By empty (12/23/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

President Vladimir Putin said on 23 December that while no wholesale revision of privatization is planned, this \"doesn\'t concern people who didn\'t observe the law.\" \"We often hear that the laws were complicated and it was impossible to observe them,\" Putin said in a speech to the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. \"So speak those who didn\'t observe them.

By empty (12/17/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Khanpash Terkibaev, a Chechen journalist who some observers allege participated in the October 2002 seizure of a Moscow theater by Chechen fighters, was killed in a traffic accident near Grozny on 15 December. The agency quoted Grozny district administration head Shaid Dzhamaldaev as saying that four other people riding in the car with Terkibaev also died in the accident, the causes of which are under investigation. In April, \"Novaya gazeta\" correspondent Anna Politkovskaya reported that Terkibaev traveled to Moscow with the Chechen fighters who seized the theater and ensured that their journey was unimpeded, and that he left the theater before Russian commandos stormed it.

By empty (12/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

South Korea has become the first country to sign an agreement with Kyrgyzstan on accepting Kyrgyz labor migrants. Korean agencies expressed an interest in receiving Kyrgyz workers in November 2002, but final arrangements were made only in September during a visit to South Korea by Kyrgyz Labor and Social Security Minister Roza Aknazarova. The ministry\'s employment centers will have responsibility for the selection and training of Kyrgyz citizens taking jobs in South Korea.