Helsinki Watch has published a report accusing Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the Moscow MVD of an intimidation campaign against temporary residents of the city who originate from the Caucasus. In its 35-page document, made public in New York and Moscow, the human rights group... MORE

. One of Russia's leading aircraft producers, Sukhoi, objects to plans to turn the company's management over to a bank consortium. According to Sukhoi's spokesman, management has discovered that the company is included on the list of enterprises whose shares will be transferred to a... MORE

Russia is pressing the United States to allow more of its banks to be licensed in this country, but the U.S. administration is insisting that such institutions comply first with U.S. legal requirements. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns briefed reporters after talks held September 27... MORE

. The Duma's deputy chairman Gennady Seleznev (Communist Party) has announced his intention to ask the Constitutional Court to declare the second stage of privatization invalid. The deputy chairman of the Duma's committee for property and privatization, Vladimir Lisichkin, a member of Zhirinovsky's party, said... MORE

The Czech parliament gave final approval September 27 to a framework treaty with Russia designed to remove past differences from the current and future agenda. The document, which replaces a Soviet-era treaty signed in 1970, calls for mutually advantageous economic relations and respect for sovereignty... MORE

A sensitive NATO study, obtained by Reuter, says that plans for eastward enlargement must entail the new members' full acceptance of nuclear deterrence as the core of common defense strategy, and include the stationing of troops and tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of new... MORE

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, speaking on September 27 at the beginning of a three-day international conference organized by his Gorbachev Foundation, criticized the Russian government for turning the clock back to "wild capitalism" and for failing to take into account the country's uniqueness. Gorbachev... MORE

On September 27, a Moscow judge, angered by Defense Minister Pavel Grachev's refusal to attend his own libel case against the Moscow daily Moskovsky komsomolets, ordered police to bring him to court. The judge, Olga Govorova, issued her order after Grachev informed the court that... MORE

Russian troops would be welcome in NATO multinational military operations in Bosnia, but only under NATO command, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili said. He was reacting to Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev's proposal earlier in the week that future... MORE

According to "Russian Golden Club" president Mikhail Bazhanov, Russia's gold output will decrease to 110-115 tons this year from last year's 140 tons. Bazhanov said that gold production has paradoxically become unprofitable in Russia because production costs exceed world prices. Coal Miners Strike in Vorkuta.