DUMA GROUP TO WORK AGAINST NATO’S EXPANSION.

The Russian Duma, host to a 243-member "Anti-NATO" group, intends to send deputies to various European capitals in order to lobby their parliaments against NATO enlargement. According to Duma deputy chairman Sergei Baburin, an ultra-nationalist and a member of the group’s coordinating council, the lobbying effort will initially target Greece and Portugal. (Interfax, February 25)

Ilyushin Postpones Visit to Japan.