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NATO summit to transform Russia’s orbit
Bush says Putin has
nothing to fear from the
Alliance’s expansion
Membership means a
great deal for Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia
By Tom Raum
By Alex Rodriguez
The Associated Press
Chicago Tribune
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going to be disarmed.”
The president left early Tuesday
ILNIUS, Lithuania —The
bloodletting of the predawn darkness on Jan. 13,
1991, cut too deep a wound in
Lithuania’s collective psyche for
its people to shrug off the symbolism of this week’s expected invitation from NATO.
On that morning outside the
Vilnius television tower, Soviet
tanks and troops advanced on
a peaceful demonstration,
crushing or shooting to death
14 people.
It proved to be a bloody prologue to the Baltic nation’s independence.
See BUSH, Page 4
See BALTICS, Page 4
AP
ASHINGTON — U.S.
President George W.
Bush said he’ll assure
President Vladimir Putin this
week that Russia “has nothing to
fear” from NATO expansion into
territory once claimed by the
Soviet Union.
Bush also said the alliance will
play an increasing role in tracking
down international terrorists.
“Russia is not a threat, and
therefore the military strategies of
NATO need to be changed to recognize that new reality,” Bush said
Monday, previewing his trip in a
round-table interview with eastern European reporters.
On Iraq, Bush promised to con-
AN AMERICAN fighter pilot (left) talks to Czech colleagues taking part in joint guarding of airspace for this week’s NATO summit.
sult with allies over possible
strikes, even though the United
States is not directly seeking
NATO’s help in confronting
Saddam Hussein.
“The NATO alliance understands this issue,” Bush said.
“One way or the other, he is
U.N. to aid
Chechnya
UES breakup
bill delayed
by deputies
By Vladimir Isachenkov
T
he plan to split up Unified
Energy
Systems
was
delayed by the State Duma,
which put off voting on bills on
breaking up Russia’s power utility
for at least 2-1/2 weeks, said Oleg
Morozov, leader of the Russian
Regions parliamentary faction.
The bills may face further
delays, Morozov said.
The Duma Council said there are
too many amendments to finish
work by the Nov. 29 review date,
and it decided to put off the second
reading until Dec. 18.
AP
Bloomberg
U.N. CHIEF weapons inspector Hans Blix (left) leaves Baghdad’s Rashid
hotel en route to the U.N. headquarters building in Baghdad on Tuesday.
Iraq says 4 hurt
in allied air raid
Reuters
INSIDE
RUSSIA
• Kadyrov seen behind swoop................ 3
• Turkey denies entry to Chechens... 3
• Trawler seized in Far East.............. 3
MONEY
• Wimm−Bill−Dann sales up............ 5
• Russia, Vietnam split on oil........... 5
• U.S. trade deficit 2nd highest........ 5
WORLD
• Portugal hopes to avoid slick........ 9
• Girlfriend tells of 9/11 pilot............10
SPORTS
• Srewell leads Knicks to win..........16
• Yugoslav clubs on the ball...........16
B
AGHDAD — Iraq said
Tuesday four people were
injured when Western
planes attacked civilian targets
in southern Iraq on Monday, as
U.N. weapons inspectors resumed
work in the country after a fouryear absence.
The latest report came as U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan
said Iraq’s firing on planes
patrolling no-fly zones over
northern and southern Iraq did
not violate the latest U.N. resolution on disarming Iraq — contrary to Washington’s interpretation.
U.S. Central Command on
Monday said coalition aircraft
patrolling the no-fly zones
launched strikes against military
targets in response to hostile fire.
U.S. and British jets patrol the
flight exclusion zones set up after
the 1991 Gulf War to protect a
Kurdish enclave in the north and
Shi’ite Muslims in the south from
attack by President Saddam
Hussein’s military.
Iraq does not recognize the
zones and frequently accuses the
jets of causing civilian casualties.
An Iraqi military spokesman
quoted by the official Iraqi News
Agency said: “U.S. and British
planes carried out at 20:50 p.m.
yesterday 41 sorties from bases
in Kuwait, flying over Nassiriya,
Kut, Shatra, Qalat Sukar and
Samawa.”
See IRAQ, Page 4
U
nited Nations officials
expressed strong concern
Tuesday over Russian
intentions to close camps for
See CHECHNYA, Page 4
ROSEMARY McCreery, UNICEF’s
coordinator for Russia, discusses
Russian intentions to close camps
for Chechen refugees.
AP
By Guy Faulconbridge
and Irina Granik
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Wednesday, November 20, 2002. PAGE 2
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K
ABUL — World boxing
legend Muhammad Ali
wrapped up a three-day
goodwill visit to Afghanistan on
Tuesday with a ride through
war-battered western Kabul and
a visit to the destroyed palace of
the country’s former king.
Ali met former king Mohammad Zaher Shah Monday night
and was shown the rocket-blasted palace — nearly leveled during the 1992-96 civil war — by
Shah’s grandson, Duran Zaher.
The former heavyweight
champion arrived in Afghanistan
on Sunday in his role as a “U.N.
Messenger of Peace,” hoping to
focus international attention of
the continued plight of this
poverty-stricken nation that is
slowly emerging from more than
two decades of war.
“My life and my success were
built upon the preparation that I
practiced when I was a young
person growing up in a poor place
in America. And just like myself,
I know that you will succeed,” the
60-year-old said in a statement
directed at Afghanistan’s youth.
“I want to thank you ... for
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BOXING legend Muhammad Ali (left) spars with Afghan boxer Abdullah Shakin during a
visit to a boxing club in Kabul this week.
showing me how strong you are
in spite of the hardships your
country still faces. You must
keep that strength. You must
continue to hope for a brighter
tomorrow.”
Ali, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, walked slowly and
with help throughout much of his
visit. His own spoken words, too
faint to be heard clearly, were
repeated by aides.
During the trip, Ali met
President Hamid Karzai, visited a
U.N.-sponsored girl’s school and
ate bread at a U.N.-funded
women’s bakery. Women were
banned from most jobs and girls
banned from going to school during the former Taliban government’s five-year rule, which
ended in a U.S.-led war last year.
On Monday, Ali also visited a
boxing club and stepped into the
ring to spar with two young
Afghan boxers.
TRASBOURG — Lawmakers from EU candidate countries took part in
a session of the European
Parliament for the first time on
Tuesday, a day after the bloc set
May 1, 2004, as the date for its
eastward enlargement.
The gathering in the imposing steel-and-glass building in
Strasbourg, France, brought
together more than 200
deputies from 12 candidate
countries and 626 European
parliamentarians to celebrate
the forthcoming creation of the
world’s biggest single market.
“Your presence signals the
opening of a new chapter for
Europe,” said EU Commission
President Romano Prodi.
Tuesday’s session gave a
foretaste of the linguistic challenges facing the EU when the
number of its official languages
increases to 20 from 11 after
enlargement.
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DAILY GUIDE: Wednesday, November 20, 2002
CULTUREpicks
EVENTSdiary
WEATHERwatch
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
OPERA
INTERNATIONAL
- Notre Dame de Paris (Cocciante): 7 p.m. Theater of Operetta
- Love for Three Oranges (Prokofyev): 7 p.m. Bolshoi Theater
- Mavra (Stravinsky): 7 p.m. Helikon Opera
WEDNESDAY
. CARACAS, Venezuela — Inter−American Forum on Poverty, Equity
and Social Inclusion, under purview of the Organization of American
States’ Inter−American Council for Integral Development. Through
Nov. 22.
THURSDAY
. PRAGUE — Summit of NATO leaders. Through Nov. 22.
. NEW DELHI — Russian Industry and Science Minister Ilya Klebanov
visits for preparatory talks before Putin visit. Through Nov. 22.
FRIDAY
. MOSCOW — Top military brass gather for conference expected to be
dominated by discussions of military reform. Through Nov. 26.
THEATERS
- The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov): 7 p.m. Sovremennik
- Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky): 7 p.m. Chekhov MKhAT, small
stage
- Alexander Pushkin (Bezrukov): 7 p.m. Yermolova Theater
- Yevgeny Onegin (Pushkin): 7 p.m. Taganka Theater
- A Maid Without a Dowry (Ostrovsky): 7 p.m. Gogol Theater
- Don’t Awaken Madame (Anouilh): 7 p.m. Mossovet Theater
CLASSICAL
- Boccerini, Haydn: Zoya Shikhmurzayeva (violin), Nikolai Dolzhnikov (violin): 6:30 p.m. Scriabin Museum
- Mozart (masses and Requiem): Tchaikovsky Big Symphonic Orchestra;
Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory: 7 p.m. Moscow
Conservatory, Big Hall
- "Russia-Germany." Pages from the 20th century’s musical history:
Hindemith, Schoenberg, Gershkovich, Vainberg: Studio of New Music
ensemble: 7 p.m. Moscow Conservatory, Rachmaninov Hall
- Mozart, Weber, Villa Lobos: Maria Alikhanova (flute), Oleg Bugayev
(cello): 7 p.m. Gagarinsky − 4 Concert Hall
- Saint-Saiens, Frank, Poulenk: Mlada chamber choir. Conductor: Yulia
Polovnikova. Soloists: Nadezhda Kharitonova (soprano) and Tatyana
Rubinskaya (mezzo-soprano): 7:30 p.m. Roman−Catholic Cathedral
LIVE MUSIC
- Irina Rodiles: 8 p.m. M−Bar
- Galina Khomchik: 8 p.m. B2
- Scott Hamilton (tenor-saxophone, U.S.) John Piers (piano) and Dave
Green (bass): 9 p.m. Le Club
- Zemlyanichnaya Polyana (Slavic folk): 10 p.m. Vermel
- Sun Music: 10 p.m. Rhythm−n−Blues
- Nicotine: 10 p.m. Orakul Bozhestvennoi Butylki
- Robert Bolt: 10 p.m. Schwein
- Tesno: 11 p.m. Tabula Rasa
- 20000 lighters: 11 p.m. Bunker
- Nemo: Midnight. News Pub
SPORTS
- Hockey. Russian championship. Superleague. CSKA - SKA: 6:30 p.m.
CSKA Sports Complex
- Hockey. Russian championship. Superleague. Krylya Sovetov Avangard: 7 p.m. Krylya Sovetov Sports Complex
WHAThappened
1272 Edward I proclaimed King of England
1780 Britain declares war on Holland
1789 New Jersey becomes first state to ratify Bill of Rights
1866 Howard University founded (Washington, DC)
1894 U.S. intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1914 U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1917 Ukrainian Republic declared
1931 Commercial teletype service begins
1938 First documented anti−Semitic remarks over U.S. radio (by Father
Coughlin)
1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1947 Britain’s Princess Elizabeth marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
1959 U.N. adopts the declaration of children’s rights
1962 U.S. lifts blockade of Cuba
1977 Egyptian President Sadat became first Arab leader to address Israeli
Knesset
1981 Soviet Union’s Anatoly Karpov retains world chess championship
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Chance of Precip.: 30 % Avg. Humidity: 97 %
THURSDAY
Showers Max: 1°C/34°F
Wind: From the West Southwest at 5 mph
EXHIBITIONS
- Icelandic arts of the 20th century: 65 paintings and photographs:
TRETYAKOV ART GALLERY ON LAVRUSHINSKY PEREULOK (runs until
Dec. 1)
- Yakutian paintings, graphics and crafts from the collection of the
National Museum of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia: TRETYAKOV ART
GALLERY ON LAVRUSHINSKY PEREULOK (runs until Nov. 25)
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— PAGE 5
C
OPENHAGEN — A top
Danish justice official said
Tuesday that evidence provided by Russia in its request for
the extradition of a senior
Chechen rebel is still insufficient and includes inconsistencies in translations.
The Justice Ministry’s international affairs chief urged Russian
authorities to make a better case
against Akhmed Zakayev, a top
aide of Chechen separatist leader
Aslan Maskhadov, before a Nov.
30 deadline. Jakob Scharf said
investigators have noted problems in the batches of documents
from the Russians, including
inconsistencies in translations of
documents.
Zakayev was apprehended
Oct. 30 after a legal meeting of
Chechen rebels and human
rights activists in Copenhagen.
He has been jailed until at least
Nov. 26, at which time he’ll face
another hearing to determine
whether he should remain in
police custody while the Danes
investigate Russia’s request for
his handover.
Secret police on trial
T
ALLINN — Nearly 60 years
after occupying Estonia,
hundreds of residents are seeking justice against eight
Stalinist-era secret police for
the deportation of more than
400 Saaremaa Islanders to
Siberia in the 1940s.
The trial, held where the
crimes allegedly happened after
the Red Army occupied this
coastal nation of 1.4 million people
in 1944, has been widely anticipated among the island’s 40,000
residents.
The former agents, all of them
in their 70s and 80s, are accused
of sending purported enemies of
the communist regime on ferries
and cattle trains to Siberia, 2,000
km away.
All the agents on trial declared
their innocence.
EU bans Lukashenko
B
RUSSELS — Fourteen of
the 15 European Union
nations imposed a travel ban on
Belarusian President Alexander
Lukashenko and seven top government ministers because of
the human rights situation in
the former Soviet republic.
Portugal was the only holdout.
The EU nations had originally
sought a ban on a wider range of
Belarus government officials, but
reduced it in an attempt to get
Portugal on board.
The EU had warned Lukashenko that if he refused to assist
human rights monitors sent by
the Organization of Security and
Cooperation in Europe — which
aims to promote democracy
across the continent — it would
seriously affect relations.
Last month, Belarus closed
down the OSCE mission after
refusing to extend the visas of
many of the group’s employees.
— AP
Kadyrov seen behind swoop
The official is said to
have overseen operation
to free abducted workers
By Artyom Vernidoub
Gazeta.ru
F
reed Red Cross workers
Alexander Panov and Musa
Satushiyev were apparently abducted by a group of Grozny
residents — acting independently
of Chechen warlords — who hoped
to exchange them for a captured
comrade, it has emerged.
Bodyguards of pro-Moscow
Chechen head Akhmad Kadyrov
managed to overpower the
hostage-takers with little difficulty during an operation
Sunday, sources say.
Kadyrov reportedly acted to
find the kidnappers as soon as the
Red Cross reported the incident,
fearing that problems with the
influential international aid
agency might mean the end of aid
shipments, with painful consequences for the Chechen economy.
Panov and Satushiyev, both
residents of the North Caucasus
Kabardino-Balkaria
republic,
were abducted by masked gunmen as they drove between the
villages of Raduzhnoye and KerlaUrt on Wednesday.
An unarmed convoy of two
Skania cargo trucks and an
accompanying Land Cruiser
AP
Evidence insufficient
RUSSIA
HEAD of Chechnya’s pro-Moscow administration Akhad Kadyrov (left)
speaks with President Vladimir Putin in this file photo. Kadyrov’s bodyguards apparently took part in the operation to free two kidnapped Red
Cross workers Sunday.
“He is a middle-ranking field
commander who is the official
emissary of [Chechen President]
Aslan Maskhadov in Grozny,” one
investigator claimed.
On Saturday Paizulayev was
arrested, but the hostages were
freed only a day later.
Kadyrov, however, did not
implicate Maskhadov. He announced that the names of the
abductors were known to him
and the toughest measures unless
the hostages were released
immediately.
The threat produced no effect,
were heading to Ingushetia after
delivering humanitarian aid to
the Chechen capital, when two
masked gunmen ordered the drivers to stop.
The gunmen dragged truck
drivers Panov and Satushiyev
from their cabins and drove them
away in a Niva jeep.
For several days there was no
news of the abducted drivers
and the kidnappers made no
demands. However, prosecutors
on Thursday blamed the abduction on a gang headed by a rebel
by the name of Paizulayev.
and Kadyrov’s men went into
action alongside police — the first
time they had taken part in a
hostage-freeing operation.
The released drivers, looking
tired but relieved, said in televised comments Monday that
they held no grudges against
anyone, not even their abductors, who held them in a locked
room on the outskirts of Grozny.
They said they had been treated well by their masked captors.
Panov and Satushiyev even
expressed some sympathy for
their abductors. From conversations they overheard they understood that the kidnappers had
wanted to exchange them for a
comrade held in a Pyatigorsk
prison. The Red Cross workers
said no demands for a ransom
were made.
Observers say the drivers’
account casts doubt on the initial assumption that the Red
Cross workers had been seized
on the orders of Maskhadov with
the goal of disrupting aid shipments to Chechnya.
However, Deputy Interior
Minister Col. Sultan Satuyev continued to insist Monday that the
abductors had not acted on their
own initiative but were under
the command of the warlord
Paizulayev.
Satuyev said “all our forces,
ranging from imams of mosques to
drug addicts,” were used in hunting down the abductors.
Chechen rebel leaders Trawler seized in
denied entry to Turkey Russia’s Far East
Reuters
T
urkey has deported or
denied entry visas to nine
separatist leaders from
Russia’s breakaway republic of
Chechnya, the Turkish ambassador
to Moscow said Tuesday.
“These people will never enter
Turkey,” Ambassador Kurtulus
Taskent said at a news conference. Among nine Chechen separatist leaders, he mentioned
Movladi Udugov and Ruslan
Gelayev, both prominent rebel
warlords who have played an
active role in the war.
Taskent would not say whether
Udugov and Gelayev were actually deported from Turkey or simply
barred from entering, nor would
he give any further details relating
to them or other rebels.
He said the government banned
the nine Chechens because they
did not disclose the nature of their
work in Turkey or because they
were engaged in illegal activities or
activities that “aimed at harming
Turkey’s relations with Russia.”
Thousands of Chechens live in
Turkey and up to 5 million Turks
trace their roots to the Caucasus
region, which includes Chechnya.
Several Chechen associations and
charities were active in Turkey
in recent years.
Pro-Chechen militants have carried out hijackings and hostage
takings in Turkey, including an
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PORTUGAL hopes
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oil slick from a stricken
tanker off the coast of
Spain.
— PAGE 9
MOVLADI UDUGOV
April 2001 siege at an Istanbul
hotel in which 120 people were
held captive for 12 hours before
rebels surrendered and released
the hostages unharmed.
Russia has claimed that some of
the Chechen groups in Turkey
helped finance militants during the
three-year war in Chechnya.
Following last month’s hostagetaking raid on a Moscow theater by
gunmen demanding an end to the
war, Russia urged Turkey to shut
down Chechen organizations,
claiming they had been in contact
with the hostage-takers.
The Turkish authorities have
condemned the theater raid but
denied that the rebels who staged
it had any connection with Turkey.
Taskent on Tuesday insisted
that there were no rebel missions
in Turkey.
LADIVOSTOK — Armed
men seized a Russian
trawler off the country’s
Pacific coast on Tuesday, rescue
services said, prompting the government to order an immediate
investigation.
Regional officials said the boat,
identified as the Tulun, had been
boarded by attackers approaching
from another vessel in the Sea of
Japan, 400 nautical miles off the
port of Vladivostok. Officials offered
no explanation for the incident.
Poaching is rampant in Russia’s
Pacific waters and rivalries are
keen among illegal groups.
But RIA news agency quoted
security sources as saying President
European
Medical
Center
Vladimir Putin had ordered the
country’s border guards to investigate the seizure. A special crisis unit
was set up in Vladivostok.
RIA, quoting the Emergencies
Ministry, said the Tulun had been
seized in neutral waters outside
Russia’s economic zone and was
heading north. It quoted security
sources as saying the armed group
had boarded the boat from a second
vessel identified as the Korf, sailing
under a Cambodian flag.
Lloyd’s shipping register lists the
Korf as a 217-metric-ton Russian
vessel, built in 1983. It had no listing
for the Tulun, described by Interfax
news agency as a 1,200-metric-ton
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Chechen refugees and appealed
to international donors for $33
million to help civilians in the
war-ravaged republic and
neighboring Ingushetia next
year.
Russian officials this summer
announced plans to close camps
in Ingushetia that house
Chechens who have fled fighting in their republic. Although
officials have said none of the
refugees will be forced to return
to Chechnya, there is wide
worry that they will be pressured to go back to bolster the
Kremlin’s contention that life in
Chechnya is improving.
Jozsef Gyorke, representative
of the U.N. High Commissioner
for Refugees in Russia, told a
news conference that Russian
authorities had balked at authorizing the replacement of tents
in refugee camps in Ingushetia.
“The Russian authorities are
reluctant to issue the permission because they want to close
the tent camps before the end
of the year,” Gyorke said. He
said that the deployment of
Russian troops next to refugee
camps in Ingushetia, following
last month’s hostage-taking raid
Eleven years later, Russia andthe
West are closer than ever, and
debate swirls about NATO’s postCold War relevance. But for
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia,
NATO accession represents an
important capstone to the fight for
independence, as well as give the former Soviet republics peace of mind.
“We won’t have to fight with our
bare hands any more,” said Stase
Asanavceine, whose 23-year-old
daughter, Loreta Asanaviciute, was
crushed by a Soviet tank. “I place a
very heavy meaning on this accession to NATO.”
NATO is widely expected to invite
Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia to be
new members when the alliance
holds its summit in Prague on
Thursday and Friday. The Baltic
states would thus become the first
former Soviet republics to join
NATO, a military alliance established by the West in 1949 to challenge the Soviet Union.
The former Eastern bloc lands
of Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and
Slovenia also are expected to
receive invitations.
Moscow has groused about
NATO’s enlargement plans, particularly the Alliance’s inclusion of the
Baltic states and the prospect that
their relatively minuscule armed
forces soon will be backed by the
West’s collective military might.
But the Kremlin also realizes it
is powerless to stop NATO expansion. While calling the Alliance’s
enlargement unnecessary, President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged that independent nations are
free to join whatever military
alliance they wish.
Moscow’s opposition to NATO
expansion also has been tempered by
a new spirit of cooperation with the
West following the Sept. 11. terrorist
attacks on the U.S. and manifested in
the formation last May of the NATORussia Council, which made Russia
an equal partner on a range of security issues, including terrorism and
weapons proliferation.
Last month, one of Putin’s chief
advisers, Sergei Yaztrzhembsky,
went so far as to tell Estonian journalists that accession would improve
Russian-Baltic relations by liberating
“Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from
past fears.” “As far as I understand,
NATO membership is a matter of
psychological security for you,” the
Kremlin aide said.
Some observers believe the
Kremlin toned down its rhetoric
about NATO’s expansion plans
because it fared badly when it
denounced the membership of three
former Soviet satellites during the
alliance’s previous enlargement in
1999. Poland, Hungary and the Czech
Republic joined then, and Moscow’s
fist-shaking opposition did nothing to
derail their membership.
“They lost, and it was seen in
Moscow as a defeat,” said Harri
Tiido, an Estonian foreign ministry
AP
CHECHEN refugees could be
forced out of camps in Ingushetia.
in Moscow by Chechen gunmen,
had raised the pressure on the
refugees.
UNICEF’s coordinator for
Russia, Rosemary McCreery,
said that the issue of the
refugees’ voluntary return
remained the focus for U.N. discussions with the Russian
authorities.
“The main priority of the
United Nations’ operations is to
ensure that those people are
able to remain in Ingushetia or
to seek a safe haven in other
parts of Russia,” McCreery said.
Bush: Nothing to fear
for Prague, the Czech Republic’s
capital, for a summit of leaders of
the 19 NATO nations. He will also
visit Russia and prospective NATO
members Lithuania and Romania
on the five-day trip.
The president offered support to
Putin for his handling of last
month’s hostage crisis in a Moscow
theater that left 128 captives dead.
“He made some very tough decisions. People try to blame Vladimir,
they ought to blame the terrorists,”
Bush said. “They’re the ones who
caused this situation — not
President Putin.”
The president noted that alQaida leader Osama bin Laden in
his recent audiotaped message was
“praising these Muslim attacks,”
including the one in Moscow, and
mentioned Chechnya.
“To the extent that there are
al-Qaida members infiltrating
Russia, they need to be dealt
with, they need to be brought to
justice,” Bush said.
The Cold War-vintage North
Atlantic Treaty Organization is
bringing into its fold three Baltic
nations — Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania — once claimed by
Moscow as republics of the Soviet
Union, a claim never officially recognized by the United States.
Three other soon-to-be NATO
members, Bulgaria, Romania and
Slovakia — were tied to the Soviet
Union through the Warsaw Pact,
the Kremlin-dominated alliance
signed in 1955 to counter the U.S.led NATO formed six years earlier.
The other prospective new member, Slovenia, was formerly part of
non-aligned Yugoslavia.
Former Warsaw Pact members
Poland, Hungary and the Czech
Republic joined NATO in 1999.
“The Warsaw Pact doesn’t
exist,” Bush said Monday. “As a
matter of fact, the Warsaw Pact
is becoming NATO, slowly but
surely,” he said in a Radio Free
Europe interview.
After the Prague meeting,
Bush flies to Putin’s hometown
of St. Petersburg — his second
visit in a year.
“I’m going to Russia to make it
clear to Russia and to Vladimir
Putin they have nothing to fear
from NATO expansion ... to explain
why I think it’s a positive development,” Bush said.
“... There is a threat to all of us in
the form of international and global terrorism, which we must be
able to deal with,” Bush said.
Of the seven-year long battle
between Russian troops and independence-minded rebels in the
small Caucasus Mountain republic of Chechnya, Bush said, “I
hope Chechnya can be solved
peacefully.”
“I will continue to talk to
Vladimir about the need to protect
and recognize the rights of minorities in any country, and at the same
time deal with terrorism. I hope he
can find that balance. I think he
can,” Bush said. Several times,
Bush referred to the Russian
leader by his first name.
He also praised Russia for helping to draft the strong resolution
on weapons inspections in Iraq
that was ultimately adopted by
the U.N. Security Council. U.N.
weapons inspectors returned to
Iraq on Monday.
“This isn’t a free pass” for
Saddam, Bush said. “We expect
him to disarm.”
Bush will hold separate one-onone meetings on the sidelines of the
NATO summit with Czech,
Turkish and French leaders and
with NATO Secretary-General
George Robertson — but not with
German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder, who angered Bush by
opposing U.S. plans toward Iraq
during his re-election bid.
AP
Chechnya: U.N. project Baltics: NATO membership
MARINE ONE, the U.S. president’s helicopter, kicks up leaves as it arrives in
Washington to take George W. Bush before his visit to Prague.
vice chancellor in charge of orchestrating that country’s accession bid.
“So to avoid the perception of defeat,
this time they’re going along with it.”
This time around, the harshest
criticism from Moscow has come
from Russia’s military leaders, many
of them Soviet holdovers. Especially
vexing, one Russian military adviser
says, was Lithuania’s recent decision
to buy 60 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and support equipment from
the United States for $31 million.
Some Stingers will be used to fortify security at Lithuania’s Ignalina
nuclear power plant, for years
plagued by security gaps and seen as
a possible terrorist target.
“Lithuania has a right to buy anything from anyone, but this is in the
old spirit of confrontation,” said
Russian Major Gen. Valery Cheban,
an adviser to the Russian parliament’s defense committee. “If they
want to resolve issues in a confrontational spirit, Russia has other ways of
responding than military — economic ways for example.”
Giedrius Cekuolis, a Lithuanian
deputy foreign minister in charge of
organizing his country’s NATO bid,
calls that kind of rhetoric “artificial
anxiety.” The Baltic states have no
desire to become a staging ground for
any large-scale NATO buildup.
NATO leaders say they have no
plans to ask for one.
The Baltic states and the other
likely new members, however, are
required to increase their defense
spending up to 2 percent of their
GDPs. Estonia and Lithuania
already achieved that mark. Latvia
says it will do so by the beginning
of next year.
Latvia is the least prepared of the
three Baltic states. Just two weeks
ago, a Pentagon report admonished
the country, along with Slovenia and
Bulgaria, for failing to protect classified information. The report is not
expected to sidetrack the NATO
invitations. Nevertheless, Latvia’s
troubles worry its Baltic neighbor to
the north, Estonia.
Each of the Baltic states has
invested in shared military projects
such as Baltnet, a joint air surveillance system that would become
integrated into NATO’s systems once
accession occurs. Without Latvia, the
system would have to be radically
altered, or even dismantled. “It
would be a nightmare,” Tiido said.
Latvia probably has at least a year to
remedy shortcomings, since the U.S.
Senate isn’t expected to ratify NATO
enlargement until the fall.
NATO has different, less ambitious expectations for its newest
would-be members than it had for
candidates in the Alliance’s four previous enlargements. The smaller size
and limited budgets of new candidate countries in part dictate that
shift in philosophy. But the Alliance’s
focus has changed dramatically,
from Cold War sentry to fighting terrorists. The war on terrorism will
require member nations to make
“niche” contributions that reflect a
country’s military specialty.
Estonia is known for its explosives
detection teams, Latvia for its naval
divers. Lithuanian Brig. Gen. Valdas
Tutkus said his nation has developed
a corps of well-trained special forces
troops, 40 of whom were recently
sent to Afghanistan to join Operation
Enduring Freedom.
Like its Baltic neighbors, Lithuania
had to build that army from scratch.
Annexed by the Soviets following
the end of World War II, the Baltic
states were internationally recognized as independent in August 1991,
the year the Soviet Union collapsed.
Lithuania has amassed a force of
about 12,100 troops, largest among
the Baltics. Latvia has an army of
about 6,500, and Estonia’s armed
forces are about 5,600 strong.
Building up to meet the required 2
percent GDP mark has cost
Lithuania about $300 million. Along
the narrow cobblestone streets of
Vilnius, most Lithuanians say the
sense of security NATO membership
provides is worth the price.
“Lithuania becoming a member of
NATO, that is like a dream for us,”
says Albertas Matiuza, 49, a building
operations manager. “The sooner it
happens, the better.”
Iraq: 4 said injured in attack
He said four civilians were
injured when planes attacked
“civilian and service installations”
in Wassit and Thi Qar provinces.
Iraq’s anti-aircraft and missile batteries fired at the jets, forcing them
to return to their bases, he added.
Earlier Iraq said Western planes
attacked “civilian targets” in
Nineveh province, 400 km north
of Baghdad, on Monday but
reported no casualties.
Annan on Tuesday contradicted
Washington’s interpretation of res-
olution 1441, adopted two weeks
ago, aimed at ridding Iraq of any
nuclear, chemical or biological
weapons.
He indicated the U.N. Security
Council would not see Iraq’s firing on patrolling planes as a trigger for war.
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Russia, Vietnam to part ways on oil
Russia may dissolve $1.4
bln partnership to build
Vietnam’s first refinery
AP
Bloomberg
Reuters
R
ussia’s biggest juice and
dairy foods maker,
Wimm-Bill-Dann, said
on Tuesday combined sales for
the first nine months of 2002
jumped 19.4 percent compared
with the same period last year.
“Juice sales volumes amounted to 329.1 thousand [metric]
tons] a 38.9 percent increase
over the same period in 2001,”
the company said in a statement. “In the dairy segment,
sales volumes were 12 percent
greater than in the first three
quarters last year, at 700.7 thousand [metric] tons,” it added.
Analysts said Wimm-BillDann, which listed its American Depositary Receipts
(ADRs) on the New York Stock
Exchange last February, was
on line to boost revenues by
more than production in the
second half of the year.
“With total sales growth volume of 19 percent,...I would
expect revenues to be a bit
higher because of price increases and demand for more luxury
products,” said Vladimir Savov,
an analyst at Brunswick UBS
Warburg in Moscow.
Wimm-Bill-Dann’s profits
slipped in the first half to $22.41
million from $23.19 million in
the first six months of the previous year, a drop it said was a
temporary one caused by an
increase in costs due to national
and foreign expansion projects.
Its chairman, David Iakobachvili, said last week he
expected second half 2002 revenues to grow at the same pace
they did in the first half — by
21.5 percent to $402.87 million.
The company produces most
of its goods around Moscow but
has been on a campaign to
expand across Russia and outside its borders to former Soviet
states such as Kyrgyzstan.
Its most recent acquisition
was juice and concentrate producer Despona, located in
Tula, south of Moscow, for
$3.4 million.
Wimm-Bill-Dann was founded, and named to sound foreign,
in the early 1990s at a time
when Russians preferred to buy
imported goods — a situation
which has now reversed.
ANOI — Vietnam is
awaiting a Russian decision on dissolving a $1.4
billion partnership to build the
country’s first oil refinery in
central Vietnam, the chairman
of Vietnam’s state-run oil company said.
RVO
Zarubezhneft
and
PetroVietnam agreed in 1998 to
build the 6.5 million ton-annualcapacity refinery at Dung Quat
Bay in Quang Ngai province in
central Vietnam. A 2004 target
date to finish the project has been
pushed back to at least 2005
because of delays negotiating the
main contract to build the refinery, with full production now not
scheduled to begin before 2006.
Vietnam sent a letter to Russia’s
government proposing that the
two sides dissolve the Vietross
joint venture, said Pham Quang
Du, chairman of PetroVietnam’s
management board.
The move would be the latest
obstacle to hit a project that
France’s Total Fina Elf SA
dropped out of in 1995, to be followed by the withdrawal of a
group that included Malaysia’s
Petroliam Nasional Bhd.
“The conclusion must be relatively clear that this not a project
that foreigners can be involved
in,” said Tony Foster, Vietnam
managing partner for Freshfields
Bruckhaus Deringer.
“The Vietnamese are going to
have to do it themselves if it's
going to get done.”
VIETNAMESE Communist Party Chief Nong Duc Manh during a meeting with
President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in October. Officials from the two countries
are negotiating the future of a partnership to build a Vietnamese oil refinery.
PetroVietnam said it would be
better off completing the project
alone than continuing to change
partners.
“In case the Russian partner
leaves the project, we will still
implement it,” Du said.
“Now is the time we need to use
our own internal strength.”
PetroVietnam may sell bonds or
take out loans to finance the project on its own, he said.
“It is certain that the investment capital for the project will
emerge,” Du said.
“After receiving a response
from the Russian government, we
will consider what to do.”
Officials at Zarubezhneft’s
Hanoi office declined to comment.
Alexander Karpov, an attache
with the Russian Embassy in
Hanoi, said that “it’s a very complicated question.”
“Of course we have some problems with the Vietnamese party,”
he said. “But right now we don’t
have further information.”
State-run Zarubezhneft is
PetroVietnam’s
partner
in
Vietsovpetro, a joint-venture that
operates the country’s largest oil
field offshore southern Vietnam.
Vietsovpetro produced 10.23 million tons of oil in the first nine
months of this year.
Zarubezhneft “promotes the
will of Russia in the international
oil world,” said Adam Landes, oil
and gas analyst in the London
office of Russian investment bank
Renaissance Capital. “It’s tended
to be associated with turnkey projects, where there’s a Soviet-era
legacy of a relationship.”
Disagreement between the two
sides over choosing the contractors
to build the main refinery structure is the main reason for the possible withdrawal of Zarubezhneft,
Vietnamese Minister of Planning
and Investment Vo Hong Phuc
said, according to Thanh Nien
newspaper.
U.S. trade deficit 2nd-highest on record
Reuters
W
ASHINGTON — The
U.S.
trade
deficit
dipped slightly in
September to $38.03 billion, but
was still the second-highest level
on record, the U.S. Commerce
Department said Tuesday.
The trade gap shrank just 0.7
percent from the record of $38.28
billion set in August, as both
imports and exports fell slightly but remained near the highest levels of the year.
The August tally was revised
down from an earlier estimate
of $38.46 billion.
Imports were buoyed by crude
oil prices, which averaged $25.47
per barrel in September — the
highest level since $26.40 in
December 2000.
The September figures pushed
the total trade deficit for the
first nine months of 2002 to a
record $317.3 billion, an increase
of 17.4 percent from $270.3 billion in 2001.
The near-record trade deficit
renewed concerns it could trigger a sharp fall in the dollar,
which has already declined 15
percent this year on a tradeweighted basis.
“The trade deficit continues
to be an issue. It narrowed slightly but the issue here is we have
a very big trade deficit as a percentage of GDP that poses a
threat to the value of the dollar down the road, though not
immediately,” said Asha Bangalore, an economist with Northern
Trust Co. in Chicago.
The individual trade deficits
with China and the European
Union have risen sharply this
year, while the gap with Japan
has narrowed a bit.
The September deficit with
China, at $10.27 billion, was the
second-highest on record behind
the August trade gap of $10.86
billion.
The latest monthly tally
exceeded the average estimate of
$37.33 billion made by analysts
surveyed before the report.
Many expected imports to take
a bigger tumble in September,
following a jump in August as
companies stockpiled goods in
anticipation of a dock workers
strike on the U.S. West Coast.
However, imports totaled
AP
WBD sales
up 19.4%
to October
H
AP
WIMM-BILL-DANN executives
at the NYSE in February.
“The Russian partner wants
to choose companies that the
Vietnamese partner believes
aren’t technically capable of
implementation,” Phuc said,
according to the report. “If the
situation goes on like this, it will
be difficult to conclude the work
on schedule.”
PetroVietnam and Zarubezhneft were equal partners in the
project, a structure that jointventure officials said lent itself
to stalemate.
“Neither side has a right to
make a decision,” Phuc told
Thanh Nien.
“Both sides have to discuss for
a long time until agreeing with
each other.”
Zarubezhneft has invested
about $220 million in the project, which the Vietnamese side
has agreed to repay if the jointventure is dissolved, said Pham
Hung, general director of
Vietnamese construction company Lilama, one of the project
contractors.
Total Fina Elf’s withdrawal in
1995, which came when the
French company was known as
Total SA, resulted from the
Vietnamese government’s decision to build the refinery several hundred km north of the
site of the country’s offshore oil
fields. Total wanted to build the
refinery in southern Vietnam.
“Foreigners have to see this
as an investment, while the
Vietnamese view this as a
strategic or developmental project,” said Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Foster. “The
two reasons for the Vietnamese
to do it are to have an oil refinery for strategic reasons and to
develop the central region,” he
said.
TRUCKERS in California line up in this file photo, taken after a U.S. court
ordered an end to a West Coast port strike last month. The strike was estimated to have cost the U.S. economy about $2 billion per day.
$120.19 billion in September,
down just 0.5 percent from the
year-to-date high of $120.78 billion in August. Exports — which
rose more or less steadily in the
first half of 2002 — declined for
the second consecutive month in
September to $82.16 billion, down
0.4 percent from August.
West Coast ports were closed
the last two days of September
and the first eight days of
October due to a dispute
between dock workers and port
operators. However, Commerce
said they could not isolate the
impact of the work stoppage on
the monthly trade figures.
MONEY | Russia report
LUKoil: $350 mln in bonds Budget to Duma
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Reuters
L
ONDON — Russian oil
major LUKoil said it would
increase a convertible bond
offer launched on Tuesday to
$350 million.
LUKoil launched a $270 million five-year issue, with an
option to increase to $300 million, Tuesday morning.
“OAO LUKoil announced today
that subsequent to this morning’s
successful launch of an offering of
its bonds convertible into Global
Depository Receipts representing
LUKoil shares to international
investors ... it has increased the size
of the offering to $350 million,
including a greenshoe option,”
LUKoil said in a statement. The
bonds pay a semi-annual 3.5 percent
coupon with a yield to maturity of
seven percent. The conversion premium is 22 to 27 percent.
The bonds were issued a day after
LUKoil said it would bid for oil firm
Slavneft, Russia’s biggest privatization this year, teaming up with a
powerful Western major.
The move followed LUKoil’s decision last week to sell its 10 percent
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• Russia’s number 1 oil producer (1.5 mbpd)
• 24 percent of Russian oil production
• 18 percent of Russian oil refining
• 2 percent of world oil output
• operates in 55 Russian regions
• develops upstream assets in Azerbaijan,
Kazakstan, Libya, and Egypt; has refining
assets in Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria
Total revenues
Net profit
EPS (US$)
Crude oil reserves:
20,513.3 mmbls
Natural gas reserves: 14,639.3 bcf
MAIN SHAREHOLDERS
ING Bank (ADR and GDR) - 56.2%
Garant SDK (nominee) - 11.1%
Russian Ministry of State Property - 7.6%
“Compania Proektnoi Privatizatsii” - 5.9%
MANAGEMENT
President: Vagit Alekperov
Chairman of the Board: Valery Graifer
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Prime-Tass
T
he State Duma, lower house
of Russian parliament, may
consider the 2003 draft
budget in its fourth reading Nov.
29 or Dec. 6, Alexander Zhukov,
head of the Duma budget committee, told reporters Tuesday.
Alexander Zhukov said his committee would push for the latter
date, to allow more time to review
the vast document. However, so
far the Duma session on the budget has been set for Nov. 29, he
said. The Duma is expected to conF
the 320,000 barrels per day
Slavneft, especially after TNK said
late on Monday it could team up
with Sibneft. Sibneft and TNK,
Russia’s fourth-largest oil firm,
already hold a joint 12 percent stake
in Slavneft. Analysts also believe
Russia’s third-largest oil firm,
Surgutneftegaz, could bid.
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stake in a huge Azeri oil project led
by BP to an unnamed Japanese firm
for more than $1.25 billion, one of
the biggest transactions in Russian
corporate history. The auction is due
to take place Dec. 18 with a starting
price of $1.7 billion.
Analysts consider Sibneft to be
the front-runner in the auction of
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sider the draft in the third reading
on Friday.
Most amendments proposed by
lawmakers have been considered
by the budget committee and
compromises have been found,
Zhukov said. The remaining disputes concern tariffs on services
by natural monopolies and the
funding of classified budget articles.
To become law, the budget has
to be approved in four readings by
the Duma, in a single reading by
the Federation Council and signed
by the president.
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Gazprom ups output Russian oil product MMK moves
exports rise in 2002 shipments
to Dockyard
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Reuters
azprom, the world’s largest
gas producer, said on
Tuesday it will raise gas output in 2003 by two percent to 531.7
billion cubic meters (bcm) from the
planned 521.5-522.0 bcm in 2002.
The gas giant has previously
warned the government it could be
forced to cut the output next year if
the state failed to raise domestic gas
prices by at least 40 percent. The
government plans to raise prices
only by 20 percent next year.
Gazprom, in which the state has
majority control, claims it is surviving only due to export operations
and is posting annual losses between
$1.0 and $2.0 billion on domestic
sales. But on Tuesday the company
said its executive board had decided
output could be boosted next year
due to new facilities on existing
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GAZPROM
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Web site: www.gazprom.ru
Reuters
• A joint−stock company since February
1993 when state gas concern Gazprom was
privatized. The state holds 38.37 percent
stake, foreign entities hold 10.31 percent.
ussian oil product exports
rose 14 percent in JanuarySeptember of 2002 from the same
period of 2001 to 67.75 million
metric tons, Interfax reported,
quoting a Russian Customs
Committee source.
The Customs earlier officially
reported a much lower figure for
exports in the first nine months of
2002 but said it had stopped
including the trade with Belarus.
Traders have said the confusing official customs statistics has
become less and less reliable.
Official data showed Russia was
an oil product importer in August
and September instead of being
one of the world’s largest
exporters.
Interfax said Russia earned
$9.34 billion from refined products exports in JanuarySeptember of 2002, up four percent year-on-year.
The country exported 22.5 million metric tons of gas oil and
• World’s biggest gas company (94 percent
of Russia’s gas production, 23 percent of
world output)
Chairman of the Board of Directors:
Rem Vyakhirev
Chairman of the Management
Committee/CEO: Alexei Miller
fields and the launch of production
on a new field in Western Siberia.
Gazprom supplies about one-quarter of Europe’s gas imports, annually exporting about 130 bcm of gas.
Gazprom places bond
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ussian
natural
gas
monopoly
Gazprom
placed a five billion
ruble bond on Tuesday with a
7.5 percent semi-annual coupon
and a 16.86 percent yield to a
360-day put option, the company and lead managers said.
Gazprom’s offering has a put
option for bondholders to sell
back bonds at face value on Nov.
14, 2003.
The three-year bond was
placed at 99.13 percent of face
value and was was 1.8 times
oversubscribed, lead managers
Promstroibank St Petersburg
and Renaissance Capital said.
“Gazprom’s five billion ruble
bond is the biggest such offer
among its Russian peers,”
Gazprom chief financial officer
Boris Yurlov said in the statement.
“The successful placement of
the bond will serve as a benchmark for the development of
the domestic bond market.
Gazprom’s domestic borrowings
are targeted towards meeting
its 2002-05 investment program.”
Gazprom, the world’s largest
natural gas company, is rated
B+ by credit rating agency
Standard & Poor’s, below
investment grade and one notch
lower than the Russian
Federation.
In October, Gazprom placed a
seven-year
$700
million
Eurobond — its second this year
— with a semi-annual coupon of
10.5 percent.
In April, it had launched
another $500 million bond.
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36.88 million metric tons of fuel
oil in the first nine months of
2002.
Russia exported 72.05 million
metric tons of oil products in full
2001.
Tatneft profits
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ussian oil major Tatneft
expects to make a pretax
profit of about 14 billion rubles in
2003, provided oil prices remain at
their currently high level, Tatneft
General
Director
Shafagat
Takhautdinov said Tuesday,
Prime-Tass reported.
Tatneft’s pretax profit in
January-September stood at 11.5
billion rubles and is expected to
reach 13.4 billion rubles over the
entire year, Takhautdinov said.
The company extracted 19.5
million metric tons of oil in
January-September and expects
the volume for the whole year to
reach 24.6 million metric tons, he
said. The company drilled 349 oil
wells in January-September.
Steelmakers may join
Bloomberg
M
agnitogorsk Metallurgichesky Kombinat and
Novolipetsk Metallurgichesky Kombinat, Russia’s No.
1 and No. 3 steelmakers respectively, are in merger talks,
Interfax reported, citing the
companies’ top executives.
Magnitogorsk
General
Director Viktor Rashnikov and
Novolipetsk Board Chairman
Vladimir Lisin said a merger
would help the companies
reduce taxes and compete with
international rivals, the Russian
news service reported.
Magnitogorsk management
owns 58 percent of the company.
The Russian government plans
to sell next year its 23.8 percent
stake in Magnitogorsk.
The steelmakers may set up a
venture to bid for the stake,
Interfax cited the officials as
saying.
Rashnikov last November
told Vedomosti daily that
Magnitogorsk, then Russia’s
second-biggest steelmaker, was
in merger talks with OAO
Severstal, then the country’s
No. 1.
Since then, Magnitogorsk’s
production has exceeded that of
Severstal.
Prime-Tass
C
HELYABINSK — Russia’s
largest steel maker Magnitogorsk
Metallurgic
Plant (MMK) plans to increase its
metal product shipment via the
Novorossiisk Dockyard company
on the Black Sea next year by
70 percent to 1.7 million metric
tons, thus shifting its export handling from the Novorossiisk seaport, MMK’s press service reported Tuesday.
Both MMK and the Novorossiisk
dockyard welcomed the decision.
The Novorossiisk Dockyard’s
General Director Sergei Bairamov
said his company, which has been
working with minor metallurgic
companies, has been looking for a
larger exporter to secure more stable shipments.
This will create an alternative
export route for the plant as the
Novorossiisk seaport, Russia’s main
southern port, has been giving
preference to grain exporters.
In January-July MMK moved
700,000 metric tons of products via
the
Novorossiisk
dockyard,
accounting for about 50 percent of
the latter’s shipment.
The Novorossiisk Dockyard has
been developing its transshipment
operations in recent years as repair
contracts have declined.
In 2003 the company plans to
move three million metric tons of
cargo, up from the two million metric tons a year that it has been
transshipping lately.
By 2005 the company plans to
invest about $40 million and
increase its cargo transshipment to
five million metric tons a year.
MMK exported about five million
metric tons of rolled stock last year.
In January-September its
exports rose 13.1 percent on the
year to 4.161 million metric tons.
MONEY | Russia report
Russian stock market roundup
Tyumen unveils Siberia plan
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Russian shares creep down
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R
ussian shares ended
marginally lower on
Tuesday as a sell-off
of power companies UES
and Mosenergo offset gains
in oil firms Surgut and
Sibneft, traders said.
The
benchmark
RTS
index closed down 0.6 percent at 351.270 on turnover
of $12.8 million. The Reuters
index of the ruble-based
MICEX fell 1.53 percent to
1,540.33 on turnover of 5.5
billion rubles ($172.8 million) by 1500 GMT. The
Reuters MICEX composite
fell 0.33 percent to 896.57.
“Today there were some
signs of buyers of oil
stocks... Only LUKoil fell
because of its convertible
bond issue,” said Dmitry
Starenko, director of Aton
brokerage’s department of
corporate trade.
LUKoil launched a $350
million five-year convertible bond on Tuesday to
fund its bid for state-owned
Slavneft, 75 percent of
which will be auctioned on
Dec. 18.
The market fears the bond
could create a short-term
oversupply of the company’s
equity on the market.
LUKoil closed down 2.2 percent at $16.480.
Surgut ended up 2.03 percent at $0.352 and Sibneft up
1.66 percent at $1.840. They
rose along with gains in
crude prices as traders cited
uncertainty over whether
U.N. weapons inspections
would be enough to avert a
war in Iraq.
National power grid UES,
the market benchmark,
ended down 4.13 percent at
$0.1208, while regional utility Mosenergo fell 4.64 percent to $0.0329. Traders said
strategic investors who had
been supporting both firms
in recent weeks had withdrawn from the market.
“Everything depends on
how long the pause in buying of UES shares will last,”
said
Metropol
analyst
Andrei Bespalov.
Starenko said he expected
the RTS to consolidate
around 350 in the short term
before moving decisively,
either higher or lower, at the
end of this week or the
beginning of next week.
Global market roundup
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EW YORK — The blue-chip
Dow average dipped back into
negative territory in late afternoon
trading on Tuesday as a disappointing outlook from home-improvement leader Home Depot Inc. overshadowed hopes a slowly improving U.S. economy will help corporate profits rebound.
The broad market also slipped
some more, reflecting a pullback
by investors after a recent rally
sent stocks soaring off five-year
lows touched in October.
“There are a ton of people on
the sidelines,” said William
McKenna, senior trader at brokerage Friedman, Billings Ramsey
Group. “The market’s had a
decent rally over the last few
weeks and we’re taking a
breather.”
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 11.65 points, or 0.14
percent, at 8,474.92. The Nasdaq
was down 19.30 points, or 1.38
percent, at 1,374.39.
LONDON: European stocks fell,
led by Ericsson and Alcatel, as
Deutsche Bank advised investors
to sell the telephone-equipment
makers. EMI Group and Groupe
Vallourec dropped after cutting
sales estimates.
“The lack of an economic recovery seems to have hit every industry,” said Andy Nigg, of Vontobel
Asset Management in Zurich.
The Dow Jones Stoxx 50 Index
dropped for the first day in four. All
of the 17 Western European benchmark indexes fell today, except for
Luxembourg’s and Portugal’s.
HONG KONG: Asian stock markets closed generally lower
Tuesday, but the key indexes rose
slightly both in Tokyo and Hong
Kong. Japan’s benchmark 225issue Nikkei Stock Average rose
19.25 points, or 0.23 percent, to
8,365.26. A relatively strong dollar
and modest short-covering gave
high-technology shares a boost,
helping lift the Nikkei in the last
minutes of trade. In Hong Kong, the
Hang Seng Index rose 44.94 points,
or 0.45 percent, finishing at 9,965.03.
SYDNEY: Australian shares
closed lower, pushed down by
losses in the banking sector and
telecommunications heavyweight
Telstra. The All Ordinaries Index
fell 9.40 points, or 0.32 percent,
to 2,951.40.
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ONDON — Russia’s Tyumen Oil Company (TNK)
said it was planning to significantly ramp up output in
coming years with the help of
a five-year investment plan for
its aging Siberian fields..
The company’s Senior Vice
President Igor Dibtsev told
reporters TNK would next year
produce 41.3 million metric tons
of oil (830,000 barrels per day),
a rise of 10 percent from 2002.
He said, however, that output
would steadily rise over a fiveyear period, due to plans to boost
output at its depleted Samotlor
field in Western Siberia as well as
through production sharing
agreements at new fields.
“We plan to invest $350-$400
million a year into our older
fields which could considerably
boost output,” Dibtsev said. “For
instance, at Samotlor, output is
pegged to rise by up to 40 percent from current volumes of
330,000 barrels per day.”
He did not say what would
be invested into new projects.
Dibtsev also said TNK hoped
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TYUMEN OIL COMPANY (TNK)
Web site: www.tnk.ru
RTS Index: TNKO
OJSC Tyumen Oil Company (TNK) operates
in 15 Russian regions, with 4 production
companies, 3 refineries, 6 transportation
and sales companies.
TNK’s rank among Russian vertically integrated oil companies in 2000:
Volume of proven reserves - 2nd place
Oil production - 4th place
Oil Export − 4th place
Primary refining of oil 5th place
Oil reserves - 3 billion tons
Gas reserves - 203 billion cubic meters
In the volumes of proven oil reserves, TNK
is in the top 10 world’s largest privately held
companies
The controlling interest of stock (50.1%)
belongs to the consortium that includes
Access Industries, a U.S. company, and Alfa
Group.
MANAGEMENT
President: S. G. Kukes
Executive Director:
G.B. Khan
Chairman of the Executive Committee: V.F.
Vexelberg
to slash lifting costs by 10 percent in 2003 from an average
of $2.4 a barrel currently.
He said another source of
rapid production growth for
Russia would be production
sharing agreements (PSA), a
system allowing a company
operates a field under special
terms.
“We are in the process of
negotiating a PSA for our Uvat
field in Western Siberia and we
believe that we may enter into
it with a foreign partner,” he
said, but declined to elaborate.
TNK this year made its first
foray into offshore oil, acquiring a
licence to explore off the remote
Sakhalin island and Dibtsev said
its Lopukhovsky block was a top
priority project for the company.
The site has potential reserves
of almost a billion barrels of oil
and 17.5 billion cubic meters of
natural gas, he said.
Sakhalin-1 on track, says head
By Sujata Rao
Reuters
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ONDON — The head of
an ExxonMobilled group
working in Russia’s Sakhalin said on Monday that plans
for a multi-million dollar gas link
to Japan or China were on track
even though it is yet to snare
buyers for the energy.
Neil Duffin, president of
ExxonMobil subsidiary ExxonNeftegas which operates the
Sakhalin-1 project, said the
pipeline could be completed as
early as 2008.
“We planned on gas sales to
start in 2008 and that is still feasible as the schedule for the pipeline
is five years from when we get the
contract,” Duffin told reporters on
the sidelines of a conference.
The $12 billion Sakhalin-1 project plans to ultimately pipe some
28 million cubic meters a day of
gas to Japan, from a field that contains
potential
recoverable
reserves of 2.3 billion barrels of oil
and 485 billion cubic meters of gas.
But the consortium, like its
rival Sakhalin-2, is yet to sign
contracts with buyers for initial
volumes to justify the huge
investments into production and
pipeline construction.
Duffin said finding buyers was
proving tough under current
weak economic conditions which
has not seen Asian gas demand
grow as fast as it was expected
to when Western majors first
joined the Sakhalin projects.
“We are working with Russian
and foreign buyers for the
threshold volumes we need to
get the project moving forward,”
Duffin said.
“But ultimately it is the buyers
who will decide who buys gas and
no one else. The market is complex
and we have to be patient.”
The group is touting a $880
million underwater pipeline to
Japan as the most likely option
though it says a $950 million link
to China is also feasible.
Sakhalin-1 unites ExxonMobil,
Japan’s Sodeco, India’s ONGC
and Russia’s Rosneft.
It is competing with Sakhalin-2,
a Shell-led project which is aiming
to set up the world’s largest LNG
plant on the island to supply the
Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese and
Korean markets. The head of that
joint venture warned yesterday it
may not move ahead unless a production-sharing agreement dispute is resolved.
Diffin said there was enough
room for supplies of pipeline gas
to Japan, especially to those parts
which have no LNG import terminals.
Kazak oil Putin says Russia’s
expansion future lies in IT
on hold
over cash R
Prime-Tass
Reuters
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STANA — Kazakstan
warned that a $3 billion
expansion plan at the
country’s largest onshore oilfield, Tengiz, would not go ahead
until a dispute with U.S.-led
operator TengizChevroil over
financing it was resolved.
“If all partners do not reach an
agreement on how to finance this
project ... it means the project will
not expand,” Energy Minister
Vladimir Shkolnik told a news
briefing on Tuesday.
EUTOV — Despite the
rundown state of Russia’s
science and industries,
President Vladimir Putin said
Tuesday that the nation’s past
achievements will allow it to
revive as a leader in the sphere of
high technologies.
“Russia is a very rich country, first of all in mineral
resources, natural resources —
so far,” Putin was quoted as saying by Itar-Tass. “Russia’s future
is undoubtedly in the sphere of
high technology,” Putin added.
He spoke as he toured a
machine-building plant in the
town of Reutov in Moscow Region,
inspecting a production center
that assembles winged missiles
under an Indian-Russian joint
venture.
“Coca-Cola will not be bottled in
these buildings,” he said, Itar-Tass
reported. He was most likely
referring to the fact that many
former defense plants have been
turned into production facilities
for foreign companies.
He said that while 15 percent of
the missile industry is of a military
character, the remaining 85 percent are dual technologies, and he
called for international cooperation to develop the sphere.
“Here we cannot do without
properly organized production,
scientific activity and wide cooperation, including international,”
Putin said.
MONEY
The man who would salvage WorldCom
Michael Capellas will
officially take over as
CEO of the beleaguered
company on Dec. 2
By Vikas Bajaj
The Dallas Morning News
AP
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WORLDCOM INTERIM CEO John Sidgmore (right) hands the stage over to Michael
Capellas during a press conference to announce his appointment Friday.
AP
ICHARDSON, Texas —
WorldCom Inc.’s incoming
chief executive Michael D.
Capellas brought his barnstorming
nationwide employee tour here
Monday and reaffirmed the beleaguered telecommunications company’s commitment to North Texas.
In the third stop during a weeklong tour of WorldCom sites, he
fielded questions from several hundred cheering employees outside a
customer support center for more
than an hour.
He addressed employees at the
company’s campus in Ashburn,
Virginia, on Friday and at its nominal Clinton, Mississippi, headquarters Monday morning. He has
five stops after this one.
“Will this continue to be a strategic site that is very important? The
answer is yes,” he said in an interview following the question-andanswer session. “This is a great
place.”
The company employs 4,000 in
the Dallas area, down from 5,000
a year ago. It employs 60,000 people around the world.
Capellas’ primary office will be
in Ashburn, outside Washington,
not Clinton, where embattled former chief executive Bernard J.
Ebbers worked.
Capellas, who was appointed to his
post Friday and formally assumes his
duties Dec. 2, told employees he
would exercise a “zero tolerance”
policy toward the accounting and
financial shenanigans that have
forced the company to restate $9 billion in revenue and earnings. The
company went into bankruptcy
court earlier this year.
“Zero tolerance means I got all
the tolerance in the world if you
make a mistake,” he said. “I got
no tolerance if you do something
that crosses the line.”
NEW WORLDCOM CEO Michael Capellas, whose appointment was announced
Friday, has made it his first task to visit all WorldCom sites to reassure employees.
Loud rock songs such as “Old Time
Rock ’n’ Roll” and “Sweet Home
Alabama,” selected by Capellas,
blared on the speakers before he
spoke and as employees gathered
behind the building. Workers handed
out signs that read: “Welcome to the
new WorldCom” and “WorldCom
Moving Forward.”
Capellas, who helped engineer
Compaq Computer Corp.’s merger
into Hewlett-Packard Co., said his
greatest challenge will be assimilating the systems and cultures of the
more than 60 companies WorldCom
acquired in the last 15 years.
“The integration of the multiple
companies has not been deep or thorough,” he said. “There was a lot more
integration work that remained.
Having been through several of
these, I have an eye for that.”
Experts say Capellas, 48, will have
his hands full trying to piece togeth-
er WorldCom and making sense of its
finances. The company has said more
financial restatements are likely.
“It’s going to take six months
before he comes out and says,
‘Things are worse than I thought, but
I can fix it,’” said Danny Briere, chief
executive of TeleChoice, a telecommunications consulting firm in Tulsa,
Oklahoma. “They need to have a lot
more good moves before people start
to say ‘We are starting to have confidence in WorldCom again.’”
The company will also have to
prove it can survive in an industry
that has too many companies selling
excess phone and data capacity.
“The best bet for them is to be
a very good specialist company,”
said Krish Prabhu, a venture partner at Morgenthaler Ventures in
Dallas. Specialists “show great
growth and have picked a good
playground to play in.”
In response to employee questions,
Capellas said WorldCom plans to sell
its paging division, SkyTel, and cut
more jobs. He declined to provide
details, saying he didn’t know them
yet, but said the company would not
wait for him to finish his review
before moving on changes.
“I’m going to take a look at everything in the coming weeks,” he
said. But, he said, “we got to go
with the operational plans we have.
We cannot freeze.”
An employee asked why the company, it now appears, lost money
during the last three years. Capellas
refrained from directly criticizing his
predecessors, but said WorldCom
had lost its focus.
“We got into a revenue-solves-allproblems mode,” he said. “Revenue
doesn’t solve all problems. Profitable
revenue solves all problems.”
Addressing news reports, Capellas
said he has talked to WorldCom bond
holder David Matlin about his proposal to install former New York
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as the company’s chairman. On Friday,
WorldCom said Capellas would take
on that title, replacing Bert Roberts.
Capellas said he would like to have
Giuliani affiliated with the company.
“What’s there not to like?” he said.
“He is a model of integrity … For him
to take the chairman role, there
would be a lot of interesting things
that need to develop.”
Several WorldCom employees
endorsed Capellas’ appointment to
lead the company, saying it was a
critical first step in rejuvenating
the company.
“The spirit of the employees has
been down for some time because of
the negative press,” said Adeolu
Esho, a network engineer. “But now
that we have this guy coming in who
has great respect. I’m very happy he
was the guy that we chose.”
United teeters on edge of bankruptcy court
By John Schmeltzer
Chicago Tribune
AP
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HICAGO — United Airlines
moved closer this week to
reaching its goal of $5.8 billion
in cost savings and avoiding a trip to
bankruptcy court.
A flurry of developments, including announcing pay cuts for whitecollar workers, approval of wage
concessions from the airline’s pilots
and progress on cost-cutting talks
with its machinists’ union all helped
buoy prospects for the Elk Grove
Township-based airline.
Yet despite the apparent progress,
Glenn Tilton, chairman and chief
executive of United, said it remains a
roll of the dice whether the airline
will seek bankruptcy protection.
“We are prepared to file,” Tilton
said in a message to United’s employees. “If it’s the best available option
for the company, we’ll do it.”
Even if a bankruptcy filing occurs,
UNITED AIRLINES planes at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, in a file photo.
Tilton told employees that little will
change in their day-to-day jobs.
“We’ll be flying the day we file the
paperwork and the day after.”
However, United faces an even
more immediate financial crisis
because a $375 million bond payment
is due in less than two weeks.
The airline, in an effort to raise
cash for the payment, has asked for
help from its partners in the Star
Alliance, 14 airlines that formed a
cooperative worldwide network that
share passengers and revenue. Tilton
is to fly to Rio de Janeiro later this
week to meet with executives from
those airlines.
The series of disclosures from
United and its unions came a day
after the carrier said it is eliminating
9,000 more jobs, reducing the number of workers to 74,000. The airline
said it will cut another scheduled 100
flights and ground dozens of more
planes in its bid to avoid bankruptcy.
Shares of UAL Corp., United’s
parent, soared on news of the job
cuts, rising nearly 20 percent, or
55 cents, to close at $3.50 Monday.
The moves, the carrier said, will
allow it to return to profitability
in 2004, far sooner than its competitors. “The plan is to transform
our airline,” Tilton said. “We’re
doing that in a number of ways,
by changing our relationship with
our employees, responding differently to competition and reducing
the size of our airline.”
On Monday, white-collar workers
agreed to pay cuts that could reach
up to 10 percent for some highsalaried employees. Also, United’s
members of the Air Line Pilots
Association
overwhelmingly
approved a proposal that will result
in an 18 percent pay cut.
Most significantly, a spokesman
for the International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers,
which represents the airline’s 37,000
mechanics, ramp, gate and customer
service workers, said it hopes to
have a pay cut agreement finalized
with the airline by the weekend.
The machinists union is insisting
that members get credit for $500
million in retroactive pay. Joe Tiberi,
a spokesman for the machinists
union, said “progress is being made”
by negotiators for the two district
lodges representing United workers
despite significant problems.
“We’re optimistic that we can have
something to our members and have
voting completed by early
December,” he said. If a tentative
agreement with United is reached
this week, the union would still need
time to notify members.
United now has identified about $4
billion in cuts, but is still trying to
provide details of who will provide
the approximately $1.8 billion
remaining of the $5.8 billion in labor
savings over 5 1/2 years the airline
told the Air Transportation Stabilization Board will be cut.
The airline has said that it will also
trim other costs by $7.7 billion.
JAMES BOND is still
shaking and stirring
audiences — 40 years
after the first movie.
— PAGE 12
Hostage-taker jailed
M
ADRID — A teenager
who took his younger sister and 19 other children hostage
at knifepoint at his former school
has been sent to a juvenile
detention center, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday.
A juvenile court judge in
the northeastern city of
Barcelona ordered the 17year-old hostage-taker kept in
detention preventively following a request from a prosecutor, said the spokeswoman,
speaking on the customary
condition of anonymity.
The private news agency
Europa Press said the prosecutor had recommended the
youth be kept in detention for
three months because he had a
history of conflictive behavior.
Schroeder riled
B
ERLIN — Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s deputy
rejected as “absurd” Tuesday a
comparison by Schroeder’s former finance minister between
the German leader and the 1930s
chancellor who “paved the way
for Hitler.”
The former minister, Oskar
Lafontaine, made the comparison in a critique of
Schroeder’s economic policy,
which has centered on making savings and squeezing out
more tax revenue to plug a
growing hole in the budget.
“It is as though Heinrich
Bruening had risen again —
the chancellor who caused
mass unemployment with his
savings policy and paved the
way for Hitler,” he wrote in
the Bild daily Monday. “As
they were then, people are
uncertain and are spending
less and less money.”
— AP
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ISBON, Portugal — Prevailing winds and tides were
expected to keep a major oil
slick from the sinking tanker
Prestige away from the Portuguese
coast at least until Thursday, officials said Tuesday.
“We’re doing computer simulations every 12 hours,” Navy
chief of staff Francisco Vidal de
Abreu said. “We don’t expect [the
oil] to reach Portugal over the
next 48 hours.”
However, changes in the wind
direction after Wednesday could
alter the slick’s course, he told a
news conference in Lisbon.
Portuguese officials said they
were monitoring the position of a
slick 36 km long and 500 meters
wide which came from the tanker
carrying 77,000 metric tons of oil.
The stricken tanker was located
about 200 km from the Portuguese
coast and about 50 km north of the
country’s economic exclusion zone,
Navy officials said.
Prime Minister Jose Durao
Barroso said it was “absolutely
sure and confirmed” by the
Portuguese Navy that the tanker
was lying in Spanish waters.
Secretary of Defense Henrique
Freitas said the tanker was in an
area where Portugal is responsible for air and sea rescue oper-
AP
J
ERUSALEM — Israel’s
Labor Party members voted
for a new leader Tuesday to
challenge Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon’s Likud in January elections — and the front-runner
vowed he’d reverse Sharon’s
course by withdrawing from
the Gaza Strip and negotiating
with the Palestinians if elected
prime minister.
Polls indicated former general Amram Mitzna, the dovish
mayor of the coastal city of
Haifa, would comfortably win
Tuesday’s Labor primary.
But polls also point to
Sharon’s hawkish Likud party
winning the largest number of
seats in the Jan. 28 general
elections, benefiting from the
Israeli public’s shift to the right
after two years of IsraeliPalestinian violence.
Mitzna’s main challenger in
Tuesday’s primary was the current Labor leader, Binyamin
Ben-Eliezer, whose reputation
among many Labor supporters
was tarnished by his stint as
defense minister in Sharon’s
“national unity” government.
Experts are monitoring
a sinking oil tanker
AN EMERGENCY worker uses a special vacuum cleaner to clean oil off the beach in Malpica, northern Spain, on Monday
after an estimated 3,000 metric tons of fuel oil washed up from the stricken Bahamas-flagged Prestige tanker.
ations when human lives are in
danger, but does not bear the
onus for salvage operations.
The Prestige broke in two off the
northwest coast of Spain on
Tuesday and the back half sank.
The tanker had already leaked
an estimated 3,000 metric tons of
fuel oil Wednesday, threatening
rich fishing grounds off Spain’s
northwest coast where Portuguese boats also fish.
Portuguese naval engineer Jose
Baganha Fernandes said the oil
was “very dense and of high viscosity” and would need to be
cleaned from beaches by hand.
The Portuguese government set
up a crisis committee to monitor
developments.
Portugal said Monday it would
not allow the ship to dock at a
Portuguese port nor allow it to
enter Portuguese waters.
If the vessel’s tanks burst, the
oil would likely trigger a major
ecological disaster.
If the ship loses its entire cargo,
the spill would be nearly twice
the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez
oil spill off Alaska.
The last major oil spill in
Portugal was in 1990 when a 19km slick blackened vacation
beaches in the Madeira Islands,
about 700 km west of Morocco.
Girlfriend
tells of
9/11 pilot
U.N. tribunal hears
Milosevic wiretaps
By Philip Blenkinsop
T
By Daniela Valenta
Reuters
H
AMBURG — The girlfriend
of an alleged Sept. 11 hijacker told a German court Tuesday
she helped him find a flying school,
planned to marry him and got an
odd phone call from him on the
day of the attack.
Aysel Sengun, a German-born
doctor, spoke at length about her
close relationship with Ziad
Jarrah, who U.S. authorities
believe flew the hijacked jet that
crashed in Pennsylvania.
“He called me on Sept. 11... he
was very brief. He said he loved me
three times. I asked what was up.
He hung up shortly afterwards ... It
was so short and rather strange
him saying that repeatedly,”
Sengun told the court at the trial of
Mounir El Motassadeq, a Moroccan
accused of being the paymaster for
the al-Qaida cell that led the
attacks in the United States.
Sengun said she met Jarrah in
the western German city of
Bochum in 1996. She talked of
problems in their relationship, but
said they kept in close contact
throughout her Lebanese boyfriend’s subsequent time in
Hamburg and the United States.
ZIAD JARRAH
“He had a different view of
Islam than I did. He was more
serious. ... He wanted me to cover
up. I said I wouldn’t do so for
him, only for God,” Sengun said,
sitting in a turtle-neck pullover
and jeans next to her lawyer.
Jarrah
disappeared
from
November 1999 to February 2000.
Prosecutors say he went to
Afghanistan to meet fellow conspirators at an al-Qaida camp.
Sengun said he told her he had
visited Pakistan and returned
with clothes and jewelry and a
new plan to train as a pilot.
“We wanted to get married at
some point and have children. He
said he wanted to become a commercial pilot,” Sengun said.
She recounted Jarrah’s subsequent move to the United States
and her 10-day visit in January
2001. “He told me not to tell anyone
that he was in the United States. I
did tell a few people and he was
very annoyed.”
HE HAGUE, Netherlands —
The U.N. war crimes tribunal
agreed Tuesday to hear intercepted telephone conversations between former Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic and Serb leaders in Bosnia and Croatia, which
could shed light on his role in the
Balkan bloodshed.
Overriding Milosevic’s objections, the three-judge panel said
it would listen to the tapes and
decide later on their admissibility as evidence.
Milosevic, on trial for genocide
and crimes against humanity,
argued the tapes were illegal and
false.
“It is unacceptable to tender
allegedly intercepted communication obtained in illegal manner.
These are montages, clips taken
out of context” and spliced
together, said Milosevic, who is
defending himself.
The “friends of the court” —
lawyers appointed to safeguard
Milosevic’s interests without formally representing him — also
objected to the admissibility of the
tapes, saying their origin is unclear
and their authenticity questionable.
Presiding judge Richard May
said the tapes seemed admissible
on first view, but the prosecution
AP
Labor chooses leader
Portugal hopes to avoid slick
AP
Briefs
WORLD
YUGOSLAVIA’S soccer
clubs are going through
a renaissance after 10
difficult years.
— PAGE 16
SUPPORTERS of ousted Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic hold
up signs during a rally against the
U.N. war crimes court in Belgrade
on Tuesday.
must provide more details on how
they were recorded.
The 50 tapes, apparently from
wiretaps by the Bosnian authorities during the 1991-95 wars in
Croatia and Bosnia, will not be
heard in the courtroom because of
time constraints.
But prosecutors played a short
clip to ask a witness — referred to
only as C-61 in court records — to
identify the speakers’ voices He said
they belonged to Milosevic and
Radovan Karadzic, the wartime
Bosnian Serb leader who is now the
tribunal’s most wanted fugitive.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL Wedensday, November 20, 2002. PAGE 10
WORLD | Culture
BUSINESS > TELECOM > MOBILE
• VimpelCom’s Wireless Russian Frontier
Catherine Belton — BusinessWeek
In Russia, capitalism often follows its own twists and turns.
Witness VimpelCom. In 1999, as the world telecom market was
soaring, VimpelCom hit the skids. Its network was out of date, its
quality of service was low, and it was losing Moscow subscribers by
the truckload to Mobile TeleSystems, Russia’s No. 1 service
provider. Meanwhile, fallout from a 1998 ruble devaluation made it
even more difficult to keep cash-strapped customers. Result:
VimpelCom reported losses of $39 million that year, and skittish
investors sold down its stock. What a difference three years can
make. Now, as most global telecoms face their own make-or-break
crises, VimpelCom is resurgent. Consumer demand for mobile
phones has recovered along with the Russian economy. And
through aggressive marketing and improvement of its services and
networks, VimpelCom has fought back. > For details logon to www.russiareport.ru
BUSINESS > TELECOM > MOBILE
• Nokia faces increasing competition in growing markets
Tony Dennis — Inquirer (UK)
Nokia’s CEO, Jorma Ollila, has predicted that handset sales will
grow in volume by between 10 and 15 per cent. He suggests the major
new markets targeted by Nokia the for sales were the USA, China,
India, Russia and Eastern Europe. The catch is that the majority of
these markets are price sensitive and Nokia will start to see Asian
manufacturers compete heavily against it in these markets.
> For
details logon to www.russiareport.ru
ENERGY > OIL > COMPANIES
• Gov’t hikes Slavneft price as competition grows
Reuters
Russia’s government raised the asking price for oil firm Slavneft on
Monday to $1.7 billion, a $400 million hike, as more local majors said
they were ready to bid in Russia’s biggest privatization project this
year.
> For details logon to www.russiareport.ru
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS > TERRORISM
• Explosions, arrests mar final day of football season
Irina Petrakova — Gazeta.Ru
Two explosions rocked a soccer stadium in Russia’s North Caucasian
city of Vladikavkaz on Sunday following a match between Alania and
Rotor. Fortunately, no one was injured in the incident — the match was
held an hour earlier than initially planned and the stadium was empty
by the time the blasts occurred. Meanwhile, in Moscow Region, about
100 fans were arrested after clashing with police following CSKA
Moscow’s victory over Saturn-Ren TV.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS > EU > GERMANY
• Soviet PoWs to sue Germany
John Hooper — Guardian Unlimited
A Berlin lawyer will bring a suit against the German government that
could end up costing it up to $300m. Stefan Taschjian is seeking compensation on behalf of two Armenian veterans of the Red Army who were
held as prisoners by the Germans during the Second World War. But the
case could open the way for payments to be made to as many as 60,000 surviving former Soviet prisoners of war. > For details logon to www.russiareport.ru
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By Vanessa Bauza
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
H
AVANA — Stashed away
in a metal file cabinet,
boxes and a trunk borrowed from the Tropicana Cabaret is
a collection of Ernest Hemingway’s
letters and personal photographs
almost entirely unexplored by
American scholars.
A rejected epilogue to “For
Whom the Bell Tolls” and galley
proofs from “Across the River and
Into the Trees,” complete with
Hemingway’s handwritten revisions, are stored in the basement
of his old guest house at the Finca
Vigia outside Havana along with
quotidian tidbits from the last two
decades of the author’s life: A
recipe for “codfish Hemingway,”
and a hand-stitched 1940s logbook
from his fishing boat, the Pilar.
Hoping to restore the time-damaged documents, a delegation of
American Hemingway specialists
partnering with Cuba’s Ministry of
Culture launched a preservation project here this month.
Preliminary plans call for documents to be scanned, microfilmed
or digitized, depending on their
condition. Originals will be restored
and kept in Havana while a copy
will be taken to the John F.
Kennedy Library in Boston to complement existing collections.
The documents give a picture
into Hemingway’s life in Cuba “in
… detail we haven’t had before,”
said Sandra Spanier, a member of
the delegation and a leading
Hemingway scholar. “He spent a
third of his life here, the longest
he ever lived anywhere, and it’s
the time we know least about.”
The collection is housed on
Hemingway’s property, a tree-shaded, hilltop estate Hemingway bought
in 1940 and shared with his last two
wives. It holds about 3,000 of his photographs, 2,000 letters, including
some from Ezra Pound and Ingrid
Bergman, and pages of notes written
AP
RIP-OFF?
Mobile Successes: VimpelCom’s resurgence, Nokia’s Russian expansion.
Russian Oil Companies Up And Out: The Russian government hiked the asking
price for Slavneft $400 million and Lukoil announced it’s packing its Azeri bags.
Chechen Terror Update: Priest accuses Akhmed Zakayev of abduction; Russian
general killed in Chechen ambush; and Kidnapped Red Cross workers freed. And,
while we haven’t confirmed that it is the handiwork of Chechen terrorists, we can
tell you that explosions and arrests marred the final day of the football season.
RFE/RL’s Central Asia Package: RFE/RL recently published a trio of stories on
Russian relations with Central Europe and a fourth piece on Russia’s war on drugs.
And, lastly, The Russia Journal has a question for you: Are Russians ripping
Americans off? Amid conflicting reports of how American companies are fairing in
Russia, The Russia Journal wants to hear from Americans doing business in
Russia.
Hemingway hoard
to be saved in Cuba
CUBAN PRESIDENT Fidel Castro speaks about author Ernest Hemingway
after signing an agreement on preserving Hemingway documents.
in the margins of his novels, dictionaries and manuals.
The collection includes a letter
Hemingway wrote in Spanish for his
kitchen staff detailing his favorite
meals and asking he not be bothered
with domestic problems as “he has
enough trouble being a writer.”
Some of the letters add depth to
Hemingway’s relationship with
Maxwell Perkins, his friend and
Scribner and Sons’ legendary editor,
who also worked with F. Scott
Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe.
It was Perkins’ granddaughter,
Jenny Phillips, who spearheaded the
restoration effort when she and her
husband, Frank, first visited Finca
Vigia in January 2001 and were told
of treasures in its basement.
She got in touch with Rep. James
McGovern, D-Massachusetts, a frequent visitor to the island, who organized a subsequent trip and launched
a funding drive. So far, the
Rockefeller Foundation has pledged
$75,000 to the restoration and scholars hope to raise more than $300,000.
Hemingway is the most revered
American icon in Cuba. His favorite
Old Havana hangouts are tourist
destinations. But most striking are
the loving anecdotes neighbors near
the estate still retell 42 years after
the author never returned from
medical treatment in the States.
To move forward with the project
and possibly import specialized
equipment, McGovern and others
will have to obtain U.S. Treasury
Department licenses at a time of
heightened tension between the
estranged governments.
It would not be the first time
Cuba and the United States surmount political acrimony to rescue
Hemingway memorabilia. After
Hemingway’s suicide in Idaho in
July 1961, his wife, Mary Welsh,
traveled to Cuba to remove 200
pounds worth of documents from
Finca Vigia under special permission from both countries.
“There was a great deal of tension in 1961 and yet Fidel Castro
and President Kennedy were able
to work together to do what was
necessary,” said Deborah Leff,
director of the John F. Kennedy
Library in Boston. “Some cultural
treasures exceed political boundaries and this is one of them.”
WORLD | Terrorism
Cleric urges Jihad in London
JOHN ASHCROFT
Court OKs
U.S. terror
powers
By Shannon McCaffrey
Knight Ridder Newspapers
W
ASHINGTON — In a
decision that will greatly expand the government’s authority to eavesdrop on
Americans, a federal appeals
court ruled this week that the
Justice Department has broad
powers to use wiretaps and other
means to combat terrorism.
A special three-judge panel
overturned a decision by the
secret Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court in May that
certain surveillance provisions
in the USA PATRIOT Act
infringed on citizens’ privacy.
Monday’s decision means the
government will face fewer
hurdles when it seeks to listen to telephone conversations
and read the e-mail of people
who are suspected of espionage or terrorism. Intelligence
agents and criminal prosecutors also will be able to share
information more freely.
The special appeals court,
which consisted of three federal
appellate judges named by
William Rehnquist, the chief
justice of the Supreme Court,
ruled Monday that the expanded powers sought in the USA
PATRIOT Act are “constitutional because the surveillances
it authorizes are reasonable.”
Attorney General John
Ashcroft called the decision “a
victory for liberty, safety and
the security of the American
people.”
He said it “revolutionizes our
ability to investigate terrorists
and prosecute terrorist acts.”
Armed with the ruling,
Ashcroft announced Monday
that the FBI was doubling the
number of lawyers in its
National Security Law Unit,
which handles foreign intelligence wiretap applications, and
would add 25 lawyers to the
Justice Department’s Office of
Intelligence Policy and Review.
Justice Department lawyers
who seek authorization for
wiretaps or surveillance for suspected spies or terrorists must
go to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court. Ashcroft
said the Justice Department
was creating a streamlined system so that wiretap and surveillance applications could be
processed faster. If they are
rejected, Ashcroft or FBI
Director Robert Mueller would
be informed promptly so they
could review the decision.
By Michael Georgy
Reuters
L
ONDON — The United
States suspects a link to alQaida and has frozen his
assets. British intelligence keeps a
close watch. Yemen wants him on
terrorism charges.
Yet radical Muslim cleric Abu
Hamza al Masri is not hiding with
militant friends in a cave in
Afghanistan.
Instead, his calls for a holy war
roar from a mosque in the
bustling north London suburbs,
far from his native Egypt.
Britain’s most controversial
Islamist is a prime example of
al-Qaida’s growing global network of ideological foot soldiers
who are frustrating Western
intelligence agencies.
Masri denies any formal links
with Osama bin Laden and his
al-Qaida movement. But he
angers many by openly praising
the network, raising suspicions
while avoiding arrest.
“Groups are contacting me but
this is not a crime. Like the Abyan
[Islamic] Army, sometimes alQaida, al-Jihad groups. They [alQaida] contact many of their
sympathizers,” Masri said in an
interview with Reuters.
“I have never been enrolled in
any group. When they really dig
into my past and my actions they
won’t prove that I was helping
anybody,” said the 44-year-old
cleric as his bodyguard looked on.
The United States and its allies
have bombed al-Qaida militants
in Afghanistan and taken them
to a prison camp in Cuba after
the Sept. 11 attacks on the United
States.
But it’s hard to crack down on
militants like Masri, even on their
home turf in cosmopolitan London.
“I have no doubt Masri has
been a key Qaida figure in Europe
for years. These people are like
fish in water. They are very hard
to tackle. They have misused the
system but the authorities cannot take them to court without
having clear evidence,” said
Hazhir Teimourian, a Middle East
expert and writer on Islam.
Masri denies he is a member of
al-Qaida, but describes himself as
an admirer of the group.
One-time bouncer
Masri, a former night club
bouncer, is suspected of having
links with a number of controversial figures with alleged connections to al-Qaida.
U.S. federal prosecutors have
alleged that James Ujaama, who
has been arrested on accusations
of trying to set up an al-Qaida
training camp in the United
States, pledged his loyalty to
Masri in London in 1997 and later
attended al-Qaida training camps
in Afghanistan with a recommendation from Masri.
Masri has denied any wrongdoing but said that Ujaama had run
his organization’s Web site after
meeting him at the Finsbury Park
mosque in north London. Accused
Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias
Moussaoui also visited the mosque.
AP
AP
Hamza al Masri is
proving an outspoken
champion of al-Qaida
RADICAL CLERIC Sheik Abu Hamza al-Masri addresses a fundamentalist Islamic converence in London last year, condemning what he called oppression of Muslims in the West. The United States suspects him of involvement with al-Qaida.
Britain’s Home Office (interior cies planted such allegations to tarministry) refuses to comment on nish his reputation.
Masri because he is a “security
issue.”
Tight surveillance
“All we can say is he is being
monitored closely and if any indiBritain is reported to have
vidual has links to terrorism he will arrested Abu Qatada, a Muslim
be arrested,” said a Home Office cleric suspected of being a top
spokesman.
al-Qaida figure in Europe, who
British police also declined com- Masri describes as a fellow alment on Masri, who says he was Qaida sympathizer.
arrested in 1999
But Masri, a
and held for five
British passport
days on suspicion
holder, doesn’t
of links to terrorseem worried abhave
no
doubt
ism.
out
arrest,
despite tight surGoverning
Masri has been a
veillance by intelLabor parliamentarian Andrew
key Qaida figure in ligence agents
and
sweeping
Dismore, who has
Europe for years.’
new anti-terror
raised Masri as an
laws
imposed
issue in the House
after Sept. 11.
of
Commons,
HAZHIR TEIMOURIAN
favors
arrest,
He has said
Middle East expert
despite the diffipublicly
that
culty in proving
British
politiany wrongdoing.
cians, including
“He has crossed the line on Prime Minister Tony Blair, risked
several occasions. He is wanted revenge attacks for “warmonfor terrorism in Yemen. But his gering” against Islam.
al-Qaida links are more difficult
On the first anniversary of the
to prove. I believe he is a dan- Sept. 11 attacks, Masri hosted a
gerous man and have no doubt seminar at his mosque called “A
he conducted weapons training Towering Day in History” which
at the mosque,” the member of concluded that bin Laden was a
parliament told Reuters.
hero.
Masri denied weapons training
“I do agree with many of their
had taken place at the mosque, [al-Qaida’s] ideas and I do have
saying western intelligence agen- respect for some of their members
‘I
MASRI admits al-Qaida leader Osami bin Laden is one of his heroes. Bin
Laden is pictured here in an altered image in a propaganda leaflet dropped by
the Pentagon on Afghanistan in a bid to discredit the leader.
and other groups as well,” he said.
Masri thinks his enemies are just
stirring up trouble.
“I am always approached by
people suggesting things which
I think only a spy could come
up with. You find people who
come and suggest planting
bombs. This is part of the
American and British plot against
people whom they do not have
cases against,” he said.
Although he said his support
for militant groups is strictly ideological, Masri’s turbulent past
has cost him both his arms and
an eye. They were blown off in
Afghanistan, where he met
Ayman al Zawahri, bin Laden’s
top aide.
“He is a very good person, basically we exchanged ideas. I think
he is a very good and sincere
person from a good family,” said
Masri.
As he recalled his days as a
doorman at London discos scanning eager crowds of revelers,
Masri’s anger spilled over.
“You start thinking — is this
modern civilization where wives
are deceiving their husbands and
husbands are deceiving their
wives and there’s homosexuality
and drugs? It was a really evil and
awful kind of environment and I
decided to repent,” he said.
Masri now prefers to spend his
time on the Internet, answering
200 e-mails a day on Islam or organizing conferences in secret locations across Britain.
Although he believes the Sept.
11 attackers were justified, he
said groups such as al-Qaida
should focus now on deposing
Arab leaders and installing strict
Islamic states.
“They are all thieves wanting
to stay on forever and they are
only willing to leave power when
they leave life. We are going to
make sure that they leave power
somehow,” he said.
Only then, he says, will he be able
to set foot in Arab countries like
Yemen, where he is wanted on
charges of terrorism.
THE RUSSIA JOURNAL, Wednesday, November 20, 2002. PAGE 12
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WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD*
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SERVING SARA
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THE LONELINESS OF BLOOD
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EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS
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EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS
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THE FOUR FEATHERS
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ON LINE
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K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER
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RETURN TO NEVER LAND
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LIFE FULL OF JOY
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Film: Capsule Reviews
WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD
The Players: William H. Macy, Isaiah
Washington, Sam Rockwell, Michael Jeter,
Luis Guzman
The Play: When petty
thief Cosimo (Luis
Guzman) is given the
plan for the perfect
heist from a lifer in
prison — the kind of
job you dream about
— he has to get out
of jail, fast. But with
Cosimo stuck in the joint, it's up to his girl
Rosalind (Patricia Clarkson) to track down a
patsy. But while no one wants to do the time
for Cosimo's crime, everybody seems to
know a guy who will — and for a share,
they're willing to track him down. Before
long, Rosalind has five guys trailing behind
her, looking to get their bungling hands on a
piece of the action.
CHANGING LANES
The Players: Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Affleck,
Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt
The Play: The film follows a conflict between
two men, Wall Street lawyer Gavin (Ben
Affleck) and Doyle (Samuel L. Jackson), a
recovering alco−
holic, following a
car accident on the
way to the court−
house. Gavin is try−
ing to provide evi−
dence to prove that
the $3 million his
firm earned from a
dying man’s charity
was legal, while
Doyle simply wants
to prevent his wife from taking his children
away to Oregon. The two men accidentally
swap briefcases, the contents of which cause a
heated battle with legal as well as financial
repercussions.
THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH
Players: Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario
Dawson, Pam Grier, Joe Pantoliano
The Play: Set on the moon in the year 2087,
Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) is an audacious
nightclub owner
who finds himself
in hot water when
he refuses to sell
his club to the
local mob. As the
film starts, Pluto
has been out of
prison a week
and is already
saving the lives
of Polish accor−
dion players in kilts, negotiating bookies into
lending him millions of dollars and turning the
worst bar on the moon into the satellite’s
hottest nightclub. Cut to seven years later, and
Pluto’s club is hot. A charming wannabe
singer comes into the club looking for work
about five minutes before it gets blown up,
leaving only Pluto, the singer and an antiquat−
ed security robot named Bruno (Randy Quaid).
Bond’s latest adventure
marks 40 years of 007
Reuters
L
ONDON — For a suave
quartet of OO7s, it was the
perfect chance to Bond — a
sparkling premiere marking the
40th anniversary of the world’s
most famous spy.
And Queen Elizabeth got to
meet the secret agents who had
been fighting On Her Majesty’s
Secret Service for four decades.
Monday night’s launch of “Die
Another Day” turned into a showbusiness celebration of cinema’s
most successful franchise — 20
James Bond films in four decades.
For Pierce Brosnan, playing
the debonair agent for the fourth
time was a pleasure and a privilege: “It is a really fine film and
I am very proud of it.”
The Irish actor loves the role so
much that he has already said yes
to another Bond adventure.
Brosnan is the first to acknowledge his debt to Sean Connery,
the first, and to some, the one
and only screen Bond.
“I learned from Connery,”
Brosnan said of the evergreen
star.
Connery could not attend the
premiere because of previous
film commitments, but the other
Bonds turned up at London’s
Royal Albert Hall to party and
celebrate movie No. 20.
For Bond veterans Roger
Moore, George Lazenby and
Timothy Dalton, it was the perfect chance to reflect on their
years playing one of the great
movie icons, always a dab hand
with guns, gadgets and girls.
For Dalton, the Bond memories
were happy ones. “It was wonderful. I had great fun. I enjoyed
every minute of it,” he said.
And Queen Elizabeth clearly
enjoyed a chance to meet her
undercover agents amid the
flashing bulbs of paparazzi.
PIERCE BROSNAN, who plays James Bond, poses for photographs with costar Halle Berry at the World Premiere of the latest James Bond film ‘Die
Another Day’ in London on Monday.
co-star John Cleese before her
first meeting with the monarch.
The queen will soon turn out
again to celebrate another great
British cultural institution —
next week she is off to the theater to see Agatha Christie’s
“The Mousetrap.”
Both are celebrating half a century at the top — the queen marking her Golden Jubilee and the
whodunnit feting 50 years in
London as the world’s longestrunning play.
On being introduced to Brosnan,
she said: “So you’re the modern
James Bond are you? I’ve met the
other three downstairs.”
Pop superstar Madonna, who
sings the theme song and plays
a cameo role in “Die Another
Day,” was determined to get the
protocol just right and not
embarrass her British film director husband Guy Ritchie.
Madonna, demurely dressed in
a knee-length black cocktail dress,
practiced her curtsey in front of
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21:30
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Changing
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Carluccio...
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ENOUGH
The Players: Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell,
Tessa Allen, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman
The Play: An abused woman (Lopez) discov−
ers that the dream
man (Campbell)
she married was−
n't whom she
thought he was.
She and her
daughter try to
escape (such as to
her previous
boyfriend, played
by Futterman), but
he pursues relent−
lessly. Fearing also for the safety of her
daughter, she decides that there's only one
way out of the marriage: kill him.
AP
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23:50 Quote Unquote Dodge City.
Christopher Frayling Western, USA,
(1939)
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Royal Scandal
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2 ROOMS
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An exclusive area! Mosfilmovskaya Street. 100 sq.m.
Big LR. 1BR. 1.5BAs. All equipment. Furnished. HDWD
flrs. Modern bldg. Security, concierge, parking. $4,000
per month. PENNY LANE, 232-0099.
ARBAT, 80 sq.m., new building, 2 bathrooms, unfurnished, can be furnished, nice view, guarded territory,
garage. KUTUZOVSKAYA, 80sq.m., western, studio,
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Barrikadnaya scyscraper, 70 sq.m. rooms: 27. 20,
kitchen: 9, western renovation, painted walls, Italian
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AEROPORT: 70 sq.m; clean; furnished. $750. G&G
Realty: 257-13-49, 198-3660.
Beautifully renovated and furnished apartment located
in the most desirable area on the Patriarshy Ponds,
large eat-in kitchen, modern building, premium
entrance, new elevator, $ 1400 per month, EVANS,
232-6703, www.evans.ru
COMMISSION FREE, serviced apartments: 1 bedroom
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VERNADSKOVO, 55 sq.m, furnished & unfurnished,
convenient location, ecologically clean area, 24-hour
security & management, guarded parking, to companies only, 245-8575/8536/8219
Short term apartment on Tverskaya Str.
• 24-hour property management
• cleaning (3 times a week)
• linen change
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(at cost)
• dry cleaning (at cost)
• satellite TV
• close to metro
• easy access to central restaurants, cafe,
supermarkets, etc.
INTERMARK: (095) 502-9553
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Modern-style studio close to Krasnopresnenskaya
metro. Apartment is 85 sq.m. on 6th floor. Studio is 30
sq.m., bedroom is 18 sq.m. bathroom with Jacuzzi and
shower cabin of 12 sq.m.; lots of storage space. Modern
furniture. Nice view. Secure parking. Colliers International, tel.: 258-5151
M. TSVETNOI BULVAR, Total 60 sq.m., Guarded yard
& parking, fully equipped kitchen with all appliances,
completely furnished, gym. $1,700 BLACKWOOD.
915-40-00, www. blackwood.ru/apts/39259.htm
NOVOSLOBODSKAYA: new elite guarded building;
secure parking; total area 86 sq.m; western renovation
in HI-TECH style; furnished; $3500. G&G Realty: 2571349, 198-3660.
Patriarshy Ponds. 75 sq.m. Furnished. Equipped.
Brite&new. In exclnt cond. Concierge. $2,500 per
month. PENNY LANE, 232-0099.
Old Arbat 65 sqm Pre-Revolutionary building; western;
equipped kitchen. Completely furnished; Intercom;
Secure parking in the fenced-in court yard; ID: 581,
www.delight.ru DELIGHT REALTY: 926-4222;
[email protected]
Old Arbat, stylish one bedroom apartment (100 sq.m.),
pre-Revolutionary building, good entrance, security.
Western, equipped kitchen, quite. Furniture on request.
Attractive price !232-09-00 Norman Estate,
[email protected]
KUTUZOVSKAYA imagine living in a private oasis, far
from the hustle of the city; TRETYAKOVSKAYA, Enjoy
this charming apartments in ancient building updated
with the best 21st century technology; ARBATSKAYA
this high security apartments with great view on Kremlin;
363-08-48 INCOM
Smolenskaya, Arbatskaya, Nikolopeskovsky
Lane.Total area: 85, glassed-in loggia: 15, rooms: 30,
24, kitchen: 15, one full bathroom, European renovation, parquet floor, PVC-windows, white wall paper, furnished, intercom, concierge, parking. Rent: $1,700.
FLATLINK,
363-4435,
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Mayakovskaya, 1st Tverskoy-Yamskoy Lane.Total
area: 87, rooms: 25, 22, 14, kitchen: 13 (black marble
floor), corridor: 13 (laminated plastic floor), one full
bathroom, all appliances, European renovation, painted
walls, parquet floor, furnished, parquet floor, clean renovated entrance, intercom, alarm. Rent: $2,000.
FLATLINK,
363-4435,
www.flatlink.ru,
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3 ROOMS
Offered
BELORUSSKAYA, 80 sq.m., Western renovation,
expensive furniture, guarded courtyard, parking space,
$1,600, NO COMMISSION, KEY REALTY, 788-6350,
745-1285
KUTUZOVSKY: 120 sq.m apartment ; 1.5 bathrooms;
good quality western renovation; furnished. G&G
Realty: 257-13-49, 198-3660.
CHISTYE PRUDY, VIP building, security, parking;
TAGANSKAYA, 100sq.m, VIP building, furnished, 2
bathrooms, parking, guarded territory; KRASNOPRESNENSKAYA, western style renovation, original design,
furnished, underground parking; 363-0848 INCOM
Dinamo, Belorusskaya, Leningradsky Prospect, 27.
Total area: 70, rooms: 30(studio), bedroom:14, study:
12, corridor: 10, stylish European renovation, white
color wall paper, parquet floor, PVC-windows, foreign
kitchen furniture, washing machine, boiler, concierge,
intercom, house with original architecture. Rent: $2,200.
FLATLINK, 363-4435, www.flatlink.ru
Elite accommodation near American Embassy, modern elite building, underground parking, top security, 2,5
bathrooms, fully furnished, EVANS, 232-6703,
www.evans.ru
Gilyarovskogo Str. 115 sq.m. Huge LR. 2BRs.
1.5BAs. Furnished. All equipment. Modern bldg.
Internet. Home movie theatre. Brand new. 24 HR security. Garage. $5,000 per month. PENNY LANE, 2320099.
Kitay Gorod. 100 sq.m. 2BRs. Furnished. All equipment. Hi ceils. Satellite TV. Sauna. Air-conditioning&flr
heating system. $4,000 per month.PENNY LANE, 2320099.
Kitay Gorod, Solyanka St. 120 sq.m. living room: 40,
bedrooms: 20, 16, kitchen: 18, bathroom: 12, balcony:
12, western standard, exclusive parquet, fireplace, airconditioners, jacuzy, shower cabin with sauna, heated
floors, big Loewe TV, super stereo system, videointercom, 4m high ceilings. Rent: $3,000, FLATLINK, 3634435, www.flatlink.ru,[email protected]
Kitay gorod, Taganskaya, scyscraper at
Kotelnicheskaya embankment, 115 sq.m. living room:
30, bedrooms: 28, 29, kitchen: 8, new classical euroremont, painted walls, oak wooden floor, antique lamps,
modern bathroom, French sanitary ware, hand-painted
stained glass, air-conditioners in every room, 16th floor,
view of all Moscow, unfurnished / can be furnished,
expensive kitchen, Siemens appliances, consierge, foreign landlord, rent: $ 3,800, FLATLINK, 363-4435,
www.flatlink.ru
KRYLATSKOE: total 80 sq.m, 2 bedrooms+study; 2
balconies; semi-western; furnished. $1199. G&G
Realty: 257-13-49, 198-3660.
Kropotkinskaya area, Lopuchinsky per., 100 sq.m.,
studio and two bedrooms. Western, furnished, two full
bathrooms. Good secure entrance, parking. Attractive
price! 232-09-00 Norman Estate [email protected]
M.Arbatskaya, Povarskaya str., exclusive design,
european style renovation, painted walls, new windows,
beech parquet floors, heated floors, built-in closets,
unfurnished, integrated Italian kitchen, all appliances,
Satellite TV, intercom, parking, rent: $ 3,200,
FLATLINK, 363-4435, www.flatlink.ru
Kuntzevskaya, Pionerskaya, Zvenigorodskaya Str., 8.
Total area: 150, rooms: 22, 20, 45, kitchen: 15, two full
bathrooms, marble floor; new European renovation,
PVC-windows, painted walls, parquet floor, all appliances, furnished (one room is empty), 1-car parking in
the underground garage, fenced yard, video watching,
Tel: 257−1349, 785−3128
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Full Size Swimming Pool
Indoor and Outdoor Tennis
Squash & Racquetball
Basketball &Volleyball
State−of−the−Art Fitness and
Bodybuilding Equipment
Aerobic and Shaping Classes
Professional Coaches
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Haircut, Beautician
Dry Cleaning, Video Rental
Full Size Outdoor Soccer
Field
Ice skating rink in winter time
And Many Many More
Tel (095) 730 33 00 Fax (095) 730 32 32 E−mail: [email protected] www.rosinka.ru
security. Rent: $6,000. FLATLINK, 363-4435,
www.flatlink.ru, [email protected]
M. Mayakovskaya, Total area: 80 sq.m. Guarded
parking. Fully equipped kitchen with all appliances,
storage room, new furniture. BLACKWOOD. 915-4000
M.Smolenskaya, Plotnikov lane, 4 rooms, total 103,
rooms 25+16+12+11, kitchen - 16 (fully equipped).
High standard renovation, painted walls, Sputnik TV,
consierge. Rent - $2500. FLATLINK, 363-4435,
www.flatlink.ru
Patriarshy Ponds, 115 sq.m. Western, furnished and
equipped, quite, parking, intercom.Attractive price!
Norman Estate 232-0900 [email protected]
M.Pushkinskaya, Bolshoy Kozikhinsky Lane. Total
area: 85, rooms: 23, 17, 14, kitchen: 14 (fully equipped),
european renovation, mahogany parquet floors, light
color painted walls, all appliances, boiler, Cosmos TV,
furnished, intercom, parking. Rent: $2,000. FLATLINK,
363-4435, www.flatlink.ru
PARK KULTURY, 170 sq.m., elite building, western, 2
full bathrooms, furnished, kitchen equipment, garage,
security, swimming-pool. TVERSKAYA, 110 sq.m.,
modern design, furnished, Jacuzzi, security. INCOM
363-1004.
BARRIKADNAYA, Rochdelskaya, 120sq.m., western
renovation, exclusive design, furnished/unfurnished, all
kitchen appliances, car parking; KRILATSKOYE,
Rublevskoeye Schosse, 120sq.m., VIP-building, fully
furnished, all built-in kitchen appliances, 2 WCs,
Jacuzzi; MAYAKOVSKAYA, Sadovo-Kudrinskaya,
120sq.m., western renovation, exclusive design, unfurnished, 2 WCs, video observtion; VILAR-INCOM,
363-04-40
3 room apartment on Zoologicheskaya — in a new
residential complex. High Western renovation. Nicely
furnished. Concierge. Underground garage. Colliers
International, tel.: 258-5151
Terrific location! Novy Arbat.123 sq.m. 2BRs.
Unfurnished. Brand new. Hi ceils. Western renovation.
WBFP. Gated territory. Security. $5,500 per month.
PENNY LANE, 232-0099.
B. Gruzinskaya. Eurorenovated. Owner.
8-902-687-07-28
4 ROOMS
Offered
SOCOL: 120 sq.m newly renovated apartment near a
park; 1 _ bathrooms; open kitchen; very bright & cozy.
Secure parking. G&G Realty: 257-13-49, 198-3660.
Chistye Prudy, Mal. Kharitonievsky Lane. Total area:
115 sq.m., rooms: 35 (studio), 19,19, 16, two bathrooms ( sauna, Jacuzzi, shower cabin), heated floors,
conditioners, furnished, Satellite TV, intercom, parking.
Rent: $4,500. FLATLINK, 363-4435, 505-2957,
www.flatlink.ru
Design interior in quiet Arbat area, full of light, 3 bedrooms, fully furnished, lots of storage, beautiful
entrance with concierge, EVANS, 232-6703,
www.evans.ru
FRUNZENSKAYA: 100 sq, western, furnished. G&G
Realty: 257-1349, 198-3660.
KROPOTKINSKAYA, Old Arbat, 140 sq.m., 3 bedrooms, fully-fitted kitchen set, unfurnished, concierge,
closed courtyard, $4,000, NO COMMISSION, KEY
REALTY, 788-6350, 745-1285
m. Mayakovskaya, Vasilyevskaya St. 120 sq.m.
rooms: 23, 23, 18, studio - 16, new Western renovation, fully equipped kitchen, Kosmos TV, Internet line,
secure parking, rent: $3,400, FLATLINK, 363-4435,
505-2957,
www.flatlink.ru
Tretyakovskaya, B. Ordynka. Total area: 110 sq.m.,
rooms: 32,18, 18, 16; kitchen:12, wardrobe:6,
European renovation, parquet floors, home theatre, furnished, intercom, parking. Rent: $3,000. FLATLINK,
363-4435, www.flatlink.ru, [email protected]
Prestigious and airy! Veresayeva Street. 200 sq.m.
Spacious LR. 2BRs + den. 1,5BAs. Unfurnished. New
bldg. Privacy and security. $6,000 per month. PENNY
LANE 232-0099.
Serafimovicha, 2, 105 sq.m., Secured parking, videophone, 1,5 bathrooms, designed interior, nice furniture.
BLACKWOOD. 915-4000
Sokolniki Area. 100 sq.m. Big LR. 2+BRs. 2BAs.
Furnished. Built-in closets. Internet. Modern bldg.
Garage. 5000 per month. PENNY LANE, 232-0099.
Spacious residence on Patriarshy Ponds, 200 square
meters, 3 bedrooms, en-suite bathroom, tastefully furnished in classical style, EVANS, 232-6703,
www.evans.ru
CHISTIEYE PRUDI, Pokrovka, 140sq.m., western
renovation, unfurnished, all built-in kitchen appliances,
studio; PUSHKINSKAYA, Spiridonovka, western, all
kitchen appliances; KRASNIYE VOROTA, Ljalin Lane,
170sq.m., western renovation, fully furnished, 2 WCs,
Jacuzzi; VILAR-INCOM, 363-04-40
SEREBRYANNY BOR imagine living in a private oasis,
far from the hustle of the city, nice family house in traditionally ecologically clean west of the city;
KROPOTKINSKAYA, This full service luxury residence
is located in the heart of Moscow with outstanding view
on Christ the Savior Cathedral; 363-08-48 INCOM
PATRIARSHY PONDS area: 150 sq.m, concierge,
closed yard, fresh western renovation; panoramic view.
G&G Realty: 257-13-49, 198-3660.
UNIVERSITET, 130 sq.m., elite building, 2 bathrooms,
western, 24 hours security, underground garage,
exclusive design. BARRIKADNAYA, 130 sq.m., prestige house, western, underground garage, 24-hours
guarded. INCOM 363-1004.
UNIVERSITET area: new building; 170 sq.m, 3 bathrooms; unfurnished; $3000. G&G Realty: 257-1349,
198-3660.
5 ROOMS
Offered
Mayakovskaya, Bolshaya Sadovaya. Total area: 120;
studio: 31,5, living room: 24, two bedrooms: 13,5,
study: 16. New super western renovation, beech parquet floor, mahogany doors, built-in kitchen, all appliances, two full bathrooms, electric fireplace, fully furnished. Renovated entrance, parking. Rent: $4,500
(neg). FLATLINK, 363-4435,
www.flatlink.ru,[email protected]
Kuskovo park zone, residential complex in Moscow,
houses from 125-151 sq.m., 4 bedrooms, large livingroom, 2 bathrooms, western renovation, all appliances,
unfurnished/furnished, guarded area. To see photos
please visit: www.flatlink.ru/home_ar.html Rent:
$2,500-3,200; FLAT LINK , 363-4435
Petrovka Str. 270 sq.m. 2 flrs. Huge LR. Furnished.
Move-in condition. $12,000 per month. PENNY LANE,
232-0099.
Quiet city living! Skaterny Lane. 150 sq.m. Huge
reception area. 3BRs. 2.5BAs. Furnished. Pre-rev bldg.
24 HR professional security. $7,000 per month. PENNY
LANE, 232-0099.
www.rental.ru
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7 ROOMS
PUSHKINSKAYA, Malaya Nikitskaya, restorated
mansion, unfurnished, western renovation, concierge;
VILAR-INCOM, 363-04-40
NO COMMISSION!
2 min. walk from Kremlin,
Znamenka Str. ; total area 150 sq. m., concierge,
secure parking, top western; furnished. $5,000. G&G
Realty: 257-13-49, 198-36-60.
6 ROOMS
Offered
Contemporary home! Kropotkinskaya. 200 sq.m. 2 flrs.
6 rooms. 3BAs. Exceptionally renovated. WBFPs.
Unfurnished. Hi ceils. Panoramic vus. $9,000 per month.
PENNY LANE 232-0099.
Tel: (7 501) 258−3990
Fax: (7 501) 258−3980
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Colliers International
Tel: 258−5151 Fax: 258−5152
• http://www.colliers.ru
Short term serviced apartments at Stary Arbat
• 4 good sized bedrooms
• large living room
• modern kitchen
• guest bathroom
• satellite TV
• video library
• 24-hour property management
• daily cleaning
• linen change
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SPORTS
the Pistons.
Nets 99, Nuggets 79: In East
Rutherford, New Jersey,
Jason Kidd hit five consecutive shots and scored 13 of his
24 points in the first quarter to
lead New Jersey over Denver.
Kenyon Martin and Kerry
Kittles added 15 points each as
the Nets forced 28 turnovers
in handing the Nuggets their
fourth straight loss.
New Jersey led by 15 after
the first quarter, 26 at the half
and 35 after three periods.
Kenny Satterfield scored 15
points to lead the Nuggets,
who have five rookies on their
roster — the second-youngest
in the league.
Hawks 117, Raptors 92: In
Atlanta, Shareef AbdurRahim scored 27 points as
Atlanta routed Toronto after
building a 29-point lead at
halftime.
Abdur-Rahim scored 15
points in the opening quarter
and watched the final period
from the bench as the Hawks
got some lesser-used players
on the court.
He has averaged 28 points
over the past four games, the
last three being Atlanta victories.
The Hawks scored 15 baskets off dunks, layups and tips
in the first half, leading to an
astonishing 38-8 edge on points
in the lane.
The Hawks also outrebounded the Raptors 29-11
and scored 25 points off
turnovers.
Spurs 104, Cavaliers 78: In
San Antonio, Tim Duncan
scored 25 points to help San
Antonio hand Cleveland its
seventh consecutive loss.
San Antonio, which beat
Cleveland for the second time
in three days, had five players in double figures.
Stephen Jackson added 18
points, while Steve Smith and
Kevin Willis scored 12 apiece.
The Spurs stretched the
advantage to as many as 28
points in the fourth quarter.
Cleveland was led by
Lithuania’s Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who scored 25 points.
Ricky Davis added 19.
Clippers 99, Warriors 89: In
Oakland, California, Michael
Olowokandi had 24 points and
12 rebounds, and Elton Brand
scored 17 points as Los Angeles
snapped a three-game losing
streak with a victory over
Golden State.
Olowokandi scored 20 points
after halftime as the Clippers
easily held off the inept
Warriors, who regressed dramatically from the form they
showed in a 135-92 victory
over Orlando on Saturday —
the franchise’s biggest win in
nearly nine years.
Corey Maggette added 16
points as Los Angeles took a
19-point lead in the third
quarter and maintained a double-digit margin in the fourth.
Antawn Jamison scored 26
points, and Erick Dampier had
17 rebounds as Golden State
lost for the ninth time in 11
games to remain last in the
Pacific Division.
competitive spirit that drove him.
“It’s obviously great that I’m
getting fantastic money playing
and going out there and doing
something I love,” he said. “But I’d
be playing if there was no money.
“So I’m not playing tennis for the
money. I just love going out there
and competing.”
A
UCKLAND, New Zealand —
Seattle’s OneWorld will race
New York’s Stars & Stripes and
Prada of Italy will take on Sweden’s
Victory Challenge in quarterfinal
repechages starting Saturday at the
America’s Cup off Auckland.
OneWorld was expected to avoid
its
American
which has
GLOBAL rival
made startling
ROUNDUP performance
gains since it put
forward its salvaged yacht, USA77, in quarterfinals which ended
Monday. Instead, it elected to promote all-American and allEuropean repechages.
The best-of-seven race “second-chance” repechages combine
the losers of top four quarterfinals, OneWorld and Prada, and
the winners of bottom four
matches, Victory and Stars &
Stripes. OneWorld, as the highest-ranked team, had the right
to choose its opponent.
The decision, eventually made
by OneWorld’s crew, had to be
made within 24 hours of the conclusion of the quarterfinals.
USGA buys tea room
N
AP
Basketball
OneWorld faces Stripes
AMERICAN challenger OneWorld races in the match against fellow countrymen
Oracle on Saturday. The team will race Stars & Stripes on the weekend.
Playing for nothing
A
DELAIADE, Australia —
Lleyton Hewitt earned nearly
$15 million playing tennis this season,
but says he’d do it all for nothing.
Returning to his home town on
Tuesday after retaining the season-end No. 1 ranking and successfully defending the Masters
Cup title in Shanghai, Hewitt said
it was his love of the game and his
EW YORK — The U.S. Golf
Association bought the fabled
Russian Tea Room, a New York landmark soon to become a golf museum
and history center.
The USGA bid $16 million for
the building, which is next door to
Carnegie Hall, and signed documents Monday for the official
transfer of property.
“The New York City museum is
not going to be simply a collection
of artifacts in the traditional sense,
but a multimedia, interactive presentation of golf history and future
of the game,” said Rand Jerris,
director of museum and library for
the USGA. The USGA will keep its
primary museum in Far Hills, New
Jersey.
— AP
Football: Bears fall to Rams for 8th loss
in the Bears’ zone defense for 22
yards to give the Rams first-andgoal at the 4. On third down, Bulger
handed off to tight end Ernie
Conwell circling from a wingback
spot on the right side for a touchdown that gave St. Louis a 7-0 lead.
Linebacker Rosevelt Colvin, who
was beaten for a 52-yard completion from Bulger to Conwell to open
the Rams’ second possession,
redeemed himself with a sack, giving him a team-high 8-1/2, and a
fumble that Alex Brown recovered.
The Bears converted the takeaway into points with a little creativity. On fourth down at the
Chicago 46, punter Brad Maynard
faked a handoff to Rabih Abdullah,
faked a punt, then took off along
the left sideline to 20 yards and a
first down at the St. Louis 35.
Anthony Thomas slashed through
the left side for 17 yards, but a sack
of Chandler stalled the drive and
Edinger provided the Bears’ first
points with a 37-yard field goal at
the start of the second quarter.
Leon Johnson returned a subsequent Rams’ punt 29 yards to give
the offense the ball at the St. Louis
33. Another third-down sack of
Chandler forced Edinger to kick a
48-yard field goal, his 12th straight
successful field-goal attempt.
But the offense’s failure to turn
excellent field position into more
than three points was a bad sign,
one that has become a pattern for
the 2002 Bears.
The Rams, who have played in
two of the last three Super Bowls,
were without tailback Marshall
Faulk, out with a sprained ankle,
and it seemed to matter for the first
time. Since 1999 with Faulk in the
lineup, the Rams have averaged
30.9 points per game. Without him
the last four games they have
scored 31.8.
Soccer: Yugoslav clubs overcoming hardship
Mijatovic, Dejan Savicevic and
many others.
But a gentle wind of optimism is
blowing through the concrete terraces of the old grounds these days.
Following the downfall of
Slobodan Milosevic as president
two years ago, Yugoslavia is gradually becoming a more normal
European country. Football is slowly making progress too.
The national team has made
an impressive start to its Euro
2006 qualifying campaign. The
two big clubs, Belgrade’s Partizan
and Red Star, may have fallen
at the second round of the UEFA
Cup but they defeated some quality teams to get that far.
The league this season looks to be
more than a two-horse race, with
several smaller clubs giving the big
two a run for their money.
Privatization of state-owned clubs
is in the offing, meaning injections
of much-needed cash.
“Football has never been better in the past 10 years,” declared
Bulatovic.
“It’s changing for the better
but we know it’s a long process
and things can’t be transformed
overnight.”
OFK Belgrade, nicknamed The
Romantics for a tradition of cavalier play, serve as a fair example of
the trials endured by many in the
club game over the past decade.
Located near the banks of the
River Danube, OFK have a tradi-
tion stretching back to the years
before World War II when they
won five Yugoslav league titles.
Eclipsed by communist partybacked Red Star and Partizan
after the war, OFK nevertheless
enjoyed some success. They
reached the semifinals of the
European Cup Winners’ Cup in
1963 before losing to Tottenham
Hotspur.
But as the old Yugoslavia fell
apart in the Balkan wars of the
1990s, OFK and many other clubs
descended into hard times.
Yugoslav players were being
paid between 20 and 50 German
marks (between $10 and $25) a
month. About 500 to 600 players
at all levels were quitting the
country every year.
“The situation wasn’t great,”
said OFK’s general manager
Zvezdan Terzic, displaying a talent
for understatement as he recalled
the time in 1997 when he was
brought in to help the team he used
to serve as a player.
“The club was playing in the
second division. The stadium was
a total ruin. There was no money
and we had about four registered
players,” remembers the energetic Terzic.
His club now boasts nine international players at various levels.
They have big plans to renovate
their stadium and build a large
training complex.
Terzic has attracted investors
willing to put money in OFK even
though the club is still officially
owned by the state. Behind the
run-down stadium facade, OFK
has modern offices lined with
smart black-and-white photographs of the glory days.
Terzic and head coach Dragoljub
Bekvalac are studying a videotape
of the previous evening’s 2-1 loss to
Red Star, replaying the tape with
some satisfaction to show that the
former European Cup winners’
first goal should have been ruled
out for offside.
The result was a disappointment
but no disgrace for a young team
many had tipped for relegation.
The club now look comfortably
established in the top third of the
18-team league.
OFK’s role models are Ajax
Amsterdam, a club famed for playing attractive football and developing young players.
“Ajax is synonymous with creativity for most of Europe and OFK
is a symbol of creativity in the
Balkans,” Bekvalac said.
They know they have a long way
to go before their Omladinski
Stadion (“Stadium of Youth”)
resembles the Amsterdam Arena.
At the moment, it does not even
have floodlights or a scoreboard.
The club have installed some
plastic seats but most of the seating
is just slabs of concrete. Fans use
old newspapers in plastic bags as
cushions. Other grounds are even
less developed.
OFK are lucky to get even a few
thousand spectators for most
games. The quality of the average
domestic tie does not impress
Yugoslav fans, who can watch
their country’s best players on television in the Italian, Spanish,
German and English leagues.
Some club bosses have proposed a regional league taking in
the best teams from the old
Yugoslavia. With more big-name
clubs, it might raise the quality
of play and prove more attractive to supporters, sponsors and
television companies.
“In the West, most revenue
comes from TV rights,” said
Bulatovic at the Yugoslav FA.
“Here, it’s practically zero.”
He feels a full-scale league is
unrealistic as each country is
bound by FIFA and UEFA rules
to run a national league but suggests a mini-tournament could
prove popular.
Broadcasting rights are not the
answer to everything, as western
European clubs have recently discovered.
But their money problems,
caused by declines in revenue from
television companies, have helped
Yugoslav sides in one way.
Less transfer activity meant less
cash flowing in here but teams
kept talented players who would
normally have been sold abroad.
“It did cause financial problems for our clubs but they were
able to hold on to their players,”
Bulatovic said.
“Our football will be stronger
when selling players is no longer
the only source of income.”
SEATTLE’S
OneWorld will race
New York’s Stars &
Stripes starting
Saturday.
— PAGE 15
SPORTS
LLEYTON Hewitt
says he loves tennis
so much that he’d do
it for nothing.
— PAGE 15
Sprewell leads Knicks
to beat Detroit Pistons
Team wins by 3 points
after nearly blowing
a 32-point lead
ST. LOUIS RAMS’ Isaac Bruce (80) is upended by the Chicago Bears’
Mike Brown (30) following a 30-yard pass reception.
Bears fall to Rams
for 8th straight loss
Chicago has matched its failures of 1978
By John Mullin
Chicago Tribune
S
T. LOUIS — For a while,
the Chicago Bears stayed
close. But ultimately, for
the eighth straight week, close
didn’t matter.
The Bears once again proved
unable to make plays at decisive moments before losing 2116 to the St.
Louis Rams.
AMERICAN Their futility
FOOTBALL tied a franchise record
for disappointment as their
eight-game losing streak matches the club’s 1978 standard for
consecutive failures.
The Rams, 5-5 after five
straight victories, sacked quarterback Chris Chandler five times
in first half, the most devastating
one coming with 17 seconds
remaining in the second quarter.
On the play, rookie left tackle
Marc Colombo sustained a dislocated left kneecap and is expected to be out for the season.
Chandler was sacked a sixth
time in the third quarter and
was hit repeatedly despite early
attempts to move him out of
the pocket to set up away from
pressure.
The Bears trailed 14-6 at halftime and stood down just 1413 after three quarters. But in
the fourth quarter quarterback
Marc Bulger (21-of-35, 347
yards, 2 touchdowns) hit former Bear Ricky Proehl for an
8-yard touchdown pass that
beat cornerback Jerry Azumah
for a 21-13 Rams’ lead.
The Bears’ Paul Edinger hit
a 50-yard field goal with less
than four minutes to play to
make it 21-16.
The Rams put the Bears on
their heels at the outset, scoring
on a 10-play opening drive as
they waltzed through a variety of
Bears’ defensive looks with
alarming ease. The Rams beat
Bears blitzes and extra defensive
backs to convert third-and-10
and third-and-9 situations with
Bulger completions to running
back Lamar Gordon for 13 yards
and to Isaac Bruce for 21 yards
for a first down at the Chicago 26.
Bulger then hit Bruce in a seam
See FOOTBALL, Page 15
N
EW YORK — Latrell
Sprewell returned to the
starting lineup and scored
23 points Monday, helping the New
York Knicks defeat the Detroit
Pistons 94-91 despite nearly blowing a 32-point lead.
Allan Houston also scored 23
for the Knicks, who won for the
second time this season.
Detroit trailed
22 when the
N B A by
fourth quarter
R O U N D U P began but pulled
within one with
9.6 seconds remaining. Sprewell
hit a pair of free throws in the
final 4.7 seconds, and Ben
Wallace threw away the ensuing inbounds pass to deprive
Detroit of a chance to tie.
Wallace grabbed 19 of his 21
rebounds in the second half,
thriving on the boards as the
Knicks suddenly found themselves unable to make a shot.
New York was just 2-for-18 from
the field in the fourth, with
Sprewell going 0-for-4.
Improving to 2-8, the Knicks
avoided having the worst record
after 10 games in franchise history.
Richard Hamilton scored 31 for
See BASKETBALL, Page 15
AP
AP
NEW YORK Knicks’ Allan Houston shoots against Detroit Pistons’ Richard
Hamilton in the second half Monday in New York. The Knicks won, 94-91.
Houston finished with 23 points.
Yugoslav clubs on the ball
The country’s teams
are overcoming 10
years of hardship
By Andrew Gray
Reuters
Koivu takes
Canadiens
to victory
M
ONTREAL — Donald Audette scored 1:12 into overtime for the Montreal Canadiens,
who got a career-best three goals
from Finland’s Saku Koivu in a
5-4 victory Monday over the
Pittsburgh Penguins.
Audette, who ended a 23-game
goal-scoring drought in his previous game, beat Pittsburgh
goalie Johan Hedberg for the
winner. None of the nine goals
AP
MONTREAL Canadiens’ Saku Koivu
(right) is congratulated by teammate
Donald Audette following a goal Monday.
in the game came while the teams
were skating 5-on-5.
Koivu scored twice on the power
play and got the Canadiens’ first
short-handed goal of the season.
All eight goals in regulation were
scored on special teams.
ELGRADE — One of
Belgrade’s smaller soccer
clubs is nicknamed The
Romantics. The tag could equally
apply to fans who have stuck by
Yugoslav soccer over the past
decade, demonstrating an incurable
affection through tough times.
Football
the
INSIDE endured
same catastroS O C C E R phes as the rest
of
Yugoslav
society in the 1990s — war, poverty, hyperinflation, political turmoil, rampant crime and international sanctions.
All have left their scars on the
game today. Stadiums are dilapidated. Clubs have had to sell
their best players abroad to pay
the bills. “Businessmen” help to
bankroll clubs, the origin of their
wealth sometimes questionable in
AP
B
RED STAR Belgrade’s Nenad Lalatovic (left) is challenged for the ball by
Martin Lucas Castroman of Lazio during last week’s UEFA Cup game. Red
Star is out of the tournament but put on a spirited performance typical of
the country’s clubs in general to get that far.
this mafia-ridden region.
“Football has been through hell,
just like everything else,” said
Branko Bulatovic, general secretary of the Yugoslav Football
Association.
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