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NO CHANGE IN MOSCOW’S KOSOVO POLICY.
Against the background of an intensifying Serb military campaign in Kosovo and a new warning from NATO that it is prepared to intervene to restore peace in the region, Russia yesterday continued to stand behind Yugoslav authorities in Belgrade. Speaking in the aftermath of an... MORE
RUSSIA’S STOCK MARKET IN FREE FALL.
Trading was briefly suspended this morning on the Moscow stock exchange for the second time this week after the main RTS index fell 12 percent. Some Russian blue chip stocks recorded losses of 15 percent. (BBC, August 13) MIR'S LAST MISSION?
MIR’S LAST MISSION?
Three Russians were launched into space today and are expected to dock on Saturday with the Mir space station. One is former presidential aide Yuri Baturin, realizing a childhood dream. This may be Mir's last mission. (BBC, August 13) SOROS URGES RUSSIA TO DEVALUE RUBLE.
SOROS URGES RUSSIA TO DEVALUE RUBLE.
Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has called for a devaluation of the Russian ruble and the establishment of a currency board to peg the ruble to the dollar or the euro. Soros warns in a letter published in the Financial Times today that turmoil... MORE
DUMA REFUSES TO BE RUSHED.
Prime Minister Sergei Kirienko submitted, through Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev, a package of additional stabilization measures to the State Duma on August 10, urging it to consider them at a planned August 19-20 emergency session. For the Duma to meet then would entail a break... MORE
CLASHES ACROSS THE GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ DEMARCATION LINE.
At least four Abkhaz militiamen were killed in an ambush laid by Georgian guerrillas in Abkhazia during the night of August 10-11. On the same night in another sector, Abkhaz militiamen crossed into Georgia proper and shelled houses in two villages of Zugdidi district. This... MORE
OPPOSITION GOING TO THE BRINK IN BAKU.
Yesterday was the deadline for submission of lists of signatures on behalf of aspirants to Azerbaijan's presidency in the election scheduled for October. President Haidar Aliev and eight aspirants, seeking registration as candidates, submitted the signature lists to the Central Electoral Commission. The leaders of... MORE
RUSSIA-U.S. SET SUMMIT DATE.
A Kremlin spokesman said yesterday that the upcoming Russian-U.S. summit meeting between Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton will take place in Moscow on September 1-3. (Reuter, August 11) In July, the White House had announced the U.S. president's decision to visit Russia in late... MORE
THIRD TIME LUCKY.
The veteran British rock group, the Rolling Stones, gave their first live concert in Moscow last night, more than thirty years after they first applied for permission to visit. (BBC, August 12) The group's applications for visas were turned down twice in the Soviet period.... MORE
NATIVE-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER THREATENED IN MINSK.
The biweekly Nasha Niva, one of the last surviving Belarusan-language newspapers, with a circulation of only 5,000, faces charges in a Minsk court today. The State Committee for the Press, a censorship authority, accuses Nasha Niva of using the pre-1933 Belarusan orthography. The State Committee... MORE