Moldova's National Security Ministry announced yesterday that it had uncovered an Iron Guard student group in Chisinau, linked to like-minded groups in Romania and made up mainly of students who had attended Romanian colleges. "Iron Guard activities endanger Moldova's security as a multiethnic state," the... MORE

Tajik president Imomali Rahmonov yesterday cabled to the current chairman of the UN Security Council, Qin Huasun, a request that the Council discuss the situation in Tajikistan and assist in a political settlement. Rahmonov wrote that Dushanbe accepted the appeal of the UN observer mission... MORE

The Russian diplomat shot May 1 during a trip to Guatemala died May 14 in a Havana hospital. Yuri Trushkin had been brought in "serious but stable" condition from Guatemala to Cuba three days earlier. (Itar-Tass, May 15) Yeltsin Considering "Government of National Trust."

According to presidential spokesman Sergei Medvedev, President Boris Yeltsin will consider setting up a government of national trust if he is reelected next month. Medvedev, who said Yeltsin had not yet definitively made up his mind on the matter, spoke after a two-hour meeting in... MORE

Russia is to devalue the ruble by nearly 10 percent, President Yeltsin's economic adviser Aleksandr Livshits announced today. The change will take effect July 1, when the present ruble corridor is due to expire. The announcement resolves weeks of debate over whether to retain the... MORE

President Yeltsin will unveil his election program next Monday, according to Sergei Filatov, who heads the national coordinating committee for Yeltsin's reelection. Filatov said three versions of the program have been prepared. One, covering a hundred pages, outlines a comprehensive four-year program but is not... MORE

Delegates to a CFE review conference in Vienna expressed the hope yesterday that a dispute raised by Moscow over flank limitations -- restrictions on military equipment deployed along Russia's northern and southern borders -- will not hinder efforts to win unanimous reaffirmation of the 1990... MORE

Unnamed sources in the Kamchatka regional department of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) told Interfax yesterday that Richard Dann Oppfelt had been expelled from Russia May 10 for trying to recruit a Russian naval officer. Oppfelt reportedly attracted attention when he offered money to... MORE

A senior official of Lithuania's Foreign Ministry, speaking on background yesterday, criticized the plan to create a joint Russian-Belarusian group of forces in Belarus. The plan was announced the preceding day by the Russian and Belarusian defense ministers, who specified that such forces would be... MORE

Addressing the Armenian parliament yesterday on an official visit, Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma offered his country's and his personal mediation in the talks to settle the Karabakh conflict. Kuchma invited representatives of "all parties" (Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Karabakh) to Kiev for talks. He noted that... MORE