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Russian business magnates footing most of bill for 2014 Sochi Games

...that investors bear full responsibility for any losses."Those are the risks of those who made the decision," Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who is overseeing the Sochi preparation, said in response to complaints last year.In contrast...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2013-05-20/russian-business-magnate
Russian meteor strike injures 500

...not meteors falling, it's the test of a new weapon by the Americans," the RIA Novosti news agency reported. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the incident showed the need for leading world powers to develop a system to intercept objects...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2013-02-15/russian-meteor-strike-injure
Irish official snubs Savannah over all-male meal

...oldest St. Pat's parade in the South, to avoid a dinner where only men are allowed.Eamon Gilmore, who as deputy prime minister and foreign minister is essentially Ireland's No. 2 politician, instead made stops in Atlanta and New Orleans...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-03-16/irish-official-snubs-savannah
Victims of attack at Munich Olympics remembered

...ceremony at the Fuerstenfeldbruck air base, outside Munich, where the victims' relatives ? joined by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom ? lit candles in their memory."Today 40 years ago, our lives changed forever," said Ankie...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2012-09-05/victims-attack-munich-ol
Russia is on track for the 2014 Winter Games

...Sochi, said the preparations were on schedule and the Sochi Olympics will be a "grandiose event."Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said construction of all facilities of Sochi's mountain cluster will be completed this year.He...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2011-11-26/russia-track-2014-winter
Odds and Ends

...was a government-backed effort to help citizens find love and boost the country's record-low birth rate. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the falling birth rate was among the administration's top three priorities for 2004. The...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/12/16/biz_437279.shtml
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Thumbnail sketches of Iraqi leaders

...influential now, Ramadan high on list of regime figures that Iraqi opposition groups say should be tried. TARIQ AZIZ Deputy prime minister, only Christian in Iraqi leadership and one of Iraq's best known voices to world. Although one of Saddam's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/03/15/ira_368990.shtml
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Iraq says U.S. set on war

...leads the elite Republican Guard. "Iraq's leadership, people and army are ready for the battle of destiny," Deputy Prime Minister Abdel Tawab Mullah Huweish told Saddam, according to the official Iraqi News Agency. The United States underlined...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/03/10/ira_368486.shtml
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Israel's plans for an attack by Iraq are a decade in the making

...widely believed to possess them. Haaretz columnist Doron Rosenblum advised readers to heed the words of Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who has said his country no longer has missiles capable of hitting Israel. In 1991, he noted, Iraq...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/02/19/ira_376122.shtml
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U.N. inspectors to destroy first banned weapons

...reported. In the capital, meanwhile, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, a special envoy of Pope John Paul II, met with Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz in advance of an expected meeting with President Saddam Hussein. Etchegaray said he had a personal...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/02/13/ira_375495.shtml
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