A senior official from Russia's atomic energy complex said yesterday that the underground nuclear tests India conducted this week could complicate Moscow-New Delhi negotiations on the nuclear power plant Russia was to build in India. The Kremlin, according to the official, has not made a... MORE

The self-inflicted carnage in Russia's armed forces continued this week as four soldiers serving in the country's Far Eastern Military District yesterday killed their commanding officer. In the southern Russian city of Budennovsk, meanwhile, a young soldier was buried yesterday. He had been beaten to... MORE

Mothers' groups seeking to protect Russia's conscript soldiers have become a fixture of Russian military life over the past decade as public attention has been focused on the deplorable--and all too often deadly--conditions endured by many of the country's youngest conscript soldiers. According to one... MORE

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian nationalist parliamentarian, predicted yesterday that President Boris Yeltsin will run for a third term in office in 2000 and that his opponent in the final round will be retired General Aleksandr Lebed. (Itar-Tass, May 13) Lebed is currently running for governor in... MORE

At the end of April, officials from the Moscow Procuracy charged Alfred Kokh, former deputy prime minister and former head of Russia's State Property Committee, with embezzlement. Procuracy officials say they intend to question Kokh in connection with the charges on May 20. A few... MORE

Russia's annual rate of consumer-price inflation is likely to be between 7 or 8 percent in 1998, according to the state statistics committee, Goskomstat. Goskomstat is predicting that the rate in May will be 0.3 percent against 0.4 percent in April. Twelve-month inflation in April... MORE

Four people were killed when a remote-controlled bomb exploded yesterday evening in the center of Djohar, capital of Chechnya. The bomb appeared to be aimed against Chechnya's Deputy Prosecutor General Magomed Magomadov, whose car was damaged though he himself was not hurt. Magomadov is leading... MORE

Vandals have damaged or destroyed over one hundred headstones at a Jewish cemetery in the Siberian city of Irkutsk. This was the third time in six months that Irkutsk's Jewish graveyard had been attacked. Gravestones were spray-painted last December, while and swastikas were painted on... MORE

Prime Minister Valery Pustovoytenko has made public a Ukrainian government decision to complete the construction of the missile cruiser Admiral Lobov and to include it in the Ukrainian Navy under the name Ukraina. Pustovoytenko, who is slated to continue as prime minister in the new... MORE

The French company Pernod-Ricard has won the international tender for the privatization of the Yerevan cognac factory, the flagship of this industry in the former USSR. Pernod-Ricard edged out Canada's Seagram in the tender, according to yesterday's announcements by Armenia's Reform Ministry and the French... MORE