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RUSSIA Parliament Sept. 14 confirmed Viktor A. Zubkov as the country’s new prime minister. He replaces Mikhail Y. Fradkov, who resigned Sept. 12, The New York Times reported. Zubkov led a federal agency that investigates money laundering and is a confidant of Mr. Putin’s as well as his former deputy in the mayoral department in St. Petersburg.

UKRAINE The government has hired French firm Novarka to build a massive arch-shaped steel structure over the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, BBC News reported Sept. 17. The five-year project, funded by international donors at a cost of $1.4 billion (27.8 billion Kč), will allow authorities to dismantle the reactor, which still contains 95 percent of its original nuclear material. The 1986 accident at the plant is widely considered the worst nuclear accident in history.
GREECE President Karolos Papoulias asked Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to form a new government Sept. 17 after close elections. The ruling New Democracy party prevailed despite public anger over the government’s handling of severe forest fires in recent months. Though saddled with a reduced majority, Karamanlis renewed calls for economic reforms strongly opposed by left-wing groups, Agence France Presse reported.
LUXEMBOURG The European Court of First Instance Sept. 17 upheld the 2004 European Commission anti-trust ruling against Microsoft and ordered the software giant to pay $689.4 million in fines the EC had levied, according to The New York Times. The 13-panel court said Microsoft had used its dominance in operating systems to stifle competition.
BELARUS The Supreme Court convicted four Army officers of treason and spying for Poland Sept. 14 and sentenced them to seven to 10 years in prison, according to the Associated Press. The deputy chief of the Belarusian KGB said the four were giving Poland information about Russian anti-missile defense systems.
RUSSIA The man dubbed “The Chessboard Killer” went on trial in Moscow Sept. 13 on 49 counts of murder. Alexander Y. Pichushkin, 33, a supermarket shelf stocker, allegedly said he wanted to kill one person for every 64 squares on a chessboard but only reached 61. Prosecutors say they have evidence for 49 murders over the past six years.


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