Dagestan: A Seething National Cauldron By Igor Rotar "After the signing of the Khasavyurt agreements, the Kremlinmay have succeeded in settling the Chechen crisis. But for ourrepublic, the main problems are just beginning. I don't wish tosay that the Chechen resistance fighters have an interest... MORE

The Predations of the Red Directors (Part 2) By Albert Speransky PART 2: THE WORKER (This is the second of three articles) The Psychology of the Hired Worker The Soviet government spent a long time conducting experimentson human beings in an attempt to create a... MORE

Lebed Looks to the Future By Andrei Fedorov The fact that Aleksandr Lebed has been expelled from the Kremlindoes not mean that he is no longer a part of the political lifeof the country. On the contrary, he is now free to return to theopen... MORE

Russia's Self-Defeating Tax System By Lidia Lukyanova If Russia succeeds in solving the problem of collecting taxesfrom all persons and legal entities on its territory, the needfor foreign loans, according to experts of the Russian chamberof commerce, will disappear. Why then is the problem of... MORE

The Enduring Power of the GRU by Stanislav Lunev In October, 1995, a Russian government delegation, headed by FirstDeputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, signed a number of documentson developing Russo-Cuban cooperation. There would be no reasonto call this fact noteworthy, if it were not for... MORE

The Fight for Self-Preservation in the Kremlin By Andrei Zhukov The latest Kremlin battle is over... The outcome is clear: AnatolyChubais has decisively defeated all of his rivals, and remains(together with the premier, who prefers not to quarrel with him)the sole master of the Russian... MORE

Russia's Army: The Gathering Storm By Andrei Koliev Betrayal: that is the word which characterizes the attitude ofRussian society towards its own army. The Army's Financial Situation The main blow struck against the army was the destruction of itsmaterial and technical base which came with... MORE

The Predations of the Red Directors (Part I) By Albert Speransky PART 1: THE "RED DIRECTORS" (This is the first of three articles) A Soviet-style enterprise director is one of the most enigmaticfigures of our time. This kind of director was appointed to hispost at... MORE

Russia Looks Anew to the Arab World By Rossen Vassilev In the standoff between Washington and Baghdad, Moscow has expressedsympathy with Iraq. Despite its strident condemnation of Americanactions in the region, however, the Kremlin has at the same timetried not to alienate Washington. Instead, Russia... MORE

The Star-Crossed Mission of Ella Pamfilova by Yelena Dikun Ella Pamfilova entered politics on the crest of the first democraticwave in 1989, when she was elected a deputy of the USSR SupremeSoviet. In the country's highest legislative body, she was rememberedfor her clear voice, her... MORE