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K
ARABULAK — Warweary Chechens went
to polling stations in
their battered cities and in
sprawling refugee camps
Sunday to vote in a constitutional referendum that the
Kremlin portrays as a step
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Six hours after the voting
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SGT. JEFF SEABAUGH of Colorado, from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, patrols the Iraqi Naval base in Az
Zubayar, in the southern Iraqi desert, on Sunday.
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Baghdad could begin in as little
as 36 hours: “That will be a tough
fight... Baghdad is the only one
Bodies litter plain
By Luke Baker
Reuters
N
EAR NAJAF, Iraq —
Burned-out vehicles and
incinerated bodies littered a plain in central Iraq on
Sunday after U.S. forces overwhelmed Iraqi militia fighters
in a battle south of the holy
city of Najaf.
DONALD RUMSFELD
AP
AP
N
EAR NASSIRIYA, Iraq —
Iraqi troops and paramilitary fighters loyal to
President Saddam Hussein held up
a U.S. advance toward Baghdad on
Sunday, inflicting casualties and
taking American prisoners on the
fourth day of war.
Pockets of resistance in southern
Iraq continued to pin down U.S.
and British manpower as Western
planes returned regularly to bomb
the capital in their efforts to overthrow Saddam.
A guerrilla counterattack by a
militia group known as Saddam's
Fedayeen stopped a major thrust
north toward Baghdad by U.S.
Marines, who took
casualWAR significant
ties in heavy
IN IRAQ
fighting as they
tried to cross
bridges over the Euphrates river at
Nassiriya, Reuters correspondent
Sean Maguire said.
“They've been fighting all day.
They're using guerrilla tactics,” a
U.S. officer told Maguire outside
Nassariya.
Iraqi television showed film of
what seemed to be four dead
Americans and interviews with
five U.S. prisoners taken near
Nassiriya. Other accounts spoke of
at least 10 American dead.
A U.S. general said no more than
10 soldiers were missing.
The Americans and their British
allies have overwhelming firepower, as shown by the weekend blitz
on Baghdad, but Iraqi guerrilla
tactics seemed to be designed to
slow their advance.
Yet in briefings, U.S. and British
spokesmen oozed confidence, saying the campaign was going faster
than planned.
One British defense source even
told Reuters the battle for
U.S. armored infantry and tanks
took control of the plain in the early
hours of Sunday after a battle of
more than seven hours against
Iraqi forces who were armed with
machineguns mounted on the back
of Japanese pick-up trucks. Najaf
lies 160 km south of Baghdad.
On the main road running across
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WORLD
Islamic opposition to war staunch
Fallout of U.S.-led attacks
on Iraq speading across
Arab world
The Associated Press
A
MMAN, Jordan — As bombs
pound Baghdad, Arab leaders from Egypt to the Gulf
suffer collateral damage: seething
reaction from radical youths and
even moderate elders who bitterly
oppose the war.
The angry mood crystalized over
images from Basra. On Sunday, the
Amman daily ad-Dustour splashed
a close-up color picture from alJazeera TV of a sweet-faced boy
with half his head blown away.
Muslim zealots demand holy war
and fresh terrorism, as well as a break
in diplomatic relations with the
United States and a boycott of
American and British products.
Thousands of people chanting,
“Death to America,” have spilled into
streets across the region, fired by sermons from radical imams.
In Saudi Arabia, where conservative rulers monitor the mosques, some
Muslim clergymen used the Internet
to call for violent reprisals against the
United States and its allies.
Among the moderate mainstream,
many who see Saddam Hussein as an
iniquitous tyrant who should step
aside say an unprovoked invasion by a
foreign power will create far more
problems than it will solve.
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• MADRID, Spain — Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo visits.
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• THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Verdict expected for Croat military leaders
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visit. Through March 26.
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• HELSINKI, Finland — Finland’s newly elected parliament convenes for
first time since elections.
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1947 Congress proposes two−term limitation on the Presidency
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1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
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IRAQ’S LEADERSHIP
appeared to remain intact
Sunday after targeted
bombing by U.S. and British
forces.
—PAGE 5
Reuters
A
S SAYLIYA CAMP,
Qatar — The invasion of
Iraq was prompted by
Baghdad’s refusal to give up
alleged weapons of mass
destruction, but four days into
the war U.S.-led forces have
found none and nor have their
enemies deployed any.
Some analysts say Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein has
chosen not to use chemical or
biological weapons for fear of
massive reprisals, or perhaps
because he is waiting until
Baghdad and other key strategic points come under attack.
Certainly, the United States
has minced few words in warning Saddam of the consequences, with hints of nuclear
retaliation. Saddam says he has
no banned weapons.
“Someone asked me not too
long ago ‘What happens if this
regime uses weapons of mass
destruction?’,” said forces commander
General
Tommy
Franks. “And my response was
— we win.”
Washington and London say
their forces have so far not
found any evidence of chemical
or biological weapons and none
of the missiles fired by Iraq
have been banned Scuds.
Israel, which was hit by 39
conventional Iraqi Scuds during
the 1991 Gulf War, has prepared a multi-billion-dollar missile-killer system for more lethal
warheads this time around.
But so far it has not been targeted, and as U.S.-led forces
close in on Baghdad the chances
of a strike will narrow.
WORLD
U.S. forces mass in north Iraq
Soldiers fly in as strikes
are launched against
militant Islamic group
By Borzou Daragahi
The Associated Press
S
ULAYMANIYAH, Iraq —
American planes landed in
the Kurdish-controlled north
of Iraq and launched additional
airstrikes against a militant Islamic
group with alleged al-Qaida and
Baghdad ties — signs that the
United States’ northern front
against the Iraqi government
appears to be picking up steam.
A high-level Kurdish official,
speaking on condition of
anonymity, said four American
planes carrying “scores” of
American military personnel
landed at the Bakrajo airstrip, 16
km west of Sulaymaniyah, late
Saturday night. Military officials
said the additional United States
aerial attacks, begun Friday
night, were launched against suspected positions of Ansar al Islam
Saturday night.
Scores of troops
A high-level Kurdish official,
speaking on condition of
anonymity, said four American
planes carrying “scores” of
American personnel — mostly
special operations — landed at
the Bakrajo airstrip late
Saturday night. Military officials said the additional United
States aerial attacks, begun
Friday night, were launched
against suspected positions of
Ansar al Islam Saturday night.
There were no details about
casualties.
The previous night’s assault
left scores dead, mostly members of another Islamist group
accused of supporting Ansar,
according to military officials.
AP
No sign
of illegal
weapons
PRESIDENT Vladimir
Putin says that instability
from the war in Iraq
could spill over into the
C.I.S.
— PAGE 6
KURDISH FIGHTERS from the special forces of the Zawita division march at the Atrush military base about 30 km
east of Dohuk in northern Iraq on Sunday.
The high-level political official
more American planes and personnel were scheduled to arrive
in coming days and added that
planes may have also landed at
other airstrips in the Kurdish
autonomous
area,
under
American and British aerial protection since the 1991 Gulf War.
The official said the American
planes were originally scheduled
to land two months ago, but were
tied up as Americans attempted
to sort out a military strategy.
Ansar as well as the Baghdadcontrolled cities of Kirkuk and
Mosul are possible targets for the
American military personnel,
said the official.
The Arabic-language TV station Al Jazeera, reporting from
Sulaymaniyah, quoted witnesses
as saying that U.S. airborne
troops landed by helicopter at a
base near the city.
Aimed at Turkey
The station also quoted
Kurdish sources as saying the
number of troops is too small for
opening a northern front, and
that the airlift is intended to reassure Turkey, which fought a
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WORLD
Iraq: First U.S. prisoners
Bodies
Continued from Page 1
the plain, burned-out Iraqi vehicles were still smoldering on
Sunday afternoon, and charred
ribs were the only recognizable
part of three melted bodies in a
destroyed car lying in the roadside
dust.
“It wasn't even a fair fight. I
don't know why they don't just
surrender,” said Col. Mark
A CHECHEN woman cries as she holds a photo of her missing son in
Grozny on Saturday, ahead of Sunday’s vote.
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to Baghdad so we can teach this
evil administration, and those who
work with it, a lesson,” said Vice
President Taha Yassin Ramadan.
Elsewhere, the westward arm
of what may be a developing U.S.
pincer movement on Baghdad
halted outside the holy city of
Najaf after heavy fighting
overnight. U.S. officers said a division of Saddam's elite Republican
Guard was barring the road to
Baghdad.
The main southern city of Basra
remained unsafe for foreign
troops, U.S. officers told Reuters
correspondent Matthew Green.
“There are hundreds of Baath
party militia active around
Basra,” one said, referring to
Saddam's ruling party. “They
have AK-47s and RPGs [rocketpropelled grenades] and there's a
constant threat of ambush. It
redraws the laws of war.”
Baghdad suffered a fourth day
of bombardment, with some of
the biggest blasts to date, as
planes pounded a single target in
the west.
“The earth shook under our feet
and buildings shook. A huge, huge
cloud of white smoke billowed
hundreds of feet into the sky,”
Reuters correspondent Nadim
Ladki said. Iraq set oil-filled
trenches ablaze around the capital
in an apparent bid to create a
smokescreen, but it is likely to be
little defense against satelliteguided weapons. Several homes
AP
Continued from Page 1
AN IRAQI SOLDIER fires his automatic rifle during a search operation
along the banks of the Tigris river in Baghdad on Sunday.
have been razed in bombing of the
smoke-choked city.
Washington said some U.S. soldiers and an aircraft were
believed missing, after Baghdad
said it had downed five planes and
two helicopters and would show
prisoners on television.
Iraqi television showed video on
Sunday of at least four bodies,
said to be U.S. soldiers, and five
prisoners who said they were
Americans taken in a battle near
the southern city of Nassiriya.
The video showed two rooms
each containing what appeared to
be two separate groups of four
bodies in military uniform. Two of
the prisoners, including a woman,
appeared to be wounded. One was
lying on the floor on a rug.
They were the first U.S. prisoners known to have been taken by
Iraq since U.S.-led forces invaded
Thursday to overthrow President
Saddam Hussein. The prisoners
gave their names and home towns
and one provided his military
identification number.
Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld said the video was a violation of the Geneva Convention.
Hildenbrand, commander of the
937th Engineer Group.
“When you're playing soccer at
home, 3-2 is a fair score, but here
it's more like 119-0,” he said,
adding that the Iraqi sport utility
vehicles (SUVs) stood no chance
against tanks.
“You can't put an SUV with a
machine gun up against an M1
tank — it's heinous for the SUV,”
Hildenbrand said.
The fighting began late on
Saturday as forces from the
U.S. 3rd Infantry Division
pushed on with their swift
drive north toward Baghdad.
Iraqi bodies shot as they lay in
sniper positions by the side of the
road suggested the militiamen
were hoping to ambush U.S. forces
moving across the plain, a strategic
area on the west bank of the
Euphrates river.
Forward U.S. reconnaissance
units took some initial fire from the
militia before armored infantry,
tanks, artillery and combined air
support were called in.
“The tanks took out all the militia
vehicles and then infantry cleared
the area slowly and steadily on
foot,” said Lieutenant-Colonel
Bernie Lindstrom of the 937th,
who was in the area during the
fighting. “The booms and bangs
began at about 9.00 p.m. and the
area wasn't totally secured until
about four or five o'clock this
morning. It was hectic for a while.”
Hildenbrand said Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein was trying to use
the militia as a guerrilla-type force.
But the militiamen appeared hopelessly ill-prepared to deal with the
sheer firepower that the U.S. military can throw at them.
Dead soldiers shown to reporters
were not wearing any standard
uniform and had only open-toed
sandals on their feet. Helmets lying
near their bodies were made of
plastic, not Kevlar.
The only common item appeared
to be a black beret with an eagle
and standard badge at the front.
A desert hideout Hildenbrand
said had been used by a militiaman
in recent days showed the hardship many ordinary Iraqi soldiers
face. The soldier had only a filthy
blanket to protect him from the
cold desert nights, and for food he
had only a plastic bag full of raw
meat.
Chechnya: Referendum
Continued from Page 1
540,000 eligible voters had cast
their ballots — the level needed for
the referendum to be valid. By 4
p.m., turnout was over 65 percent,
election officials said.
Among the voters were more
than 90 percent of about 28,000
Russian soldiers who are permanently stationed in Chechnya and
were eligible to vote, Itar-Tass
reported, citing a deputy commander of federal forces, Col. Sergei
Yakushev. Other officials have said
38,000 servicemen were eligible.
Although some troops pulled out
in a well-publicized withdrawal
shortly before the referendum,
Russia maintains a massive military presence in Chechnya and
rebels mount attacks almost daily.
Six polling stations were attacked
overnight, and six Russian servicemen were killed and 12 wounded
over the previous 24 hours, a
Chechen administration official
said on condition of anonymity
Sunday.
Two polling booths have were
set up in the neighboring republic
of Ingushetia, where tens of thousands of Chechen refugees live, too
fearful to return home.
At the camp in Karabulak,
Chechen music blared from loudspeakers in an attempt to create a
festive atmosphere. But many of
the refugees regarded the process
bleakly.
‘Stop the war’
“It's like feasting during the
plague. Music is on ... they should
have stopped the war instead,”
said 40-year-old refugee Marika
Akhmadova, who said she would
not vote.
Some who cast ballots said they
did so as much to keep their spirits
up as out of any belief that the referendum will help restore order.
“It's impossible to live without
hope; that's why I came here. If
they take away my hope, there will
be noting but death for me,” said
refugee Roza Alkhazurova.
The plebiscite asked voters to
approve a constitution that
cements Chechnya's status as part
of the Russian Federation and legislation setting the stage for future
presidential and parliamentary
elections.
The Kremlin and the Moscowappointed Chechen administration
campaigned tirelessly, portraying
the constitution as a key step
toward bringing life back to normal in the region.
“I consider today's event very
important in the life of the republic
... the people are expressing their
political will,” voter Lechi
Magomedov, who came to a polling
station in the Chechen capital
Grozny neatly attired in a necktie,
said on state-controlled Channel 1
television.
President Vladimir Putin made a
personal appeal in a broadcast
shown on Chechen television, and
in the run-up to the vote, the government pulled out a small contingent of troops and suggested an
amnesty for some fighters might
be possible.
Key questions
But many key questions remain
unresolved in the package the
Chechens are being offered,
including how much autonomy
Chechnya will be given or even
when elections will be held.
Critics have argued that a new
constitution alone cannot end the
war and cannot take the place of
negotiations with rebel leader
Aslan Maskhadov, who has portrayed the vote as a last stand by a
frustrated Russian government.
Human rights groups have also
questioned the legitimacy of any
vote held in conditions of war. In
the past week, polling stations —
most housed in Chechen schools —
have come under regular arson,
grenade and gunfire attacks.
Balian Hrair, the leader of a factfinding team the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in
Europe sent to Chechnya, said both
“the organization and conduct of
the referendum were not without
shortcomings,” Interfax reported.
Security concerns kept some key
observer organizations away.
Security was heavy Sunday.
Troops and police with assault
rifles guarded Grozny polling
places, and Interior Ministry troops
ringed the Karabulak refugee
camp.
Russian troops fought an unsuccessful 1994-96 war against the
rebels. Afterward, Chechnya was
functionally independent and
plunged into lawlessness. Troops
returned in 1999 after rebels raided a neighboring Russian region
and after a deadly series of apartment house bombings in Russian
cities.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Monday, March 24, 2003. PAGE 5
WORLD
Iraq says leadership is intact
Attacks on Baghdad
appear to have
missed top leaders
Reuters
B
AP
AGHDAD — U.S.-led
forces have fired missiles
at palaces, residences and
offices of President Saddam
Hussein and other Iraqi leaders,
but the government says all of
them are safe.
Following is a list of the most
recent appearances of Iraqi leaders:
PAUL MORAN
Journalists
fall victim
to conflict
Qusay Hussein
Special to The Russia Journal
B
ERLIN — Reporters
covering the war in Iraq
are trained in everything from dodging live fire to
escaping a minefield but the
death of a cameraman has driven home the ultimate risk of
reporting the conflict in a fierce
competition for news.
Despite reporters being better trained and equipped than
in almost any other conflict, the
Pentagon issued a stiff warning
to news organizations after
Australian cameraman Paul
Moran was killed, two other
journalists were injured and
three went missing.
Moran, a 39-year-old freelancer working for the
Australian Broadcasting Corp.,
was making his way with other
journalists across Iraq, rather
than traveling with coalition
forces, fueling a debate about
the risks of independent reporting in a war seen by some editors as the most dangerous since
Vietnam.
From Australia’s ABC news
to Brazil’s TV Globo, hundreds
of reporters have descended on
Iraq and surrounding countries
to cover the battle, scouring the
desert and cities for news.
“Competition among the
media is greater than ever in
this conflict,” said Severine
Cazes, head of the Middle East
desk at Paris-based watchdog
Reporters without Borders.
Aware of the competition and
safety issues, and criticized for
restricting access in previous
conflicts, U.S. and British military have “embedded” hundreds of reporters with their
units to follow the conflict from
the front line. But hundreds
more journalists are roaming
Iraq on their own.
The
cameraman
from
Australia’s ABC television news
who was killed and his colleague
who was injured appeared to
have been specifically targeted
as journalists in a car bombing
in northern Iraq, Reporters
without Borders said.
Meanwhile, British TV company ITN said two members of
one of its television crews were
missing and one had been killed.
AP
Reuters
The powerful younger son of
Saddam appeared in the same
footage as
his father
on Saturday evening.
A building housing
offices for
Qusay,
commander
of
QUSAY HUSSEIN
Baghdad
military zone and supervisor of
the elite Republican Guards, in
one of Saddam’s palace compounds in Baghdad received
AN IRAQI man cries as he grips his son early Sunday in Baghdad. The family’s house in the city’s Al-Khadraa
district was hit in airstrikes that have apparently failed to kill top members of the Iraqi leadership.
direct hits during a barrage of
cruise missiles on Thursday night.
It was not clear if Qusay was
inside the building but offices of
top officials are believed to have
been vacated during night time.
Uday Hussein
Saddam’s eldest son appeared on
television last week, attending an
official meeting chaired by his
father.
Uday, commander
of
the
Fidayeen
Saddam
paramilitary militia, issued a
written
statement
UDAY HUSSEIN
on Thursday urging Iraqis to defend their
country and Saddam to the death.
Special to The Russia Journal
By Merissa Marr
Saddam was shown on Iraqi
state television on Sunday presiding over a meeting of half a dozen
senior military officials.
He
smiled and
appeared
relaxed. It
did not say
where or
when the
meeting
SADDAM HUSSEIN took place.
S t a t e
television showed Saddam on
Saturday night holding two separate meetings, one with his powerful younger son Qusay, Deputy
Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and
Vice President Taha Yassin
Ramadan and another with Qusay
and Defense Minister General
Sultan Hashim Ahmed.
A TV announcer said the meetings took place on Saturday, but
there was no clear proof from
the TV clip.
Saddam also appeared twice
on television on Thursday.
Around four hours after the first
strike at dawn on Thursday, he
appeared in a taped address to
the nation saying President Bush
had “committed the crime he
has been threatening to commit.” Iraq said later the initial
strike targeted Saddam’s family residence where his first wife
and three daughters live.
Some 14 hours after the first
strike, Saddam appeared on the
station again, chairing a meeting of his top aides.
All the footage has shown
Saddam in military fatigues inside
a modest windowless room that
appeared to be an underground
bunker. The Iraqi leader usually
appears on television inside lavish,
marble-floored rooms of his presidential palaces.
AP
Saddam Hussein
Other Leaders
• Deputy Chairman of the ruling Revolutionary Command
Council Izzat Ibrahim, commander of the northern military zone,
last appeared at a meeting on
Tuesday night, sitting on
Saddam’s right.
• Vice President Taha Yassin
Ramadan made his first public
appearance since the start of the
war at a news conference in
Baghdad on Sunday. He was also
at meetings chaired by Saddam
and shown on Thursday and
Saturday night.
• Deputy Prime Minister Tariq
Aziz was also shown on television on Thursday and Saturday.
Aziz had appeared at a news
conference on Wednesday night
to deny rumors he had defected to Kurdish-ruled areas or was
shot dead trying to do so.
“We in the leadership were
born in Iraq and we will die in
Iraq, either as martyrs ... or naturally,” he said.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Monday, March 24, 2003. PAGE 6
MDM GROUP and a
pool of local investors
bought a 6.13 percent
stake in UES ahead of
reforms in the utility.
— PAGE 7
RUSSIA
FIGHTING has
intensified between
loyalist and rebel forces
in Liberia, causing a
new refugee crisis.
— PAGE 11
Putin raises fears over war
R
ussian Foreign Minister
Igor Ivanov emphasized
Moscow’s opposition to the
U.S.-led war against Iraq in
telephone
conversations
Sunday with his Chinese and
Indian counterparts.
Ivanov and Chinese Foreign
Minister Li Zhaoxing stressed
that Russia and China “decisively call for an immediate
halt to the military actions
against Iraq, which were initiated bypassing the U.N.
Security Council and have no
legal basis,” the Foreign
Ministry said in a statement.
It said the war has already
caused many civilian casualties, created a refugee problem and led to destruction in
Iraq.
Baghdad owes Moscow at
least US$7 billion in Soviet-era
debt and has awarded lucrative oil contracts to Russian oil
companies, and Russia fears
that its economic interests in
Iraq will suffer in the wake of
a U.S.-led war. Many analysts
had predicted Russia would
take a less confrontational
stance toward U.S. war plans,
in part because of concerns
about losing influence in postwar Iraq.
Turkey reprimanded
T
urkey’s ambassador to
Russia was summoned to
the Foreign Ministry on
Saturday in response to
reports that 1,000 Turkish
commandos had crossed into
northern Iraq.
The Turkish military denied
the reports, and the denial was
underlined
by
Turkish
Ambassador
Kurtulus
Taskent, Russia’s Foreign
Ministry said in a statement.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry
said it conveyed to the Turkish
ambassador “the importance
of ensuring the sovereignty
and territorial integrity of
Iraq, and the necessity to
abstain for any step not sanctioned by the U.N. Security
Council and that may aggravate the situation further.”
Earlier Saturday, Russian
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov
also noted that any move by
Turkey to send troops into
northern Iraq would only
exacerbate the situation.
U.S. request denied
F
oreign Minister Igor Ivanov
on Saturday also dismissed a
U.S. request to expel Iraqi diplomats and accused Washington of
trying to seize control over Iraq’s
oil wealth and push aside Russian
and other non-U.S. companies.
Ivanov also said casualties in the
war’s first days confirmed it was
“indeed a big mistake” and said
Russia would oppose attempts to
give a U.S. occupation of Iraq
international legitimacy through
the United Nations.
— AP
The president says the
conflict with Iraq could
spill over into the C.I.S.
The Associated Press
P
resident Vladimir Putin said
Friday the Iraqi crisis could
destabilize the former Soviet
republics, and his foreign minister
cast doubt on the existence of the
anti-Baghdad coalition the United
States claims to have formed.
“The crisis has spilled beyond a
local conflict and today has become
a potential source of instability in
other regions, including the
Commonwealth of Independent
States,” Putin said.
“The war against Iraq is
fraught with unpredictable consequences, including increased
extremism,” Putin told a gathering of top security officials from
the C.I.S., a loose grouping of former Soviet republics.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister
Igor Ivanov, who has taken the
lead in Russia’s opposition to the
use of force against Baghdad, told
the lower house of parliament that
a foreign occupation of Iraq without U.N. Security Council permission would be illegitimate.
Fears for civilians
“The question arises as to how
the norms of international law will
be observed in the course of this
operation, in particular, the prohibition on attacking civilians and
civilian objects, using non-precision weapons and harming the
environment,” he said.
He also alleged that the U.S.led coalition for the immediate
disarmament of Iraq was “more
like an amorphous thing, which
Washington and London are trying to present as a coalition to
show they’re not alone.”
“All the declarations about the
existence of an anti-Iraqi coalition
are thought-up,” Ivanov said.
AP
Ivanov diplomacy
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin speaks in the Kremlin on Friday. He told top C.I.S. officials that the Iraqi crisis could
destabilize the former Soviet republics and lead to a rise in extremism.
passed a resolution calling on Putin
to urge the Security Council to
send U.N. forces to Iraq and convene a special session of the U.N.
General Assembly.
The resolution also called for
boosting Russia’s defense budget to the equivalent of 3.5 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product.
Aside from Spain and Australia,
which allegedly joined the coalition for political reasons, Ivanov
said the so-called members “were
either silent or signaled indirectly
that they don’t oppose such
actions,” Ivanov said.
In spite of his harsh words,
Ivanov told lawmakers that the
war must not be allowed to derail
the anti-terrorist coalition cobbled
together after the Sept. 11 terror
attacks in the United States.
“While solving the issue of Iraq,
we must not forget that we also
face global problems and we
should not make the anti-terror
coalition a victim of this problem,
over which we and the United
States disagree,” Ivanov said.
After Ivanov’s address, the
lower house, or State Duma,
Russian relief
Emergency Situations Minister
Sergei Shoigu said that the first
Russian relief plane would reach
Kermanshah, Iran, late Friday.
It will carry a mobile hospital
with the capacity to treat up
5,000 refugees, he said, according to Interfax.
Ivanov waved away reports
Rescue teams search
for missing choppers
that the United States had asked
foreign capitals to deport Iraqi
diplomats, and said Washington
had not approached Moscow on
the matter.
“If we receive such a request, it
would carry no legal force and we
would react accordingly,” he told
reporters at the Duma.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow
confirmed that Washington had
asked foreign countries to temporarily suspend Iraqi diplomatic missions and to ensure that
high-ranking Iraqi representatives leave.
As for requests to freeze Iraqi
assets, Finance Minister Alexei
Kudrin said Moscow had no evidence suggesting that Saddam
was laundering funds through
Russian accounts.
Russia protests U.S.
spy plane mission
By Lera Arsenina
By Mara D. Bellaby
Gazeta.ru
The Associated Press
R
escue crews were searching
over the weekend for two
Mi-24 helicopters that went
missing on Thursday morning as
they carried out a combat mission in
Chechnya's volatile southeast.
The helicopters were manned by
four crew, and officials would not
rule out that they were shot down
by rebels.
A Defense Ministry spokesman
told Gazeta.ru the Mi-24s were
escorting two Mi-8 transport helicopters performing a combat landing mission some 150 km from the
federal military base of Khankala.
Radio contact with the two Mi-24s
was lost after the aircraft separated and both transport helicopters
returned to base.
R
AP
Briefs
THE MI−24 HELICOPTER
Rescue teams were dispatched
to the area where the machines
were reported lost, but thick fog
hampered their efforts.
Southeastern Chechnya includes
the Vedeno and Nozhai-Yurt districts. Vedeno Gorge is believed to
be a separatist stronghold.
ussia delivered a statement of protest to the U.S.
Embassy on Saturday,
accusing Washington of tactics
associated with the Cold War after
a U.S. spy plane flew near Russia’s
border with neighboring Georgia.
Two Russian fighters were
scrambled to track the U-2 spy
plane as it flew about 20-30 km
from the Russian border
Saturday, the Defense Ministry
said, according to Russian news
agencies. The U.S. Embassy said
it had no comment.
Russian Defense Ministry
spokesman Nikolai Deryabin
was quoted as saying that air
defense systems locked on to
the American plane as it began
its flight over the former Soviet
republic of Georgia, an impoverished Caucasus Mountains
nation that Washington has
identified as a possible haven
for Islamic terrorists.
“To prevent the possible
breach of the Russian border,
two destroyers were sent up,”
Deryabin was quoted by Interfax
as saying.
The Russian Foreign Ministry
later said that Saturday’s flight
by the American plane followed
two earlier incidents on March 7
and
Feb.
27,
prompting
Saturday’s statement of protest.
It said the practice could be of
no real use for fighting terrorism.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Monday, March 24, 2003. PAGE 7
WORLD STOCKS (Friday close)
TOKYO
RTS
DAX
8,195
368.58
2,715
1.79%
0.60%
4.23%
MONEY
WORLD STOCKS (Friday close)
CAC
FTSE
DOW
2,891
3,861
8,522
3.43%
2.53%
2.84%
Pool buys 6.13% stake in UES
VIMPELCOM−R has agreed to
sell a $54.48 million share
package to Alfa-Eco Telecom.
Bee Line
operator
sells stake
Prime-Tass
T
he board of directors of
Russia’s second-largest
mobile operator VimpelCom has approved the acquisition by Alfa-Eco Telecom, a
subsidiary of Russia’s industrial
and financial holding Alfa
Group, of 1,463 VimpelCom-R
common shares through a private placement, VimpelCom-R
said in a statement Friday.
VimpelCom-R
is
a
VimpelCom regional susidiary.
Initially, it was planned that
VimpelCom-R’s
additional
share issue would be bought
back at the end of October 2003.
Now, Alfa-Eco Telecom, having paid $58.48 million for the
shares may increase its stake in
VimpelCom-R to 30 percent
from 17.5 percent in May.
According to a deal concluded
by Alfa-Eco Telecom, VimpelCom, and Norway's Telenor in
May 2001, Alfa-Eco Telecom
agreed to invest $337 million in
VimpelCom-R over three years.
F A C T B O X
RAO UES
RTS index: EESR.RTS
Web site: www.rao−ees.ru
Russian Joint Stock Company Unified Energy
Systems (UES) of Russia was established in
1992.
The government owns 52.5% of shares.
By Olga Popova
Reuters
OVERVIEW
RAO UES owns shares in regional joint stock
companies (from 15% to 100%) except in
Tatenergo and Irkutskenergo. These regional
joint stock companies include:
• 73 Regional Utilities (AO energos);
• 24 power stations;
• Central Dispatch Board;
• 60 R&D and Project Institutes;
• 440 electric power stations with total
installed capacity of over 197,000 MW;
• a total of 3,018,000 km of electric power
lines;
• over 300 organizations providing techno−
logical back−up and development for UES of
Russia.
O
ne of Russia’s most powerful private financial groups,
MDM Group, said Friday
that it and a pool of local and foreign
investors had bought 6.13 percent of
national power utility UES.
Market analysts late last year
noted heavy buying of UES
shares by unknown investors.
Analysts at the time estimated
that between four and 15 percent of the company had been
bought for $150 million.
MDM Group also said Friday
the pool of investors would
remain as passive investors until
the government had announced
dates for electricity reform.
“MDM Group and its pool partners will finally outline its strategy
on the UES market only after government decisions on the dates of
the reform have been published,”
the group said in a statement.
The government plans to
restructure UES, the world’s
biggest utility by installed capacity, by spinning off generating,
marketing and distributing firms
and putting them in private hands
while keeping the grid under state
ownership.
MANAGEMENT
Chief Executive Officer: Anatoly Chubais
UES
The Russia Journal
MDM and partner buyers
will announce their plans
when reform dates are set
MDM GROUP said it and its partners in a UES share pool may hold onto their
stake until it is converted into shares in spin-off companies. If they do not like the
timetable for reform, MDM said they may sell shares before that time.
holding is still in its present form, or
if the timetable for reform is sensible, keep UES shares until they are
converted into shares in the independent generating companies.”
Working out the reform strategy
and pushing it through parliament
was a lengthy process and involved
much horse-trading between par-
liament, the government and UES
managers.
“Group specialists are sure that
the best version of the legal framework of the reform was the first
version, which set concrete dates
for changes,” the statement said.
“The final version, which makes
the government responsible for
www.BusinessFinder.ru
setting the dates for the reform,
is a compromise. But the pool
supports it, because it is sure that
without reform the electricity
industry will stagnate.”
Earlier this month chairman of
MDM Bank Andrei Melnichenko
and MDM Group Chairman Sergei
Popov were nominated to a new
UES board to be elected at a UES
annual shareholders’ meeting, tentatively set for May 30.
Undervalued shares
“The main reason for setting up
the investor pool to buy UES
shares was the fact that they were
undervalued compared with their
foreign peers,” the statement said.
Shares in UES were up 0.6 percent at 13.7 U.S. cents at 0905 GMT,
compared with a 2003 high of 14.94
cents. “The future tactics of the pool
will be defined by the situation in
the industry. Investors may decide
to take profits while the energy
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THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Monday, March 24, 2003. PAGE 9
MONEY | Russia report
Weekly look at Wall Street
Russian stock market roundup
RTS closes higher U.S. war rally may not last
Prime-Tass
R
ussian shares rose 0.3-1.3
percent
on
Friday,
encouraged
by
the
upward trend on the western
markets and in spite of the lower
oil prices, traders said. Foreign
markets were boosted on the
news that the war against Iraq
was progressing well for the
United States.
Russia’s RTS benchmark stock
index closed Friday at 368.58, up
0.60 percent or 2.20 points from
the previous closing.
The trading volume Friday fell
to $11.2 million from $15.5 million
Thursday.
The
Moscow
Interbank
Currency Exchange (MICEX)
index closed at 338.76 on Friday,
up 1.15 percent from the previous
close. The trading volume on the
MICEX fell to $246.90 million
from $293.94 million Thursday.
Traders said that the market
players were still interested in
investing in Russian shares even
in spite of the lower oil prices.
The positive trend on the U.S.
and European markets was the
main driver of Russian shares on
Friday, traders said.
The investors started buying
cheap Russian shares in order to
take profit later on, traders said.
Mosenergo was the market’s
top performer on Friday, as the
market participants took more
and more interest in buying it
ahead of the company’s upcoming register closing.
Traders said that the news
from Iraq would again be the key
factor, determining the market’s
trend next week. Alfa Bank said
that the Russian market was likely to remain volatile, due to the
uncertainty over oil prices.
“The oil price will likely remain
volatile over the short term as
rumors and counter-rumors of
damage at oil installations circulate,” Alfa Bank said in its daily
report on Friday. “This will stir
volatility in Russian oil stocks as
well as general sentiment
towards Russia.”
“However, even if the oil price
was to settle around the longterm average, if no more than
normal disruption of Iraqi supplies takes place, the investment
case for Russian oils will remain
very much intact over the course
of 2003,” Alfa Bank added.
Renaissance Capital said that
the Russian stock market was
likely to remain stable in the short
term. “Given the focus on the military developments in Iraq,
Russia is likely to be outside the
immediate radar screens of international investors in the shortterm,” Renaissance said Friday in
a report. “Encouragingly, though,
the sharp fall in the oil prices of
the last few days has not caused a
panic sell–off in Russian stocks,
with domestic investors stepping
in to support the market on dips.”
The Associated Press
N
EW YORK: Wall Street
surprised everyone over
the past two weeks, surging higher on growing anticipation of a short and successful U.S.
war with Iraq. And now many
investors believe that when the
war is over, stocks will take off
the way they did after the Gulf
War 12 years ago.
But a stock market that broke
all precedents during its late 1990s
boom and subsequent three-year
bust can’t be predicted by looking at a more tranquil market
from the past.
One month after the Gulf War
began in 1991, the Standard &
Poor’s 500 index — the broadest of the market’s major gauges
— had risen 16.7 percent. After
six months, the S&P had climbed
20.6 percent.
“It is night and day,” said Peter
Schiff, president of investment
firm Euro Pacific Capital, of the
difference between the market
today and in 1991.
“We were in a bull market in the
stock market in 1990 and 1991. We
had gone through a correction
[leading up to] the Gulf War. ... We
are now in a bear market that
began in 2000,” he said.
The market has rallied hard in
anticipation of the war, and in
response to its first three days.
The S&P 500 has gained 8.1 percent in the past two weeks, and
the Dow Jones industrials have
risen 10.1 percent.
The market claimed another
stunning advance Friday with the
Dow barreling up 235 points as TV
networks broadcast images of
huge explosions around Baghdad,
raising investors’ hopes for a quick
victory ending in the capitulation
of Saddam Hussein’s regime. The
S&P and Dow both ended the session with their eighth straight
daily win. The Dow ended the
week up 8.4 percent, its best week
since Oct. 8, 1982.
Analysts say a longer-term rally
is hardly a sure thing — the precipitous drop following the dotcom boom decimated investors’
confidence, and the corporate
accounting scandals of the past
two years have only added to the
distrust of Wall Street.
So few market watchers expect
investors to plunge into stocks after
the war with the fervor they displayed 12 years ago, when Wall
Street was considered the only
place to really make money.
“This rally will peter out regardless of what happens,” predicted
Matt Kelmon portfolio manager of
the Kelmoore Strategy Funds.
“The market in times like this is 90
percent psychologically driven. In
quizzing people, I know no one
wants to own stocks. Once they are
higher, people will buy again.”
Another big variable is the economy, which is healthier now than it
was in 1991 but still remains shaky.
The last war also turned out to be
brief, surprising many investors
and giving them a reason to rally.
This time, investors have already
placed bets on the war being short
lived and there’s no guarantee that
will be the case. Many analysts are
afraid the market will suffer heavy
losses if the war drags on longer
than investors anticipate.
“The [1991] Gulf war was an
anomaly in how quickly it ended
and how successful it was. This is
clearly going to be something different from that,” said Peter Doyle,
chief investment strategist for
Kinetics Asset Management.
When the war is over, investors
will surely turn their focus back
to the economy and corporate
profitability, and that could bode
ill for stocks in the near term.
The market’s three main
gauges posted robust gains for
the week. The Dow had a weekly win of 662.26, or 8.4 percent,
closing at 8,521.97.
The Nasdaq composite index
ended the week up 81.51, or 6
percent, closing at 1,421.84. The
S&P rose 62.52, or 7.5 percent,
to finish at 895.79.
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I
t appears almost inevitable that Saddam Hussein will be
out of power within a relatively short span of time, and
U.S.-led coalition forces will be temporarily administering
Baghdad in the near future.
This has caused concern to many in Russia, who feel that
coalition control of Iraq — which sits on the world’s secondlargest known reserves of petroleum, outrivaled only by Saudi
Arabia — will be used to dramatically lower the price of oil.
It has been estimated that Russia’s treasury loses $2 billion for every $1 drop in the price of oil on international
markets. A sudden drop would have serious negative consequences for the economy.
Much as many Americans view cheap oil as a panacea
for their economy, many Russians find the prospect baleful indeed. A number of politicians hold the view that the
war against Iraq is really motivated, at least in part, by
an American desire to strike a blow to Russia’s economy.
Worries also circulate that Russia’s oil titans will lose their
contracts in Iraq to foreign competitors.
Luckily for Russia, these fears are probably unfounded,
at least in the short term. The fact of the matter is that
Iraq’s 120 billion barrels of proven reserves are useless
unless they can be effectively extracted and transported.
And it is unlikely that Iraq will be able to challenge Russia
as an oil producer and exporter for some time.
Iraq had its oil infrastructure devastated in the first Gulf
war. It was further degraded during the years of grueling sanctions, and Saddam’s tactic of torching oil wells
compounds the situations.
The Iraqi oil-export system cannot just be turned on with
the flick of a switch. For Iraq to become a serious oil
exporter again, it needs massive investment and work, and
this is not the sort of thing that can be done overnight.
Even if damage to the country’s oil and other infrastructures turns out to be minimal, it will take years and billions of dollars to get Iraqi crude really flowing again.
As things stand today, Iraq produces only 2 million barrels a
day, as compared to Russia’s 8 billion, while Russian exports
are almost double Iraq’s. Taking into account not only the need
for reconstruction of infrastructure, but also the time necessary for a post-Saddam regime to consolidate and stabilize a
fractious population, it may be as long as a decade before Iraq
can match Russia’s level of oil production. The Iraqi oil pill is
not going to save the West’s economy any time soon, but should
go down easily with Russia.
Moreover, cheap Iraqi oil will not hit Russia first. Instead,
its initial impact will be on high-cost production areas like
Alaska and the North Sea.
At the same time, Russia’s oil majors have become increasingly attractive for investment, both domestic and foreign.
We’ve seen this indicated strikingly in the recent past.
The British Petroleum-Tyumen Oil Co. deal, for example,
speaks volumes about the interest with which foreign energy companies are eyeing Russia’s reserves and the companies that can help get at them.
Exxon Mobil Corp. is also trying to work more closely with its
Russian counterparts. Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s
decision to go transparent, in retrospect, and the resulting
increase in the company’s share value look to have been
prophetic for Russia’s oil industry as a whole.
In short, Russia has little to fear from a U.S.-U.K-held
Iraqi oil card.
Rival leaders — Two matryoshkas, traditional Russian dolls, depict U.S. President
George W. Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on a street stall in Moscow.
Why Bush’s war?
Thoughts from our readers
Bush’s war
I am an American, a conservative, a business owner, a
Republican and not happy with
Bush.
The war on Iraq is being waged
because America is contracting.
America is on the verge of collapse. It is a desperate measure by
a desperate George Bush Jr.
At the start of the war in
Afghanistan, Bush said that we
will find and kill or capture bin
Laden. Three months later he
said, “I’m not looking for bin
Laden!” The same thing will happen in Iraq. In fact, the Bush
administration is better at propaganda, manipulation and distortion than was Hitler.
Those that support the war
only care about their money, not
about international respect,
agreements or law.
The New World Order started
by George Bush Sr. was about
America ruling the world’s assets,
both natural and human. Now, the
global economy looks more like a
set of partnerships, not American
possessions. And America is losing
control. Bush Jr. knows that
America will never have a second
chance to control the world, and
he must do this now.
I work my tail off every day
running a business, and I feel
that Bush should focus on the
economy and gaining respect for
America. For some reason, he is
doing the complete opposite. If
America had respect, then 9/11
would not have happened.
America’s worst enemy is
George Bush, period.
Luther Gunther Quick III
Hackettstown, NJ 07840
United States
Moment of truth
Does Saddam have weapons of
mass destruction or not? If
Saddam does have weapons of
mass destruction, will he use
them or will he not?
These are the questions that
will be answered in the coming days and weeks. When these
questions are answered, we
shall all be judged: Those who
chose to attack, those who chose
not to and those who chose to
stay silent.
If Saddam doesn’t have
WMD, or if he does have them
and chooses not to use them,
then the Arab world, as well
as all good citizens of the world,
will see, A-Day as thousands
of 9/11’s. We all have to live
with the stances we have chosen to take, myself included.
As this war unfolds, I can only
hope that the governments who
have said “no” to it will have the
courage to stand up and be
accountable, not just make a
meaningless symbolic statement.
This war did not need to happen,
and I, for one, can have no
respect for any future United
Nations or government that
refuses to be accountable.
There is no need to prove the
United States has done wrong.
It is outright obvious that the
United States is in the wrong
and has broken international
law. It has not yet been proven
that Iraq currently has WMD,
and Iraq has shown signs of
disarmament. This war is
unjustified.
Nationalist
lawmaker
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an outspoken critic of the United
States, accused his fellow lawmakers of cowardice for not
standing up to Washington,
noting that even some ministers from America’s biggest
ally, Britain, had resigned over
the matter. “We’ve been opponents for 50 years ... [and] we
don’t even want to discuss it,”
Zhirinovsky yelled in remarks
shown on Russia’s TVS. “It’s a
shame.”
Communist legislator Sergei
Reshulsky called on all lawmakers who didn’t agree with
“state terrorist Bush who is in
fact beginning the Third World
War” to join in the protest and
leave the session.
We need more of these people, who have morals and can
stand up to make a difference
before it is too late!
I fear that the gravity of what
the United States is doing is so
great that, if governments do
not take a real stance, people
themselves will as time moves
forward.
Truth and judgment are upon
us.
Name withheld
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THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Monday, March 24, 2003. PAGE 11
THE 75TH Academy
Awards ceremony was
set for a low-key
approach Sunday in
light of the Iraq war.
— PAGE 12
U.S. issues warning
W
ASHINGTON, — The
U.S. State Department
on Sunday urged U.S. citizens to consider leaving
Vietnam because of severe
acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS), a deadly form of
pneumonia, and said it was
offering free flights out to
family members of U.S. diplomats in the country.
The move follows the U.S.
government’s decision on
Friday to suspend official
travel to Vietnam and to
advise U.S. citizens to put off
nonemergency travel there
because of the disease and the
reduced availability of medical
treatment.
—Reuters
Slovene referendum
L
JUBLJANA, Slovenia —
Slovenes on Sunday voted to
decide whether their tiny Alpine
nation will join the European
Union and NATO, as rising antiwar sentiment put the chances
for entry into the military alliance
into question.
Support for EU membership
has been consistently high over
the past decade, with more than
70 percent of respondents in favor
in the latest survey.
But only 48 percent want
membership in NATO, 28 percent are opposed and 23 percent undecided, according to a
March 13 poll conducted by
Ljubljana University.
Political analysts believe the
opposition to NATO stems from a
desire among Slovenes to stay out
of armed conflicts far from home,
and from opposition to the U.S.led war against Iraq.
Liberian forces engage rebels
Fierce battle for control
of strategic central town
By Alphonso Toweh
Reuters
M
ONROVIA, — Liberian
troops battled rebels on
Sunday for control of the
West African country’s strategic
central town of Gbarnga, where
fighting has left scores dead, a military source said.
“There is very serious fighting
in Gbarnga,” said the source, adding
that he was in radio contact with
troops there.
He said reinforcements were being
rushed to the town, which was
attacked on Friday morning by
rebels fighting to overthrow
President Charles Taylor. They were
sent from a nearby military barracks
and from the eastern Nimba region.
“There will be no escape for those
terrorists,” he said.
Fleeing civilians said many houses
had been set ablaze by the rebels.
Gbarnga is in the heartland of support for Taylor, a former warlord
who used the town as his base during
a seven-year civil war that cost
200,000 lives in the 1990s.
A woman who reached the outskirts of the capital Monrovia with
her children on Sunday reported
heavy shelling on the town.
Kashmiri
guerrilla
shot dead
By Mujtaba Ali Ahmad
Mine blast kills 35
B
EIJING, — The death toll
from a gas explosion in a
coal mine in northern China rose
to 35 on Sunday, state television reported.
It did not say how many miners were still missing after
Saturday’s explosion, but the
official Xinhua news agency
earlier put the death toll at 28
with 45 missing.
State television said 15 miners survived the explosion in
the Mengnanzhuang coal mine
in Shanxi province.
That was one more than
reported by Xinhua, which said
87 people were underground at
the time of the blast, but the
television report gave no further details.
At least 49 people were killed
in accidents in Chinese mines
last month. A group of 35 miners was killed in an explosion
at a coal mine in the southwestern province of Guizhou
while an accident in a Shanxi
mine killed another 14.
China’s mining industry is the
world’s largest but also its deadliest. About 7,000 people were
killed in mining accidents last
year.
— AP
The Associated Press
S
RINAGAR,
India
—
Unidentified men on Sunday
assassinated an Islamic guerrilla leader who was sacked from
Kashmir’s biggest rebel group and
was holding secret talks with the
Indian government, officials said.
The assassination of Abdul Majid
Dar, former Kashmir commander of
the Hezb-ul Mujahedeen, was a setback for Indian security authorities,
who were trying to persuade him to
take up a possible political role in the
state wracked by 13 years of separatist violence.
Dar was fatally shot in the town of
Sopore, a separatist stronghold 55
kilometers (35 miles) north of
Srinagar, the summer capital of
India’s Jammu-Kashmir state.
Dar’s mother and sister were also
injured in the shooting by the
unidentified men, whose faces were
covered with masks, Inspector
General of Police K. Rajindra Kumar
said. Dar was supervising construction work at the site of his new house
in Sopore when the gunmen arrived
in a car and fired at him, Kumar said.
“Two men got off a car and
walked in. They asked for his brother, and before anyone could answer,
they started firing,” Aijaz Ahmed, a
relative of Dar who was with him at
the time of the attack, told The
Associated Press.
AP
Briefs
WORLD
AUSTRALIA have won
their third Cricket World
Cup, defeating India in
Sunday’s final.
— PAGE 24
A YOUNG BOY carries materials to construct a hut for his family at the Jah-Tondo Displaced Center in Monrovia,
Liberia, recently. Refugees streamed into Monrovia this weekend as fighting raged in the town of Gbarnga.
“It was horrific,” she said, giving
her name only as Esterline.
Heavily-armed Liberian troops
and pro-government militiamen
headed out of Monrovia in trucks on
Saturday and security forces said
civilians would be given a chance to
flee Gbarnga before a major assault
was launched to dislodge the rebels.
Defense Minister Daniel Chea said
on Friday that scores of civilians
were killed when rebels of Liberians
United for Reconciliation and
Democracy entered the town, 160
km (100 miles) north of Monrovia.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Monday, March 24, 2003. PAGE 12
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Film: Capsule Reviews
DAREDEVIL
The Players: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin
Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan
The Play: Fate deals
young orphan Matt
Murdock a strange
hand when he is
doused with haz−
ardous waste. The
accident leaves Matt
blind but also gives
him a heightened
“radar sense” that
allows him to “see”
far better than any man. Years later Murdock has
grown into a man and becomes a respected
criminal attorney. But after he's done his day job,
Matt takes on a secret identity as “The Man
Without Fear,” Daredevil, the masked avenger that
patrols the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen and
New York City to combat the injustice that he
cannot tackle in the courtroom.
MAID IN MANHATTAN
The Players: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes,
Natasha Richardson, Stanley Tucci, Tyler Posey
The Play: Marisa Ventura (Lopez) is a single
mother born and
bred in the bor−
oughs of New York
City, who works as
a maid in a first−
class Manhattan
hotel. By a twist of
fate and mistaken
identity, Marisa
meets Christopher
Marshall (Fiennes),
a handsome heir to
a political dynasty, who believes that she is a
guest at the hotel. Fate steps in and throws the
unlikely pair together for one night. When
Marisa's true identity is revealed, the two find
that they are worlds apart, even though the dis−
tance separating them is just a subway ride
between Manhattan and the Bronx.
Glitz toned down at
75th Academy Awards
as Iraq crisis deepens
CHICAGO
The Players: Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta−
Jones, Richard Gere, Christine Baranski, Queen
Latifah.
The Play: It’s the
long−awaited film
version of the
Broadway hit! Set in
the roaring ’20s, this
is the story of a
Chicago chorus girl,
Roxie Hart
(Zellweger), who
shoots her unfaithful
lover. Landing in jail,
she meets Velma Kelly (Zeta−Jones), another
chorus girl and murderess currently enjoying
media attention and legal manipulation, care of
her attorney, Billy Flynn (Gere), king of the old
“Razzle Dazzle.” Soon enough, however, Flynn
takes Roxie’s case as well, and Velma finds her−
self old news as Roxie is now the most famous
murderess in town, on her way to getting out of
jail and becoming a star. The two go through a
series of attempts at getting what they both want
(often conflictingly): freedom and fame.
By David Germain
The Associated Press
L
OS ANGELES — The
hoopla hushed and the merriment muted, the show still
goes on Sunday for the Academy
Awards, whose organizers promise
a tastefully toned-down celebration considering the war with Iraq.
Missing from the 75th Oscars
will be the splashy red-carpet
arrival area where stars preen,
pose and prattle about their
designer gowns. Formal evening
wear remains a must, though
Oscar guests are expected to
moderate the glitz and glamor
out of respect for U.S. soldiers
fighting to topple Saddam
Hussein’s regime.
Studios and other Hollywood
groups still plan post-Oscar bashes, though many have dropped
the usual gauntlet of reporters
and photographers outside.
An extreme turn of events
could force postponement of the
Oscars or prompt ABC to bump
the live broadcast in favor of
news coverage. But organizers
said they expect the show to come
off as planned and that the ceremony this year takes on greater
symbolic merit.
“At a time when American culture and values are under attack
all over the world, we think it is
more important than ever that
we honor those achievements that
reflect us and America at our
best,” said Frank Pierson, president of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts & Sciences.
Gil Cates, the show’s producer, said a friend who’s executive
LUIS OLIVO vacuums an Oscar silhouette on the red carpet arrival area outside the
Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles in preparation for the 75th annual Academy Awards.
The usual glamorous red carpet arrivals will be missing from this year’s ceremony.
fortable attending given world
events. But Cates said organizers have seen no more last-minute
cancellations among celebrities
and other guests than they do
every year.
The traditional tight security at
the Oscars has been increased,
including a National Guard mobile
lab to test for suspicious biological or chemical substances.
officer aboard a Navy ship told
him that it was important to carry
on “as normal, as usual, that we
should do the show. That it would
be kind of a terrible victory for
Saddam if we didn’t.”
A celebrity or two have backed
out of the Oscars because of the
war, among them Will Smith,
who withdrew as an awards presenter, saying he was uncom-
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THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Monday, March 24, 2003. PAGE 13
THE LEADER
High stakes in the casino industry
By Katherine Ters
The Russia Journal
The Russia Journal/Katherine Ters
S
T. PETERSBURG — Paul
Edwards came to St.
Petersburg in 1997 to open
and manage what went on to
become one of the city’s top
international casinos — the
Taleon Club.
Located in the Eliseyev mansion on the corner of the Moika
canal and Nevsky Prospect, the
Taleon has one of the most ornate
and impressive interiors you can
find in St. Petersburg.
Australian-born Edwards has
been in the casino business for 17
years. Before he came to Russia
10 years ago, he worked in
Australia,
EXECUTIVE S o u t h
Africa,
F O C U S Poland and
Ukraine. Edwards spoke to The
Russia Journal about changes in
the casino industry since the wild
days of the early '90s.
The Russia Journal: Russia’s
first casino opened in 1989, and
you arrived to manage a casino in
Moscow in 1993. How has
Russia’s casino industry changed
since then?
Paul Edwards: In the early '90s,
the trend was to spend. People
didn’t really know what a casino
was back then. Customers were
coming in, flashing their cash —
their mattress money — betting
all or nothing. There wasn’t any
confidence in banks, and people
were going to casinos to make
money — throwing everything
they had into winning. We had
fantastic hold percentages, but it
was bad for business because it
burned the customers out.
These days, casino players are a
lot more sophisticated. They treat
the casino as a night out rather
than a source of income. The
AUSTRALIAN−BORN Paul Edwards, manager of the upscale Taleon Club casino in St. Petersburg, says Russia’s casino players are growing calmer and more
sophisticated as they get used to having wealth — unlike the spending frenzy of the early 1990s.
Taleon Club is quiet and controlled, and most of our clients are
businesspeople with steady
incomes who come here to relax
and have a good time.
RJ: So how does Russia’s casino industry differ from the
industry in the West?
PE: Nowhere in the world can
you see as much money being
given away on a regular basis as
you can in Russia. I see casino lotteries here for a million dollars,
while in the United Kingdom, any
promotions or advertising for
casinos are forbidden.
In Russia, there are no government regulations regarding
games, rules, procedures or
advertising. The casino market
here is unique; it’s largely selfregulating and self-promoting.
There’s also fierce competition
in Russia. These two factors
have created one of the most
favorable gambling environments for players in the world.
It’s ironic that gaming boards,
which were set up to protect
players’ interests in Western
countries, haven’t been able to
create anything similar to the
conditions that players in
Russia enjoy.
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THE LEADER
Edwards: Casinos are expanding quickly
kinds of customers: those who
play live games and those who
RJ: Is the casino market in St. play slots — you rarely see a perPetersburg
different
from son who likes both.
I don’t know why, but women
Moscow’s?
PE: In St. Petersburg, there are prefer slots to live games. At the
about 30 casinos, while in moment, 70 percent of our clients
are men.
Moscow, there are about 45.
RJ: How much of your busiClient numbers, turnover and
jackpots are all higher in Moscow. ness is internationally based?
PE: We have a very cosmopoliFor instance, at Taleon, we get
about 50 customers a day; in tan clientele, leaning toward a
Moscow, you’d probably get dou- Russian majority. We’ve been
very focused on establishing ties
ble or triple that.
international
players,
RJ: What are the main current with
though. These players usually
trends in the casino industry?
PE: In Russia, we’re seeing the travel in groups called “junkets.”
We now have junkets visiting
expansion of the industry into
smaller
cities
—
like the club on a weekly basis with
Yekaterinburg and Perm, for clients from Spain, Greece,
example. A Turkey, Italy, Israel and China.
of this We have a whole department
EXECUTIVE lot
expansion dedicated to organizing visas,
F O C U S will
sightseeing
and
be transport,
s l o t - accommodation for junket customers.
machine oriented.
We’ve also been promoting
Worldwide, the industry is
moving toward electronics. For poker internationally, working
years, casinos resisted electronic with operators and players from
involvement with table games, as far away as Australia and
but now we’re seeing electroni- America.
RJ: Are any
cally linked jackfactors impedpot systems and
ing the develroulette stations,
e’re
opment
of
as well as more
constantly turning
your internaslot machines.
tional
proSlot machines
customers away
grams?
are changing too.
due to visa
PE: We’re
They used to be
constantly
relegated to the
problems and lack
turning cusmetro stations and
of
accommodatomers away
cheap bars, but
due to visa
now you can find
tion ...The visa
problems and
the latest versions
issue is costing
lack of accomin
up-market
modation.
clubs, where one
Russia
millions
in
We’ve found
spin can set you
tourist dollars
a way to solve
back $100.
the accommoRJ:
Is
the
every year.’
dation probTaleon going to
lem, but the
introduce
slot
visa issue is
machines too?
PAUL EDWARDS
costing Russia
PE: The Taleon
Manager, Taleon Club casino
millions
in
has a beautiful
tourist dollars
classic interior,
and the owner thinks that slots every year; it’s something that
would clash with that. We’re really needs to be addressed.
RJ: How are you solving the
expanding the club though, and
we may put them in another part accommodation problem?
PE: There’s a hotel shortage in
of the casino in the future.
You see, you tend to get two St. Petersburg, and, in the sum-
The Russia Journal/Katherine Ters
Continued from Page 13
‘W
THE TALEON Club casino has an ornate, classic interior to appeal to its
upmarket clients, but manager Paul Edwards says they are exploring a way to
expand the club and install slot machines to appeal to a wider range of people.
mertime, we have difficulties
securing rooms for our clients at
the city’s top hotels.
Also, from a business viewpoint, it’s much better for our
customers to be staying in the
same complex as the casino.
So, we’re currently working on
a $40 million extension project
creating the Eliseyev Palace
Hotel. The hotel, which will have
29 suites, will be ready in time for
the Jubilee in May this year.
RJ: Does the Taleon have
Russian junkets?
PE: No, so we don’t compete
with casinos in other Russian
cities, but we do have a lot of
clients from Moscow who visit
Taleon when they’re in St.
Petersburg.
They hear about the Taleon
through friends or acquaintances, and this seems to be
incredibly effective. Initially, we
were spending a lot on advertising, but, when we reduced, it
made no noticeable difference to
our customer growth rate.
Advertising at that level just
wasn’t hitting the right people.
RJ: What kind of growth rates
do you forecast?
PE: Last year, the casino posted
a gross win of $6 million. Our
annual average growth rate has
been 15 percent for the last five
years. We’re predicting steady
growth between 10 and 20 percent over the next five years also,
which will be supported by our
new hotel.
Staff numbers will increase too;
at the moment, we have more
than 300 personnel, and, after the
hotel opens, we’ll expand to about
450.
RJ: Do you think St.
Petersburg 300th-anniverary
Jubilee will stimulate business at
the Taleon?
PE: I’m confident that the
Jubilee will show St. Petersburg
in a positive light and that that
will boost tourism and, in turn,
our customer base. St. Petersburg
needs positive coverage too.
Over the past few years, the
city has attracted a lot of negative
press, which has affected our
ability to attract international
customers.
In my experience, the biggest
problem is to actually get international clients to come to St.
Petersburg. Once they’ve experienced the city, they come back
time and again.
RJ: How does Taleon compare
to other top international casinos?
PE: It’s very difficult to compare. For instance, you could fit
all the casinos of St. Petersburg
into the Crown Casino in
Melbourne, Australia. It’s huge;
they’ve got 350 tables, 7,000 gaming staff and thousands of slot
machines.
Russia doesn’t have giant casinos like you do in Australia and
America. The largest in Russia
would have 80 or so tables.
Russians prefer the European
model, and so do I. When you get
an operation like Crown, a customer is just a number in the
crowd, or a bit of plastic on a
swipe card. The only personal
attention they get is through
electronic tracking and reward
systems.
In the Taleon, the staff know
their customers by name. You
have a real club atmosphere.
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THE LEADER
When working late isn’t a good thing
By Yekaterina Golubeva
The Russia Journal
ost Russian managers
would agree that an
employee who practically lives at work should be valued
and respected. But some Western
managers — and many psychologists — think that workaholic
employees are often far from ideal,
because many hours of work do
not always
translate
BUSINESS into effecI S S U E S tiveness.
A “workaholic” is someone who consistently
puts in extra hours without any
particular incentive or obligation
and without demanding overtime
pay. In other words, it’s just what
some bosses would call the perfect
employee.
“For Russian companies, it’s
important to have employees who
are able and willing to work overtime,” said Ivan Kalinin, head of
the promotions department at the
Alt consulting firm in St.
Petersburg. “Workers shouldn’t
be fixated on ending their day at a
particular time. Of course, overtime is partly of the employees’
own doing that happens when
they try to take on too much. But if
people want to work, that is their
right.”
Companies often try to find
workaholic managers for key
The Russia Journal
M
WORKING LATE every night isn’t necessarily seen as a positive thing — it may indicate a behavioral problem.
posts. They think that these people
will put their all into their work.
Workaholics
are
commonly
viewed as ambitious and careerdriven, willing to work around the
clock if need be in order to get a
promotion.
But the problem here is that
bosses often end up confusing two
vastly different notions — the
workaholic and the hard worker.
Psychologists tend to agree with
the conclusions of Western management experience that worka-
holics are not a blessing for companies. They may spend long hours
at work and do their jobs conscientiously, but it is a manifestation of
abnormal behavior.
Sergei Martynov, a psychologist
and
consultant
with
St.
Petersburg company IMKA, said
that workaholics substitute work
for everything else in their lives.
This, according to Martynov, is a
“work neurosis.” Neurotic behavior occurs when people use a ritual
activity, in this case work, to cope
with problems in their lives. Work,
in this case, becomes a sort of protective shield that keeps negative
emotions at bay.
The problem with workaholics
is they are less concerned about
the result of their work than the
process. They work to continue
their work as long as physically
possible, rather than working as
long as the task requires. This
means they put in a lot of hours,
but often with little real result.
Even workaholics who are pro-
ductive are not ideal, because
they’ll eventually impair their
productivity.
Igor Tarasov, who is director of
the Tallinn School of Managers in
Estonia and often holds seminars
in St. Petersburg and Moscow, said
problems can also arise in relations
between workaholics and their
managers. Seeing how hard they
seem to work, managers often
relax control over workaholic
employees. The danger here is that
workaholics tend to be conservative and, left to their own devices,
stick to familiar habits even when
the task at hand demands a new
approach. In reality, workaholics
are hard to manage effectively.
Consultant Larisa Golovkina
said the presence of a workaholic
often has a negative effect on the
rest of the team, since it’s like a
silent reproach to employees not
willing to stay as late. The workaholic can end up making everyone’s work day longer.
A hardworking employee, on
the other hand, is someone willing
to pick up the pace and work overtime without complaint when
needed.
If an employee puts in extra
hours day after day, it may be
time to change jobs — or for the
employer to start asking why such
long hours are always being put in.
In companies abroad, employees
who always stay late may well risk
their professional reputation.
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LEADER
Appointments
APPOINTMENTS
APPOINTMENTS
PROFOUND SOLUTIONS
ILYA SIROTKIN
Ilya Sirotkin has been appointed CEO of
Profound Solutions, where he will be in
charge of strategic planning and business
development. His immediate plans include
reorganization of the company’s structure to
increase the efficiency and expand the scope
of activities.
Sirotkin graduated from the Ordzhonikidze
Moscow Institute of Management (currently State University of
Management). In August 1993, he began work in the Arthur Andersen
auditing company, and in 1996 continued his career as marketing representative with the IBM Eastern Europe/Asia Ltd. where he was in charge of
establishing business ties with small- and medium-sized companies. In
1998, Sirotkin took a job in the Oki Europe Limited office as a corporate
client manager, and later was promoted to sales director. In 2000, he
defended his dissertation for a Master of Economics degree.
APPOINTMENTS
HP RUSSIA
PAVEL VLASKIN
Pavel Vlaskin has been appointed director of
the Global Business Unit at HP Russia’s office
ESG division.
Vlaskin graduated from the Moscow Power
Industry Institute’s Departments of Automatics
and Computation Systems and started his career
as a researcher at Moscow’s Institute of
Machine Tool Engineering. Later he moved to
work as a senior engineer with the Interproject
joint venture. Vlaskin’s career at HP began in
1993. He joined HP as a commercial representative and was then
promoted first to head of the department for cooperation with telecoms, and then to head of the department for cooperation with financial and governmental organizations. Prior to this appointment,
Vlaskin held the post of marketing director at Sun Microsystems’ operation in the C.I.S. In his new post Vlaskin will be in charge of promotion and sale of four groups of products from the HP ESG division,
including data storage systems, network systems, regular architecture
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APPOINTMENTS
RUSSIAN ALUMINUM
DUNCAN HEDDITCH
Duncan Hedditch has been appointed
Managing Director at Krasnoyarsk Aluminum
Smelter (KrAZ).
Hedditch joined RUSAL in May 2002 as
Executive Director at KrAZ. Prior to this move,
he was the General Manager, Operations, at
the Rio Tinto-owned Comalco aluminium
smelter at Bell Bay in Australia. He has worked
in engineering, marketing and general management positions for both Alcoa and Rio Tinto.
Since his arrival at KrAZ, Hedditch has been heavily involved in designing
a new management structure.
Hedditch, 48, graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology with a B.Eng.(Com) degree in 1974. After working in the electronics, telecommunications and mining industries in Australia and
Holland, he joined Alcoa Australia in 1980, working in both U.S. and
Australian operations. In 1994 he joined Rio Tinto’s Comalco subsidiary,
working in engineering, marketing and operations management in New
Zealand and Australia. He was appointed General Manager, Sales and
Marketing, in 1996, and General Director of the Bell Bay Smelter in 1999.
RUSSIAN ALUMINUM (RUSAL)
ILAY AKHMETOV
Ilay Akhmetov has been appointed Director
of RUSAL’s recently established Construction
Directorate.
The new Construction Directorate will be
responsible for the development and implementation of RUSAL’s group wide modernization program, focusing on existing expansion
plans and the construction of new facilities.
Among the goals are the expansion of
RUSAL’s Sayanogorsk smelter and new facilities planned for the Irkutsk and Murmansk
areas.
Akhmetov was named the head of KrAZ in
May 2002 and will be nominated for election to the KrAZ's board of
directors at the next shareholder meeting, scheduled for May. Once elected to the board, Akhmetov will retain his role in the plant’s strategic
development.
Akhmetov, 46, graduated from Krasnoyarsk Institute of Non-Ferrous
Metals in 1978. After working as a foreman in the local smelter’s electrolysis section, he moved to Saynogorsk in 1984, where he spent 14 years,
ultimately heading the aluminum production department.
Akhmetov served as Arbitration Manager at JSC Molybdenum in Sorsk
(Siberia) at a time when the company was under external arbitration management in bankruptcy. He held various jobs at Achinsk Alumina
Refinery and was named Achinsk’s General Director in 2001.
APPOINTMENTS
APPOINTMENTS
GOLDEN TELECOM
OLEG MALIS has been
appointed senior vice president
and head of the newly created
Mergers
and
Acquisition
Department.
KEVIN CUFFE is the new head
of Business and Consumer
Solutions at LLC EDN Sovintel.
CLIFFORD GAUNTLETT is
head of ROL at LLC EDN Sovintel.
KENNETH GRIFFIN is now
head
of
Wholesale
and
International Operations at LLC
EDN Sovintel.
ALEXANDER KUDRYAVTSEV
is now head of Regional
Development at LLC EDN
Sovintel.
MIKHAIL MURAEV is now first
deputy general director and head
of administration at LLC EDN
Sovintel.
MLADEN PEJNOVIC is now
general director of LLC Golden
Telecom (Ukraine).
NIKOLAI TOKAREV is now
financial director of LLC EDN
Sovintel. Before this he was treasury director and director of
investor relations at Golden
Telecom Inc.
APPOINTMENTS
MACLEOD DIXON LLP
MARK BORGHESANI
Mark Borghesani has been appointed
international partner, Moscow for
Macleod Dixon LLP.
For more than a decade, Borghesani
has provided international businesses
with the legal advice required to facilitate business opportunities in the C.I.S.
As the senior expatriate partner of
Macleod Dixon LLP’s Moscow office,
Borghesani uses his extensive knowledge of the legislative and business
framework of the C.I.S. and Europe to
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negotiated, coordinated and drafted documents for multiple debt and
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and bilateral financial institutions in Russia, Poland, Turkmenistan and
Kazakhstan.
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as well as providing general corporate commercial advice to foreign
investors in the C.I.S.
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CAR INSURERS
ALEXEI RAZUVAYEV
Alexei Razuvayev, CEO of the
Industry Insurance Company, has
been appointed member of the
Governing Council of the Russian
Union of Car Insurers. Razuvayev
will be active in union activities,
including regarding the new law
on mandatory liability insurance.
Razuvayev graduated from the
Moscow State University’s
Department of Law, and later
from the All-Union Distant
Learning Institute of Economics.
From 1979 he worked in
Gosstarkh, the Soviet insurance
monopoly, and in 1990 he
founded the insurance company
Rossiya, which he led for 12
years. Razuvayev became head
of the Industry Insurance
Company this year. A founder of
the Russian Union of Insurers, he
has authored many studies and is
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Vacancies from www.theLEADER.ru
IT Specialists, Internet
Office Staff and Secretaries
An American dating site, is looking for
a senior ASP programmer from Russia
ID 2754-1
5+ years of solid ASP(VBscript) programming experience working on larger commercial applications. • Understanding of OO technologies and design. • Strong
DBA/T-SQL skills using SQL 7/2000 Server, sound understanding of Stored
Procedures, indexes and data schema design. • Good understanding of SSL, and
several payment models like Verisign using COM technologies. • Understanding of
Java(applets) for streaming and chat room services. • Hands on with Javascript for
client side functionality, and also CSS/DHTML. • Good understanding of performance and load testing of web applications, supporting several thousand simultaneous users. • Good functional and technical specification documentation. • Good QA
procedures and regression testing methods. • Must have good written English skills
Worktime: Distance jobs
Accounting and Audit
Бухгалтер
ID 2316-1
 àìåðèêàíñêóþ òåëåêîììóíèêàöèîííóþ êîìïàíèþ ïðèãëàøàåòñÿ áóõãàëòåð.
Òðåáîâàíèÿ: o Âûñøåå ôèíàíñîâî-ýêîíîìè÷åñêîå îáðàçîâàíèå o 3 ãîäà
îïûòà ðàáîòû â êà÷åñòâå áóõãàëòåðà o Ïðàêòè÷åñêîå çíàíèå îñíîâíûõ
ó÷àñòêîâ ðîññèéñêîãî áóõãàëòåðñêîãî ó÷åòà, íàâûê ñîñòàâëåíèÿ è ñäà÷è
ôèíàíñîâîé è íàëîãîâîé îò÷åòíîñòè • Çíàíèå GAAP • Óâåðåííûé
ïîëüçîâàòåëü êîìïüþòåðà (MSOffice), ïðàêòè÷åñêîå çíàíèå 1Ñ • Áóõãàëòåðèÿ
7.7 âåðñèè Æåëàòåëüíî: o ïðàêòè÷åñêèé îïûò ðàáîòû â QuickBooks o çíàíèå
àíãëèéñêîãî ÿçûêà íà óðîâíå íå íèæå upper-intermediate Ç. ï. $500-$1000
Íàøà êîìïàíèÿ ãàðàíòèðóåò: • Ìåòîäîëîãè÷åñêóþ ïîääåðæêó ñî ñòîðîíû
àóäèòîðñêîé ôèðìû • Èíòåðåñíóþ ðàáîòó è ïðîôåññèîíàëüíûé ðîñò â
êîëëåêòèâå âûñîêîêâàëèôèöèðîâàííûõ ñïåöèàëèñòîâ • Ïðåäñêàçóåìûé
ãðàôèê ðàáîòû è äîáðîæåëàòåëüíóþ àòìîñôåðó • Ñòàáèëüíóþ çàðàáîòíóþ
ïëàòó • Ñóáñèäèðîâàííûå óðîêè àíãëèéñêîãî ÿçûêà è îáåäû â îôèñå
Îòïðàâëÿéòå, ïîæàëóéñòà, Âàøå ðåçþìå ñ óêàçàíèåì âàêàíñèè «áóõãàëòåð»
â òåìå ñîîáùåíèÿ.
Salary: 500 - 1000 (USD)
Worktime: Full-time jobs
ID 2701-1
Секретарь
Âîçðàñò: 25-35. Ïîë: íå âàæíî. Èñõîäÿùàÿ - âõîäÿùàÿ äîêóìåíòàöèÿ,
âûåçäû ïî ôèëèàëàì, ðàáîòà íà òåëåôîíå, îòïðàâêà êîìàíäèðñêîé
ïî÷òû Îáðàçîâàíèå: âûñøåå. Èíîñòðàííûé ÿçûê: àíãëèéñêèé - áàçîâûé.
Çíàíèå ÏÊ: ïîëüçîâàòåëü. Îïûò: Îò 1 ãîäà îòâåòñnâåííîñòü,
ïóíêòóàëüíîñòü
Salary: 300 - 300 (USD)
Worktime: Full-time jobs
Banking and Finances
Специалист по управленческому учету
ID 2645-1
Êðóïíîé òîðãîâîé êîìïàíèè (ìÿñî-ìîëî÷íîå ñûðüå) ÑÐÎ×ÍÎ òðåáóåòñÿ
ñïåöèàëèñò ïî óïðàâëåí÷åñêîìó ó÷åòó. Ì/Æ, 23-40, â/î ýêîíîìè÷åñêîå. Îïûò
ðàáîòû íà ïîäîáíîé ïîçèöèè â îïòîâîé òîðãîâîé êîìïàíèè îò 1 ãîäà. Çíàíèå
îñíîâíûõ ïðîãðàìì ÏÊ + 1Ñ íà óðîâíå ïðîôåññèîíàëüíîãî ïîëüçîâàòåëÿ
îáÿçàòåëüíî. Îáÿçàííîñòè: Îáðàáîòêà äàííûõ, ðàáîòà ñ òàáëèöàìè Excel,
åæåäíåâíàÿ îò÷åòíîñòü ïî äâèæåíèþ òîâàðà, äåíåæíûõ ñðåäñòâ, ðàñ÷åò
ýêîíîìè÷åñêèõ ïîêàçàòåëåé, ôèíàíñîâàÿ àíàëèòèêà. Ç/ï: $500
Salary: 500 - 600 (USD)
Worktime: Full-time jobs
Tourism
Менеджер по туризму (оператор по
работе с зарубежными партнерами)
ID 2742-1
Ìåñòî ðàáîòû: óë. Âàâèëîâà ä.97, îôèñ 06 (ì. Íîâûå ×åðåìóøêè) Ïîëíûé
äåíü ñ 9 äî 17-30. Çíàíèå àíãë. ÿçûêà îáÿçàòåëüíî, îáÿçàòåëüíî íàëè÷èå
ðîññèéñêîãî ãðàæäàíñòâà è ìîñêîâñêîé ïðîïèñêè.
Salary: 400 - ... (USD)
Worktime: Full-time jobs
Resumes from www.theLEADER.ru
Office Staff and Secretaries
Marketing
IT Specialists, Internet
Manager in New Media−,
Marketing− or Advertising.
Full time or
ID 3992-2
project based
1995 – 2003 Munich/Germany New York
City/USA Tenerife/Spain Chief Technology
Officer/Consultant - Technical/Marketing
liaison and Manager with 4 years of experience in the Marketing and Advertising
Business and Agencies. - E-Commerce
Solution expert with more than 7 years of
experience in web-design and 5 years in
E-Commerce, building online shops and
interface-design. - Expert in Integrated
and
Communications
Marketing
Campaigns, including direct mail and
email. - Strong experience in the development of virtual communities. - Network,
Hardware and Operating Systems –
Background (MAC OS/Windows OS). Unique combination of expertise in marketing, programming, system architecture
and graphic-design. - Unique Travel-,
Telecom-, Automobile- and HealthcareIndustry inside knowledge. Professional
Experience: EURO RSCG, Omnicom, IPG,
MCI/Worldcom,
Volvo,
Sony,
eTravelBroker, Cyber Generation Network,
Libi Industries In Languages:English,
German Complete detailed resume available on request.
Year of birth: 1971
Salary: 6000 (USD)
Worktime: No matter
Начальник отдела маркетинга
и рекламы
ID 3948-2
Ñàìîñòîÿòåëüíûå
ðàçðàáîòêè
è
ïðîâåäåíèå ðåêëàìíûõ àêöèé (ÑÌÈ,
âûñòàâêè, ïðÿìàÿ ðåêëàìà, íàðóæíàÿ
ðåêëàìà, ðåêëàìà íà ìåñòå ïðîäàæè,
ïå÷àòíàÿ
ðåêëàìà,
ñóâåíèðíàÿ
ïðîäóêöèÿ, ðåêëàìà â Internet è ò.ä.);
êðåàòèâíîå
ìûøëåíèå;
îðãàíèçàòîðñêèå
ñïîñîáíîñòè;
ïëàíèðîâàíèå
è
óòâåðæäåíèå
ðåêëàìíîãî áþäæåòà; âçàèìîäåéñòâèå
ñ ïîäðÿä÷èêàìè è ðåêëàìíûìè
îòäåëàìè
äèëåðñêèõ
ôèðì;
ñîñòàâëåíèå
îò÷åòíîñòè;
àíàëèç
ýôôåêòèâíîñòè ðåêëàìû è êîíòðîëü
ïðîâåäåíèÿ;
ïðîâåäåíèå
ìàðêåòèíãîâûõ
èññëåäîâàíèé;
ðàçðàáîòêà äîëãîñðî÷íîé ñòðàòåãèè è
òàêòèêè
ìàðêåòèíãà
êîìïàíèè;
îïðåäåëåíèå ñåãìåíòà ðûíêà è íèøè
ðûíêà; èíôîðìàöèîííàÿ ïîääåðæêà
ñàéòà
êîìïàíèè;
óïðàâëåíèå
ïðîåêòàìè â æåñòêèõ âðåìåííûõ
ðàìêàõ;
ìîíèòîðèíã;
íàïèñàíèå
ðåêëàìíûõ
ñòàòåé;
âåäåíèå
êëèåíòñêîé áàçû. Óìåíèå âåñòè
ïåðåãîâîðû,
êîììóíèêàáåëüíîñòü,
ðàáîòîñïîñîáíîñòü,
æåëàíèå
êàðüåðíîãî ðîñòà, îïûò ðàáîòû â
êà÷åñòâå ïîìîùíèêà ãåíåðàëüíîãî
äèðåêòîðà.
Year of birth: 1976
Salary: 800 (USD)
Worktime: Freelancers
Human Resources
HR Executive
for Russia
ID 3974-2
EXPERIENCE 1/1999 - Present Sony
Pictures Entertainment Vice President –
International HR 5/1997 - 12/1998 The
Dexter Corporation Director of Human
Resources 1/1996 - 5/1997 Medical
International
Corporation
Service
Project
/
Director
Managing
Implementation Manager 12/1993 1/1996 International Spare Parts, GmbH.
Vice President, International Human
Resources 6/1986 - 12/1993 US
Department of State Foreign Service
Officer / Diplomat EDUCATION 6/1987
Foreign Service Institute Certification
Immigration Law, International Law
6/1986 San Francisco State University
Bachelor's
Francisco
US-CA-San
Degree BA/BSS International Relations
Minor - German Language AFFILIATIONS 6/2000 - Present International
Personnel Association Professional
Member 6/1997 - Present SHRM
Professional Member SKILLS Bilingual German Intermediate Bilingual Hungarian Expert - Basic - Russian MS
Word, Excel, PowerPoint Many years
working on HR projects in Russia.
Year of birth: 1963
Salary: (USD)
Worktime: Full-time jobs
Ищу работу административного
характера. Офис−менеждер
или секретарь
ID 4014-2
Ãîðîä:
Ìîñêâà
Îáðàçîâàíèå:
íåçàêîí÷åííîå
âûñøåå
1999
Àêàäåìèÿ
ðûíêà
òðóäà,
ïî
ñïåöèàëüíîñòè
«Ïîìîùíèê
ðóêîâîäèòåëÿ» Îïûò ðàáîòû: 05.2000 05.2002:
«ÌÈÐÊ
êîíñàëòèíã«
Äîëæíîñòü: Áóõãàëòåð Äîëæíîñòíûå
îáÿçàííîñòè: Ðàáîòà ñ ïåðâè÷íîé
äîêóìåíòàöèåé,
ïëàòåæíûìè
ïîðó÷åíèÿìè, áàíêîâñêèìè âûïèñêàìè.
Ââîä äàííûõ â ïðîãðàììå «1Ñ».
Âåäåíèå áàçû äàííûõ. Îòñëåæèâàíèå
îñíîâíûõ ñðåäñòâ êîìïàíèè. Ó÷åò
áóìàãè â ïå÷àòíîì îòäåëå. 05.1999 05.2000: Êîìáèíàò ïðè «ÒîðãîâîÏðîìûøëåííîé Ïàëàòå ÐÔ» Äîëæíîñòü:
Ñåêðåòàðü Äîëæíîñòíûå îáÿçàííîñòè:
Ðàáîòà àäìèíèñòðàòèâíîãî õàðàêòåðà
(Åñòåñòâåííîå
âûïîëíåíèÿ
âñåõ
ñåêðåòàðñêèõ
îáÿçàííîñòåé)
Ïðîôåññèîíàëüíûå óìåíèÿ è íàâûêè:
Âûïîëíåíèå
àäìèíèñòðàòèâíîñåêðåòàðñ êèõ îáÿçàííîñòåé. Ðàáîòà â
áóõãàëòåðèè: âåäåíèå áàçû äàííûõ,
êàññîâîé êíèãè ïðåäïðèÿòèÿ, ðàáîòà ñ
ïëàòåæíûìè
ïîðó÷åíèÿìè
è
áàíêîâñêèìè
âûïèñêàìè.
Çíàíèå
ïðîãðàìì: «1Ñ», «Word», «Excel»,
«Internet», «Outlook Express». Îòëè÷íàÿ
ñêîðîñòü ïå÷àòè.
Year of birth: 1976
Salary: 300 (USD)
Worktime: Full-time jobs
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www.rental.ru
REAL Estate
REAL ESTATE
DIRECTORY
1 ROOM
Offered
Penny Lane Realty
Tel: 232−0099
• http://www.realtor.ru • E-mail: penny@realtor.ru
Incom Corporation
Real estate department
Tel.: 363−08−48
E-mail:elirent_ak@incom-realty.ru
www.incom-realty.ru
Okhotny Ryad: Bryusov Lane; 5 minutes
walk from Red Square. Studio 45 sq.m:
fresh western; designer furniture. All appliancies; A/C. Concierge. $1999. G&G
Realty: 995−9651, 254−2876.
An apartment near American Embassy,
western, heat floors, PVC, kitchen equipment, can be furnished, video intercom,
guarded yard. Krulatskoye, new building,
western, modern furniture, built-in kitchen,
intercom, fenced territory, guarded.
INCOM 363−1004
Chistye Prudy, Kostyansky Lane,
Studio 35 sq.m., one full bathroom (foreign sanitary ware, shower cabin). New
European renovation in modern style,
built-in kitchen, bar-stand. Clean
entrance, intercom. Rent: $1,350
FLATLINK, 363−4435, www.flatlink.ru,
flatlink@mtu−net.ru
License #000946
Tel: 737−8000 Fax: 737−8012
• http://www.joneslanglasalle.ru
• moscow.russia@eu.joneslanglasalle.com
Fully integrated real estate solutions
Commercial & Residential Properties
Tel.: +7 (095) 250 6575
Fax: +7 (095) 250 6530
E−mail: info@4rent.ru
www.4rent.ru
Tel: 105-00-16
Fax: 293-65-68
www.garfilt.ru
COMMISSION FREE
APARTMENTS AND OFFICES FOR RENT,
Short-term FULL-SERVICED APARTMENTS
CONFERENCE AND TRAINING FASCILITIES
Tel.:
937-60-46
Fax: 937-60-49
www.iris-hotel.ru
E-mail: izhem@soft-proekt.ru
INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE ADVISERS
Smolenskaya: Protochny Lane; room
23 sq.m ; kitchen 9 sq.m; western
designer renovation; furnished. $1200.
G&G Realty: 995−9651, 254−2876.
Krasnye Vorota, 5 min by foot,
Homutovsky per., $ 600, 1 room, 5th
floor, 5-floor building, room 21 sq.m.,
good renovation, suite of furniture, Sony
TV, kitchen 10 sq.m.: furniture, fridge. 4
Rent 250−65−75
2 ROOMS
Offered
Kievskaya, 10 min by foot, Kutuzovsky
av., $1000, 2 rooms, 2nd floor, 8-floor
Stalin building, euro renovation, white
counter floor, suspended ceiling. Rooms:
21 sq.m., bedroom suite, compartment,
TV, new furniture; 16sq.m.- empty.
Kitchen 10 sq.m. - fitted equipment.
Washing machine. 4 Rent 250−65−75
Arbatskaya, 80sq.m., western, studio,
fully furnished, all kitchen appliances,
conditioning, video observation; VILAR−
INCOM, 363−04−50
Novokuznetskaya, 10 min by foot,
Veshnyakovsky per., $950, 2 rooms, 2nd
floor, 9-floor brick building, rooms: 20
sq.m., suite of furniture, TV; 12 sq.m., bedroom suite; kitchen 9 sq.m.: pinewood suite.
Lavatory cum bathroom: euro combined,
washing machine.
4 Rent 250−65−75
Smolenskaya, 100 sq.m., modern
design, PVC, SPLIT-system, expensive
furniture, fully equipped kitchen, Jacuzzi,
shower cabin, concierge, security.
Oktyabrskaya, western, PVC, fully
equipped kitchen, modern furniture,
intercom, concierge, underground
garage. INCOM 363−1004.
entrance, without elevator, code-lock. Rent:
$1,300 FLATLINK, 363−4435,
www.flatlink.ru, flatlink@mtu−net.ru
Pevchesky per.
• 80 sqm
• 2 bedrooms
• Air conditioning
• Secure parking
• Decorated to a high Western standard
• Walking distance from Kremlin
Intermark 502 9553, www.intermark.ru
Chistyie Prudy.
100 sq.m. Very spacious studio.
Impeccably furnished. Totally equipped.
In excellent condition. Concierge. Modern
bldg. Parking. Move-in cond. PENNY
LANE, 232−0099.
Arbat area. 80 sq.m. 1BR. Unfurnished.
HDWD flrs. Modern bldg. Security,
concierge, garage, parking. PENNY
LANE, 232−0099.
Savvinskaya Naberezhnaya. 80 sq.m.
50 sq.m studio. Furnished. All equipment. Security. Ecologically clean&green
area. PENNY LANE, 232−0099.
3 ROOMS
Offered
COMMISSION FREE !!! North-East of
Moscow, 92 – 95 sq/m, western standard,
fully furnished with equipped kitchens,
fenced & guarded courtyard with children
playgrounds and sport facilities, under-
ground and ample open-air parking lots,
intercom, round-the-clock security and
technical maintenance, 33 satellite TV
channel + BBC Prime, swimming pool &
Fitness, school buses to nearby British and
Anglo-American schools, Conference facilities. Landlord: “Soft-Project” Ltd. 937-6046, e-mail: izhem@soft−proekt.ru
ARBATSKAYA, 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;
KROPOTKINSKAYA 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
Close to Tverskaya Street. Pre-Rev bldg.
120 sq.m. 2 floors. 2BR. 1.5BAs. Furnished.
All equipment. Brand new. Video surveillance. Garage, parking. See lot 43397 at
www.realtor.ru. $3,500 per month. PENNY
LANE, 232−0099.
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
Commercial & Residential real estate activities
Tel: +7 095 937-6797
Fax: +7 095 292-4580
artrealty@inbox.ru
www.art-realty.ru
Residential & Commercial properties Rent & Sale
FLAT LINK
Commission-free
exclusives
Hines
Tel: 363−4435,505−2957
• E-Mail: flatlink@mtu-net.ru
• www.flatlink.ru
Tel: 785−0500 Fax: 785−0510
• http://www.hines.msk.ru
Socol: brand new elite building; 24-hour
security; 100 sq.m; 1.5 bathrooms; western;
furnished. $1799. G&G Realty: 995−9651,
8−902−609−6978.
KIEVSKAYA high – tech style studio –
apartments, fully furnished and equipped,
located in convenient area near
Radisson Hotel, with a beautiful view on
Moskva – river embankment; GORKY
PARK AREA imaging living in a private
oasis in a center of the city, this 85 sq.m.
apartments located in full service residence right near famous park. 363−08−
48 INCOM
M. Tulskaya, Zagorodnoye shosse. Total
area: 58, rooms: 20, 16, built-in kitchen 10.
European style renovation, white wall
paper, parquet floor, foreign sanitary ware,
modern curtains. Furnished. Intercom.
Rent: $750. FLAT LINK tel. 363−4435,
505−2957, www.flatlink.ru,
flatlink@mtu−net.ru
Valovaya str.
• 140 sqm
• 2 bedrooms
• 2 full bathrooms
• Spacious living room with dining
and kitchen area
• Renovated and secured entrance
Intermark 502 9553, www.intermark.ru
Real estate department
Tel.: 363−0450
www.incom-reality.ru E-mail: elirent_pk@incom-reality.ru
Chistye Prudy, Kostyansky Lane, 4th
floor of 4. Total area: 50, rooms: 20, 14,
kitchen: 7, one full bathroom. New
European renovation, fully furnished. Clean
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
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
Poljanka, 100sq.m., western, studio, fully
furnished, all built-in kitchen appliances, 2
WCs, fire place, big terrace with barbecue,
video observation, concierge;
Frunzenskaya, Frunzenskaya
Embankment, 120sq.m., western renovation, studio, furnished; Kropotkinskaya,
140sq.m., western, furnished, 2 WCs,
Jacuzzi, fire-place, concierge; VILAR−
INCOM, 363−04−50
residential real estate
tel: 787-24-26
e-mail:contact@aventec.ru
www.aventec.ru
UNIVERSITET, Michurinsky prospekt,
140 sq.m., elite building, western, 3 full
bathrooms, exclusive design, modern
furniture, kitchen equipment, garage,
guarded territory, underground garage.
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.
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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. $3999. G&G
Realty: 995−9651, 254−2876.
Zamoskvorechie. 140 sq.m. 80 sq.m studio. 2BRs. Furnished. Fully equipped
kitchen. Internet, alarm. Brand new.
Western renovation. Concierge. PENNY
LANE, 232−0099.
Malaya Dmitrovka Street. 115 sq.m. Just
renovated. Unfurnished. Walk-in closets.
1,5BAs. Spacious. Concierge. Secured
yard. $2,400 per month. PENNY LANE,
232−0099.
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Main Administration for Service
to the Diplomatic Corps
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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
Kuntzevskaya, Pionerskaya, Zvenigorodskaya 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
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Offered
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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,
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Secure parking. G&G Realty: 995−9651,
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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 kitchendining (exclusive design) 22 sq.m., fully
equipped. Furnished. Intercom, concierge,
guarded parking. Rent: 5,500 Euros
FLATLINK 363−4435, www.flatlink.ru,
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Serebryany Bor
• Close to the Moscow River
• 160 sqm
• Split level
• 4 rooms/ 3 bedrooms
• 2 bathrooms
• Fully equipped kitchen
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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:
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Smolenskaya Area. 160 sq.m. Spacious
LR. 2BRs. Unfurnished. Equipped eat-inkitchen. Modern elite bldg. Garage, guest
parking. Prime loc. PENNY LANE, 232−
0099.
Mosfilmovskaya Street. 150 sq.m. Big
LR. 3BRs. 2BAs. Tastefully furnished.
EIK. Built-in closets. New development.
Underground garage, guest parking. Allcity view. See lot 42878 at www.realtor.ru.
PENNY LANE, 232−0099.
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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:
$3,000 FLATLINK, 363−4435,
www.flatlink.ru, flatlink@mtu−net.ru
Tsvetnoy Blvrd: 1st Samotechny
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Unfurnished. Just renovated. Hi ceils. 24
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Country house on guarded territory for
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THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Monday, March 24, 2003. PAGE 22
SPORTS
Avalanche thrash Blackhawks
Continued from Page 24
The Assocciated Press
India
opener
Virender
Sehwag batted with immense
confidence to reach 82 from 81
balls with three sixes and two
fours before he was run out
from a direct hit at the bowler’s
end by Darren Lehmann.
But although India batted
brightly throughout they also
kept losing wickets regularly,
succumbing for 234 from 39.2
overs.
They would have lost them
faster if Australia’s fielding had
been of its usual standard.
Brad Hogg and Ponting
dropped fingertip chances and
Damien Martyn spilled a high
catch at midwicket off Yuvraj
Singh, one of three lives granted to the young Indian.
Martyn, who had been
cleared to play after fracturing
his right index finger in the
semi-final against Kenya last
weekend, made amends later
with a fine, diving catch at midoff, running backwards, to dismiss Dinesh Mongia for 12.
Australia, unbeaten in 17
successive one-day internationals as well as throughout the
tournament, became the only
team to win the World Cup
three times after their previous
successes in 1987 and 1999.
The match had been billed as
a classic clash between
Australia’s exciting young
speedster Brett Lee and India’s
master
batsman
Sachin
Tendulkar. Perhaps fittingly in
a match India will be anxious to
forget, they did not even meet
as Tendulakar was caught out
after facing only five balls.
The India opener received
the man-of-the-tournament
award from former West
Indies’ all rounder Garfield
Sobers after scoring a record
673 runs, although it would
have been small consolation
for failing to perform on the
big day.
A heavy rainstorm stopped
play, to the joy of the large
India
contingent,
hoping
against hope that play would be
abandoned before 25 overs
were bowled which would have
meant the match being
replayed on Monday.
But the ground was soon
bathed in bright sunshine and
the match resumed.
Australia had got away to a
flying start when a 10-ball
opening over from a nervous
Zaheer Khan went for 15.
Adam Gilchrist raced to 57
from 48 balls as the 100 came up
in only the 14th over and
Ganguly was forced to turn to
Harbhajan Singh as early as the
10th over.
Australia exposed India’s
lack of a fifth bowler, with
Ponting and Martyn scoring at
six an over without taking any
risks against the gentle spin of
Sehwag, Tendulkar , Mongia
and Singh.
And the much vaunted India
pace attack failed to make any
impact, bowling too short and
failing to exploit the early life in
the pitch. Khan went for 67
from seven overs, Srinath 87
from 10 with Nehra the pick of
the bunch with 57 from 10.
ENVER — Alex Tanguay
stayed hot with his first
career hat trick and the
Colorado Avalanche clinched a
playoff spot by routing the Chicago
Blackhawks 8-1 on Saturday.
Tanguay, who has 20 goals and
33 assists in his last 44 games,
scored twice in the second period, when Colorado had five goals.
Rob Blake, Adam Foote and
Stephen Reinprecht added secondperiod goals.
Peter Forsberg had a careerhigh five assists for the
Avalanche, who moved within
four points of idle Vancouver for
the lead in the Northwest
Division. The Avs have made the
playoffs every season since moving to Denver for the 1995-96
season. They also made the playoffs in their final year in Quebec.
Patrick Roy stopped 22 shots in
two periods to improve to 30-14-12,
his 13th 30-win season and eighth
consecutive year with at least that
many victories. David Aebischer
played the third period.
Red Wings 4, Blues 2: In St.
Louis, Niklas Lidstrom scored the
go-ahead goal in the third period
and Curtis Joseph stopped 24 shots
as the Red Wings won their sixth
straight game.
The win moved the first-place
Red Wings seven points ahead of
the second-place Blues in the
Central Division. Each team has
eight games to play.
The Red Wings have dominated the series of late, going 4-0 this
season. St. Louis has just two victories in its previous 14 games
against Detroit.
Detroit has won 17 of its last 19
games (17-1-0-1). The loss snapped
a six-game home-ice winning
streak for the Blues.
Rangers 2, Flyers 1: In
Philadelphia, Dan Blackburn made
28 saves in a spectacular relief effort
and Petr Nedved scored the winning goal late in the third period.
The victory moved the Rangers
within four points of the New York
D
AP
Cricket
DETROIT RED WINGS goalie Curtis Joseph (31) makes the save on a shot by St. Louis Blues' Petr Cajanek of the Czech
Republic (26) during the third period in St. Louis, Saturday. The Red Wings won 4-2.
Islanders for the final Eastern
Conference playoff spot
It was only the Flyers’ second loss
of the season (24-2-5-1) when leading after the first period.
Nedved scored his 25th goal when
he took a shot from the top of the
right circle that glanced off the butt
end of goaltender Robert Esche’s
stick and into the net with 3:12
remaining in the third period.
Devils 4, Islanders 2: In
Uniondale, New York, Joe
Nieuwendyk had a goal and an
assist as New Jersey won for the
fourth time in five games.
Pascal
Rheaume,
Jamie
Langenbrunner and John Madden
also scored for the Devils, who
extended their Atlantic Division
lead over Philadelphia to four points.
Oleg Kvasha and Janne
Niinimaa scored for the Islanders,
who have lost three straight games
at home. The Islanders are eighth
in the Eastern Conference, just
four points ahead of the New York
Rangers and six in front of
Montreal for the final playoff spot.
Thrashers 3, Blue Jackets 2: In
Columbus, Ohio, Lubos Bartecko
scored with 7:04 left to lift Atlanta
over Columbus.
Dany Heatley had a goal to
extend his points streak to six
games (4-6-10). He has eight goals
and 14 points this month.
Mark Hartigan also had a goal for
Atlanta. Rick Nash and Lasse Pirjeta
scored for the Blue Jackets. Matt
Davidson had his first multipoint
NHL game with two assists.
England: Team sets up slam decider
Continued from Page 24
decider in Dublin in eight days,
where England will have to start
playing much earlier than on
Saturday if they are to claim their
first slam since 1995.
“It’s been difficult, we tried to
keep our minds off a week on
Sunday,” said coach Clive
Woodward.
“Everyone’s just relieved and
now we can look forward to
Dublin.”
As in all their previous games in
this year’s championship, England
struggled for cohesion for long
periods, looking a long way short of
the team that took the three
southern hemisphere scalps so
impressively last November.
On a perfect Spring afternoon
Wilkinson set England on their
way in his usual fashion with a second-minute penalty and added a
second nine minutes later.
Scotland then lost back row forwards Andrew Mower and Simon
Taylor within a minute, both sinbinned for wild hits on Will
Greenwood and Lewsey respectively as the England backs waited
under high balls.
The Twickenham crowd sat
back in the sun to await the
onslaught but instead was treated
to a spirited reaction from a
Scotland team given no chance
coming into the game.
Two men down, they drove
forward and showed plenty of
invention in the backs, leading
to two penalties which Chris
Paterson duly slotted to make it
6-6 after 20 minutes.
It was then time for England to
see yellow, as Robinson took a rest
after a late block.
England finally got some quick
ball in the 22nd minute and, after
some sharp handling, fullback
Lewsey crossed in the left corner
for his third try in two games.
Lewsey was close to a second
eight minutes later, denied by a
last-ditch tackle by opposite
number Glen Metcalfe, and
England had only another
Wilkinson penalty to give them
a 16-9 halftime lead.
England struggled to get moving in the second half and were
frustrated when a Cohen try
from a high Wilkinson kick was
ruled out for a knock-on.
But soon after, in the 50th
minute, Cohen duly got on the
scoreboard after Matt Dawson
robbed Bryan Redpath as the
scrumhalf attempted to kick from
behind a scrum and the winger
had the simplest of tries — his 20th
in his 24th international.
Wilkinson converted and added
a 54th minute penalty to give
England breathing space with a
26-9 lead and they finally began to
take charge as the Scots tired.
Robinson, switched to center in a
second-half reshuffle, burst
through with his trademark acceleration to score in the 63rd and
then added his second after a
break by the increasingly impressive Dawson.
The Calcutta Cup was never in
danger of heading north and
England’s defense remained outstanding.
But Ireland, fresh from their
own scare in Cardiff, will go into
the game with real belief that
Woodward’s team are beatable.
Teams —
England: 15-Josh Lewsey; 14Jason Robinson, 13-Mike Tindall
(22-Dan Luger 57), 11-Ben Cohen;
10-Jonny Wilkinson (21-Paul
Grayson 67), 9- Matt Dawson; 8Lawrence
Dallaglio
(19-Joe
Worsley 75), 7-Neil Back, 6Richard Hill, 5- Ben Kay (18Danny Grewcock 63), 4-Martin
Johnson
(captain),
3-Jason
Leonard, 2-Steve Thompson, 1Graham Rowntree (17-Trevor
Woodman 67).
Scotland: 15-Glenn Metcalfe;
14-Chris Paterson, 13-James
McLaren (22-Kevin Utterson 57),
12-Andy Craig, 11-Kenny Logan;
10-Gregor Townsend, 9-Bryan
Redpath (captain); 8- Simon
Taylor, 7-Andrew Mower (19Ross Beattie 67), 6-Jason White, 5Nathan Hines, 4-Scott Murray (18Stuart Grimes 52), 3-Bruce
Douglas (17-Gavin Kerr 73), 2Gordon Bulloch, 1-Tom Smith.
Referee: Alan Lewis (Ireland).
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Monday, March 24, 2003. PAGE 23
SPORTS
S
EPANG, Malaysia — Kimi
Raikkonen won the Malaysian
Grand Prix on Sunday, his first
career Formula One victory in
another race that had five-time
world
champion
Michael
Schumacher out of the top three.
Second place went to Rubens
Barrichello, putting Ferrari back
on the podium after a race
absence. He was 39 seconds
behind at the finish.
Third was Fernando Alonso of
Renault, who had the pole position. He was the
to start
GLOBAL youngest
from the inside
R O U N D U P in Formula One
history at 21 and
now has a third in his 19th
Formula One race.
Ralf Schumacher of WilliamsBMW, who won last year’s race,
was fourth and Jarno Trulli of
Renault fifth.
Michael Schumacher was sixth
— more than a lap behind —
after a fourth in Australia. He
had a drive-through penalty for
causing a collision with Trulli on
the third turn of the race that
caused Trulli, who started second, to spin and put Schumacher
on the grass for a few seconds.
“It was not my day,” said
Schumacher.
On
the
seventh
lap
Schumacher was penalized for
causing an avoidable collision. He
had a drive-through penalty at
the end of ninth lap and it
dropped him to 14th, 89 seconds
behind first at the time.
After two races Raikkonen, who
gave McLaren its second straight
win of the season, is in the lead of
the drivers’ standings with 16
points following a win and a third
in two races. Raikkonen almost
won the French Grand Prix last
year but slid out of the lead with
less than five laps to go, giving
Michael Schumacher the victory
and his fifth world title.
There was heightened security while the U.S.-led forces
continued their attack on Iraq.
Ireland beat Wales
C
ARDIFF, Wales — Ronan
O’Gara’s drop goal deep into
injury time kept alive Ireland’s
hopes of a first Grand Slam since
1948 with a 25-24 victory over
Wales in the Six Nations on
Saturday.
The fly half’s 40-meter kick
crept over the crossbar just seconds after Stephen Jones had produced a similar kick to put the
Welsh ahead.
Wales had not beaten Ireland at
home for 20 years but appeared to
have clinched victory and ended
Irish Grand Slam dreams when
Jones made it 24-22 in the second
minute of injury time.
Straight from the kickoff,
however, the ball was fed to
O’Gara who broke Welsh hearts
with a kick that seemed to spend
an eternity in the air before
dropping over.
The Irish meet England in their
final match at Lansdowne Road,
Dublin, next weekend (March 30)
in a Grand Slam showdown. The
English beat Scotland 40-9 at
Twickenham to also make it four
championship wins in a row.
— AP
AP
Finn takes first victory
MCLAREN DRIVER Kimi Raikkonen of Finland triumphantly raises his fist after crossing the finishing line to win the Malaysian
Formula One Grand Prix at the Sepang International Circuit, Sunday. Raikkonen won the race - the maiden victory of his career.
Soccer: Hat trick puts Man Utd back on top
Continued from Page 24
fall. The Gunners could regain the
No. 1 position with a victory
Sunday at home against Everton.
In Saturday’s other six Premier
League
games
it
was:
Birmingham 1, West Brom 0;
Chelsea 5, Manchester City 0;
Middlesbrough 1, Charlton 1;
Newcastle 5, Blackburn 1;
Southampton 2, Aston Villa 2;
West Ham 2, Sunderland 0.
On Sunday, Liverpool hosted
Leeds with Everton at Arsenal.
On Monday, Tottenham played
at Bolton.
Man United improved to 64
points and made it a three-way
jam at the top with Arsenal (63)
and Newcastle (61) just behind followed by Chelsea (54), Everton (50)
and Liverpool (49).
Van Nistelrooy scored his
penalty after Ole Gunnar
Solskjaer was pulled down in the
area. The second was one of the
season’s most spectacular as the
Dutch striker scored in the 68th
on a run from midfield, where
he left a half dozen players in
his wake and netted behind
Fulham ‘keeper Maik Taylor.
The third came in second-half
injury time to cap the scoreline and
give him his 32nd of the season.
Van Nistelrooy said it was probably his best goal for Manchester
United, “but not the best in my
career,” he added.
Asked to describe the goal, he did
it this way: “I got the ball maybe
just in their half and turned and
dribbled and dribbled on and on. I
saw space on the left. The goalkeeper came out, and I put it in.”
Man United manager Alex
Ferguson called Van Nistelrooy’s
second a “fantastic goal” and
bragged briefly about being back
in first place.
“It’s where you want to be,”
he said, talking about the lead.
“We’ve come to the important
part of the season and I hope
we can stay there. I think we
have a good chance. The players’ character is helping.”
“So hopefully, these are going to
be exciting times.”
“It’s marvelous. If you want to
be the best in the country, you
want to play in these games. I am
pleased with our performances.”
The record crowd of 67,706
topped the old mark of 67,691 set
on Nov. 2, 2002 in a match at Old
Trafford against Southampton.
The top five attendance figures in
Premier League games have all
been at Old Trafford.
Man United and Arsenal appear
to be clubs headed in opposite
directions.
After going without a trophy
last season, Man United could
now win the English league title
and is still alive in the Champions
League with defending champion Real Madrid waiting in next
month’s quarterfinals.
Defending league and FA Cup
champion Arsenal was knocked
out of the Champions League last
week by Valencia, has slumped
in the league and could be ousted from the FA Cup next week
in a quarterfinal replay against
Chelsea.
In Saturday’s other matches, Newcastle exploded with a
5-1 victory over Blackburn
with four different players
scoring and Blackburn adding
an own-goal. The Magpies had
no problem bouncing back
after being ousted during the
week from the Champions
League by Barcelona.
“The scoreline flattered us 5-1
because it’s a huge result,”
Newcastle manager Bobby Robson
said. “We were marvelous again.
We treated the crowd to some
wonderful football in spells.”
Robson gave much of the credit
to speedy forwards like Craig
Bellamy and Kieron Dyer. “On the
counter we just murdered them
with pace,” he said.
Chelsea also scored big in a 5-0
victory at home over defenseless
Man City with goals for Jimmy
Floyd Hasselbaink, John Terry,
Mario Stanic, Frank Lampard and
William Gallas.
In a battle at the bottom, West
Ham defeated Sunderland 2-0 to
move up to 17th place and out of
the relegation zone.
It was the Hammers third
straight shutout and left new
Sunderland
manager
Mick
McCarthy winless and in last place
with only 19 points.
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SPORTS
COLORADO
Avalanche beat
the Chicago
Blackhawks 8-1
on Saturday.
— PAGE 22
KIMI RAIKKONEN of
Finland won his first
Formula One Grand Prix
in Malaysia on Sunday.
— PAGE 23
Aussies win third World Cup
Indian squad proves
no problem for recordbreaking Australians
By John Mehaffey
Hat trick
sees win
for Man U
By Stephen Wade
The Associated Press
L
ONDON — A record
crowd for a Premier
League game was well
rewarded Saturday as Ruud
van Nistelrooy’s hat trick put
Manchester United back on top
in England.
The Dutchman scored a
penalty
in
first-half
S O C C E R injury time, a
sensational
goal early in the second half and
completed the trio with a late
strike in a 3-0 victory over
Fulham.
United’s victory before a
record 67,706 at Old Trafford
knocked Arsenal out of the top
spot for the first time since the
See SOCCER, Page 23
OHANNESBURG,
South
Africa — An explosive 140 not
out from captain Ricky
Ponting inspired Australia to a
crushing 125-run win over India in
the World Cup final on Sunday
with 10.4 overs to spare.
Ponting hit only one four in a relatively sedate half-century but
then struck eight sixes as the
defending champions raced to a
record 359 for two after they were
unexpectedly asked to bat by
Saurav Ganguly.
The Australia skipper’s score
was the highest in a World Cup
final, beating Viv Richards’ 138
not out against England in 1979,
and his eight sixes were also a
World Cup record.
His team’s total was the highest
ever in eight finals, bettering their
own 253 for five in 1987 and West
Indies’ 291 for eight from 60 overs
in the inaugural 1975 tournament.
It was also Australia’s biggest
AP
MANCHESTER UNITED’S
Ruud Van Nistelrooy celebrates
after scoring against Fulham on
Saturday.
J
AUSTRALIAN CAPTAIN Ricky Ponting is carried on the shoulders of his teammates with the trophy after their victory in the Cricket World Cup
Final at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa. Australia beat India by 125 runs to retain the title.
score ever in a one-day international after 109 runs came from the
last 10 overs.
“It was a bit overdue,” Ponting
said of his innings after receiving
the man-of-the-match award. “It
was an enjoyable day. The batters
took it up and put their hands up.
There was a bit of sideways movement but we cashed in at the end.”
See CRICKET Page 22
England victory
sets up decider
By Mitch Phillips
Reuters
L
ONDON — England have
played their part in setting
up a Six Nations grand slam
decider against Ireland with a 40-9
victory over Scotland but they
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needed a strong second-half display to subdue their visitors.
Just as Ireland had struggled
to collect their expected win
against Wales earlier in the day,
England were made to work all
the way by an enthused and
obdurate Scotland side, particularly in a tight first half.
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left the Scots without a win at
the ground for 20 years.
It also sets up the grand slam
See ENGLAND, Page 22
AP
AP
Reuters
ENGLAND’S Mike Tindall (center) is held by Scotland’s James McLaren (left) and Andrew
Mower (right) during the Six Nations rugby tournament on Saturday.
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