NATO officials made light yesterday of a Russian decision to resupply its troops in Kosovo. A convoy of about eleven vehicles, carrying water and food, was dispatched by Russia's peacekeeping contingent in Bosnia. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the thirty or so troops manning... MORE

The parameters of a possible Russian-U.S. agreement over Kosovo remain far from clear, however. Washington to date has reportedly proposed scenarios similar to that which was worked out for Russian forces serving in the Bosnian Stabilization Force. One calls for Russian troops to have their... MORE

On the eve of urgent talks between Russian and U.S. military and diplomatic chiefs in Helsinki, Moscow continued yesterday to press hard on several fronts for a larger role in the Kosovo peacekeeping operation. Russian actions included the resupply of Moscow's 200-strong military contingent in... MORE

Ukraine's fugitive former prime minister, Pavlo Lazarenko, sent word yesterday from the United States that he is dropping out of the race for the Ukrainian presidency. Lazarenko complained of "massive pressure by the authorities" against the opposition in general and against his Hromada party in... MORE

The governments and publics in the Baltic states commemorated yesterday the mass deportations carried out by Soviet authorities on June 14, 1941. On that date, tens of thousands of families in the Baltic states were rounded up and shipped to Siberia and the Russian North,... MORE

Russian efforts to showcase one of their most modern combat aircraft at the Paris Air Show--the world's most prestigious aviation exhibit--suffered an embarrassing setback when the plane crashed on June 12 during its flight display. The plane, a Sukhoi-30MKI multirole fighter with advanced thrust-vectoring engines,... MORE

Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of the Budennovsk tragedy, and the event was marked in both the Chechen capital of Djohar and in Stavropol krai, where the town of Budennovsk is located. On June 14, 1995, a unit led by Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev... MORE

The Kremlin campaign against Moscow Major Yuri Luzhkov will also reportedly feature the publication of "kompromat" (compromising materials) against him. One account cites alleged intercepts of telephone conversations by Kremlin official Jokhan Pollyeva that a load of dirt on the Moscow mayor is about to... MORE

In a bit of political showboating, Yeltsin yesterday blasted the Kosovo Liberation Army for threats it has leveled against the Russian peacekeepers. His remarks came as the Russian Defense Ministry accused NATO of failing to move energetically to disarm Kosovo Albanian rebels. A spokesman for... MORE

New details have emerged about the Kremlin's efforts to neutralize Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and his political movement Fatherland (Otechestvo). According to a Russian weekly, "The Family"--meaning the group of Kremlin insiders which includes, among others, President Boris Yeltsin's daughter and adviser Tatyana Dyachenko, the... MORE