Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski continues to speak positively of relations with Russia following his April 9 meeting in Moscow with Boris Yeltsin. (See Monitor, April 10) In a newspaper interview published yesterday, Kwasniewski said bilateral relations are increasingly characterized by benevolence and understanding. He added... MORE

During an address yesterday to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, German foreign minister Klaus Kinkel called upon Russian president Boris Yeltsin to "assert himself against the military" and to implement his peace plan in order to bring an end to the "savage" war... MORE

Communist presidential candidate Gennady Zyuganov has repeatedly said that he will continue Russia's reform course, "though by other ways and means." Investors' confidence will not be increased by news that a potential candidate for the post of prime minister in a Communist government is Veniamin... MORE

On the stump in Krasnodar yesterday, Boris Yeltsin acknowledged that he was "unyielding" in demanding exclusive basing rights for the Russian fleet in Ukraine's Crimean port Sevastopol. He said he was acting for Russia's "glory and pride," as Russia "would not be the same without... MORE

In another effort to use patriotic symbols of the Soviet era to draw voters away from the Communist party, Russian president Boris Yeltsin has decreed that the red flag of victory, raised over the Reichstag building in Berlin in May 1945, will be flown along... MORE

Tajik president Imomali Rahmonov's office yesterday let it be known that the office of the United Nations secretary-general is "intensively searching" for a new mediator in the Tajikistan conflict. The previous holder of that post, Ramiro Piris-Ballon, was said to have been given a new... MORE

A senior-level military delegation from NATO headquarters conferred yesterday in Ashgabat with Turkmenistan's foreign and defense ministers, Boris Shikhmuradov and Danatar Kopekov, on the country's participation in the NATO Partnership for Peace program. Both civilian and military aspects of cooperation were discussed, as was the... MORE

Following talks with Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev, visiting Turkish prime minister Mesut Yilmaz told a Baku briefing that Turkey is "ready to provide multi-sided assistance to modernize Azerbaijan's army and bring it up to international standards." It was also announced in Baku yesterday that Aliyev... MORE

In Kiev yesterday, NATO secretary general Javier Solana stressed that NATO "attaches great importance to Ukraine's independence" as a "cornerstone of stability in Europe." Solana conveyed NATO's readiness for enhanced political, technical, and military cooperation with Ukraine. In a Kiev newspaper article he had published... MORE

In an Easter interview, published in "Russia is Our Home"'s supplement to the governmental daily, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russias Aleksy II praised the formation of the Russia-Belarus SSR and appealed to CIS member countries to "follow this good example in restoring the full-blooded... MORE