President Vladimir Putin speaks over the phone in the State Duma's hall.
Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin
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Poland Believes in Hooligans
After Friday telephone talk between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Polish counterpart Aleksander Kwasniewski that was apparently focused on the outlook for bilateral relations in view of the beating of Russian and Kazakh diplomats’ children in Warsaw and Moscow attacks on Polish diplomats and a reporter, the activities of enforcement authorities of the two contries have gained momentum. Polish police reported detention of another person suspected in buying cellular phones of Russian teenagers beaten in Warsaw. Russian Foreign Ministry offered apology to the Polish ambassador.
The presidents acknowledged Friday the general sentiment between two counties is negative and calls for expedient actions. In the wake of the meeting, Polish police reported Saturday they detained the third person with a cellular phone previously owned by the Russian teenagers beaten in the Warsaw park July 31, but failed to confirm the arrest of one of the leaders of the group, which attacked the teenagers.
As to Russia, it was not the Interior Ministry but the Foreign Ministry that undertook to ease tension built up after the attack on Polish embassy’s employees in Moscow Marek Reszuta and Andrzej Uriadko and Rzeczpospolita reporter Paul Reszka. First Deputy Foreign Minister Valery Loshchinin met Polish Ambassador Stefan Meller on Saturday. After the meeting, Meller said Polish embassy’s employees were attacked by hooligans or bandits, well aware whom they were chasing down.
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All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 15, 2005
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