Yesterday in Moscow, Security Council secretary and presidential envoy in Chechnya, Oleg Lobov said during a break in a cabinet session that the Russian side will continue the negotiations in Chechnya despite the bloody October 24 Chechen attack on a Russian troop column. Lobov said... MORE

On a visit yesterday to East Prussia's former capital, renamed Kaliningrad, Russian deputy prime minister Sergei Shakhrai said that the region "plays a very special role in the European balance of forces." Russia's Baltic Fleet, 11th Army, and border troops deployed there "could play a... MORE

Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev says that he would not want to be part of a "master-slave relationship" with president Boris Yeltsin. Kozyrev repeated this phrase several times in the course of a lengthy televised interview, in which he offered to continue serving as Yeltsin's... MORE

. The news of the heart attack caused Western markets to shudder briefly on Thursday, but they quickly recovered. Russian financial markets, traditionally slow to react to political events, dipped on Friday but most prices bounced quickly back to near Thursday's levels. Key Bosnia Issue... MORE

After three hours of meetings with his Russian counterpart, Defense Secretary William Perry said in Washington on Thursday that a "distinct gap" remains between NATO and Russia on Moscow's participation in the peace implementation process in Bosnia. Russia, a traditional ally of the Bosnian Serbs,... MORE

Russia's government announced yesterday that it plans to destroy its full stock of chemical weapons by the year 2005. Moscow has adopted a $3.6 billion program to rid the country of what it says are 40,000 tons of chemical weapons and to destroy or disinfect... MORE

Over 100 Russian paratroopers flew out from a military airport outside Ryazan to Belgrade on October 25 to replace members of the Russian peace contingent in Bosnia, a spokesman for the Russian airborne troops told Interfax. About 800 Russian "blue helmets" are to be replaced... MORE

Kremlin doctors said on Friday that President Boris Yeltsin had an "unstable blood supply to the heart" and ruled he should stay under close medical supervision until the end of November. Yeltsin's press spokesman, Sergei Medvedev, told Itar-Tass news agency that the doctors issued their... MORE

Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin would take over running Russia if President Boris Yeltsin became incapable of carrying out his duties. The constitution gives three circumstances under which the premier would take over: the president's resignation, his impeachment or his "prolonged inability to carry out... MORE

The Russian foreign ministry said on Friday that the planned summit of the Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian leaders scheduled for Tuesday in Moscow would not now take place because President Boris Yeltsin is ill. A Foreign Ministry statement and a similar report by Yeltsin's press... MORE