RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT SLAMS NATO, U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY.

A high-ranking Russian Foreign Ministry official said in Moscow yesterday that Russia could make large concessions on NATO enlargement but would categorically oppose extension of the alliance’s military infrastructure to Russia’s western borders. The diplomat also accused the United States of cynically protesting human rights violations in China and Cuba, but not in Central Asia, where Washington has economic interests. (Interfax, May 29)

New Russian Aviation Conglomerate.