Data just released by Estonia throw a long-awaited light both on the country's ethnic composition in the post-Soviet era and on the legal status of the nonindigenous population. Compiled by the Citizenship and Migration Board, the data show ethnic Estonians at 65.1 percent, Russians at... MORE

While Russian President Boris Yeltsin did manage to meet yesterday with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, another much anticipated summit meeting involving Yeltsin and a major Asian leader remains in limbo. Yeltsin was to have traveled to India in early December, where he was expected to... MORE

A long-awaited informal summit meeting between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin turned out to be a good deal more informal than either side had anticipated, with the two leaders meeting yesterday at Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital. The short "no-neckties" meeting between... MORE

As expected, the major results of yesterday's talks were two joint statements: one which outlined expanding Russian-Chinese relations and another which welcomed the marking of the two countries' border. The border demarcation follows accords signed in 1991 and 1994 and, though disputes remain over several... MORE

Segodnya" today reported that in St. Petersburg's legislative assembly elections, scheduled for December 6, at least one representative of the "criminal world" is running in each of the city's fifty districts. According to the newspaper, the Tambovskaya criminal group--the city's most powerful--is running the most... MORE

In further reaction to the murder last Friday (November 20) of Democratic Russia leader Galina Starovoitova, Russian newspapers today blasted the government, and particularly President Yeltsin, for their inability to fight crime and bring order to the country. "Kommersant daily" lambasted the authorities for their... MORE

President Boris Yeltsin remained in the hospital today, where he was being treated for pneumonia. The Russian head of state kept his scheduled meeting yesterday with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and Russia's television channels showed a brief soundless fragment of Yeltsin shaking hands with the... MORE

Delegates of the fifth congress of the Liberal Party of Ukraine (LPU), representing twenty regional organizations, have accused Volodymyr Shcherban of authoritarianism and dismissed him from the post of the party head. The congress elected the leader of the LPU Crimean organization, Pavlo Vyalov, as... MORE

Meeting in Tbilisi on November 20-21, President Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia and Robert Kocharian of Armenia agreed on the need to maintain stability in the Armenian-inhabited Javakhetia region of Georgia. Land-locked Armenia is interested in obtaining commercial outlets to Georgia's Black Sea ports, the road... MORE

Held in Kyiv on November 21-22, the congress of the People's Democratic Party (NDP)--the "party of power"--witnessed differences of views regarding the selection of the party's nominee for the upcoming presidential election. Although the "centrist" NDP is a pro-presidential party, some of its influential figures... MORE