The scandal surrounding Media-Most's deteriorating relations with the authorities shows no signs of letting up. The latest twist in the saga concerns "Appendix 6"--the section of a document signed by Media-Most founder Vladimir Gusinsky, Gazprom-Media chief Alfred Kokh and Press Minister Mikhail Lesin last July... MORE

There has been a mixed reaction to the mudslinging match between Media-Most, on one side, and Gazprom-Media's Alfred Kokh and Press Minister Mikhail Lesin, on the other. Two State Duma deputies from the Yabloko faction, Sergei Ivanenko and Sergei Mitrokhin, jumped to Media-Most's defense by... MORE

Sixteen men, most of them military, have been on trial since September 18 in Stepanakert, accused of involvement in the March 22 assassination attempt on Arkady Gukasian. The president of the unrecognized Karabakh republic was wounded in that ambush in downtown Stepanakert, underwent a four-month... MORE

The second most powerful man in China completed an official, nine-day visit to Russia yesterday which was unusual both for the lack of press attention it received and for its dearth of any obviously significant results. Li Peng, the chairman of the standing committee of... MORE

The confrontation between Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-Most group and the authorities is heating up again, with the Prosecutor General's Office announcing yesterday that it would look into claims by Gazprom, the 38-percent state-owned natural gas monopoly, that Media-Most had hidden assets abroad to avoid handing them... MORE

The latest round of accusations and counteraccusations between Media-Most and the authorities has already become extremely bitter. Yesterday Yevgeny Kiselev, the general director of NTV, Media-Most's flagship television channel, charged that the Prosecutor General's Office had coordinated its actions against Media-Most with Gazprom-Media's Kokh and... MORE

Various tragic incidents in Chechnya which took place recently in various parts of the republic and were seemingly unconnected have ended up being of the information war running alongside the military conflict. On September 16, five people were killed almost simultaneously in various parts of... MORE

Colonel-General Gennady Troshev, commander of Russia's North Caucasus Military District, inspected Russian troops in Georgia on September 13-15 and held talks with the leadership in Tbilisi. On September 14 the chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Henry Shelton, conferred with Georgia's... MORE

Feliks Kulov for one, apparently. The russified Kyrgyz politician, a leading opposition figure, is one of eight presidential aspirants to have been barred from entering the race because they can not express themselves in the country's native language. Seven other aspirants, including the incumbent President... MORE

Tensions between Russia and the United States over UN policy toward Iraq intensified this past weekend when a group of Russian oil experts flew directly from Moscow to Saddam International Airport in Baghdad. The flight appeared to represent a Russian challenge both to the UN's... MORE