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Consider this typical scene: A group of young professionals sitting around a dinner table in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The hosts for the evening were Roman Zhabko, 34, a computer network administrator, and his wife, Olga Zhabko, 28, who manages a small business. (Globe and Mail)
Russia plans Stalinist monument Apr 21, 2006
An aide to the Krasnoyarsk regional governor, Yevgeny Pashchenko, told Interfax news agency that "this initiative came from businessmen who have long been involved in local tourism - it's a purely commercial project to attract tourists, it has no political overtones". Russia's Itar-Tass news agency reports that demand has grown for tours to the sites of notorious Gulag labour camps. (BBC News -- Europe)
Putin Promises to Send Gas to China Mar 22, 2006
Ivanov, who is widely thought to be a frontrunner to succeed Putin in 2008, instead visited a space technologies plant in the Krasnoyarsk region. (Story, Page 3. (The Moscow Times)
Thousands protest utilities hikes in Russia Mar 5, 2006
In the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, around 1,500 people turned out to protest the price hikes, RIA Novosti news agency said. Demonstrators demanded that increases in rates for utilities and other public services connected to residential buildings be capped for each family at 10 percent of the family's income, the report said. (Business Report, South Africa)
Disgraced Pyleva gets two-year ban Feb 18, 2006
"It's a new medicine but it had all the necessary certificates," Vinogradova told a news conference in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. But Russia's biathlon chief shifted the blame on the doctor. (CNN -- International)
Review of the Russian press, February 13 Feb 14, 2006
The only Russian maker of such craft - NPOPM (Research and Production Association of Applied Mechanics) in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory - has one spacecraft to its credit: the SESat made for Europe's EutelSat and orbited in 2000. The company is currently working on an Iranian order. (Monsters and Critics.com)
Danilov undergoes checkup at prison hospital Jan 23, 2006
KRASNOYARSK. Jan 23 (Interfax) - The recent hospitalization of Krasnoyarsk physicist Valentin Danilov, sentenced to 13 years for espionage, was required for a medical checkup, Danilov's wife Tamara Vasilyeva told Interfax ... "There was a routine checkup. Danilov's condition is satisfactory and he has now been taken back to a prison in Gromadsk in the Krasnoyarsk region," she said. (Interfax)
Moscow press review for January 19, 2006 (Update) Jan 19, 2006
METALS G Krasnoyarsk Governor Alexander Khloponin, the former head of Norilsk Nickel, confirmed on Wednesday that the shareholders of the metals giant and Russian diamond-mining monopoly Alrosa are discussing a possible merger. The talks could result in the state reestablishing control over the world's biggest producer of nickel and platinum group metals (Kommersant, p. 1; Moscow Times, p. 1; Vedomosti, p. A1; Vremya Novostei, p. 2). (Interfax)
RusAl subsidiaries guarantee syndicated credit Jan 13, 2006
MOSCOW. Jan 13 (Interfax) - Companies in the Russian Aluminum group -OAO Bratsk Aluminum Plant (RTS: BRSK) (BrAZ), OAO Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant (RTS: KRAZ) (KrAZ) and OAO Novokuznetsk Aluminum Plant (NkAZ) - have signed surety agreements for a syndicated credit of $687. 5 million being attracted by the parent company from a group of foreign banks headed by ABN AMRO. The company said that BrAZ and KrAZ provided guarantees for up to $257. (Interfax)
Opera hunk plans KenCen recital (T.L. Ponick) Jan 7, 2006
Born in the city of Krasnoyarsk in far-distant Siberia in 1962, he displayed musical aptitude at an early age. He first studied piano as a child but gradually moved to vocal music at the Krasnoyarsk School of Arts ... Later he became a soloist with the Krasnoyarsk Opera, where he might have remained had he not copped first prize at the 1987 Glinka National Competition. (Washington Times)
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