Word: interfax
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...been murdered are a local official in the oil fields of Siberia and the general director of an oil company. "The common denominator in all five criminal cases is conflicts over property between state or commercial bodies and Yukos," a source close to the prosecutor's office told the Interfax news agency. Yukos rejects all allegations leveled against it as baseless. The disarray reflects schisms within the Kremlin. Despite the confident hands-on image that Putin projects to the world - and which Russia's tightly controlled electronic media transmit daily to its citizens - the President is a tentative leader...
...enough. According to one account, he threw a bottle at some of his Chechen captors and ran toward them. A gunman opened fire, missed the youth and hit another man in the eye. "There was blood--foamy. A girl was hit in the side," said Olga Chernyak, an Interfax news reporter among the captives. "It happened right where I was. I thought they would kill us all." As hostages screamed, recalled Chernyak, "The Chechen women were very happy the end was coming and that they would blow us all up. They told us, we have come here...