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08/13/2002
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A brief look at the stories making headlines in the Russian-language press
All Eyes on Fed Ahead of Key Meeting
U.S. Federal Reserve officials are widely expected to keep interest rates at 40-year lows when they gather Tuesday.
Dollar Falls Against Yen Over Doubts of Fed Cut
The dollar fell to a one-week low against the yen Monday due to growing speculation that the Fed will not cut interest rates.
Europe's Central Bank Sees Slow U.S. Growth
European Central Bank chief economist Otmar Issing was quoted Monday as saying a ""double dip"" in the U.S. economy could not be ruled out but that continued slow growth was more likely.
A Helping Hand at Children's Cancer Hospital
The Nastenka Fund tries to improve conditions for its young patients and to help families cope with the emotional and financial difficulties of caring for their sick children.
An Unsettling Trip to Minsk
I love riding the rails. Where else in this day and age can you talk openly with total strangers?
A Tourist Destination of Rusty, Dusty Splendor?
What little there is to see in Azerbaijan hasn't been designed with the visiting tourist in mind.
Olympic Fix Scandal Echoes Soviet Times
The turbulent recent history of the former Soviet Union is packed with events that suggest -- in some cases as fleetingly as a photograph, in others as powerfully as a fatal gunshot -- connections between organized crime and sports.
Rumsfeld Wants More Covert Action
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is considering ways to broadly expand the role of U.S. Special Operations forces in the global campaign against terrorism.
Mugabe Firm on Farm Evictions
President Robert Mugabe on Monday ordered white farmers defying eviction orders to pack up and leave but said loyal farmers willing to cooperate with his government would not be left completely landless.
Crime Spurs Fingerprint Campaign
Australian police began a mass fingerprinting campaign on Norfolk Island on Monday, hoping to catch the perpetrator of the first murder in the tiny South Pacific island for 150 years.
- Korean Talks to Tackle DMZ Railroad
- It's Never Too Late to Start Up in Real Estate
- Appointments
- Local Scientist Closes In on Cure for Flu
- German Rocket Builders' Legacy Lives On
- Yahoo! Accused of Backing Repression
- A Park Hyatt Joins City's 5-Star Cast
- US Airways Files for Bankruptcy
- WorldCom Bomb 'One More Nail in Coffin'
- Yugoslavia Pins Its Hopes on Privatization
- Recruiters Try to Put a New Face on the CIA
- Colombia Decrees State of Emergency
- Britain Refuses Russian Honor for WWII Sailors
- News in Brief
- The Big One of Rock and Roll
- Business in Brief
- Report Says SibAl Axed GAZ Chief
- Goldovsky Set Free for $630,000
- Mobius' Templeton Taken Over by UFG
- Crude Oil, Nickel Exports Surge in H1
- Rosneftegaz Purchases White Nights for $74M
- S. Korea Says Russia Offers $550M in Arms
- Russia, Kaliningrad and NATO
- A Glimpse of the Media Sector in 2109?
- Late Spartak Equalizer Averts Surprise Defeat
- Ivanov: Rebels Had Georgian ID Papers
- Death Toll in Floods Hits 58
- Court Case May Delay Census Information
- Rogozin Rejects Visa Proposal for Kaliningrad
- Peace Corps Sent Packing
- Kursk Sailors Get Monumental Tribute
- Direct Investment, Exports Tumble
- Jews Look Back on 1952 Atrocity
- Russia, Kaliningrad, Ukraine and NATO
