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...failed to show their press credentials. Why the heavy hand? "The regime is getting even with everyone they haven't got even with yet," argues Pavel Gutiontov, secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists. "With the elections left behind, the time to observe the niceties is over." - By Yuri Zarakhovich False Start TURKEY A State security court halted the trial of 69 suspected al-Qaeda members charged in connection with the suicide bomb attacks that killed 61 in Istanbul last November. The court ruled it didn't have the authority to hear the case because reforms to Turkey...
...Will Get Yukos? What happens when a company can't pay its bills but is legally barred from selling its parts? Ask fallen oil giant Yukos, the erstwhile flagship of Russia 's economy. "We can expect bankruptcy before the end of 2004," Yuri Beilin, vice chairman of Yukos' board, announced last week, after a Moscow court upheld a Tax Ministry demand that Yukos must pay $3.5 billion in alleged back taxes for 2000. Another court upheld a previous ruling that froze Yukos' Swiss bank accounts worth $5 billion...
...photography front, Yuri Kozyrev received the prestigious Olivier Rebbot award from the Overseas Press Club for his remarkable photos, and the judges for the World Press Photo foundation gave him first-place honors in the general-news-story category. In the Pictures of the Year International competition, James Nachtwey was named magazine photographer of the year, with Christopher Morris taking second place. Michele Stephenson and MaryAnne Golon won first place in several picture-editing competitions; Hillary Raskin and Alice Gabriner were also recognized. In the American Photography awards, TIME won 11 prizes, with Nachtwey, Kozyrev, Morris, Robert Nickelsberg, Brooks Kraft...
...seven Soviet dissidents who in 1968 participated in a risky demonstration in Red Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia; of a stroke; in Moscow. The linguist and human-rights activist, who spent four years exiled in a Siberian woodworking plant, once wrote an open letter to KGB chief Yuri Andropov to inform him that she was keeping a record of Soviet oppression...
...keep disputed Siberian licenses, the Prosecutor General posted charges against Khodorkovsky's associate Platon Lebedev on its website. "Khodorkovsky is deluding himself if he thinks he can mend fences with Putin," says political analyst Dmitri Furman. It can't hurt to try - By Peter Gumbel. With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich Someone's Paying The Price Global music-industry trade body IFPI filed the first suits against online piracy outside the U.S. , targeting 250 alleged file sharers in four countries. And British music group EMI blamed the effect of illegal downloads when it cut 1,500 staff and one-fifth...