18 July 2004 -- A journalist was found stabbed to death in Moscow yesterday, a week after a U.S.-born magazine editor was shot dead outside his Moscow office.
16 July 2004 -- Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says the effort to resolve tensions in the breakaway region of South Ossetia is a matter only for Georgia and Russia.
Prague, 16 July 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Among the topics at issue in some of the major dailies today are the release of two separate reports, in the United States and Britain, documenting intelligence failures in the run-up to war in Iraq; frozen aid and human rights in Uzbekistan; and Turkmenistan's "troubled waters." We also hear from the widow of Paul Klebnikov, the editor of the Russian edition of "Forbes" magazine, who was slain last week in Moscow.
Although only about 15 million Russians -- roughly 10 percent of the population -- regularly access the Internet, the reach of news or information posted on the Internet could extend to as much as one-third of the population, according to Ivan Zasurskii, deputy general director of Rambler. In an interview with "Novaya gazeta," No. 45, he noted that all urban populations have access to information from the Internet via "horizontal channels" of communication. For example, radio talk-show hosts and DJs regularly pick up "hot" themes from the Internet and immediately broadcast them. If Zasurskii is correct, will the Internet's expanding reach attract increased attention from authorities?
16 July 2004 -- Mikhail Khodorkovskii, the former chief executive of Russia's oil giant Yukos, today told a Moscow court that the charges brought against him were "absurd."
16 July 2004 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a media watchdog group, has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to take action to end what the group calls a "climate of lawlessness" that has led to the killings of journalists in Russia.
15 July 2004 -- Mikhail Khodorkovskii, the founder and main shareholder of the Russian oil company Yukos, pleaded innocent to all charges of fraud and tax evasion against him.
15 July 2004 -- A Russian negotiator says Russian, Georgian, and South Ossetian diplomats have signed a protocol agreeing not to use force to solve a tense dispute over the separatist Georgian region of South Ossetia.
Members of the four-party Joint Control Commission on South Ossetia are continuing talks in Moscow today in a bid to ease tension in the small South Caucasus separatist republic. RFE/RL reports that late yesterday, negotiators indicated they had made some progress, raising hope some sort of agreement could be reached before work on a Russian-Georgian friendship treaty resumes in Tbilisi.
15 July 2004 -- Prosecutors in a Moscow court today read out an indictment against Mikhail Khodorkovskii, the founder and main shareholder of the Russian oil company Yukos, in which they accused him of leading an "organized criminal group."
15 July 2004 -- Electoral officials are set today to begin registering candidates for the 29 August special presidential election in Russia's war-torn Republic of Chechnya.
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