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YELTSIN RENEWS CRITICISM OF FOREIGN MINISTRY.

President Boris Yeltsin has renewed his attack on Foreign Ministry, a top aide said, again raising a cloud over the political future of Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev. The 44-year-old Kozyrev, foreign minister for five years, has been under fire from Yeltsin and parliament over policy... MORE

PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW UKRAINE ECONOMIC PLAN.

Ukraine's parliament approved on Wednesday a revised plan for economic reforms which Prime Minister Yevhen Marchuk said would produce the first growth in output in Ukraine's post-Soviet history. Lukashenko Rebuffed.

LUKASHENKO REBUFFED.

The highest court in the former Soviet republic of Belarus dealt a blow to President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday by ruling that the parliament he has battled to suppress for months was legally empowered to sit. Kozyrev Thinks Bosnia Political Deal Month Away.

KOZYREV THINKS BOSNIA POLITICAL DEAL MONTH AWAY.

Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev said yesterday a political settlement to the Bosnian conflict could be just a month away. "It's quite realistic to speak of achieving political settlement in a matter of probably one month and the cease-fire is for 60 days," he said. Kozyrev... MORE

CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS ALLEGED.

Bosnian government forces and their Serb enemies accused each other on Thursday of violating the ceasefire which began at midnight, but the first signs were that most battelines in the republic were quiet. The most serious allegation was that Serb forces had launched a full-scale... MORE

RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ATTACKED IN TAJIKISTAN.

According to initial reports, at least six Russian border guards were killed in Khorog, Badakhshan region, in an attack by Afghanistan-based resistance fighters October 10. (15) The incursion caps a series of lethal attacks by resistance groups against Russian soldiers both along the border and... MORE

RUSSIAN EXPORTS TO CIS COUNTRIES DOWN.

Data just released by Russia´s Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations for the period January-August 1995 show a continuing decline in Russian exports to CIS member countries. Total exports were down 4 percent in value, and by larger margins in volume, in most categories of goods.... MORE

SHEVARDNADZE WARNS ABKHAZIA, BOWS TO MOSCOW ON GEORGADZE CASE.

Addressing a Tbilisi political meeting, head of state Eduard Shevardnadze said that Georgia is prepared to resume talks on a political settlement with Abkhazia on the condition that Georgia´s territorial integrity is observed, and went on to warn: "The sole alternative is war. If it... MORE

The warning to Abkhazia is the latest in a series since the signing of the Russian-Georgian military and political agreements last month. Tbilisi has since appeared to think, and the Abkhaz have certainly come to fear, that Russia would condone or even assist a Georgian... MORE