Rolling onto the Information Superhighway The Information Super Highway Comes to the Post-Soviet States Throughout the 15 post-Soviet states, scholars, journalists and government officials are no going "on line" in increasing numbers. The shift to e-mail rather than fax as the medium of choice reflects... MORE

Who's in Charge of Moscow's Nationality Policy? The Russian Federation Needs a New Nationalities Policy by Mikhail Guboglo Deputy Director, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences Russia's post-communist leaders do not include a single Moses capable of leading his people out of... MORE

Dudayev's Wife Says Chechens "No Longer Love the Sun" The following article is an excerpt of an article written by the wife of Chechen President Dzhkokhar Dudayev. It was made available to "Prism" by the Chechen Information Office in Vilnius, Lithuania. "At the beginning of... MORE

Lebed Scores Moscow and the West over Chechnya Lebed: Chechen War Shames Moscow, Western Countries In an exclusive interview, potential presidential candidate Lt. Gen. Aleksandr Lebed, the outspoken commander of the 14th Russian Army in the Transdniestr region of Moldova, says that Russia's intervention in... MORE

Kiev Meetings May Matter More Than Moscow Three events will dominate the post-Soviet states during the week ahead: the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of V-E Day in Moscow with the Clinton-Yeltsin summit immediately following, the increasingly bloody battles in Chechnya, and President Clinton's visit... MORE

Chechen Fighting, Angry Words Overshadow Summit Plans The first week of May was dominated by three interrelated developments: dramatically increased fighting between Russian troops and Chechen fighters, increasingly harsh rhetoric between Moscow and Washington in the runup to the upcoming summit, and ever more frequent... MORE