Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met yesterday with President Boris Yeltsin to discuss the wave of bombings across Russia. Afterward he told his cabinet to be more "vigilant" and "disciplined" in fighting the "foul reptile" of terrorism, and gave them three days to draw up concrete... MORE

Yesterday saw the continuation of what is unquestionably a well-planned terrorist bombing campaign in Russia. Early in the morning, a car bomb in the southern town of Volgodonsk destroyed several apartment buildings, killing seventeen people. Late yesterday evening, another blast in a St. Petersburg apartment... MORE

Under fire for its management of relations with Russia, the Clinton administration yesterday took the offensive. In what was billed as a major foreign policy speech, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright took aim at both the Russian government for its failure to root out... MORE

A day after holding talks in Moscow with Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeev, U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen traveled to the White Sea in Northern Russia on September 14 to observe Russian nuclear subs being dismantled as part of a U.S. aid program. Cohen flew... MORE

Kremlin administration chief Aleksandr Voloshin has reportedly warned major American media to put an end to "the anti-Russian campaign of slander." Voloshin, in a letter sent to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Newsweek, reportedly said that the administration of... MORE

Summing up his meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton in New Zealand, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said: "We have a common enemy--international terrorism." Putin said he told Clinton that the notorious international terrorist Osama Bin Laden was connected to "the events in Chechnya and... MORE

According to UPI, the New York Times and other sources, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and other State Department officials may have interfered with the progress of the corruption investigation against Kazakhstan's former prime minister and current ally of communist groups, Akezhan Kazhegeldin. On... MORE

Presidents Haidar Aliev of Azerbaijan and Robert Kocharian of Armenia conferred tete-a-tete on the Karabakh conflict during the Baltic-Black Sea-South Caucasus summit on September 10-11 at Yalta in Ukraine (see the Monitor, September 13). The Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers, Tofig Zulfugarov and Vardan Oskanian,... MORE

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin addressed a special session of the State Duma yesterday concerning the situation in the North Caucasus. In a programmatic speech, he essentially put forward a new Kremlin policy in regard to Chechnya, based on the premise that the Khasavyurt agreements ending... MORE

Various Russia media have been making the case that the US$4.2-10 billion reportedly sent from Russia to the Bank of New York over the last year or so was a case not of moneylaundering, but of capital flight--meaning that the bulk of the billions represented... MORE