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...around it hosts nuclear and chemical weapons disposal facilities. Vladimir Chuprov of Greenpeace Russia said the Russian government has underestimated potential risks of the region. He noted that the meteor struck only 100 kilometers (60 miles...
...network of labor camps known as the gulag. The Russian government is cooperating with the effort, but it has been...every detail. The material was provided to the Russian government in April 2000 but not released publicly until now...
...chanting slogans and stamping their feet to stay warm in the freezing temperatures. Protesters criticized the Russian government's decision late last year to bring down the Mir in a controlled descent, which has been tentatively scheduled...
...long-range missiles. An attempt last July failed. The State Department memo drew immediate reaction from the Russian government. According to the Interfax news agency, Vladimir Rushailo, head of President Vladimir Putin's Security Council...
...the official said the technology sales to Iran are a sore spot in generally improved U.S. relations with the Russian government, which, he said, is aware of the deals. Officially, Russia agrees with the United States that curbs should...
...the rules of admission wouldn't be bent to speed Russia's application. "I vote `aye,' assuming that the Russian government continues to reform their economy . . . and make a market-based economy work," Bush said. Putin said that Russia...
...to an official investigation. Robinson ''was reasonably hopeful that her views will be taken on board by the Russian government,'' Annan said in Rome. Moscow is under increasing international pressure to investigate allegations of widespread...
...supplied by Chechen terrorists,'' Ivanov said, according to the Interfax news agency. Nikolai Koshman, the Russian government's representative in Chechnya, also said Russia would continue to do as it sees fit in the breakaway republic...
...expand to the point where there is a threat'' to Russia's nuclear weapons system, he said. Publicly, the Russian government has declared any changes, even the ones proposed by the administration to permit deployment of 100 launchers with...
...twice as much foreign capital in the first five months of 2000 -- $10 billion -- as during all of last year, the Russian government says. That's on top of a 27 percent jump in foreign investment and loans in 1999. Yet many foreign companies...