The overdue second round of Russian-Chechen armistice talks, tentatively set to resume yesterday, has again been postponed and is now tentatively rescheduled for tomorrow. The high-level Russian delegation which arrived in Chechnya yesterday is spending its time with the Russian military command and the Moscow-installed... MORE

Russia's Far East was rocked June 25 when a fire at a Pacific Fleet arms depot near the city of Nakhodka caused artillery shells to detonate. The blasts lasted for nearly three hours and a nearby village had to be evacuated, but no civilian casualties... MORE

Russia's Atomic Energy Ministry is lobbying Bulgarian officials to win a place in an international consortium being formed to complete the Belena nuclear power plant, ministry sources said June 25. The Soviet Union had been involved in the original construction efforts, but work on the... MORE

Russia's Foreign Ministry said June 25 that Moscow supports the idea of removing Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic from the political arena, but it strongly warned against efforts by the West to make Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic responsible for Karadzic's ouster. A ministry source repeated... MORE

While calling for Russia to build mutually beneficial economic ties with its neighbors, Aleksandr Lebed has urged that Moscow construct its relations with those neighbors on the basis of "their attitude toward the ethnic Russians remaining on their territory." The statement appeared in a draft... MORE

Gennady Zyuganov's election campaign has received surprise backing from the prominent critic of Soviet society, Aleksandr Zinoviev. Zinoviev, who spent the last years of the Soviet period in exile in Germany, told Russian Television he was supporting Zyuganov because the Communist party leader is not... MORE

In an item entitled "Lebed and the Armed Forces," yesterday's Monitor incorrectly dated a massacre of civilians by Soviet troops in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The event took place in 1989, and not in 1991, as was reported. The Monitor is a publication of... MORE

The current changes at the top of Russia's military hierarchy must give Georgia pause. Aleksandr Lebed, just appointed by president Yeltsin to Russia's most powerful military and security post, has proposed Col. General Igor Rodionov as his leading candidate for the post of defense minister.... MORE

The Russia-Belarus Community's Parliamentary Assembly, created by the April 2 Yeltsin-Lukashenko treaty, held its constitutive session in Smolensk (Russia) yesterday. A majority of the Belarus deputies, joined by pro-reform members of the Russian delegation, turned down a proposal by Russian Communist and nationalist deputies to... MORE

Presidents Lennart Meri of Estonia, Guntis Ulmanis of Latvia, and Algirdas Brazauskas of Lithuania conferred yesterday in New York with U.S. Republican presidential candidate Robert Dole on Baltic security. Dole supported the Baltic states' admission to NATO in the next group after the three Central... MORE