Ukrainian Internal Affairs Minister Yury Kravchenko has resolutely ruled out that the death of long-time Rukh leader Vyacheslav Chornovil could have been premeditated. He called the road accident late on March 25 near Boryspil International Airport, in which Chornovil was killed, "a tragic coincidence," the... MORE

Top leaders of the Belarusan opposition have made public a joint pledge to exert every effort to prevent the return of nuclear weapons to Belarus. Their statement responded to Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeev's televised remark which "did not rule out the possibility of redeployment... MORE

A flurry of orchestrated leaks from the defense ministries of Russia and Belarus suggests that the return of Russian nuclear weapons to Belarus is under consideration, supposedly as a countermeasure to NATO's action against Serbia. According to unnamed military officials in Moscow and Minsk on... MORE

On March 26, Aleksandr Litvinenko, one of Berezovsky's allies, was arrested. As former Federal Security Service (FSB) lieutenant colonel, Litvinenko made the news in March of last year after claiming publicly that senior FSB officials had ordered him to murder Berezovsky. Litvinenko and several other... MORE

Following last week's scandal involving the search of Kremlin offices by prosecutors in connection with a criminal investigation into alleged bribes to top Russian officials from the Swiss firm Mabetex, rumors began to circulate that the next target on Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov's list are... MORE

Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky, who was interviewed yesterday along with Zhirinovsky, Zyuganov and Ryzhkov, characterized the rhetoric of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) as "hysteria" which was "heating up" the Balkan situation, and again... MORE

Russia's Federal Security Service put out an appeal last night asking anyone who might have specific information involving yesterday's attempted rocketing of the U.S. embassy in Moscow to come forward. The appeal, which was read during "Itogi," NTV television's weekly news analysis program, specifically appealed... MORE

If Moscow took no serious, concrete steps over the weekend to express its displeasure over NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia, the Russian government did manage nonetheless to raise to an even higher level the invective which it directed at the West. Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov... MORE

Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov will fly to Yugoslavia on tomorrow seeking "an immediate halt" to NATO air strikes against the Balkan nation, the government announced today. He will be accompanied by Russia's Defense Minister Igor Sergeev (AP, Itar-Tass, March 29). RUSSIA CUTS BACK MILITARY... MORE

Furious denunciations of NATO and the United States continued in Moscow over the weekend, but Russian government officials appeared still to rule out any concrete action which might risk an outright confrontation with the West over Kosovo. Moscow did, however, take additional steps to cut... MORE