Word: ekho
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...verdict to be overturned," Anna Stavitskaya, the lawyer for Politkovskaya's son and daughter, told the judges, according to Russian media. "We are more interested in the mastermind and the killer," said Sergei Sokolov, deputy editor of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper for which Politkovskaya worked, speaking to Ekho Moskvy, an independent radio station. "It's obvious that today's ruling was based on a political decision - not on a procedural one. For the authorities, the most important thing was simply to make sure someone goes to prison...
...ulterior motive behind the Supreme Court's call for a retrial, which may start in the fall. "This decision sounds okay - as though the 'good' Supreme Court has corrected problems and justice has triumphed," said Yulia Latynina, an investigative journalist, during the political talk show she hosts on Ekho Moskvy. "In Russia, everything is rigged: the police, the prosecution and the courts. This is just P.R. to create the impression that there is a legal process taking place...
Boris Titov, a human-rights activist, told radio station Ekho Moskva that young Russians who can afford to should be allowed to pay their way out of service - provided that the money goes towards improving army conditions in Russia, which are notoriously low. Others, however, point out that may only exacerbate class divisions and affect the quality of the country's soldiery. "The army is already made up of Russia's poor," says Kuznetsova. "With this kind of system, it will be full of alcoholics and invalids...
...after the July 1 deadline expired, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, faced with bare wine shelves and rapidly dwindling revenues, was forced to sign a six-month relabeling extension. In one week, Russia's retail revenue dropped 20%, a downturn that has cost the economy some $188 million, according to Ekho Moskvy radio station. Andrei Tkemladze, general manager of Moscow's fashionable Azbuka Vkusa supermarket chain, believes that the alcohol market may take at least six months to recover, with retail prices skyrocketing by over 30% as producers, suppliers and retailers make up for their losses. But the cost of drinking...
RUSSIA They Seek Him Here Even as Russian Interpol spokesman Igor Tsiryulnikov was announcing that Victor Bout, wanted by Interpol on charges of arming the al-Qaeda network, "for sure is not in Russia," Bout was giving a live interview to Ekho Moskvi radio, just a short distance from the Kremlin. Bout, who runs his air-cargo empire from the United Arab Emirates, denied allegations of illegal arms trafficking in the interview and confirmed that he "never had any problems traveling across Russia...