The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform
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18/02/01 B 22 1>8 Photograph, map<br />
* Privatisation plans for the famed Mosfilm studios in Russia<br />
have outraged leaders of a struggling industry 04/03/01 B 23<br />
1>5 Photograph<br />
* 21 killed in Russian car bomb blitz 25/03/01 B 25 1>8<br />
Photographs, map<br />
* Forty years after Yuri Gagarian's historic space flight, his<br />
death intrigues a nation 08/04/01 B 21 1>2 Photograph<br />
* Journalists resign and set up a rival newsroom after 3am raid<br />
on Moscow studios by private security guards 15/04/01 B 17<br />
1>3 Photograph<br />
* Children are recruited for Russia's commando war on tax<br />
dodgers 20/05/01 B 25 1>7 Photograph<br />
* US President invites Russia to help refashion world security by<br />
backing missile shield - see International Affairs: U.S.A.<br />
17/06/01<br />
* According to a secret file which President Putin has unveiled,<br />
the Krelmin asked to join Nato in 1954 17/06/01 B 18 8<br />
* Gilded graveyard of Russia's imperial horses is restored in the<br />
grounds of St Petersburg's grandest imperial palace 17/06/01 B<br />
18 1>8 Photograph<br />
* When Star City was built on the outskirts of Moscow in 1960<br />
its contents were top secret, now it is a tourist destination - see<br />
Space 29/07/01<br />
* What really happened to Russia's 'unsinkable' submarine - see<br />
Kursk, <strong>The</strong> 05/08/01<br />
* Soviet football hero Eduard Streltsov's career was ruined when<br />
he was sent to labour camps because of a rape conviction and the<br />
malice of a woman Politburo member 26/08/01 B 21 1>4<br />
Photograph<br />
* Alfred Kokh, the former Russian Privatisation Minister, sacked<br />
in disgrace, was back in the limelight as the presenter of Greed, a<br />
new TV show 16/09/01 B 8 4>8 Photograph<br />
* Vegetarianism in Russia was forbidden 70 years ago, now<br />
more than a century after the first Russian vegetarianism society<br />
was founded, the meat-free life is flourishing again 30/09/01 B<br />
24 7>8<br />
* Microsoft maverick's café brings new hope to Russian orphans<br />
07/10/01 B 24 3>8 Photographs<br />
* <strong>The</strong> letter 'e' in the Russian alphabet was devised by writer<br />
Nikolai Karamzin in 1797 and the town where he came from<br />
wants to erect a monument 28/10/01 B 28 7>8<br />
* New film about Lenin by the controversial Russian director<br />
Alexander Sokurov has provoked anger from a coalition of<br />
Indian writers and politicians - see International Affairs: Indian<br />
Sub-Continent 18/11/01<br />
* <strong>The</strong> Kremlin accuses Germans of 'making us look like Nazis'<br />
at atrocity museum 23/12/01 B 15 3>7 Photograph<br />
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: S.E. ASIA<br />
* China's rulers dubbed rebel students 'those bastards' 07/01/01<br />
B 20 3>7 Photographs<br />
* Disgraced Philippine President Joseph Estrada is to face a<br />
judicial investigation for economic plunder 21/01/01 B 20 1>8<br />
Photographs<br />
* <strong>The</strong> stepfather of a six-year-old girl rescued after being held<br />
hostage by kidnappers for 23 days was flying to the Philippines<br />
last night to be reunited with her 04/02/01 B 22 1>5<br />
Photographs<br />
* <strong>The</strong> centre of old Saigon stepped back yearly 50 years as<br />
filming started on an Australian adaptation of Graham Greene's,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Quiet American 18/02/01 B 24 1>7 Photographs<br />
OBSERVER INDEX: JAN-DEC <strong>2001</strong><br />
115<br />
* 108 people were killed and dozens injured as a series of blasts<br />
ripped through tower blocks in the northern Chinese city of<br />
Shijiazhuang 18/03/01 B 24 7>8<br />
* China shrugs off Olympic warning on human rights 15/07/01<br />
B 21 7>8<br />
* Coffee beans were supposed to be the answer to Vietnam's<br />
woes but civil strife and environmental destruction are the result<br />
12/08/01 N 3 1>4 Photograph<br />
* Burglars trapped 66 people who died in a hotel inferno in the<br />
Philippines 19/08/01 B 17 1>4 Photograph<br />
* Indonesia's 'midnight terror' sends 1,700 to their deaths<br />
21/10/01 B 26 1>7 Photograph<br />
* China was finally admitted to the World Trade Organisation<br />
yesterday - see World Trade Organisation 11/11/01<br />
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: U.S.A.<br />
* Outgoing President Clinton's final orders save forests from<br />
'scorched-earth' policy 07/01/01 B 20 1>2<br />
* American military bases and consular facilities across Italy<br />
were placed on high alert against a possible terrorist attack by<br />
Islamic militants 07/01/01 B 21 3>4<br />
* Mystery surrounds the execution-style murder of Susan<br />
Berman, gangster's daughter and the author of Easy Street<br />
07/01/01 B 21 1>5 Photographs<br />
* <strong>The</strong> 'Malevolent Seven' whose escape from a Texas prison<br />
sparked one of the biggest manhunts in American history got<br />
away after being left unsupervised having a picnic 07/01/01 B<br />
22 7>8<br />
* <strong>The</strong> Clinton Years 07/01/01 R 4>5 1>4 Photographs<br />
* A new arms race looms after reports that Russia and China are<br />
preparing to enter into a historic pact, spurred on by plans by the<br />
incoming Bush administration - see Arms 14/01/01<br />
* <strong>The</strong> new President will be sworn in this week amid a storm<br />
over his choice of Attorney-General 14/01/01 B 19 1>8<br />
Photographs<br />
* Two US leaders - Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were the<br />
subject of health alerts yesterday 14/01/01 B 2 2>4 Photograph<br />
* America finds its soul in music 14/01/01 R 5 1>5 Photographs<br />
* George W. Bush takes the 35-word presidential oath,<br />
concluding America's longest, closest and most bitter election<br />
21/01/01 B 1>2 1>4 Photograph<br />
* <strong>The</strong> White House handover 21/01/01 B 22>23 1>6<br />
Photographs<br />
* A power struggle is raging in California where there is not<br />
enough electricity to keep the lights on 21/01/01 B 26 1>8<br />
Photographs<br />
* Anger at Clinton's sleazy White House departure 28/01/01 B<br />
21 1>7 Photographs<br />
* With George W Bush in the White House, energy firms<br />
lobbying for deregulation are pushing at an open door 28/01/01<br />
N 4 3>8 Photograph<br />
* Focus on America's moral crusaders 04/02/01 B 17 1>8<br />
Photographs<br />
* A Dutch man has been arrested with attempting to smuggle<br />
Ecstasy into the US by swallowing 3,500 pills 04/02/01 B 26<br />
7>8<br />
* Bill and Hillary Clinton are under pressure to return White<br />
House gifts 04/02/01 B 26 7>8 Photograph<br />
* Vince McMahon has turned wrestling into a billion-dollar<br />
industry, he hopes to inject the sex and violence formula into<br />
American football 04/02/01 B 26 1>8 Photographs