President Boris Yeltsin today rebuked his security chief, General Aleksandr Korzhakov, for his statements reported over the weekend calling for next month's presidential election to be postponed. Yeltsin is quoted as telling Korzhakov to stay out of politics and reaffirming that the election will go... MORE

Moldovan parliamentary leaders said yesterday that President Mircea Snegur has issued an order barring the country's defense minister, Lt. General Pavel Creanga, from meeting with foreign military delegations and from signing agreements in the name of the Moldovan Defense Ministry. Vice Chairman of Parliament Dumitru... MORE

In a recent Baltic press interview, noted Russian military-political analyst Anton Surikov commented on the Baltic aspects of his Defense Research Institute study on Russia's security policies, made public last month in Moscow. Surikov and the study states that Russia would send its troops into... MORE

Following a full day of talks in Stockholm yesterday, Swedish leaders and a Russian delegation led by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin announced the signing of two accords. The first was an agreement on cooperation in combating crime between the Russian security services and Swedish police.... MORE

U.S. officials said yesterday that Washington had officially protested to the Kremlin earlier this month over Russia's decision to suspend the operations of the Jewish Agency, a quasi-governmental group that, since 1989, has brought more than 600,000 Jews to Israel from the former Soviet Union.... MORE

While assuring Bulgarian leaders that NATO has ruled no country out for admission, NATO secretary-general Javier Solana observed in Sofia yesterday that Bulgaria's political establishment itself is divided on joining the alliance. Although President Zhelyu Zhelev and the anti-leftist opposition want fervently to join NATO,... MORE

Former deputy premier Anatoly Chubais, a leading member of Yeltsin's reelection team, has issued an impassioned appeal to Grigory Yavlinsky to stand aside. (Segodnya, April 30) He said Yavlinsky "cannot fail to understand" that he has no chance of election in June and that 70... MORE

Zyuganov is to hold talks May 6 with leaders from Germany's political and business establishment, but he will not meet with German chancellor Helmut Kohl or foreign minister Klaus Kinkel. The German Foreign Policy Society (DGAP) invited Zyuganov to Bonn. According to Alexander Rahr, the... MORE

Yeltsin's office downplayed the significance of yesterday's meeting between Yeltsin and Lebed, calling it one of several the president intends to hold with other candidates. (Interfax, May 2) The Union of Cossacks yesterday appealed to Yeltsin and his leading rival, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, to... MORE

Russian president Boris Yeltsin met yesterday with retired Lt. General Aleksandr Lebed, formerly commander of Russian forces in Moldova and now a presidential candidate. Few details of the meeting were revealed, but Lebed told Russian television that the idea was for all candidates to sign... MORE