SERGEEV APPOINTED RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 3 Issue: 102

Gen. Igor Sergeev has been appointed Russian minister of defense and Gen. Anatoly Kvashnin has been named acting chief of the General Staff, President Boris Yeltsin’s press secretary announced this morning. (Itar-Tass, May 23) The appointments follow Yeltsin’s surprise dismissal of Russia’s top military commanders yesterday. (See Perspective item below)

International Conference Opens in the Hague.