During the second day of a two-day visit to Moscow, the Secretary General of the Western European Union (WEU), Jose Cutileiro, met on June 7 with Russian defense minister Pavel Grachev for talks on European security and possible Russian-WEU military cooperation. Peacekeeping activities in the... MORE

German president Roman Herzog on June 7 assured his Polish host, President Aleksander Kwasniewski, that Bonn remains committed to admitting into the NATO alliance new members from Central and Eastern Europe. On the eve of a two-day summit of nine Central European leaders, Kwasniewski thanked... MORE

Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) strongly criticized the leadership of the nation's Airborne Forces June 7 for an appeal issued May 30 that urged military personnel to vote for Boris Yeltsin in the upcoming presidential election. The CEC described the endorsement as a violation both... MORE

Russian-Chechen negotiations on military issues resumed as scheduled in Ingushetia's capital Nazran yesterday. According to Chechen chief spokesman Movladi Udugov and chief of staff Aslan Maskhadov, the sides agreed in principle on a simultaneous withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya by August and the republic's... MORE

Gennady Zyuganov drew wild applause from a rally of thousands of Russian nationalists in a Moscow stadium Saturday when he implied that President Boris Yeltsin and his predecessor were emissaries of the devil. "Let us recall what was predicted in the Apocalypse," Zyuganov said. "The... MORE

The group of leading Russian bankers who caused a sensation at the end of April by calling on all the candidates in Russia's presidential election to abandon rivalry for compromise in the interests of national unity, have issued another appeal. This time, eight of the... MORE

Nezavismaya gazeta on June 8 published what it claims is an internal briefing document prepared by the Yeltsin team. Apparently based on wire-taps and other secret information, the document assesses the strength of the opposition and concludes that the Russian Communist party (KPRF) has reconciled... MORE

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service on June 7 characterized as "complete nonsense" allegations recently voiced in Poland that Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski had worked with Soviet and Russian intelligence. (Interfax, June 7) On January 24 Polish prime minister Jozef Oleksy resigned amid allegations that he had... MORE

A Khabarovsk area officer of Russia's Federal Security Service said June 7 that foreign intelligence services remain active in the Russian Far East. Describing the situation as "under control," the official nonetheless said that foreign agents continued to seek political, military, and economic intelligence throughout... MORE

In Chisinau over the weekend, the deputy foreign ministers of CIS countries conferred on common European security models. Russian deputy foreign minister Sergey Krylov told local media that no coordinated position could be achieved because the countries "advanced differing options... and displayed differing attitudes." Moldovan... MORE