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MACEDONIA Albanian Insurgents Provoke Strong Backlash The risk of renewed ethnic war drew closer when 10 members of the Macedonian security forces were killed in an ambush by Albanian extremists. The assaults triggered retaliatory strikes by government forces, who attacked several Albanian villages with helicopter gunships and artillery. Masked ethnic...
Some of the ousted reporters, including Itogi editor Sergei Parkhomenko, vowed to keep publishing on the Internet, for as long as they can elude suppression. Last week the Kremlin went after TNT - a small Media-Most network that has housed many former NTV staffers since Gazprom's takeover - charging the...
Vladimir putin wasn't able to rub out the Chechen guerrillas, Viktor Shenderovich remarked ruefully last Saturday, but he sure got us. Shenderovich, whose impishly satirical programs are wildly popular in Moscow, had just resigned from NTV, Russia's only privately owned nationwide network. A few hours earlier NTV as...
There are not many. There's the option of going to work for media outlets owned by Gusinsky's rival, oligarch Boris Berezovsky. But having criticized Berezovsky so heavily over the years, the amount of pride they'd have to swallow to go and work with him will be a...
RUSSIA Personal Choices President Vladimir Putin put his stamp on Russia's government with significant changes to the Cabinet that he inherited a year ago from Boris Yeltsin. Out went Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev, to be replaced by Putin's closest confidant, Sergey Ivanov. Duma Deputy Boris Gryzlov, who in...