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Article: Daily Headline News for April 17, 2006.
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- April 17, 2006
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Daily Headline News for April 17, 2006
The following is a digest of headline news as of 5:30 p.m. on April 17, 2006: PUTIN URGES GOVT TO SPEED UP WORK ON LAND FOR INFRASTRUCTURE
President Vladimir Putin has told the Cabinet to speed up work on a bill to reserve land assigned for infrastructure projects.
"When plans for building such facilities are made, these sections of land immediately sell out and have to be bought back later," he said at a Monday meeting with the Cabinet.
"Any abuse or dishonesty in this sphere must be ruled out," Putin said. "We know perfectly well that it is not ordinary people who are buying this land. That is an ...