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...front pages, in fact, is when another scandal blows up. Like the one involving former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, now in detention in the U.S. but pleading his innocence, who bought a $6.7-million mansion in California, in cash, or the tapes that revealed the voice of President Leonid Kuchma - misleadingly edited, his aides claim - saying that an investigative journalist should be "given" to the Chechens. The journalist was later found dead. It did not have to be this way. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the leaders of the new Ukrainian state had plenty to worry about. Russian...
Equally contentious were the Russians, who threatened to boycott the closing ceremony. Russian Olympic Committee president Leonid Tyagachev claimed that Olympic officials had treated Larissa Lazutina, a nine-time Olympic medal winner, unfairly when they disqualified her from the 4x5-km cross-country relay after she failed a blood test administered just prior to competition. The Russians, who have had a poor showing at the Games, also complained that their hockey team was heavily penalized and that their skaters, including silver medalist Irina Slutskaya, were harshly judged. In Moscow, politicians, reflecting public anger, expressed outrage. Sports Minister Pavel Rozhkov demanded...
...press conference with foreign journalists in Rome last Thursday, opposition leader Francesco Rutelli blasted Berlusconi, comparing his control of information in Italy to Leonid Brezhnev's in the 1970s Soviet Union. But Rutelli and his allies - who tried in vain to make conflict of interest a pivotal campaign issue last spring - are still having trouble convincing the Italian public that there is much to worry about. rai's impending change of the guard is old news in Italy, where the state broadcaster's board - as well as top newsroom posts and even minor acting jobs - have long been divvied...
Panel organizer Leonid V. Peisakhin ’03 said he was happy with how the event went...
...Minister of Ukraine, after receiving a vote of no confidence from the communist-led opposition in parliament; in Kiev. His ouster, which was met with the biggest protest in three months of political turmoil, removes the main check on the power of the business oligarchs to whom embattled President Leonid Kuchma is largely beholden. RESIGNED. CUMHUR ERSUMER, 48, Turkish Energy Minister and the highest-ranking official to step down over a graft scandal that partially triggered the country's economic crisis; in Ankara. Ersumer's announcement pushed Turkey's stock market up more than 7%. ARRESTED. ROBERT S. GORDON...