Russian forces continued to penetrate into Chechen territory yesterday, setting up perimeters in the villages of Kargalinskaya, Dubovskaya and Borozdinovskaya. Troops reached as far as the Terek River and took control of the bridge at the village of Chervlenaya, located thirty kilometers from the capital... MORE

Federal prosecutors in the United States announced yesterday their first indictments related to the Bank of New York money laundering scandal. Lucy Edwards, a former top executive in the bank, her Russian husband, Peter Berlin, and a third businessman, Aleksei Volkov, have been charged with... MORE

One man who has kept anything but a low profile is Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, head of the Defense Ministry's main department for international military cooperation. In remarks yesterday, the hardline Ivashov also underscored Moscow's insistence on continued observance of the ABM treaty. Indeed, Ivashov... MORE

Not unexpectedly, Russian officials yesterday renewed their sharp criticism of U.S. missile defense plans following the successful test this past weekend of a prototype U.S. antiballistic missile weapon. In Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vladimir Rakhmanin charged that the October 2 test itself puts the... MORE

On October 1, Uzbek President Islam Karimov inspected his troops in the Ferghana Region's Sokh district, which abuts on the theater of operations of Islamic guerrillas in the Batken district of Kyrgyzstan's Osh Region. After conferring with the joint command of Uzbek army, border and... MORE

On September 30-October 1, the internal affairs ministers of CIS member countries met in Kyiv while CIS state security ministers and intelligence chiefs met in St. Petersburg. Subsequent reports from several national capitals enlarge somewhat on the initial, sketchy joint communiques. Both meetings discussed joint... MORE

As Russian forces continue to occupy northern Chechnya, the warring sides continue to try to get the upper hand in the propaganda war. An anonymous source from Russia's Federal Security Service was quoted as saying today that Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev may have bought... MORE

Leonid Dyachenko, husband of Tatyana Dyachenko, Yeltsin's younger daughter and his image consultant, has reportedly been asked to testify before a New York grand jury, as has Viktor Khrolenko, head of a company called Belka Trading. The request to testify--made by the New York district... MORE

The war in Chechnya has, for the most part, pushed other conflicts off the front pages of Russian newspapers. Nevertheless, the war of "kompromat" (compromising materials) between Moscow's rival financial-political groups continues to rage. On October 4, Russian Public Television (ORT), the 51-percent state-owned station... MORE

Beijing and Moscow used the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the People's Republic of China this past weekend to underscore yet again the importance that both countries attach to their "strategic partnership." Amid the more general celebrations organized by China's communist party leadership, Russian and Chinese... MORE