At a news conference in Tiraspol, three Russian Duma deputies representing Vladimir Zhirinovsky's party called for the establishment in that city of a Russian consular office to facilitate the adoption of Russian citizenship by residents of this part of Moldova. They also suggested that a... MORE

The Belarus supreme soviet on September 7 passed by 167 to 2 a statement accusing president Aleksandr Lukashenko and his cabinet of creating a political confrontation with the legislature against a backdrop of economic deterioration and social discontent. The statement described the executive's recent decisions... MORE

President Boris Yeltsin said that he thinks the time has come to begin to restore the Cossack community (a Tsarist-era military class whose registered members enjoyed legal and social privileges to reward their military service). In his letter to the all-Russian conference of Cossacks, Yeltsin... MORE

According to the new classification rules, all secret documents in Russia will have one of three secrecy classifications: the first, for extraordinarily sensitive information, roughly equal to the US "Cosmic" secret; the second, for "absolutely secret" information; and the third, for simply secret information. Information... MORE

The heads of more than 500 of Moscow's commercial banks asked the Russian government and central bank to correct their credit financing policy. They said that the government's present monetary policy has virtually destroyed the interbank credit market, which may eventually lead to the complete... MORE

Several prominent nationalist figures have announced in Moscow the creation of a new electoral bloc named, after the holder of the first place on its electoral list, the "Stanislav Govorukhin Bloc." Govorukhin, who recently left the Democratic Party of Russia, is a renowned nationalist filmmaker... MORE

Several hundred Russian industrialists and businessmen from 54 Russian regions confirmed Arkady Volsky as the leader of their organization. Volsky said that the Union will not go into the election as a separate entity, but will allow its leaders to choose which list to run... MORE

. The left-of-center electoral bloc headed by Duma chairman Ivan Rybkin has finally decided on a name -- Soglasie, or "Concord" -- and named its top candidates for the Duma elections. In addition to Rybkin himself, the bloc's leading candidates include head of the Union... MORE

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's international organizations department, Aleksandr Gorelik, told a Moscow briefing September 7 that "Russia may give up the program of cooperation with NATO and all other documents related to it, if the alliance persists in the use of force... MORE

The chairman of the Duma's foreign affairs committee, Vladimir Lukin, said that he will recommend that President Boris Yeltsin withdraw the Russian request to join the Council of Europe, and will ask that his Duma colleagues boycott the Council's sessions. Lukin said that he took... MORE