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...There existed another, real task force," explains Elena Milashina, Novaya Gazeta's investigative reporter, who did brilliant work on unraveling Beslan. "[It] was headed by the FSB [the heir to the KGB] from Moscow that had been preparing an assault right from the outset. Having the hostages released through negotiations did not meet their agenda, as set by the Kremlin...
...that top officials from Putin down spend a lot of their time fretting about corporate matters. "I was surprised to realize that the lion's share of our President's office work was detailed involvement in the daily life of our gas sector," Milov wrote in a Russian biweekly, Novaya Gazeta. "I felt that Putin personally handled a great deal of what Gazprom's ceo was supposed to do." Such confusion of roles finds its echo in Europe's approach to Russia. A green paper published by the European Commission in March called for a common external energy policy...
...Mezhennaya's case is only one in a series of crackdowns on the regional press. In January police searched the offices of Den Za Dnem, a Volgograd weekly critical of Governor Nikolai Maksyuta. In February police raided Novaya Gazeta, a weekly in Ryazan which had criticized Regional Governor Vyacheslav Lyubimov in its coverage of his election campaign. In March the regional prosecutor's office in Belgorod pressed charges against Olga Kitova, a correspondent for the local daily Belgorodskaya Pravda who questioned alleged financial machinations by the regional legislature. Though a member of the legislature herself, Kitova was detained and beaten...
...English-language daily The Moscow Times reports. "Maybe after Russian women give their husbands this fragrance, it will inspire them to be more like Luzhkov, to get off the couch, take charge and make the lives of Russian women easier," gushes Nadezhda Petrukhina, head of product development at Novaya Zarya, the perfume factory which produced the cologne. With its solid square shape and silver cap, Mer's bottle symbolizes "the broad, masculine shoulders of a man" who's ready to shoulder responsibility, Petrukhina points out. But there's more than just smell and square lines to the politically ambitious Luzhkov...
...least eight marine reactors, three from the nuclear icebreaker Lenin and the others from decommissioned submarines, have been scuttled in Novaya Zemlya's shallow bays. The dead reactors are encased in layers of steel and may be harmless for many years. But inside, their cores contain dangerous isotopes...