(RFE/RL) 9 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- This week marks six months since the government of Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko came to power following the Orange Revolution that marked the end of long-time President Leonid Kuchma's tenure and brought Viktor Yushchenko to power. RFE/RL Kyiv correspondent Maryna Pyrozhuk recently spoke with Tymoshenko about post-Orange Revolution power grabs, the "difficult and dirty battle" ahead of next year's parliamentary elections, and her cooperation with President Yushchenko.
"Jadid" is the Arabic word for "new," but Jadidism was a drive for cultural and social renewal among Muslims in the Russian Empire in the early 20th century. Historians have taken the term "Jadidism" from usul-i jadid, meaning a "new method" of teaching in schools, yet Jadidism's significance extended far beyond education. In the part of today's Central Asia that was known administratively as Turkestan under the Russian tsars, Jadidism briefly became one of the most remarkable currents of thought in a wide-ranging debate over culture and society among the region's Muslims.
9 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Russian prosecutors said today they have opened a criminal investigation into the accident in which seven crewmen were trapped for three days in a mini-submarine under the Pacific Ocean.
By Laura Belin http://gdb.rferl.org/F147B3D0-E55D-4619-8C32-4B6929F821D7_w203.jpg Valerii Shantsev took the oath of office as governor of Nizhnii Novgorod Oblast on 8 August, ending nearly a decade of service as vice mayor of Moscow. The ceremony took place soon after the region's legislature unanimously confirmed Shantsev's nomination at a special session. There was no time to waste; on the same day, the term of outgoing Governor Gennadii Khodyrev expired.
The Russian stock market has soared this month against a background of growing foreign investment and hopes that the government may have put the Yukos affair behind it. International confidence was badly dented by the breakup of the oil company and the arrest and imprisonment of its high-profile chief executive, Mikhail Khodorkovskii, both of which were widely perceived to have been politically motivated. The fall of Yukos, once regarded as the best and most transparently run company in Russia, appeared to signal a further weakening of property rights in Russia. Paradoxically, though, while foreign investment is growing, figures released this month by the Russian government show domestic confidence in the economy is falling. Capital flight from Russia is mounting fast.
8 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The European Union's Executive Commission today called on its member countries to ban imports of birds and bird products from Russia and Kazakhstan as of 12 August, due to outbreaks of bird flu in the two countries.
7 August 2005 -- Chechnya's pro-Kremlin administration said today that nine Russian soldiers were killed and nine more wounded in weekend clashes with Chechen separatist rebels.
After 13 days, the so-called six-party talks (China, Japan, Russia, the United States, and North and South Korea) on North Korea's nuclear programs broke off today for a three-week recess without agreement on a joint declaration to set the ground work for negotiations.
7 August 2005 -- Milhail Yevdokimov, a comedian who was elected governor of the Siberian region of Altai last year, was killed today in a traffic accident.
(file photo) Prague, 7 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Russia today expressed "profound thanks" to Great Britain, Japan, and the United States for their role in saving the lives of seven Russian sailors who were trapped in a submarine for three days on the Pacific Ocean floor.
6 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The European Union will ban poultry imports from Russia and Kazakhstan after cases of bird flu were reported in both countries.
Prague, 6 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. and British rescue teams have arrived in Russia's Far East to try to save the crew of a submarine stranded at the bottom of the Pacific. Time is running out for the seven sailors, who have limited air supplies left.
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