NEW RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEFS OPPOSE NATO ENLARGEMENT.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 116

June 19, 1996 07:00 AM Age: 28 years

Commentators observed yesterday that Russia’s newly named interim defense minister, former general staff chief Mikhail Kolesnikov, is an adamant opponent of NATO enlargement. Aleksandr Lebed, just named to two top Russian security posts, expressed the same sentiments yesterday in remarks to reporters. (Reuter, Interfax, June 18)

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