Presidential candidate Gennady Zyuganov plans to publish his electoral program on or around May 16. Informed sources say that, in a gesture of defiance to the other front-runner in the election, the Communist party leader may carry the fight into enemy territory and unveil his... MORE

The KPRF does not have a policy organization of its own. Zyuganov has therefore called on think tanks of nationalist orientation, such as the Spiritual Heritage Association headed by his old friend Aleksei Podberezkin, as well as on more orthodox Marxist organizations such as Russian... MORE

Standing atop Lenin's mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square, Boris Yeltsin this morning reviewed a parade of 7,000 servicemen to mark the anniversary of the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany. No tanks or other military hardware were on display but, for the first time since the... MORE

The deputy director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) yesterday outlined the wide array of activities the agency undertakes in the area of economic espionage. According to Aleksei Shcherbakov, Moscow's long interest in economic intelligence was made a major priority in the early 1990s. He... MORE

Russian officials said May 7-8 that a scientist arrested in Krasnoyarsk, allegedly for smuggling more than two pounds of nuclear materials out of the country, had not been dealing in uranium or plutonium and would not be prosecuted under a statute dealing with the smuggling... MORE

Russian Ministry of Economics sources have reportedly told Itar-Tass that problems could lie ahead for the two Russian aerospace companies -- the Tupolev aircraft research and manufacturing company and the Yakovlev experimental design bureau -- trying to buy a controlling interest in Dutch Fokker NV.... MORE

At a Moscow briefing yesterday, CIS executive secretary Ivan Korotchenya held up "Russia-Belarus relations as an example for all the others" in the CIS. He also said that Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Aleksandr Lukashenko are setting the pace of CIS integration, as "no one would... MORE

Russia's Foreign Ministry announced yesterday that it was expelling a member of Estonia's embassy for alleged activities incompatible with diplomatic status -- the usual euphemism for spying. No evidence was cited for this first-ever expulsion of an Estonian diplomat from any country. Estonia's Foreign Ministry... MORE

European Union officials announced yesterday in Kiev the approval of a $260 million loan on easy terms to support Ukraine's balance of payments during 1996. The loan will begin to be disbursed next month and is conditioned on Ukraine's continuing economic reforms agreed with the... MORE

Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov conferred yesterday with Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev in Baku on the terms of Karabakh settlement. In the evening, he flew to Yerevan, bringing with him 35 Armenian prisoners of war and hostages released by Azerbaijan (another four chose to remain... MORE