm
• Split level
• 4 rooms/ 3 bedrooms
• 2 bathrooms
• Fully equipped kitchen
Intermark 502 9553, www.intermark.ru
Chistye Prudy, Mal. Kharitonievsky Lane.
Total area: 115 sq.m., rooms: 35 (studio),
19,19, 16, two bathrooms ( sauna, Jacuzzi,
shower cabin), heated floors, conditioners, furnished, Satellite TV, intercom, parking. Rent:
$4,000.FLATLINK, 363−4435, www.flatlink.ru,
flatlink@mtu−net.ru
Tverskaya Str.
Modern bldg. 180 sq.m. Spacious LR. 3Bas.
Unfurnished. Brand new. Western renovation.
Security. All amenities. Quiet yard. Top flr.
PENNY LANE, 232−0099.
Ostozhenka.
Pre-Rev bldg. 145 sq.m. Spacious LR. 2BRs +
den. 2Bas. Unfurnished. Privacy and security.
$6,000 per month. PENNY LANE, 232−0099.
KROPOTKINSKAYA: Molochny Lane; new
building with underground garage, 24-hour
security, sauna, gym; total area 160 sq.m; 2
bathrooms; expensive renovation; Spanish furniture. G&G Realty: 995−9651, 254−2876.
Chistye Prudy.
Pre-Rev bldg. 115 sq.m. 1,5Bas. Furnished.
Just renovated. All amenities. $3,800 per
month. PENNY LANE, 232−0099.
Mayakovskaya, western renovation, furnished,
all built-in kitchen appliances, 2WCs, conditioning, Jacuzzi, security; Chistieye Prudi,
120sq.m., western renovation, furnished, 2
WCs, Jacuzzi, security, concierge;
Barrikadnaya; Zoologicheskaya, 150sq.m.,
new renovation, kitchen furniture, all built-in
kitchen appliances, Jacuzzi; Chistieye Prudi,
120sq.m., western renovation, furnished, 2
WCs, Jacuzzi, security, concierge; VILAR−
INCOM, 363−04−50
5 ROOMS
Offered
Krasniye Vorota, Furmanniy Lane, 4th floor
of 6. Total area: 130, rooms: 27, 27, 20, 17,
built-in kitchen: 14, one full bathroom.
European renovation, PVC-windows, painted
walls, parquet floor, new doors. Partly furnished
(two rooms are empty), can be unfurnished.
Boiler, washing machine, dishwasher. Intercom,
fenced yard. Rent: $2,500 FLATLINK, 363−
4435, www.flatlink.ru, flatlink@mtu−net.ru
Tsvetnoy Blvrd: 1st Samotechny Lane; 160
sq.m; 24-hour security; open kitchen; 1.5 bathrooms; western; un/furnished. $3,299. G&G
Realty: 995−9651, 254−2876.
Chistiye Prudy, Mal. Kharitonievsky Lane.
Total area is 115 sq.m., 4 rooms: 35(studio),
19, 19, 16. European renovation, two bathrooms (sauna, jacuzzy, shower cabin), heated
floors, conditioners, furniture in all rooms,
Satellite TV, intercom, parking place. Rent: $
3,500. FLATLINK, 363−4435, www.flatlink.ru,
flatlink@mtu−net.ru
Romanov Lane.
170 sq.m. 2Bas. Exceptionally renovated.
Unfurnished. Hi ceils. Air-cond. 24HR tough
security. Top flr. PENNY LANE, 232−0099.
Sretensky Blvd.
Terrific location! Pre-Rev bldg. 370 sq.m.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 21
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Medical Services
CLASSIFIEDS
DIRECTORY
Adventist Health Center of Moscow
•American Dental services by Adventist Health Center
•Full spectrum of dental services
•Exclusive orthodontics by Dr. Garo’s team
Member of American Association of Orthodontists
•Reasonable prices
126-7554,126-7906
E-mail: advhlthl@online.ru
GLOBAL VOYAGER ASSISTANCE
OOO "Puteshestvie-Service"
Worldwide medical assistance:
medical evacuation and repatriation
24 hour service, 365 days a year.
Tel.: 7 (095) 775 09 99
Fax: 7 (095) 775 09 98
E−mail: info@gva.ru
Website:www.gva.ru
Italian Medical Center BENESSERE
Full range of medical services
Aids test, RW etc. (at home, at work place)
Italian family doctor & house calls
All forms of general dentistry, orthodontic,
oral surgery, cosmetic procedures etc.
We do not treat diseases we treat people!
28/1 Arbat, bldg.1
Tel.: (095) 234-90-26
Fax: (095) 232-94-24
E-mail: cmi@zmail.ru
www.italmed.ru
American Clinic
American Board Certified Physicians
24h emergency ambulance services & house calls
● 24 full range diagnostic procedures in-house
(MRI, CT-scan, X-ray, laboratory etc.)
● Insurance direct billing
●
●
31, Grokholsky Per.
Tel.: (095) 937 5757
www.klinik.ru
24 hours a day we are devoted to your health
Comprehensive Family health center including
gynecology, pediatrics, rehabilitation, surgery, ENT,
diagnostics, dentistry, Alarm Center and evacuations
Only Western medical and dental services in
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Yspenskoye Schosse, 600sq.m., 4 levels,
western, fully furnished, 3 WCs, Sauna,
Jacuzzi, billiard, barbecue; VILAR−INCOM,
363−04−50
INTRODUCTIONS
SEREBRYANY BOR: Wooden 4-bedroom
cottage in a secure compound. Total area 130
sq.m. Un/furnished. Satellite TV. Children’s
playground. $4,000. G&G Realty: 995−9651,
254−2876.
PERFECT MASSAGE
AND MORE…
795−56−40
KATERINA
No commissions! BAKOVKA, 5 km from
MKAD west: modern 3-bedroom cottage built
to high standards; nice plot of land; secure
neighborhood ; sauna; furnished. For rent or
sale. G&G Realty: 995−9651, 254−2876.
COOL BLACK GIRLS
8-916-393-07-37
Moscow Country Club, 10 minutes drive.
Country house on guarded territory for longterm rent. Total area: 240 sq.m., 3 bedrooms, 3
bathrooms, kitchen, dining room and study;
colonial design, furnished, collection of rare
paintings, fireplace, home movie theatre,
Satellite TV, Moscow digital telephone line;
guest house with sauna; land plot (lots of trees)
of 50 hundred parts developed in oriental style;
pond; 24-hour security. To see photos please
visit: www.flatlink.ru/home_ar.html Rent:
$11,000 per month including full maintenance,
FLATLINK, 363−4435, 139−6586
Tretyakovskaya, 70-200 sq.m., western renovation, separate entrance, $ 400/sq.m., 4 parking lots, included. 4 Rent 250−65−75
MISTRESS 999-39-59
BEAUTIES 765-77-18
BEAUTY NATASHA
507-30-93
M.Novoslobodskaya, walking distance, 1500
sq.m., in class À building, offices for lease,
24 hour security, rent: $500/sq.m/year +
VAT. FLATLINK, 363−4435, www.flatlink.ru,
flatlink@mtu−net.ru
SERVICED APARTMENTS
Offered
COMMISSION FREE, serviced apartments:
1 bedroom across the river from the
Kremlin from $50 per night, Tverskaya St.
from $60, Deluxe studio - Chistiye Prudy
from $70, two bedroom - Kropotkinskaya
from $90, two bedroom - Old Arbat:
$125, SHORT TERM DAYLY, WEEKLY,
MONTHLY RENTAL. For more information
please visit: www.flatlink.ru/kvart_short.html
or call FLATLINK: 363−4435,
flatlink@mtu−net.ru
Serviced apartments in center, daily,
weekly,
from $59 per night, AVENTEC,
787−24−26, www.aventec.ru
BUSINESS Lunch
Moscow center.
Travel & Tourism
COTTAGES
Offered
Tretyakovskaya, 200 sq.m., western fit-out,
separate entrance, $ 400/sq.m., 4 parking
lots included, 4 Rent, tel. 250−65−75
European Medical Center
Konushkovskaya ul., 34 (dental care)
Kuntsevskaya,
Veresaeva, 200sq.m., western, studio, fully
furnished, all kitchen appliances, 2 WCs,
Jacuzzi, fire-place, underground garage, security, VIP-building; Arbatskaya, 205sq.m.,
western, fully furnished, 2,5 WCs;
Dolgorykovskaya, 140sq.m., western, 2 telephone lines, partly furnished, all kitchen appliances, video observation;
VILAR−INCOM, 363−04−50
OFFICE RENTAL
Offered
Tel: (095) 933 7700
Fax: (095) 933 7701
Prospect Mira 26/6 (entrance from Grokholski per), 129090 Moscow, Russia e-mail: info@amcenters.com
www.amcenters.com
Spiridonievsky per, 5, bldg. 1
Okhotny Ryad, Kamergersky pereulok. Total
area: 160 sq.m., living rooms: (1st level) - 40
sq.m. with fireplace, (2nd level) -15 sq.m., living room 25, bedrooms: 20, 15, fully equipped
kitchen: 15. One full bathroom with Jacuzzi,
shower cabin and bidet. New European renovation, ceilings 4,6 m high, large windows,
exclusive antique furniture. Marble entrance
with pictures on the walls, concierge, video
waching. Rent: $6,500 FLATLINK, 363−4435,
www.flatlink.ru, flatlink@mtu−net.ru
Saint−Petersburg
Dubravy. Fabulous cottages. Flexible two-floor
layout. Furnished. Garage. Secure private
development. Commision free. Ecologically
clean. PENNY LANE (095) 232−0099, (812)
326−2626.
American Medical Centers
OOO"American
hospital group"
Exquisite design. 4BRs. Unfurnished. Equipped.
Hi ceils. 2 WBFPs.Western renovation. 2 tel.
lines. Security. PENNY LANE, 232−0099.
www.emcmos.ru
933-6655
933-0002
DIRECTORY
MEKHANA BANSKO
THE ONLY BULGARIAN RESTAURANT IN TOWN.
COLORFUL INTERIOR
open from 12 a.m. to 11 p.m.
9/1 Smolenskaya square
Metro: Smolenskaya
tel: 241-3132, 244-7387
Buisness lunch (12.00- 16.00) – 250 rubles
Buisness dessert – 50 rubles
ITALIAN
ORIGINAL CUISINE
IN THE BEST TRADITIONS
OF MODERN ITALY
open from 12 a.m. to 11 p.m.
13 Samotechnaya
Metro: Tsvetnoy Bulvar
tel: 288-5651, 288-6401
Buisness lunch (12.00- 16.00),
special menu from 90 till 250 rubles
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 22
SPORTS
Jordan
bids apt
farewell
to Cavs
ERNIE ELS
The Associated Press
Continued from Page 24
confidence to play his own
game going forward.
“I think if I hadn’t got
through that tournament, if I
hadn’t won that tournament, I
think I would have been a different player right now,” Els
said of his win at Muirfield.
“But that gave me the confidence and the little bit of the
boost that I needed to get to
where I want to get to with my
career, and we’ll see.”
Els has solidly built on that
win last July.
In 2003 alone he has won
four times worldwide, twice
on the European Tour and
twice on the PGA Tour.
He also has two runner-up
finishes and the only blemishes on his record this year have
been a first-round loss to New
Zealand’s Phil Tataurangi at
the WGC Accenture World
Match Play Championship and
a tie for 38th at the Bay Hill
Invitational.
Els’s finish at Bay Hill came
after an injury to his wrist.
Els was concerned that the
injury would get worse if he
kept playing in the same way
and he changed his game at
Bay Hill to accommodate it.
He still has pain, but doctors
have given him clearance to
play without fear of further
injury and he is eager to get
going again.
“When you see guys play, it
gets you ready,” Els said. “You
want to come out here and
play some good stuff again.
“So always if you don’t get
yourself up for Augusta, for
the Masters you probably
never will, so I’ll be ready.”
Els comes into the Masters
more prepared mentally than
ever before.
His new approach has been
aided by sports psychologist
Jos Vanstiphout, who has
stressed to Els not to worry
about Woods and worry more
about the course and his own
game.
And should Woods be there
on the back nine come
Sunday, then Els will adjust
accordingly.
Els has had success with the
approach, but has had difficulty at times maintaining the
focus for 72 holes.
“I have got to be more disciplined and maybe play the
percentages more,” Els said.
“And if you make five on 13,
it’s still not the end of the
world, you can still make it up
coming in. So let’s hope I am
disciplined enough to make
the right choices.”
“I think when it comes on
Sunday, hopefully I’ve got a
chance, first of all,” Els said.
LEVELAND — Michael
Jordan bid the Cleveland
Cavaliers a final, fitting
farewell on Tuesday night.
Jordan, who tormented the
Cavs perhaps more than any
other team during his career,
scored 26 points as the
Washington Wizards kept their
playoff hopes alive with a 10091 win.
Jerry Stackhouse added 18
points as the Wizards moved closer to idle Milwaukee for the
eighth and final playoff spot in
the Eastern Conference.
Zydrunas Ilgauskas had 23
points and Ricky Davis had 18
points, 11 assists and nine
rebounds for the Cavs, who
dropped to an NBA-worst 15-62.
76ers 91, Pistons 74: In
Philadelphia, Allen Iverson, playing despite left knee bursitis, had
37 points and eight assists to lead
the Philadelphia 76ers.
Kenny Thomas added 16 points
and 15 rebounds for Philadelphia,
which snapped a two-game losing
skid and moved within two
games of Atlantic Division-leading New Jersey, the No. 1 seed in
the Eastern Conference.
Clifford Robinson had 16 points
and Richard Hamilton added 14
for Detroit, which lost its fourth
straight game.
Heat 89, Raptors 83: In
Miami, Brian Grant scored 16
points and added 10 rebounds,
and the Miami Heat held the
Toronto Raptors scoreless for
the final 2:54.
The game was tied at 83 with
just under three minutes left, but
neither team scored again until
Anthony Carter’s driving layup
gave the Heat a two-point lead
with 33 seconds left.
Caron Butler scored 12 points,
and Rasual Butler added 11 for
the Heat, who won for only the
second time in their last 10 games.
The Raptors dropped their
third straight game.
Alvin Williams scored 16 points
for Toronto, which lost its third
straight game.
Knicks 99, Hawks 95: In New
York, Allan Houston scored 29
points as the New York Knicks
kept their slim playoff hopes alive.
The Knicks led by as many
as 16 points, but had to hold off
Atlanta’s late charge to stay in
the playoff hunt. New York must
win its next four games and
Milwaukee must lose its final
AP
Masters C
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS’ Ricky Davis (right) defends against Washington Wizards’ Michael Jordan (23) during the fourth quarter
of Washington’s 100-91 win Tuesday.
five for the Knicks to qualify.
Theo Ratliff grabbed 16
rebounds and blocked three shots
and Jason Terry scored 27 points
for the Hawks, including a pair of
free throws with 1:58 left that cut
the Knicks’ lead to 91-88.
Grizzlies 111, Clippers 108: In
Memphis, Tennessee, Pau Gasol
scored 25 points, including two
free throws with 11 seconds
remaining to lead Memphis over
the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Clippers’ Eric Piatkowski
got off the final shot of the game
in the final 2 seconds, but it
missed and the ball wedged
between the basket and the backboard with no time left.
Bulls 115, Pacers 103: In
Chicago, Jamal Crawford scored
14 of his career-high 33 points in
the last four minutes of the
fourth quarter as Chicago
stunned Indiana.
The victory cost the Pacers a
chance to pull within a half-game
of first-place Detroit in the
Central Division.
Jermaine O’Neal led the Pacers
with 38 points, tying his career
high, along with 13 rebounds.
It was only the Bulls’ third victory in their last 19 games against
Indiana.
Trail Blazers 81, Rockets 66: In
Houston, Damon Stoudamire
scored 21 points for Portland as
Houston tied a franchise low by
shooting just 29.5 percent in its
loss to Portland.
The point total was a seasonlow for Houston, which had an
awful shooting performance from
the field in the third quarter. The
Rockets were just 3-for-24 in the
period.
Suns 98, Nuggets 78: In
Denver, Shawn Marion had 27
points and 10 rebounds as
Phoenix beat Denver to increase
its lead in the race for the final
playoff spot in the Western
Conference.
Kings 107, SuperSonics 85: In
Sacramento, California, Chris
Webber had 20 points and seven
assists, and Peja Stojakovic
scored 18 points as Sacramento
stayed in the hunt for the
Western Conference’s top seed
with a win over Seattle.
Warriors 128, Jazz 102: In
Oakland, California, Gilbert
Arenas scored 34 points, making
a career-high six 3-pointers as
Golden State defeated Utah.
The Warriors are still 3 1/2
games behind the Phoenix Suns
for the eighth and final playoff
spot in the Western Conference
with four games to play. Phoenix
beat the Nuggets 98-78 in
Denver.
Antawn Jamison added 16
points and Troy Murphy had 13
points and 12 rebounds in an
impressive offensive night for
Golden State, which shot 52.5
percent and outworked Utah.
Lakers 108, Mavericks 99: In
Los Angeles, Shaquille O’Neal
and Kobe Bryant struggled to put
points on the board, but the
Lakers still managed to deal
Dallas its 25th consecutive loss in
Los Angeles.
Stalemate: No goals for Ajax or AC Milan
Continued from Page 24
early next month.
Milan
striker
Andriy
Shevchenko forced Ajax keeper
Bogdan Lobont into a fine save
with a fierce shot after just five
minutes in the clearest opening
created throughout the first half.
Milan were forced into mak-
ing a substitution after 26 minutes when former Ajax player
Clarence Seedorf, who was
injured in a tackle with Ajax
full back Hatem Trabelsi a few
minutes earlier, was replaced by
Serginho.
After Milan suffered that setback, Ajax gained the upper hand
for a while and a back pass from
Alessandro Costacurta put his
own goalkeeper Dida under pressure from the chasing Ajax forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Gennaro Gattuso picked up the
first yellow card of the match for
hauling down Ajax’s American midfielder John O’Brien which means
Gattuso will miss the second leg.
Milan dominated for much of
the second half but the midfield
failed to create much for forwards
Filippo Inzaghi and Shevchenko to
capitalize on.
When Ajax did come forward
veteran Milan defender Paolo
Maldini and his fellow defenders — especially Alessandro
Nesta — thwarted them at every
opportunity.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Thursday, April 10, 2003. PAGE 23
SPORTS
G
EORGETOWN, Guyana —
West Indies opening batsman Chris Gayle was unhappy at
his non-selection Tuesday for the
first cricket Test against
Australia starting Thursday.
The Test starts in Georgetown
and Gayle released a statement
saying he was “disappointed” he
would not be playing.
Gayle was omitted after he
opted to play in a lucrative twoman international cricket tournament in St. Lucia last weekend,
instead of representing Jamaica
in a regional final against
Barbados.
Gayle said he believed his decision was supported by West
Indies Cricket Board rules, and
that he had “obtained the necessary permission ... and had the
blessing of my teammates.”
Gayle and former captain Carl
Hooper reached the Double
Wicket semifinals.
In his last West Indies appearance, Gayle scored 100 against
Kenya at the World Cup last
month. The hard-hitting righthander also played all 14 Tests for
the West Indies last year, scoring
916 runs at an average of 41.63.
World Cup shakeup
L
ONDON — Rugby’s showcase event could be in for a
major shakeup.
The International Rugby Board
chooses the host of the 2007
World Cup on Thursday. Only
France and England seek the
rights, and their bids have been
inflamed by traditional crosschannel tensions.
France prefers the status quo
— 20 teams divided into four
pools. The top two in each group
would qualify for the quarterfinals in a 48-match tournament.
England has gone for a radical
change. It wants the leading 16
nations to contest the World Cup,
and an eight-team pool to replace
the knockout quarterfinal stage.
At the same time, 20 emerging
countries would compete for a socalled Nations Cup. That would
mean 88 games in 45 days.
“It is very elitist,” French
Rugby
president
Bernard
Lapasset said of England’s bid.
“We are not fighting England as
such, but their
philosophy. And
GLOBAL what if we go
R O U N D U P down this big,
two-tournament
route with 36 countries in total?
Who can ever expect to be able to
host an event of this size again?”
—AP
Hungry for success
D
HAKA — South Africa are
eager to make amends for
their failure at the World Cup
at home and are looking to a triangular series in Bangladesh to
show their worth, new captain
Graeme
Smith
said
on
Wednesday.
“The guys are hungry for success and are looking forward to
showing their guts and potential.”
Smith told reporters.
South Africa will play their
first match on April 13 against
India, who face Bangladesh in
the tournament’s opening game
on Friday.
The 22-year-old left-handed
batsman replaced Shaun Pollock
after the World Cup debacle
when hosts South Africa were
knocked out in the first round and
said the team needed a fresh start.
— Reuters
AP
W. Indies drop Gayle
AUSTRALIAN CAPTAIN Steve Waugh bats during a team practice at the Bourda Cricket Ground in Georgetown, Guyana. The
Test series against the West Indies begins at Bourda Cricket Ground Thursday. The West Indies have dropped batsman Chris
Gayle from their order after he chose to play in the Double Wicket tournament rather than representing Jamaica at the weekend.
Soccer: Man Utd slip up to on-form Madrid
Continued from Page 24
close range after Iker Casillas had
palmed away a Ryan Giggs effort.
The
Dutchman’s
11th
Champions League goal of the
campaign, a record for an individual season, gave United a lifeline to take back to Old Trafford
in two weeks’ time.
Their task will not be made any
easier, though, by yellow cards
for Gary Neville and Paul Scholes,
who will both now be suspended
for the return.
Alex Ferguson’s side scarcely
deserve to still be in the tie after
what was a shambolic display.
History suggests that whoever
emerges triumphant from the tie
will go on to win the final at
Manchester United’s Old Trafford
in May.
The two sides have had three
previous meetings in Europe’s
premier club competition and
each time the winner has gone on
to lift the trophy — Real Madrid
in 1956-57, United in 1967-68 and
Real again in 1999-2000.
Neither side had the look of
champions early on, though, as
passes regularly went astray in
what was a nervous opening at a
simmering Bernabeu, packed to
its 75,000 capacity.
United did create a couple of
chances, Paul Scholes forcing a low
save from Iker Casillas with a snap
shot and Ruud van Nistelrooy
going just over with an overhead
kick, but the opening goal robbed
them of every sap of confidence.
There seemed to be little danger
when Figo collected a short pass
from Zinedine Zidane on the left in
the 12th minute and shuffled a
couple of steps infield.
The Portuguese midfielder
spotted that Fabien Barthez was
slightly out of position, however,
and sent in a wickedly curling
shot that crept in at the far corner past the Frenchman’s outstretched hand.
Real should have been awarded a penalty when Wes Brown
bundled over Ronaldo in the area
on 19 minutes but the home side
did not have to wait too much
longer for the second.
Zidane was again the provider,
slipping a pass through to Raul
on the edge of the area. The
Spanish international forward
fooled Rio Ferdinand with a backward feint and turned to drill a
shot in at the near post.
United had one good chance to
reduce the arrears when Van
Nistelrooy was set clear for a run
on goal, but his shot flashed just
wide.
Ferguson’s side might have been
in even worse trouble had Swedish
referee Anders Frisk decided that
Barthez deserved a red card for
clearly handling outside the box.
United were indeed in a deeper
mess soon after the restart.
Figo, advancing menacingly
down the right once again, cut the
ball back for Raul to fire a shot
through a crowd of defenders and
make it 3-0 to Real with his 43rd
Champions League goal.
United were staring at a humiliating defeat but to their credit
they tore forward and were
rewarded within three minutes
when Van Nistelrooy headed in
after Giggs had taken a Neville
cross and forced a save from
Casillas.
Real had several chances to
restore their three-goal lead but
Roberto Carlos, Raul and Figo all
fired wide from good positions as
huge gaps appeared in the United
defense.
For all their efforts at the other
end, United could not get another
goal back and had to be content
with the glimmer of hope left to
them by Van Nistelrooy’s goal.
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SPORTS
MICHAEL JORDAN
put an end to the
Cleveland Cavs’
15-62 season
Tuesday.
— PAGE 22
THE WEST INDIES
have dropped batsman
Chris Gayle ahead of
their Test match against
Australia on Thursday.
— PAGE 23
Man Utd slips up against Real
Reds lose 3-1, giving
Madrid strong chance
of semi-final berth
By Kevin Fylan
Reuters
Stalemate
for Ajax,
AC Milan
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A
M STERDAM — Ajax
Amsterdam and AC
Milan have battled to a
goalless stalemate in the first
leg of their Champions League
quarterfinal to
CHAMPIONS leave the
L E A G U E Italians
favorites
to reach the last four of the
competition.
Despite some high quality
passing and goal chances for
both teams, neither side could
find the net but Milan will be
the happier with the home leg
to come on April 23.
The winners of this tie will
play either Inter Milan or
Valencia in the semi-finals
See STALEMATE, Page 22
See SOCCER, Page 23
AP
AJAX’S Zlatan battles for the
ball on Tuesday.
MANCHESTER UNITED'S David Beckham sits on the pitch during his team’s Champions League match against Real Madrid on Tuesday.
Els planning to
ignore Woods
By Alex Miceli
Reuters
A
UGUSTA, Georgia —
World number two Ernie
Els says he plans to attack
the course and not Tiger Woods
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Els is playing in his 10th
Masters starting on Thursday
and has finished in the top 10 for
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Aside from Woods, of all active
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South African Els has won more
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AP
AP
M
ADRID — Luis Figo
curled in a spectacular
opener and Raul struck
two virtuoso goals to help Real
Madrid to a 3-1 win over
Manchester United in a sparkling
Champions League quarter-final
first leg at the Bernabeu.
Real, who
the
CHAMPIONS won
European
L E A G U E Cup for a
record ninth
time in Glasgow last season, outclassed their opponents on a night
United will quickly want to forget.
The
Spaniards,
superior
throughout, will be strong
favorites to book a semi-final place
against Juventus or Barcelona, but
they may yet have cause to regret
a 52nd minute reply from Ruud
van Nistelrooy.
Van Nistelrooy, United’s sole
attacking threat, headed in from
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