As anticipated (see the Monitor, August 23), ethnic Albanian protesters yesterday stopped Russian troops from taking over for Dutch peacekeepers in the city of Orahovac. What is more, the demonstrators who barricaded the roads leading to Orahovac with tractors, trucks and other vehicles, appeared to... MORE

The secretary of Dagestan's Security Council, Akhmednabi Magdigadzhiev, claimed today that federal forces had taken full control of the villages of Tando, Ashino and Rakhata in Dagestan's Botlikh region, and that police, internal troops and regular army troops were "cleaning" the area of remnants of... MORE

The closure of the Russian daily "Kommersant" took place amidst a continuing battle between media loyal to the Kremlin inner circle and those sympathetic to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the new Fatherland-All Russia coalition. Each side has attempted to use against the other the... MORE

The start of the fall political season is still several weeks away, but the mud is already flying between the Russian political elite's two main power centers--the Kremlin inner circle on the one hand, and the new Fatherland-All Russia coalition, led by Moscow Mayor Yuri... MORE

On August 18-19 in Kyiv, Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Petru Lucinschi of Moldova signed a Treaty on the Delimitation and Demarcation of the State Border between Ukraine and Moldova and an additional protocol on the exchange of equivalent areas along that border (Flux,... MORE

The American and Russian presidents might have agreed in June to open discussions regarding both modifications to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and a possible START III strategic arms treaty, but when negotiators for the two sides got together in Moscow last week neither... MORE

The weekend's events in Kosovo also came as two top Russian officials castigated NATO for its conduct of the peacekeeping operation there and appeared to threaten to withdraw the Russian contingent from Kosovo. The remarks were made in Moscow on August 20 by the Foreign... MORE

Enduring tensions between Russia's KFOR contingent and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population look set to worsen this week as Russian troops prepare to take over for Dutch peacekeepers in the city of Orahovac. Located in the German sector of Kosovo some forty miles southwest of Pristina,... MORE

The attempts, apparently backed by the Kremlin, to form a broad center-right coalition to challenge Fatherland-All Russia have foundered. This effort was to have brought together Right Cause (the movement headed by United Energy Systems chief Anatoly Chubais and former Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar),... MORE

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has for the first time publicly suggested that he will put aside his presidential ambitions--temporarily, at least--and support the candidacy of Yevgeny Primakov, should the former prime minister throw his hat into the race to succeed President Boris Yeltsin. In an... MORE