The IMF has warned Russia that the $10.2 billion loan announced yesterday could be suspended if the Russian government departs from the conditions on which the loan was agreed. These include reducing the budget deficit and liberalizing trade policies. Managing director Michel Camdessus said yesterday... MORE

Senior Russian military and political officials and ranking representatives of the defense ministries of most CIS countries attended a conference on "CIS Military Integration" at the CIS Military Cooperation Headquarters in Moscow March 26. Russia's civilian first deputy defense minister Andrei Kokoshin and other Russian... MORE

Arkady Volsky, president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, heads a Russian delegation currently meeting with Japanese business leaders in Tokyo under the auspices of the Russian and Japanese national committees for bilateral economic cooperation. The three-day meeting aims to promote bilateral business... MORE

The chairman of the Georgian parliament's Defense and Security Committee, Revaz Adamia, yesterday protested against the unauthorized transfer of a Russian border guard unit to Georgia's border sector opposite Chechnya, where it is now building a barracks. Adamia warned that this contravention of the agreement... MORE

Georgia's state fuel and power company announced yesterday that it has set up a parity joint venture with Russia's Unified Energy System to reactivate and administer the 1,200-kilometer-long electricity transmission line connecting Russia and Georgia across the Caucasus mountain range. The venture, GruzRosEnergo, expects that... MORE

The United Nations Committee Against Racial Discrimination yesterday expressed "special concern" for the Ingush expelled from North Ossetia and requested Russia to ensure their rights, particularly the right of repatriation, under international pacts on the rights of ethnic minorities. The Committee's resolution was part of... MORE

Officially in Minsk since it was founded, the headquarters of the CIS will move into a new center to be built in Moscow from 1996 to 1998 by the Russian government, which announced the decision yesterday. The decision formalizes Russia's predominance in the organization, dropping... MORE

A brouhaha is developing in Ottawa over allegations that the Canadian Security Service has been infiltrated by a Russian spy. An opposition lawmaker charged March 26 that an earlier investigation had been ineffectual and threatened to go public with what she said was additional evidence... MORE

Russia's Kurchatov Institute is considering a contract whereby it would train Iranian nuclear specialists, some of whom would be working at the Bushhehr nuclear power plant, an institute official said yesterday. The Russian-Iranian contract for the $800 million Bushehr project, which has been strenuously opposed... MORE

Addressing a meeting of the North Atlantic Council yesterday, Estonian president Lennart Meri observed that the erosion of Belarus's sovereignty "adds to the significance of Ukraine as an anchor of stability in Eastern Europe... The secret key to the West's friendly coexistence with Russia is... MORE