Economic Analysis Institute director A. Illarionov told Izvestiya April 22 that the ruble was sharply undervalued relative to the dollar and should gradually gain against the US currency. But Moscow Currency Exchange expert I. Doronin told Finansovye izvestiya (no. 29) that the ruble "will in... MORE

Rosvooruzheniye director Aleksandr Kotelkin told Segodnya April 29 that the Russian Federation would earn "at least" $2.5 billion from the sale of arms abroad in 1995, up from $1.7 billion last year. According to Kotelkin, 60 percent of these sales will go to Southeast Asia... MORE

Moscow may sell more Kilo submarines to Iran this year, or may use the cancellation of the sale as a bargaining chip in talks with the United States, Komsomolskaya pravda reported April 29. Earlier, Academy of Sciences vice president Nikolai Laverov said that some 121-123... MORE

Moscow military district commanders told Moskovosky komsomolets April 29 that there had been 11,698 cases of draft resistance there but that the courts had so far convicted only 63 of these men. The military hierarchy appealed to the courts, the military commissariats, and the people... MORE

While Moscow has indicated that it wants to introduce changes in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty as a result of changes in the geopolitical situation around Russia, Kommersant-Daily said April 29 that Russian authorities had already scrapped 2,002 tanks in order to comply with... MORE

Russian first deputy premier Anatoly Chubais signed a new agreement with the World Bank to finance four projects in the Russian Federation. Among the projects is a plan to overcome the consequences of oil leaks in the Komi Republic, Segodnya reported April 26. Earlier, officials... MORE

Duma chief Ivan Rybkin said that the rights and obligations of the Federation's 89 component parts should be equal, but he acknowledged that some special relations might be necessary in particular cases, Rossiiskie vesti reported April 28. Failure to allow for such exemptions would spark... MORE

The Russian defense ministry announced that Riga's plans to blow up part of the radar site at Skrunda violated Moscow's agreement with Latvia because such an explosion could damage the remaining parts of the complex which Moscow will operate for three more years, Segodnya reported... MORE

Arkhangelsk regional authorities have decided to build a new 220 km long railroad to link the Russian northwest with the Finnish port of Oulu, thus reducing their dependence on ice-free Baltic ports, the Moscow business paper BWW (no. 16) said. But Russian plans to build... MORE

Ukrainian authorities are "unilaterally appropriating" ships and other property of the Black Sea fleet even though there is no agreement on who owns what, Moskovsky komsomolets said April 27. The paper noted that what Moscow politicians call "unilateral concessions" are described by Russian sailors as... MORE