Word: ryazan
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...last of the independent television stations was closed down last month. Some suspect that Shchekochikhin himself may have been silenced, too. His death was bizarre and its cause remains unexplained. According to an aide, Shchekochikhin developed a slight fever on July 16 as he was en route to Ryazan, 300 km east of Moscow. When he returned home the next day, the fever worsened and his skin began peeling and breaking. When an ambulance was finally called a day later, he was so weak that he had to be carried to the car. He fell into a coma and died...
...stake in oil company TNK, making the biggest purchase of Russian equity ever. But just as BP was showing its faith in Russia, environmental groups were claiming the company had become an apostate to the green causes it once championed. TNK has some notoriously polluted assets, like the Ryazan refinery and the Samotlor field in western Siberia, where 6,500 hectares of land have been heavily contaminated. That won't impress groups like the U.K.-based World Wildlife Fund, which recently decided to sell its BP shares because of environmental concerns in Alaska and elsewhere. Emita Neville, head of advocacy...
Berezovsky's accusations centered on an incident that took place soon after the worst bombings. Local residents in the city of Ryazan, south of Moscow, reported suspicious behavior to the police, who discovered a large quantity of an unknown powder. The FSB later claimed that they had been conducting an exercise, and that the powder was sugar, yet an explosives specialist from the city was quoted as saying that it was in fact hexogen, the substance that had wrought such horrible damage in Moscow and Volgodonsk. If the bombing was done by the FSB, Berezovsky said, Putin must have known...
...strange incident in Ryazan has never been fully explained. But Berezovsky's interest in the subject is as belated as it is unconvincing. He did not explain why it took him so long to conclude that Putin was aware of the bombings. As a prime mover in the inner circle around Yeltsin, Berezovsky prided himself on knowing exactly who was doing what in the highest reaches of power. He, like other businessmen-powerbrokers, collected information on rivals, friends and the Kremlin. He also had access to information provided by a security organization that was described in press accounts...
...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...