The Fortnight in Review The Fortnight in Review Will Yeltsin Abandon Economic Reform in Search of Votes? In Russian domestic developments, the last two weeks saw President Boris Yeltsin appoint an enterprise director, Vladimir Kadannikov, as first deputy prime minister in place of the reformer... MORE

Foreign Policy: Russia Turns East by Stanislav Lunev Dramatic changes have taken place in the Moscow leadership. Andrei Kozyrev has been replaced as Russia's minister of foreign affairs by the significantly tougher politician Yevgeny Primakov, a former highly-placed party functionary and, in recent years --... MORE

Will the Chechen Conflict Spread? A New Caucasian War: Myth or Reality? by Igor Rotar The recent incident in which Chechen terrorists took hostages in the Dagestani city of Kizlyar and the tragic events that followed in the settlement of Pervomaiskoye have resulted in a... MORE

Russia: All Eyes Focus on June by Gleb Cherkassov The break between the end of the election campaign for the State Duma and the beginning of the preparations for the upcoming presidential elections was very short, precisely as long as the New Year's Day holidays.... MORE

Economic Success Breeds Political Discontent Russia on the Eve of the Elections: Politicians vs Economics? by Aleksei Kondratov Analysts have unanimously appraised the past year as the best since the reforms began in the country with regard to macroeconomic indicators. The rate of inflation decreased... MORE

Russia's Governors Seek a Wider Role

Russia: A Time of Turmoil and Change The Re-Making of the President by a Special Correspondent The past two weeks have made it clear that Boris Yeltsin is determined to seek re-election in next June's presidential elections. Officially, the president has not made up his... MORE

The Future of Russia's Bureaucratic Ruling Class by Mikhail Gershaft The reaction of Western politicians, researchers, and journalists to the strengthening and the virtual return of the Communists to Russia's political arena, and the chances of their victory in the June 1996 presidential elections, could... MORE

The Growing Danger for the Russian Press by Maryanne Ozernoy With the recent victory of the Russian Communist party, Russia takes another step back from the road to democracy. Impoverished and angry, Russians can only dream of the days of subsidized milk, low state-controlled rents,... MORE

The Specter of Terror Begins to Haunt Russia by Stanislav Lunev At the beginning of January, the world was shocked by a new act of mass terrorism in the Russian Federation. As foreign and Russian news agencies reported, Chechen fighters seized about a thousand hostages... MORE