During nearly five hours of talks in Moscow yesterday, Clinton and Yeltsin did reportedly make progress on resolving long-standing differences over the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) and the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM). While the two men provided few details, Clinton suggested... MORE

For all the bonhomie and the efforts by the G-7 leaders to accommodate Yeltsin, differences emerged on several key issues. During his meeting April 19 with British prime minister John Major, for example, Yeltsin reiterated Moscow's categorical opposition to NATO enlargement, while he suggested to... MORE

Three days of consultations among the leaders of the G-7 nations, Russia, and Ukraine came to a close yesterday with results little different from what had been expected: modest progress was made in promoting international cooperation in the furtherance of nuclear security and safety as... MORE

Nicaraguan president Violeta Chamorro said April 19 that Russia had agreed to write off virtually all of the $3.3 billion debt that Managua owed to the former Soviet Union. Erasure of the debt, which was equivalent to one-third of Nicaragua's total foreign debt, was part... MORE

Speaking on the eve of the Moscow nuclear security summit, a deputy atomic energy minister said April 17 that Russia's nuclear industry and nuclear energy companies currently employ some one million people and that nuclear production had grown by 1-2 percent in 1994-1995. He also... MORE

Yuri Baturin, President Yeltsin's national security aide, warned today that the "artificial" acceleration of the Chechen peace plan for election purposes would cost Russia too dearly and made it clear that some army generals want to continue fighting in the rebel republic. Returning today from... MORE

Azerbaijan's Internal Affairs Ministry yesterday announced the apprehension in Baku of Fazil Kerimov, wanted as a leading conspirator in the September 1993 attempt to assassinate President Heydar Aliyev. The ministry specifically stated that the attempt had been staged by members of the Popular Front. Kerimov... MORE

A protocol preparatory to the signing of a memorandum on security- and confidence-building between the Georgian government and Georgia's South Ossetia region was signed yesterday in the latter's administrative center Tskhinvali by representatives of the parties to the conflict and the participants in negotiations to... MORE

On the eve of the nuclear safety summit of G-7 countries and Russia, Ukrainian leaders continue to remind their Western counterparts of Ukraine's needs for real assistance in closing down the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. President Leonid Kuchma told the visiting British prime minister John... MORE

British prime minister John Major yesterday in Kiev stated that the success of Ukraine's economic reforms is "a key factor of stability in Europe." Major described Ukraine's reforms as "a difficult and painful task, requiring courage to carry out." He encouraged Ukrainians to demonstrate patience... MORE