Word: gazeta
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...According to the daily Nezavisamaya Gazeta, the protest in Pikalyovo has also prompted Putin to announce the creation of "crisis teams" made up of members of his majority United Russia Party to monitor joblessness in every region. On Tuesday, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev launched a set of meetings aimed at preventing further protests such as those carried out in Pikalyovo and later said he will sack regional employers who fail to tackle unemployment themselves and instead pass the responsibility on to Moscow...
...group of retreating Chechen rebel fighters began pounding the village of Katyr-Yurt with 550-lb. (250 kg) and 1,100-lb. (500 kg) unguided bombs. No prior warning was given to the village's sleeping residents. "The main Chkalov St. was totally destroyed," reported the independent Novaya Gazeta from the scene. "Not a single house remains standing." The destruction of Katyr-Yurt, 25 miles (40 km) from the Chechen capital of Grozny, continued even as villagers tried to flee through a corridor they had been told was safe. Accounts differ, but scores, if not hundreds, were killed and wounded...
...Putin's more optimistic forecasts, which some saw as an attempt to fend off political instability, "suffered a radical readjustment," wrote the daily Nezavisamaya Gazeta. "We all understand what a difficult situation our country, our economy, is in," Medvedev said as he announced that budget expenditures would exceed revenues for the first time in 10 years. He said the government would move "to a strict regime of saving budget resources" along the lines championed by bearish Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. (See pictures of Putin...
...bomb in 2004, Putin installed Ramzan as prime minister, and later president; the two continue to enjoy a close relationship. "If it were not for Putin, Chechnya would not exist. I owe my life to Putin," Kadyrov said of his political patron in a recent interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta...
...that Medvedev may be relaxing some of the strictures of the Putin regime: The president withdrew Duma-approved legislation that would have broadened the terms for a treason conviction. Permission was granted for a protest march by an opposition party last month. And Medvedev visited the headquarters of Novaya Gazeta after the murder of journalist Anastasia Baburova - no such gesture was forthcoming from Putin after the murder of Anna Politkovskaya two years ago, a journalist from the same newspaper known for her exposes of human rights abuses in Chechnya...