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	BarentsObserver : Rep. of Komi
		Head of the Komi Republic, Vladimir Torlopov, says his region is "financially ready for the implementation of the municipal reform".
		Governor of the Komi Republic, Vladimir Torlopov, has allocated 1 million RUR (31,000 EUR) to the ones who gives leading information about the perpetrators of the death fire in the "Passazh" shoppping center 11 July this year.
		Torlopov briefed Vladimir Putin about the major projects which are unfolding in the region, among them the Belkomur railway project, the construction of a new huge aluminium plant and reform plans for the forest industry.
	www.barentsobserver.com /index.php?cat=16289a (1366 words)

	Nationality plays growing role in Russian elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Despite President Vladimir Putin’s reputation as a strong leader and the lack of any real opposition, he seems to be making remarkably little progress, says Otto Latsis.
		The executive branch was headed by President Yury Spiridonov, an ethnic Russian, while the Komi legislature, the State Council, was chaired by Vladimir Torlopov, an ethnic Komi.
		Torlopov won, receiving the overwhelming majority of votes from Komis, who make up only 23 percent of the republic’s population, and sufficient number of votes from Russians, who comprise 58 percent.
	www.russiajournal.com /fan/russia_6100_5919_news.htm (1845 words)

	/ North-West Telecom / News / > PRESS RELEASE/The Head of the Republic of Komi has visited OJSC North-West Telecom
		During the meeting, the progress of the implementation of the measures provided for by the Agreement of Mutual Cooperation between OJSC North-West Telecom and the Government of the Republic of Komi was discussed.
		Vladimir Torlopov told the management of the company about the investment plans of the region's development and the prospects for the development of telecommunications in the Republic, especially in the light of the developing industrial potential of such cities and towns as Inta, Vorkuta, Usinsk and Ukhta.
		In his turn, Vladimir Akulich, the Chief executive officer of North-West Telecom, assured his guest that the company had always considered the Republic of Komi as one of the most attractive regions of its operating area and was ready and willing to make its contribution to the development of up-to-date communication services there.
	www.nwtelecom.ru /pubsas/test--CF64DEC30C214B09955F28A8C703333D/lang--eng?print=soft (465 words)

	2002 in politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		January 15- Pat Cox of Ireland is elected president of the European Parliament.
		January 15- Vladimir Torlopov takes office as head of the Komi Republic.
		January 18- is sworn in as governor of Tamil Nadu.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/2002_in_politics (2169 words)

	The Carnegie Moscow Center - Publications - Articles and interviews - Nikolay Petrov - Federalist Illusions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		With the flurry of celebrations, summits and terrorist attacks at the beginning of the month, the State Council meeting in Kaliningrad on July 2 received scant attention and on the whole was poorly understood.
		The Kremlin, for all intents and purposes, admitted that in its current form, the deregionalization policy adopted nearly a year and a half ago was both unworkable and incompatible with the ongoing transformation of the economy, politics and the social sphere.
		Along with Putin, the main speakers were Vladimir Torlopov, head of the Komi republic, who is not known as a particularly powerful or independent regional leader, and St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko, who had met with Putin shortly before the session.
	www.carnegie.ru /en/pubs/media/72930.htm (771 words)

	Rosbalt.RU - printer friendly version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Komi Republic President Vladimir Torlopov and leaders of the English city of Telford discussed cooperation in education in St. Petersburg yesterday.
		Torlopov said in a press conference yesterday that 'Telford is prepared to finance exchanges of delegations which will study the systems of education in Russia and England and discuss advantages and insufficiencies in both systems.' He also said that so far the project is calculated on several years and includes Chuvashiya and Yaroslav Region.
		At that time, Torlopov visited Telford to become acquainted with the city and sign an agreement on cooperation.
	www.rosbaltnews.com /print/print?cn=63560 (156 words)

	Putin’s plan is formula for good and evil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vladimir Zharikhin, head of technologies at the Moscow Foundation of Presidential Programs, maintains that President Vladimir Putin’s decrees have made changes in Russia.
		During the drawn-out period between Vladimir Putin's victory at the polls and his inauguration, political commentators and the media held lively discussions on the theme that "Putin has turned out to be a weak president, he is not doing anything that will fundamentally change the political situation in the country."
		By Vladimir Zharikhin, head of electoral technologies at the Moscow Foundation of Presidential Programs, a think tank.
	www.russiajournal.com /fan/russia_5919_2954_news.htm (1754 words)

	Russian regional leaders upbeat on government dismissal - Russian News - News From Russia
		Moscow, 25 February: The decision of President Vladimir Putin to dismiss the government gives the new cabinet and the State Duma extra six months for constructive work, Kemerovo Region governor Aman Tuleyev has said.
		By changing the cabinet before the 14 March election the president demonstrated his "high responsibility to voters, who have to choose the country's leader for the next four years".
		Komi Republic head Vladimir Torlopov believes that a serious administrative reform lies ahead, in the course of which "functions of many ministries and government agencies may be reviewed".
	www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_215246.php (503 words)

	Business - Rich in Natural Resources, the Komi Region Awaits Investors - The St. Petersburg Times. General news from ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But Komi Governor Vladimir Torlopov, who was elected last year after serving two consecutive terms as speaker of the region's parliament, plans to change all that.
		Komi has accumulated a staggering debt of 6.5 billion rubles ($200 million), of which 3.8 billion rubles is to the federal budget, Torlopov said.
		The three regions, which have earmarked funds for the railroad from their own budgets, believe that the new railroad will make their cargo competitive on the European market because the route will become more than 600 kilometers shorter, saving up to 30 percent of transportation costs.
	www.sptimes.ru /archive/times/828/news/b_8179.htm (2025 words)

	Miners’ Protests End in Coalmine Closures - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vladimir Shakhtin, the mayor of Inta, has signed the order to close the unprofitable mines Zapadnaya-bis and Kapitalnaya, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported on Friday.
		Material losses will be compensated,” Vladimir Torlopov, the head of the Komi republic was quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency as saying.
		Torlopov added that Ilya Klebanov, the presidential plenipotentiary to the North-West Federal District, would render all required assistance to miners.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/05/07/miners.shtml (538 words)

	Russian miners protest again, as they did 15 years ago
		However, the head of the city administration of Inta, Vladimir Shakhtin, refused to sign the document through which financing is allocated from the federal budget for the liquidation of the mines’ assets, the resettlement of the mining communities and the payment of social benefits.
		On April 26, after the Ministry of Property Relations declared that it was necessary to close the unprofitable mines in Inta, an additional 80 workers joined the hunger strikers, which brought the total number of participants to 300 for a short period of time.
		On April 27, the miners ended the hunger strike and came to the surface, believing the promise made by the head of the Republic, Vladimir Torlopov, regarding “the effective appropriation of fiscal means to resolve the problem of the fulfillment of social guarantees and the closure of the mine in a civilized manner.”
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/aug2004/russ-a26_prn.shtml (1627 words)

	RFE/RL Newsline, 01-12-18
		Major-General Vladimir Kazantsev, the former commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Kosova, has died after falling from the window of his apartment on the eighth floor of a Moscow apartment building, Russian news agencies reported on 17 December.
		Vladimir Torlopov, who chairs the Komi Republic's legislature, won the 16 December presidential elections in that republic, according to preliminary results.
		Social Democratic Chairman and Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla told the BBC on 17 December that most of his party supports the direct election of the country's president.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2001/01-12-18.rferl.html (7128 words)

	Komi Republic and England to Cooperate in Education \| RosbaltNews.COM
		There are plenty of interpretations concerning what is going on in Russia under President Vladimir Putin.
		Plans are in the works in the capital to cut the number of regions by more than half, so the center can more easily spread its control over the country.
		Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev's appointment to the government is straight out of the world of Lewis Carroll.
	www.rosbaltnews.com /2003/07/24/63560.html (722 words)

	Elections
		Against a backdrop of high drama in the leadup to presidential elections Sunday in the Sakha republic, polls held over the weekend in three Russian republics and seven regions passed almost unnoticed.
		Backed by Yabloko, the Union of Right Forces and the Kremlin, Torlopov got 40 percent of the vote against Spiridonov's 35 percent.
		Complaints of campaign regulation violations made the participation of Spiridonov, who ran one of Russia's richest republics for the entire post-Soviet decade, uncertain until the day before the poll, when the republic's Supreme Court confirmed his right to run.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/5605-6.cfm (429 words)

	BarentsObserver : Komi authorities to keep up social support to population
		Head of the Komi Republic, Vladimir Torlopov, says he will do what he can to continue support to social vulnerable groups.
		The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, this week adopted the government proposed compensation of social benefits with cash.
		Torlopov believes the best solution would have been a voluntary model where people could choose either benefits or money compensation.
	www.barentsobserver.com /index.php?id=176856&showforumform=1&noredir=1 (109 words)

	Pravda.RU “BRIGADE GENERAL” CAPTURED AT NIGHT IN URUS-MARTAN WEARING JUST UNDERPANTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Novosibirsk region prosecutor Vladimir Tokarev warned local air traffic controllers at a Friday press conference that they would be charged for ignoring a court ruling if they continued their hunger strike.
		He reminded those present that on January 28th, an Ob city court had ruled in favour of a suit brought by the Novosibirsk prosecutor's office that the controllers' hunger strike was illegal and prohibited them from continuing their protest.
		Nikolay Torlopov got an explanatory note from Andreas which said that “supposedly, the record was made in 1971, when the musicians had an opportunity to test a new sound recording studio, De Lane Lea.
	english.pravda.ru /region/2003/01/31 (1968 words)

	COMMERCIAL NEWS UPDATE FROM NORTH-WEST RUSSIA
		Vladimir Torlopov, a former chairman of the Komi Republic Council, was elected new head of the republic in December to replace Mr.
		Torlopov started his term in office by restructuring the Komi administration by reducing the number of ministries and committees and appointing new deputies.
		This change is aimed at diminishing expenditures on administration and streamlining its work.
	www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/isa/020131nwnews.htm (673 words)

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		Vladimir Starichenko, the oblast's party secretary, told the agency he expects about 50 people to take part in the demonstration.
		Legislators in the Komi Republic voted on 11 February to support the decision of republican head Vladimir Torlopov to recall Rakhim Azimov as the executive branch's representative to the Federation Council, RosBalt reported.
		Cubreacov said Voronin coordinated the proposal with Russian President Vladimir Putin and, while adding nothing new to the OSCE draft on Moldova's federalization, the initiative is aimed at transforming Moldova into a "Russian protectorate" because it would grant Russian troops a permanent status on Moldovan territory.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/02/120203.asp?po=y (9163 words)

	FSB to protect Russian scientific-technical potential
		Speaking at the opening ceremony of the meeting, the head of Komi republic Vladimir Torlopov said the leadership of the republic always relied on the support of the security services.
		The military counterintelligence service carried out operations on protecting the perspective arms projects in the frames of the separate State Arms program for 2001-2010, said Vladimir Torlopov.
		The Kaliningrad region FSB director vice-admiral Vladimir Sotnikov expressed his opinion to the journalists in the end of the meeting: “The issue of the scientific-technical potential protection is actual for the whole country.
	193.71.199.52 /en/international/russia/envirorights/info_access/37643.html (510 words)

	Felist.Com : Rosbalt.Ru: News & Analytical Reviews from Russia
		The government of the Republic of Komi headed by Governor Vladimir Torlopov has found a potential investor prepared to put money into the development of the Pechora coalfields and help resolve the social problems of the cities of Inta and Vorkuta.
		President of Russia, Vladimir Putin wrote to Claus Mangold, Chairman of the Eastern Committee of German Economy, congratulating him on the 50th anniversary day of the organisation.
		According to what the Kaliningrad Region's governor, Vladimir Yegorov said during a press conference in Vilnius, the creation of the company is...
	felist.com /archive/media.rosbalt/200212/02231359.html (692 words)

	The Northern Forum - News May 1-15,2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		, Vladimir Torlopov, signed a 5-year agreement of cooperation and a treaty on gas delivery in 2005-2007, which provide for the construction of a gas pipeline to deliver gas from the Yamal peninsula to the European part of
		Speaking at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday, Ms Matviyenko said that this year, over 2 million square meters of residential space is to be commissioned in
		It is expected that as much as three million square meters of housing will have been commissioned by the year 2008, she added.
	www.northernforum.org /servlet/viewnews?id=215 (1916 words)

	Russian official outlines progress in defining federal and local powers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He heads a working group preparing for the State Council session in Kaliningrad on 3 July, which will be chaired by President Putin and look at the role of members of the Federation in the country's socio-economic development.
		The powers still to be decided between the centre and regions include, in particular, use of water and subterranean resources, environmental protection, land registers and the licensing of specific activities, Torlopov said.
		Because of this, Torlopov stressed that allocation of powers should bring about "more effective authorities at all levels, and not a shuffling of powers from one level to another".
	news.monstersandcritics.com /mediamonitor/article_1028294.php/Russian_official_outlines_progress_in_defining_federal_and_local_powers (603 words)

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		That has triggered accusations of interference in the decisions of the courts, which President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged are far from independent, signing on Monday a series of proposed reforms to the legal system.
		We plan to do away with Vladimir Lenin's formula, which states that "everybody should spend some time in the cell organization".
		I mean there are rumors that you called Vladimir Gusinsky on the phone when you disliked something newspapers of Media-Most wrote about you.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/5605.txt (8477 words)

	Felist.Com : Rosbalt.Ru: News & Analytical Reviews from Russia
		A Rosbalt correspondent was informed of this by Governor of the Komi Republic Vladimir Torlopov.
		German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder intends to support Russian President Vladimir Putin as he attempts to find a political solution to the Chechen crisis.
		Russian President Vladimir Putin held discussions with Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov on Friday, November 15, on the socio-economic situation in the capital and the preliminary results of the national census in the Moscow Region.
	felist.com /archive/media.rosbalt/200211/19231754.html (863 words)

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		Population: 1.26 million (25.3% Komi; 56.7% Russian; 10.7% Ukrainian and Belarussian); Head (not pres.) of Republic and govt.: Yuri Spiridonov (elected May 8, 1994), Chairman of State Council: Vladimir Torlopov.
		Kamchatka Vladimir A. Biryukov, gov.; elected w/ 61% in second round of voting, Dec. 1, 1996 over Boris Oleinikov who gets 28%; turnout 34%.
		Nenets Vladimir Butov, gov., elected in second round of voting Dec. 13, 1996 w/ 49% of vote over incumbent Vladimir Khabrov (appt.
	www.uta.edu /cpsees/republic.txt (2946 words)

	Komi Is a Region Worthy of Mendeleev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I am prepared to sell them for a modest price to investors who could make them profitable," Torlopov, who holds a doctorate in sociology, told reporters at a recent news conference in Syktyvkar.
		Komi wants to set up a $807 million pulp plant in the Udorsky district, which has 24 million cubic tons of timber, and the plant would have a capacity of 500,000 tons.
		I have seen calculations that show its long-term profits could be comparable with the profits from oil deposits," Torlopov said.
	web.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2002/12/16/002.html (2046 words)

	Greenpeace demands to save the unique Komi nature \| Greenpeace Russia
		Tallinn, Estonia — Today at the opening of the World Congress of Ugro-Finnic peoples Greenpeace held an action in defense of ancient forests in the Komi Republic (Russia).
		Greenpeace protests against an illegal decision by the Head of the Komi Republic Vladimir Torlopov on the withdrawal of about 30 000 hectares from the territory of the Ugyd Va national park for gold development and production.
		The Congress delegates and journalists were told about this by a representative of Komi people Vladimir Chuprov.
	www.greenpeace.org /russia/en/news/greenpeace-demands-to-save-the (770 words)

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