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TSAR’S REMAINS WILL BE REBURIED IN ST. PETERSBURG.
The reburial of the remains of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, will be held in St. Petersburg next February, according to Yuri Yarov, who heads the special government commission investigating the deaths of the royal family. Yarov said that in the near future, the... MORE
DELAYING PAYMENTS IS NOT THE WAY TO FIGHT INFLATION.
Noted Russian economic reformer Pavel Bunich said in an interview that the Chernomyrdin government's massive delays in disbursing salaries and other payments are the wrong way to cope with inflation. Bunich said that the government's behavior is illegal, and that Russian citizens can sue the... MORE
BANK CRISIS IMPACTS ELECTION CAMPAIGN.
On September 9, the Moscow City Bank, which was one of the liberal Yabloko bloc's principal donors, announced its bankruptcy and ceased operations. The bank was one of the main funders of the "Video International" company, which was responsible for creating bloc leader Grigory Yavlinsky's... MORE
CHECHNYA ROUNDUP.
Tensions mounted in Grozny after two separate incidents in which Russian soldiers, shooting without provocation, killed a Chechen teenager and seriously wounded four other civilians. Elsewhere in Chechnya over the weekend, at least 4 Russian soldiers were killed in attacks by Chechens, the Russian combined... MORE
INDUSTRIAL PARTY BLOC LAUNCHED.
The United Industrial Party-Trade Union coalition made public its candidates' list September 8. Led by Vladimir Shcherbakov, head of the United Industrial Party, and Viktor Shmakov , the leader of the Independent Trade Union Federation, it includes the first deputy commander of Russia's naval forces,... MORE
RUTSKOI FORCED TO REVISE ELECTORAL LIST.
Former vice president Aleksandr Rutskoi has revised and completed the electoral list of his movement Derzhava (Great Power), after it was abandoned by several prominent nationalist figures. The revised list, distinctly weaker than the previous version, includes the nationalist churchman Metropolitan Ioann of St. Petersburg... MORE
RYBKIN BLOC PUTS ITS BEST FEET FORWARD.
The "left-of-center" electoral bloc headed by Duma chairman Ivan Rybkin has made public an extended list of the luminaries on its candidates' lists. In addition to Rybkin these include Col. General Boris Gromov, cosmonaut Musa Manarov, political scientist and perestroika inspirer Fyodor Burlatsky, economists Stanislav... MORE
FISTS FLY IN DUMA.
During the Duma's deliberations on September 9, the ultranationalist National Republican Party leader Nikolai Lysenko physically attacked the prominent democratic deputy, Father Gleb Yakunin, and tore from his cassock his golden crucifix. Democratic deputy Yevgenia Tishkovskaya attempted to defend Yakunin, but was, in turn, set... MORE
YELTSIN ON ELECTIONS
At his press conference on September 8, President Boris Yeltsin said that Russia will face not two, but three election campaigns in the next twelve months. A new law requires that, following this December's parliamentary elections, local self-government elections take place at the beginning of... MORE
Lt. General Aleksandr Lebed, a principal leader of the Congress of Russian Communities, sharply attacked the Russian foreign ministry, and Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev personally for "failures in their Balkan policy." Lebed said sarcastically that NATO air strikes on Bosnian Serb positions show the "real... MORE