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Volume 3 Issue 240

December 24, 1997

• UKRAINE'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: THE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
• WORK TO START ON NEW SUBMARINES.
• IRAN AND RUSSIA CONTINUE TO BUILD TIES.
• MOSCOW URGES EARLY LIFTING OF SANCTIONS ON IRAQ.
• ACCUSED AMERICAN TECHNICIAN HOME FOR HOLIDAYS.
• YELTSIN OVERRULES RUTSKOI.
• POLISH CITIZENS KIDNAPPED IN CHECHNYA.
• RUSSIA: PROVINCIAL CRIME JOURNAL.
• RUSSIA ENTERS 1998 WITHOUT A BUDGET.
• YELTSIN CALLS FOR CHANGES TO ELECTORAL LAW.
• YELTSIN RETURNS TO KREMLIN.

Volume 3 Issue 239

December 23, 1997

• UDUGOV DISMISSES "DEATH SENTENCE" OF SHARIAH COURT AGAINST YELTSIN.
• COALMINERS BLOCK TRAN-SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
• CHECHEN GUNMEN ATTACK RUSSIAN ARMY UNIT IN DAGESTAN.
• MASKHADOV WANTS TO SEE FULL-SCALE TREATY SIGNED DURING YELTSIN VISIT TO CHECHNYA.
• YELTSIN BACK IN HOSPITAL.
• YELTSIN RETURNS TO WORK.
• RUSSIA AND INDIA HOLD ARMS, TRADE TALKS.
• PAULAUSKAS WINS FIRST ROUND IN LITHUANIA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• RUSSIA, BELARUS SIGN WIDE-RANGING MILITARY AGREEMENTS.
• POLITICAL RELATIONS ALSO WARMING.
• A "FREE PRESS" IN UZBEKISTAN?

Volume 3 Issue 238

December 22, 1997

• ARMENIA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY APPEARS TO DISSENT FROM PRESIDENT'S POSITION ON KARABAKH.
• KGB OF BELARUS SEEN AS MAJOR INSTRUMENT OF RULE.
• INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CHECHNYA IN KAZAN.
• UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO STRIP CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT OF CHERISHED POWERS.
• SWEDISH DIPLOMAT FREED IN HOSTAGE-TAKING INCIDENT.
• CHIEF OF BORDER TROOPS RESIGNS.
• NEW PROPERTY MINISTER APPOINTED.
• YELTSIN APPLAUDS RUSSIAN SECURITY SERVICES.
• YELTSIN DEFIES HIS DOCTORS.
• CHERNOMYRDIN PROMISES INVESTIGATION INTO INFORMATION LEAK.

Volume 3 Issue 237

December 19, 1997

• ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND POLITICAL RESHUFFLING IN TURKMENISTAN.
• THREE COUNTRIES' SUMMIT MAPS OUT REGIONAL COOPERATION.
• WHY AKMOLA?
• POST-SOVIET KAZAKHSTAN'S NATIONAL IDENTITY -- A COMPLEX MATTER.
• LATVIA'S DEFENSE SPENDING INADEQUATE.
• RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS YIELD TO GEORGIA IN DISPUTED SECTOR.
• MORE CHANGES IN TOP RUSSIAN MILITARY COMMANDS.
• GOVERNMENT APPROVES PENSION REFORM.
• CLINTON ACCUSED OF PRESSURING RUSSIA.
• RUSSIA CRITICIZES ARRESTS IN BOSNIA.
• YELTSIN PROMISES TO PRIORITIZE THE BUDGET.
• LIVSHITS POINTS FINGER AT CHUBAIS.

Volume 3 Issue 236

December 18, 1997

• BAKU MOVES AGAINST GULIEV WHO HITS BACK.
• AID ORGANIZATIONS REVIEW ACTIVITIES IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• U.S. AWARD RECOGNIZES SHEVARDNADZE'S HISTORIC ROLE.
• KREMLIN OPENS ITS ARMS TO LUKASHENKA WHILE RUSSIAN TV REPORTERS GO ON TRIAL IN BELARUS.
• ZHIRINOVSKY THREATENS BOYCOTT.
• LEBED/YAVLINSKY ELECTORAL BLOC EMERGES IN NOVOSIBIRSK.
• PAULAUSKAS GARNERING CRUCIAL SUPPORT IN LITHUANIA'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
• DOUBT CAST ON MOSCOW CITY DUMA ELECTIONS.
• YELTSIN EXPECTED BACK AT WORK BY THE NEW YEAR.
• CHERNOMYRDIN REVERSES DECISION OF CHUBAIS.
• SOME OPTIMISM OVER START II RATIFICATION.
• RUSSIA-NATO COUNCIL MEETS; MOSCOW AND WASHINGTON CLASH OVER IRAQ.

Volume 3 Issue 235

December 17, 1997

• BUDGET BUT ONE ISSUE IN CURRENT POLITICAL STRUGGLE IN TAJIKISTAN.
• GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT SENDS WARNING SIGNAL TO MOSCOW.
• GO BACK TO RUSSIAN FOLD, TRANSDNIESTER TELLS MOLDOVA.
• KUCHMA AIMS FOR DEMILITARIZATION OF SEVASTOPOL.
• UKRAINE-NATO COOPERATION INTENSIFIES.
• MISSILE FORCES CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY.
• POLISH FACTOR AT PLAY IN LITHUANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• FSB REITERATES CHARGES AGAINST AMERICAN TECHNICIAN.
• CHUBAIS PROVOKES MORE CONTROVERSY.
• "THE COUNTRY IS TIRED OF FUNERALS."
• RUSSIA, TURKEY CONCLUDE GAS DEAL, OTHER AGREEMENTS.
• DUMA POSTPONES SECOND READING OF FEDERAL BUDGET.

Volume 3 Issue 234

December 16, 1997

• MOSCOW HANDING HUSEINOV'S ASSOCIATES OVER TO BAKU.
• STREAMLINING OF KAZAKHSTAN'S BANKING SECTOR CONTINUES.
• WILL MOSCOW PLAY THE AJAR CARD IN GEORGIA?
• RUSSIA APPLAUDS EU EXPANSION DECISION.
• STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION TOPS CURRENT POLITICAL AGENDA.
• COURT RULES THAT TSAR'S BONES MUST COME TO MOSCOW.
• MOSCOW DUMA ELECTIONS STRENGTHEN LUZHKOV'S HAND.

Volume 3 Issue 233

December 15, 1997

• ARMENIA SENTENCES THE "GROUP OF 31."
• FIRST WORKING DAY IN KAZAKHSTAN'S NEW CAPITAL.
• MOLDOVA SEEKS EARLY START OF ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP TALKS WITH EUROPEAN UNION.
• KUCHMA OPTIMISTIC.
• RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN GROUP TO MANAGE RAPPROCHEMENT.
• RUSSIAN AVIATION IN THE NEWS.
• NEMTSOV WINDS UP LATIN AMERICAN VISIT.
• KIDNAPPED BRITONS SAID ALIVE AND WELL.
• ZHIRINOVSKY CALLS FOR AUTHORITARIAN RULE.
• CHECHNYA WILL NOT CELEBRATE NEW YEAR.
• YELTSIN INSISTS "IT'S ONLY THE FLU."
• IMF SURRENDERS TO RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, JOURNALIST CHARGES.

Volume 3 Issue 232

December 12, 1997

• KOCHARIAN DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM TER-PETROSIAN.
• CHECHEN REPRESENTATIVE TO ABKHAZIA APPOINTED.
• RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS COMMAND CHALLENGES POLITICAL DECISION IN BORDER INCIDENT.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE INDUSTRY: DOWN BUT NOT OUT.
• YELTSIN APPROVES CHANGES FOR RUSSIA'S BORDER TROOPS.
• RUSSIAN COMMUNIST LEADER DISASSOCIATES HIS PARTY FROM SOVIET VERSION.
• RUSSIA'S TAX LAGGARDS FACE BANKRUPTCY.
• RUSSIA DECIDES AGAINST WESTERN BANK LOAN.
• IMF FREES LOAN TO RUSSIA.
• YELTSIN'S SPOKESMAN, SURGEON, DENY HEART RUMORS.
• MOSCOW VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS.

Volume 3 Issue 231

December 11, 1997

• DUMA HARD-LINERS ROB FOREIGN MINISTRY OF TACTICAL FLEXIBILITY IN MOLDOVA.
• OPPOSITION RALLIES IN MINSK ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY.
• JOINT BATTALION INSTITUTIONALIZED.
• UDUGOV DISMISSES GUN-RUNNING CHARGES.
• THE TAX MAN DOES NOT COMETH.
• ROKHLIN CALLS FOR YELTSIN'S IMPEACHMENT.
• ROUNDTABLE POSTPONED.
• DOCTORS ADVISE YELTSIN TO CANCEL RADIO ADDRESS.
• RUSSIAN AIR FORCE CHIEF RESIGNS POST.
• AKMOLA BECOMES CAPITAL OF KAZAKHSTAN.

Volume 3 Issue 230

December 10, 1997

• CENTRAL ASIAN UNION INSTITUTIONALIZED BUT SLOW TO DEVELOP.
• AZERBAIJAN AND TURKMENISTAN FIND COMMON GROUND ON CASPIAN SEA ISSUES.
• RUSSIA PROMISES GEORGIA TO RETURN BORDER POST TO ORIGINAL LOCATION.
• IMF CANCELS UKRAINIAN BANK DEAL.
• REGIONAL DEFENSE PROJECTS UNDERWAY.
• MOSCOW SEEKS INFLUENCE IN LATIN AMERICA.
• ROCKETS FOR SALE.
• HIJACKING FAILED.
• FUEL PROBLEMS SEEN AS CAUSE OF AIRCRAFT DISASTER.
• CHECHEN WOMEN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF ARMS SMUGGLING.
• MASKHADOV PROMISES GOVERNMENT RE-SHUFFLE.
• BASHKORTOSTAN SET FOR CONFLICT WITH MOSCOW.
• MINISTRY OF JUSTICE TO BE DIRECTLY SUBORDINATED TO PRESIDENT.
• YELTSIN OFFERS CONCESSION TO PARLIAMENT.
• YELTSIN HOSPITALIZED.

Volume 3 Issue 229

December 9, 1997

• JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS ALSO AGAINST AZERBAIJANI PLOTTERS.
• UKRAINE NOT SIGNING LAND MINE BAN YET.
• LANDSBERGIS FACING DEFEAT IN LITHUANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• TALLINN, RIGA CLASSIFIED AS HISTORIC AND CULTURAL TREASURES.
• PESSIMISTIC DIAGNOSES, DIVERGENT PRESCRIPTIONS IN MOSCOW ON CIS ANNIVERSARY.
• AMERICAN TECHNICIAN CHARGED; RELEASED ON BAIL.
• YES, BUT CAN YOU SAY THAT IN TATAR?
• WILL THE RUBLE HOLD?
• REGIONS TAKE LAND REFORM INTO THEIR OWN HANDS.
• RUSSIA'S "BIG FOUR" MEET TO PREPARE FIRST ROUNDTABLE.

Volume 3 Issue 228

December 8, 1997

• RIZVON SODIROV R.I.P.
• TERRORISM TRIAL IN TBILISI.
• LUZHKOV FRATERNIZES WITH LUKASHENKA, PRAISES YELTSIN'S FOR PROMOTING UNION.
• KUCHMA SUGGESTS REVITALIZING OIL REFINERIES WITH RUSSIAN CAPITAL.
• POLITE BUT CAUTIOUS RESPONSE IN BALTIC CAPITALS.
• MOSCOW ELABORATES ON YELTSIN'S FORCE REDUCTION OFFER.
• CHECHEN LEADER: MAIN THING IS FOR YELTSIN'S TRIP TO BE "PRODUCTIVE."
• POSSIBLE REPERCUSSIONS FROM SIBERIAN AIR CRASH.
• YELTSIN PERSUADES DUMA TO ACCEPT BUDGET.
• SEARCH ENDED IN RUSSIAN AIR DISASTER.
• RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER INCIDENT ESCALATING.

Volume 3 Issue 227

December 5, 1997

• RUSSIAN MILITARY -- A SOURCE OF TENSION IN GEORGIA.
• UKRAINE'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: THE UNITED SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS.
• LUKASHENKA PROPOSES PERMANENT SUPERVISORY ORGAN.
• CHECHNYA AND RUSSIA TO SET UP HOTLINE.
• AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN TO BE CHARGED TODAY.
• RUSSIAN AND NATO DEFENSE CHIEFS MEET IN BRUSSELS.
• SWEDES RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT YELTSIN'S HEALTH.
• LITHUANIA SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASES MILITARY BUDGET.
• DUMA DEBATES BUDGET.
• NO QUICK RUSSIAN RATIFICATION OF NUCLEAR ARMS TREATY.

Volume 3 Issue 226

December 4, 1997

• LUKASHENKA, CHERNOMYRDIN CHART RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION PROGRAMS.
• MAIN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER BANNED IN BELARUS.
• SARATOV LAND LAW ENTERS INTO FORCE.
• RUSSIA AND SWEDEN SIGN AGREEMENTS.
• YELTSIN LAUNCHES ANOTHER DEFENSE INITIATIVE IN STOCKHOLM.
• RUSSIA, YUGOSLAVIA INK ACCORDS.
• BULGARIAN MINISTER IN MOSCOW.
• ISRAEL COMPLAINS ANEW OF RUSSIAN-IRANIAN MISSILE COOPERATION.
• RUSSIA TO RAISE INTEREST RATES AGAIN.
• MOSCOW, WASHINGTON INCREASE DEFENSE COOPERATION.

Volume 3 Issue 225

December 3, 1997

• KAZAKHSTAN: NEW WINTER, OLD PROBLEMS.
• THE IMF COMES TO THE RESCUE... SORT OF.
• IS UKRAINE CATCHING THE "ASIAN FLU?"
• RUSSIA'S TRADE SURPLUS FALLS, DECLINE IN CIS TRADE CONTINUES.
• "SELF-DEFENSE DETACHMENTS" COULD TURN INTO ETHNIC ARMIES.
• RUSSIA SEEKS EMERGENCY LOAN.
• SIBERIAN MINE DISASTER KILLS 67.
• SODIROV KILLED.
• YELTSIN OFFERS A UNILATERAL NUCLEAR ARMS CUT... ALMOST.
• RUSSIA WINS APEC MEMBERSHIP.
• REPORT PAINTS DISMAL PICTURE OF RUSSIAN ARMY.

Volume 3 Issue 224

December 2, 1997

• DEBATES CONTINUE IN KAZAKHSTAN OVER FOREIGN MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS.
• UKRAINIAN FOREX CRISIS PUTS BANKING REFORM AT RISK.
• RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES ARRESTS AMERICAN ON ESPIONAGE CHARGE.
• SHEVARDNADZE, ALIEV, LUCINSCHI CLOSE RANKS TO PROMOTE VITAL INTERESTS.
• BOTH SIDES STAND TO GAIN FROM YELTSIN VISIT TO CHECHNYA.
• TENSION IN SOUTHERN DAGESTAN ON EVE OF LEZGIN CONGRESS.
• YELTSIN AUTHORIZES SALE OF LAND BY MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS.
• CHECHNYA TRYING TO REDUCE ITS DEPENDENCE ON RUSSIA.
• IMF MISSION IN MOSCOW.
• COMMUNIST LEADER RETURNS FROM IRAQ.
• RUSSIA RAISES INTEREST RATES AGAIN.

Volume 3 Issue 223

December 1, 1997

• KAZAKHSTAN OFFERS MORE MIXED SIGNALS ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT.
• RAHMONOV SAYS TAJIKISTAN HAS SUFFERED $7 BILLION IN WAR DAMAGE.
• ANOTHER NAVAL WHISTLE-BLOWER CHARGED WITH TREASON.
• UKRAINE BATTLES FOREIGN EXCHANGE CRISIS.
• YELTSIN TO VISIT CHECHNYA IN JANUARY.
• GERMAN CHANCELLOR HOLDS TALKS IN RUSSIA.
• RUSSIA SEEKS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR RUBLE.
• YELTSIN SAYS CHUBAIS TO REMAIN IN CABINET -- FOR NOW.
• FIRST FLIGHT OF NEW RUSSIAN FIGHTER.
• YELTSIN RESURRECTING BALTIC SECURITY PLAN.
• YELTSIN GIVES GOVERNMENT A WEEK'S REPRIEVE.

Volume 3 Issue 222

November 26, 1997

• FORMER HEAD OF KAZAKH SECURITIES COMMISSION TO SET UP BROKERAGE.
• QUADRIPARTITE GROUPING WILL PROMOTE NATIONAL INTERESTS.
• CHERNOMYRDIN IN VIETNAM.
• DIPLOMATIC BATTLE ESCALATES OVER IRAQ POLICY.
• RUSSIAN NAVAL OFFICER ARRESTED ON TREASON CHARGE.
• KUCHMA BLASTS DECISIONS OF CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT.
• MALASHENKO PREDICTS CHUBAIS WILL BE SACKED IN JANUARY.
• MOSCOW SLAMS U.S.-CUBA POLICY.
• YELTSIN PLANS TO VISIT CHECHNYA.

Volume 3 Issue 221

November 25, 1997

• CORRECTION:
• ARMENIA WALKS THIN LINE ON PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE.
• KREMLIN CONSULTANT ENCOURAGES ARMENIAN FIRMNESS ON KARABAKH.
• UKRAINE READY TO SEND PEACEKEEPERS TO MOLDOVA.
• LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND STATISTICS.
• YELTSIN MEETS NEW FINANCE MINISTER.
• SUBMARINE CRUISE STIRS PASSIONS IN WASHINGTON AND MOSCOW.
• ...FOLLOWING TALKS WITH ALIEV IN BAKU.
• FORMER RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER AWAITS NEW JOB.
• SHOKHIN PREDICTS CHUBAIS WILL SOON LOSE HIS REMAINING GOVERNMENT POST.
• MASKHADOV RETURNS TO CHECHNYA...

Volume 3 Issue 220

November 24, 1997

• PROTEST DEMONSTRATION IN MINSK ON ANNIVERSARY OF LUKASHENKA'S REFERENDUM.
• U.S.-KAZAKHSTANI RELATIONS REACH ALL-TIME HIGH.
• YELTSIN REVIEWS RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN RELATIONS.
• G-7 COUNTRIES UNTIE PURSE STRINGS TO ENSURE SAFETY AT CHORNOBYL.
• SEROV CONCERNED BY CIS COUNTRIES' CENTRIFUGAL TENDENCIES.
• YELTSIN PROMOTES DEFENSE MINISTER.
• TBILISI PROTESTS RUSSIAN BORDER POST MOVE.
• NEMTSOV LOSES HIS ENERGY POST.
• MOSCOW REBUFFED AT UN.
• ANOTHER FAILURE FOR NEW RUSSIAN MISSILE.
• NADIBAIDZE ON LEAVE FOLLOWING SURGERY.
• "RUSSIA IS OUR HOME" PREPARES FOR THE NEXT ELECTIONS.

Volume 3 Issue 219

November 21, 1997

• WHO BENEFITS FROM DEADLOCK IN RUSSIAN-ESTONIAN BORDER TALKS?
• UKRAINIAN ASTRONAUT IN ORBIT ABOARD U.S. SPACECRAFT.
• KARABAKH FEELS UNDERCUT BY ARMENIAN PRESIDENT.
• FBI DIRECTOR DOWNPLAYS RUSSIAN CRIME.
• CHUBAIS REPLACED AS FINANCE MINISTER.
• QUESTION MARKS SURROUND RUSSIAN DEAL WITH IRAQ.
• TRANSDNIESTER TALKS LEADING NOWHERE.
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN BRAZIL.

Volume 3 Issue 218

November 20, 1997

• TENSIONS IN TAJIKISTAN.
• UKRAINE'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS.
• ELCHIBEY STRIKES MODERATE NOTE ON NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY.
• OSCE'S DANISH CHAIRMAN ENDORSES BALTIC ACCESSION TO NATO.
• ESTONIA CLARIFIES LANGUAGE QUALIFICATIONS FOR JOBS THAT INVOLVE CONTACT WITH THE PUBLIC.
• GRIM STATISTICS FROM THE MILITARY.
• YELTSIN REPLACES DISGRACED OFFICIALS.
• CHUBAIS GETS TEMPORARY STAY OF EXECUTION.
• RUSSIA TO HAVE PERMANENT MISSION TO NATO.
• GEORGIA TO RECEIVE BRITISH MILITARY ASSISTANCE.
• RUSSIA PROCLAIMS END TO IRAQ-UN CRISIS.

Volume 3 Issue 217

November 19, 1997

• RED CROSS SURVEY DEPICTS POVERTY IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• A GLIMMER OF HOPE IN SOUTH OSSETIA?
• SHEVARDNADZE LASHES OUT AT CHERNOMYRDIN.
• MOSCOW CALLS ON BELARUS TO ADAPT TO RUSSIAN ECONOMICS LAWS.
• LITHUANIAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE UNDERWAY.
• RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN SUMMIT: POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR KYIV.
• FBI CHIEF IN MOSCOW.
• TRANSDNIESTER CONFLICT MANAGEMENT ENTRUSTED TO ADAMISHIN.
• MOSCOW HAS PLAN TO RESOLVE IRAQ CRISIS.

Volume 3 Issue 216

November 18, 1997

• TALYSH SECESSIONIST LEADER SAID TO BE ALIVE IN PRISON.
• RUSSIAN ROLE GROWS IN EFFORTS TO SETTLE IRAQ CRISIS.
• CHUBAIS UNDER RENEWED FIRE.
• MILITARY PROSECUTOR LOOKING INTO SECURITY OF ARMS DEPOTS.
• YELTSIN AND KUCHMA MEET INFORMALLY NEAR MOSCOW.
• UKRAINE FOLLOWS RUSSIA'S LEAD, RAISES INTEREST RATES.
• PRIME MINISTER BLAMES DOMESTIC MONOPOLIES, RUSSIAN BANKS, IMF FOR BELARUS'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.
• KARABAKH TURNS TABLES ON STEP-BY-STEP SETTLEMENT PLAN.
• FIRST LADY TOURS CENTRAL ASIA.
• IRANIAN EXPELLED FROM RUSSIA.
• MAYOR DECLARES HUNGER STRIKE.
• U.S. FIRST LADY IN LVIV.

Volume 3 Issue 215

November 17, 1997

• UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS NO ALLIES IN THE ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN.
• RUSSIAN OFFICIAL BEMOANS LACK OF WTO SOLIDARITY.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF CAUTIOUS ON LAND MINE BAN.
• IRANIAN HELD IN MOSCOW FOR TRYING TO OBTAIN MISSILE PLANS.
• TWO ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH MANEVICH MURDER.
• JOURNALIST THREATENS FRESH REVELATIONS.
• TALYSH SECESSIONIST LEADER DIES IN PRISON.
• YELTSIN SACKS THREE TOP OFFICIALS BUT LETS CHUBAIS OFF WITH A WARNING.
• RUSSIAN DUMA SOUNDS ALARM OVER SPREAD OF AIDS.
• RUSSIA CLAIMS BUMPER GRAIN HARVEST.
• KREMLIN TO PLAY ROLE IN IRAQ CRISIS.
• KUCHMA, CHUBAIS SET STAGE FOR INFORMAL RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN SUMMIT.
• TBILISI DRAWS ATTENTION TO RUSSIAN BACKING FOR ABKHAZIA.

Volume 3 Issue 214

November 14, 1997

• POLITICS AND PERCEPTIONS IN TAJIKISTAN.
• COMMERCIAL OIL PRODUCTION INAUGURATED BY INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM IN AZERBAIJAN.
• POLITICAL SHIFTS UNDERWAY IN MOLDOVA.
• MOLDOVA'S GOVERNING PARTY DISINTEGRATES.
• UN HUMAN RIGHTS BODY ISSUES DEVASTATING FINDINGS ON BELARUS.
• BELARUSAN AGRICULTURE OFFICIALS ARRESTED.
• SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLVE TESTED BY IRAQ.
• ETHNOGRAPHER WARNS NATIONAL REPUBLICS THAT ETHNIC IDENTITY IS A TWO-EDGED SWORD.
• TATARSTAN'S PARLIAMENT DEFERS PASSPORT DEBATE.
• GENERAL DIRECTOR OF MOSCOW TRADE CENTER MURDERED.
• CHUBAIS "NERVOUS" IN WAKE OF KAZAKOV SACKING.
• DUMA REJECTS BILL ON CHANGES TO TAX SYSTEM LAW.

Volume 3 Issue 213

November 13, 1997

• OPPOSITION CANDIDATE TO RUN IN KAZAKHSTAN'S 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
• UKRAINE LEARNS TO PLAY THE WASHINGTON "FREE TRADE" GAME.
• RUSSIAN ARMS EXPORTS: THE GOOD AND THE BAD NEWS.
• MORE DIPLOMATIC DEVELOPMENTS IN ASIA PACIFIC REGION.
• RUMORS THAT MASKHADOV MAY NOT RETURN FROM FOREIGN TRIP HINT AT TRIAL OF STRENGTH WITH PARLIAMENT.
• LAND REFORM GETS GO-AHEAD IN SARATOV OBLAST.
• DEPUTY MAYORS THREATEN MASS RESIGNATION IN VLADIVOSTOK.
• CHUBAIS DISCOUNTS BEREZOVSKY RUMORS.
• MOLDOVAN MIGS NOT NUCLEAR CAPABLE.

Volume 3 Issue 212

November 12, 1997

• U.S.-UZBEKISTAN RELATIONS WARMING UP?
• AKMOLA OFFICIALLY INSTATED AS NEW CAPITAL OF KAZAKHSTAN.
• MOSCOW OFFERS ECONOMIC RELIEF TO ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH OSSETIA.
• NEW MULTIBILLION DOLLAR OIL DEAL RATIFIED BY AZERBAIJAN.
• BELARUSAN "CHARTER 97" LAUNCHED.
• BELARUS COUNTS ON RUSSIA FOR INCREASED TRADE, INVESTMENT.
• CHECHEN VICE PRESIDENT BANS ALCOHOL PRODUCTION, ORDERS WOMEN TO COVER THEIR HEADS.
• COUNCIL OF EUROPE DELEGATION VISITS CHECHNYA.
• MASKHADOV IN WASHINGTON.
• GEORGIA ABOLISHES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
• YELTSIN TRAVELS TO HARBIN; U.S. DIPLOMAT IN BEIJING.

Volume 3 Issue 211

November 11, 1997

• PRESIDENTS PRONOUNCE "LAST WORD" ON YELTSIN'S SECURITY PLAN.
• ARMENIA:
• KAZAKHSTAN:
• GEORGIA:
• MOLDOVA:
• UKRAINE:
• BELARUS:
• CIS: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION ANNIVERSARY ROUNDUP.
• BALTIC STATES:
• INVESTIGATORS PROBE LINK BETWEEN THEFTS AND DEPOT EXPLOSION.
• EX-MAYOR OF ST. PETERSBURG HAS HEART SURGERY IN FRANCE.
• SPOILED FOR CHOICE IN SARATOV.
• OIL, PATRONAGE UNDERLIE PERSONNEL CHANGES IN CHECHNYA.
• MOSCOW AND BEIJING REAFFIRM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP.
• RUSSIA HIKES INTEREST RATES TO DEFEND RUBLE.
• TURKEY NOT RECOGNIZING "CIS BORDER" NOTION.
• KARABAKH FEARS CYPRUS SCENARIO.
• LUKASHENKA PROCEEDS WITH RUSSIA-BELARUS SECURITY COMMITTEE.
• BALTBAT FACES "GRADUATION TEST."
• "NUCLEAR SUITCASES" CHARGE RESURFACES.

Volume 3 Issue 210

November 10, 1997

• TURKMENISTAN'S ENERGY DEALS MOVING FORWARD.
• WILL THE NEXT POTANIN - BEREZOVSKY BATTLE BE OVER BELARUS?
• ESTONIA, IMF AGREE ON POLICY MEMORANDUM.
• YELTSIN FIRES NAVY CHIEF.
• RUSSIAN OPPOSITION GROUP CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR SABOTAGE.
• CHECHENS ACCUSE DAGESTANI OFFICIAL OF INVOLVEMENT IN KIDNAPPINGS.
• CHECHEN OIL PIPELINE OPEN FOR BUSINESS.
• PROTESTS CEASE BUT PROBLEMS PERSIST IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• BELARUSAN EX-CHIEF BANKER RELEASED PENDING TRIAL.
• NEW COMMISSION TO HANDLE RUSSIA'S RELATIONS WITH CHECHNYA.
• RUSSIA ANNOUNCES 1998-2000 RUBLE EXCHANGE BAND.
• YELTSIN-JIANG SUMMIT PRODUCES BORDER STATEMENT.

Volume 3 Issue 209

November 7, 1997

• UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT'S ANTI-PRIVATIZATION MEASURE INVALID; PROGRAM NOT AFFECTED.
• BUREAUCRATIC CONFUSION OVER REORGANIZATION.
• YELTSIN OFF TO CHINA FOR TALKS WITH JIANG ZEMIN.
• ARSANOV CALLS BEREZOVSKY'S FIRING A "MISTAKE."
• RESIDENTS OF KHASAVYURT PROTEST CRIME ON CHECHEN BORDER.
• KULIKOV CALLS FOR SEALING CHECHNYA'S BORDERS.
• HAS CHECHNYA BECOME AN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC?
• YELTSIN LIBERALIZES OIL INDUSTRY OWNERSHIP.
• RUSSIA MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION.
• PAYMENT IN KIND.
• MORE BALTIC COMMENT ON RUSSIAN SECURITY PLAN.

Volume 3 Issue 208

November 6, 1997

• THE CHALLENGE OF THE UIGHURS IN CENTRAL ASIA.
• BAKU CALLS FOR SERIOUS INVESTIGATION OF RUSSIAN ARMS DELIVERIES TO ARMENIA.
• COMMUNISTS LAUNCH ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN.
• UKRAINIAN SOCIALISTS MOBILIZE FOR ELECTIONS.
• RUSSIAN-BRITISH MILITARY AGREEMENT.
• U.S. LAWMAKERS TARGET MOSCOW.
• YELTSIN SACKS BEREZOVSKY.
• WASHINGTON OFFERS GOOD OFFICES IN CASPIAN DELIMITATION DISPUTE.
• RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION MARKS TIME.
• LATVIA RELEASES RUBIKS.
• RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPERS WON'T PURSUE ACCUSED WAR CRIMINALS.
• RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS CRIME RATE IS FALLING.
• RUSSIA RATIFIES CHEMICAL WEAPONS BAN.

Volume 3 Issue 207

November 5, 1997

• POLICY DEBATE IN UZBEKISTAN.
• ELCHIBEY WARNS WEST HE WOULD RECONSIDER OIL CONTRACTS.
• U.S. BUYS MIG-29S FROM MOLDOVA.
• LATVIA ALSO DECLINES RUSSIAN OFFER OF SECURITY PACT.
• KOROTCHENYA SIDES WITH LUKASHENKA AGAINST RUSSIAN REFORMERS.
• PROTESTS OVER RUSSIA'S NEW PASSPORT SPILL OVER FROM TATARSTAN TO BASHKORTOSTAN.
• YELTSIN DELAYS FINAL DECISION ON BURIAL OF RUSSIA'S LAST TSAR.
• DISAGREEMENT SURFACES ON YELTSIN-HASHIMOTO ACCORD.
• UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT BLOCKS PRIVATIZATION.
• RUSSIAN AIR FORCE DENIES BOMBER DEAL.
• ONE YEAR AFTER HEART SURGERY, YELTSIN GETS CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH.
• U.S. NOW SAYS AUGUST "SEISMIC EVENT" NOT A NUCLEAR TEST.

Volume 3 Issue 206

November 4, 1997

• EFFORTS TO ADVANCE THE PEACE PROCESS IN TAJIKISTAN YIELD MIXED RESULTS.
• TER-PETROSIAN ISSUES ANGUISHED APPEAL FOR COMPROMISE PEACE ON KARABAKH.
• HAS ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN UKRAINE BEGUN -- WITHOUT IMF ASSISTANCE?
• KUCHMA WARNS AGAINST LEFTIST ELECTORAL VICTORY.
• ECOLOGIST SAYS "NUCLEAR SUITCASES" EXIST.
• FIRST STAGE OF ARMED FORCES REORGANIZATION COMPLETED.
• GROZNY CONTEMPLATES TURNING ITS SECTOR OF PIPELINE OVER TO INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM.
• TOP-LEVEL SUPPORT FOR LAND REFORM.
• ESTONIA REFUSES RUSSIAN-BALTIC SECURITY PACT.
• POWER WORKERS IN RUSSIAN FAR EAST ON INDEFINITE STRIKE.
• POLICE GUARD REMOVED FROM RUSSIA'S MAIN ARCHIVE.
• DISSENT IN RANKS OF RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS.
• CASPIAN OIL REACHES CHECHNYA.

Volume 3 Issue 205

November 3, 1997

• KAZAKHSTAN'S MOST POLITICIZED LABOR UNREST CONTINUES.
• ELCHIBEY RETURNS TO BAKU UNRECONSTRUCTED.
• RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN EXERCISE MARKS COMPLETION OF BLACK SEA FLEET'S DIVISION.
• CIS DATA SHOW KYRGYZSTAN, GEORGIA CONTINUE RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH.
• RUSSIAN DUMA RATIFIES CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION.
• YELTSIN-HASHIMOTO TALKS DECLARED A SUCCESS.
• HARD-LINERS PLEDGE TO REVIVE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY.
• YELTSIN SIGNS POWER-SHARING AGREEMENTS WITH FIVE MORE RUSSIAN REGIONS.
• CHERNOMYRDIN DENIES RUMORS OF CABINET SPLIT.
• CHERNOMYRDIN AUTHORIZES HEATING SUBSIDIES FOR TWO REGIONS.
• GROWTH PREDICTED FOR FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES.
• IMF DELAYS PAYMENT OF LOAN TO RUSSIA.

Volume 3 Issue 204

October 31, 1997

• ELCHIBEY RETURNS TO BAKU.
• MOSCOW STILL CONFUSED BY COLLAPSE OF CIS SUMMIT.
• YELTSIN "HOVERED" OVER UKRAINIAN-GEORGIAN SUMMIT.
• RUSSO-JAPANESE TRADE.
• MOSCOW CRITICIZES IRAQ.
• EGYPT, RUSSIA BEMOAN STALEMATED MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS.
• FRENCH PRIME MINISTER HOLDS TALKS IN MOSCOW.
• PAYMENT ARREARS STILL A MAJOR PROBLEM FOR RUSSIAN ECONOMY.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES 1998 BUDGET: FORWARD TO THE PAST.
• LITHUANIA DEFLECTS RUSSIAN SECURITY PROPOSALS.
• THE ENFORCERS.
• YELTSIN OFF FOR TALKS WITH HASHIMOTO.

Volume 3 Issue 203

October 30, 1997

• UKRAINE AND GEORGIA CLOSE RANKS.
• SELEZNEV IN CHISINAU PRESSES FOR MILITARY PACT.
• SHEVARDNADZE CONFRONTED YELTSIN WITH HARD QUESTIONS AT CIS SUMMIT.
• RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN NUCLEAR MISSILEMEN TO EXCHANGE VISITS.
• AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR IN RUSSIA.
• RUSSIAN STOCKS JUMP 30 PERCENT.
• UKRAINE CONVERTING MILITARY PLANES FOR CIVILIAN USE.
• CHUBAIS UPBEAT ON EU ENLARGEMENT.
• PRIMAKOV IN MIDDLE EAST.
• CHECHEN PARLIAMENT REFUSES TO GRANT PRESIDENT SPECIAL POWERS.
• YELTSIN URGES STATE DUMA TO RATIFY CHEMICAL PACT.
• DUMA TO EXAMINE REGIONAL LAND LAW.
• SUSPECT DETAINED IN ST. PETERSBURG ASSASSINATION.

Volume 3 Issue 202

October 29, 1997

• GEORGIA'S MEMBERSHIP IN CIS WILL DEPEND ON RUSSIAN POLICIES.
• UKRAINE FOR UNRESTRICTED TRADE IN CIS AND WITH RUSSIA.
• INDIA GETS A RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER (OF SORTS) AFTER ALL.
• RUSSIAN AIR FORCE TO GET NEW BLACKJACK STRATEGIC BOMBERS.
• PRIMAKOV CONTINUES VISIT TO MIDDLE EAST.
• RUSSIAN INVESTORS VULNERABLE TO GLOBAL TRENDS.
• TATARSTAN ACCUSED OF PLAYING "THE NATIONAL CARD."
• KULIKOV ACCUSES "WAHABI" FIELD COMMANDER OF KIDNAPPINGS.
• RUSSIA TIGHTENS CHECHNYA-DAGESTAN BORDER.
• MOSCOW HOSTS AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR.
• CRIMEANS IGNORE LEADERSHIP SPAT.
• YELTSIN CHINA VISIT LOOMS.

Volume 3 Issue 201

October 28, 1997

• PROBLEMS WITH THE COTTON HARVEST IN UZBEKISTAN?
• TOP ARMENIAN OFFICIALS CONTRADICT TER-PETROSIAN ON KARABAKH.
• KUCHMA, MARCHUK TO RUN FOR UKRAINE'S PRESIDENCY.
• CONGRESS OF UKRAINIANS IN RUSSIA CALLS FOR ORGANIZING THE DIASPORA.
• ANTI-TERRORISM DECREE MAY TARGET BELARUSAN POLITICAL OPPOSITION.
• EXPOSE ABOUT RUSSIAN PURCHASE OF ADVANCED U.S. COMPUTERS.
• OPENING OF NORTHERN OIL PIPELINE A MIXED BAG FOR RUSSIA.
• RUSSIA AND CHECHNYA TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT CONSIDERING BUDGET TODAY.
• ZHIRINOVSKY PROPOSES RUSSIAN-ROMANIAN MOVE AGAINST UKRAINE AND MOLDOVA.
• BELARUSAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE HEAD RELEASED.
• INVESTIGATORS EXAMINE ROKHLIN TAPE.

Volume 3 Issue 200

October 27, 1997

• FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN KAZAKHSTAN CONTINUES TO GROW.
• BAKU-NOVOROSSIISK PIPELINE OPENS AT LAST.
• HELSINKI COMMITTEE HEAD ARRESTED IN BELARUS.
• WILL THE CIS CREATE A "COMMON AGRICULTURAL MARKET?"
• ANOTHER SHOT AT CIS CUSTOMS UNION.
• PRIMAKOV IN MIDDLE EAST.
• MURKY PRIVATIZATION IN RUSSIA'S SECOND CITY.
• STROEV WINS LANDSLIDE IN OREL.
• FEDERAL AUTHORITIES TAKEN ABACK BY STRENGTH OF POPULAR FEELING ON PASSPORT ISSUE.
• LITHUANIA SUCCEEDS IN SIGNING BORDER AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA.
• TATARS CALL RUSSIA'S NEW PASSPORTS "CULTURAL GENOCIDE."
• RUSSIA-NATO COUNCIL MEETS.
• DATE SET FOR CZAR'S BURIAL.
• RUSSIA'S COMMUNISTS MARK 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF OCTOBER REVOLUTION.

Volume 3 Issue 199

October 24, 1997

• UKRAINE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST.
• SARATOV OBLAST MOVES TO INTRODUCE PRIVATE PROPERTY FOR LAND.
• RUSSIAN TAX CODE RECALL.
• ROKHLIN DENIES CALLING FOR COUP.
• MASKHADOV ASKS FOR SPECIAL POWERS.
• KYRGYZSTAN PREMATURELY HOPEFUL ON CUSTOMS UNION.
• MILITARY CHIEF NAMED.
• TURKMEN PRESIDENT WAS PROPHETIC.
• UZBEKISTAN'S BROAD VISTAS.
• AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA CLASH BUT ALSO TALK.
• GEORGIA'S RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AND CIS TURN ON ABKHAZIA
• UKRAINE UNUSUALLY SUBDUED.
• DOUBT CAST ON MAJOR DECISION OF THE CUSTOMS UNION.
• AGRICULTURAL COMMON MARKET PLANNED.
• RATIONING IN TATARSTAN.
• SUMMIT IN CHISINAU ADJOURNS INCONCLUSIVELY.
• ...AS ARMS EXPORTER SLAMS U.S.
• RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS PROTEST NOBEL AWARD...
• MOSCOW ABSTAINS FROM IRAQ VOTE.

Volume 3 Issue 198

October 23, 1997

• RUSSIAN-HOSTED TRANSDNIESTER NEGOTIATIONS FAIL IN RUNUP TO CIS SUMMIT.
• KUCHMA ATTACKS "POPULIST" PARLIAMENT.
• INDIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES PURCHASE OF RUSSIAN WARSHIPS.
• AND THEN THERE WERE THREE.
• CONCILIATION COMMISSION REWORKING TAX CODE.
• CIS MEETING TURNS DOWN RUSSIAN-PROPOSED PEACEMAKING AGENCY.
• PRESIDENTS OF CIS COUNTRIES AFFIRM INDEPENDENCE.
• THREE COUNTRIES WELCOME A RUSSIAN CONCESSION.
• ORGANIZATIONAL MEASURES.
• CUSTOMS UNION SUMMIT.
• RUSSIA-LIBYA LOOK TO STRENGTHEN TIES.
• RUSSIAN OFFICIALS WARN OF FISHING LOSSES.

Volume 3 Issue 197

October 22, 1997

• NATIONAL INTERESTS OVERSHADOW CUSTOMS UNION SUMMIT.
• U.S. LOWERS ESTIMATE OF NATO COSTS.
• CONCERN ABOUT AMERICAN LASER TEST.
• KREMLIN DISMISSES CHECHEN CLAIMS THAT COUNTRIES ARE READY TO RECOGNIZE CHECHEN INDEPENDENCE.
• YELTSIN WINS HANDS DOWN.
• NIGERIA AGAIN SAYS UKRAINE HELPING JUNTA IN SIERRA LEONE.
• MOSCOW DOWNPLAYS CHINA RELATIONS.
• U.S. STRATEGIC COMMAND CHIEF VISITING RUSSIA.
• NIKITIN WOULD REFUSE ASYLUM.
• ARS AND DE BEERS SIGN DIAMOND TRADE AGREEMENT.
• YELTSIN ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF ROUNDTABLE MEETINGS.

Volume 3 Issue 196

October 21, 1997

• RUSSIA ASKED WHY IT FAILS TO IMPLEMENT CIS DECISIONS.
• ESTONIAN COMMITMENT TO FREE TRADE WEAKENING?
• RUSSIAN-LITHUANIAN RELATIONS SEEN AS NORMALIZING.
• REPORT: CIA ERRED IN NUCLEAR TEST ALLEGATIONS.
• YELTSIN AGAIN BACKS LANDMINES CONVENTION.
• ROKHLIN EATS HIS WORDS.
• YELTSIN POURS OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS.
• AKMOLA NOT READY.
• SHEVARDNADZE: FOUR RUSSIAN WARSHIPS NOT ENOUGH.
• RUSSIA NAMES MILITARY REP TO NATO.
• HITCH ABOARD RUSSIAN SPACE STATION.
• JAPANESE-RUSSIAN DIALOGUE TO CONTINUE.
• SHAIMIEV SAYS TATARSTAN MAY ISSUE ITS OWN PASSPORTS.

Volume 3 Issue 195

October 20, 1997

• RUSSIAN CAR FIRM STRIKES DEAL.
• MOSCOW MAYOR ACCUSES ARMY OF KILLING JOURNALIST.
• MOSCOW OPPOSES IRAQI SANCTIONS.
• NO JAPANESE-RUSSIAN FISHING AGREEMENT.
• FRENCH JOURNAL: HALF MILLION KAZAKHS CONTAMINATED BY NUCLEAR TESTS.
• TWO CHALLENGE KUCHMA.
• TAJIKISTAN: OVERDUE RELEASE OF POLITICAL DETAINEES AND MILITARY PRISONERS BEGINS.
• COMMUNISTS DECIDE TO WAIT AND SEE.
• TULEEV WINS LANDSLIDE IN KEMEROVO.
• RUSSIAN OIL EXPORTS STILL HOSTAGE TO POLITICS.
• KREMLIN ADOPTING A NEW ANTI-AMERICAN LINE?
• FOREIGN MILITARY SALES LEAD TO FOLLOW-ON CONTRACTS.
• PROTEST IN MINSK AGAINST MUZZLING OF THE MEDIA.
• U. S. ENVOY TO NATO MAPS OUT COOPERATION WITH BAKU AND TBILISI.
• GEORGIA TO GET RUSSIAN WARSHIPS.
• KAZAKHSTAN'S GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLED.

Volume 3 Issue 194

October 17, 1997

• VOTING BEGINS IN KEMEROVO.
• KREMLIN KEEN TO APPEAR CONCILIATORY.
• DUMA LIKELY LOSER IN THIS WEEK'S INFIGHTING.
• INTERIOR MINISTER CALLS FOR NEW POWERS IN STRUGGLE AGAINST MAFIA.
• DIPLOMATIC VICTORY FOR VLADIKAVKAZ.
• ANOTHER BELARUSAN BANKER ARRESTED...
• ...AS LUKASHENKA MUZZLES REMAINING INDEPENDENT MEDIA.
• UKRAINE REDUCING RUSSIAN OIL IMPORTS IN FAVOR OF KAZAKHSTAN.
• UKRAINE CHANGES ELECTORAL LAW.
• DEADLY ATTACKS ON TAJIK ELITE TROOPS.

Volume 3 Issue 193

October 16, 1997

• YELTSIN PROPOSES CONSULTATION.
• RUSSIAN-BRITISH SECURITY TALKS.
• SINGAPORE BUYS RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSE MISSILE.
• NIGERIANS SAY UKRAINE DEFYING UN SANCTIONS ON SIERRA LEONE.
• RUSSIAN DUMA POSTPONES NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE.
• RUSSIA MOVING TO TACKLE POVERTY PROBLEM.
• MOSCOW CLEARS WAY FOR YELTSIN-HASHIMOTO TALKS.
• RUSSIA PROTESTS NORWAY'S DETENTION OF SEA CAPTAIN.
• CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT GIVES RUSSIAN LANGUAGE MONOPOLY STATUS.
• BIAS PERSISTS IN ABKHAZIA PEACEKEEPING OPERATION.
• IRAN MOVES INTO THE FOREGROUND AS TRANSIT COUNTRY FOR TURKMEN OIL AND GAS.

Volume 3 Issue 192

October 15, 1997

• RUSSIAN ABORTION RATE FALLS.
• ONE STOP: GAS AND NEWS.
• MOSCOW FAVORITE OF FOREIGN INVESTORS.
• CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST FORMER RUSSIAN GROUND FORCES HEAD.
• RUSSIAN NUCLEAR
• SHEVARDNADZE AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS ISRAELI PRIZE.
• CHERNOMYRDIN THREATENS TO RESIGN.
• LUZHKOV AND CHUBAIS AT LOGGERHEADS.
• GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR FOREIGN INVESTORS.
• UDUGOV CLAIMS MOSCOW HAS ALREADY RECOGNIZED CHECHEN INDEPENDENCE.
• SECOND THOUGHTS ON LANDMINE BAN.
• INTERIOR MINISTER SAYS REPORTS OF RUSSIAN CRIME ARE EXAGGERATED.
• LATVIA TO MAINTAIN EXISTING LAW ON CITIZENSHIP.
• AZERBAIJAN SKEPTICAL OF NOVOROSSIISK PIPELINE.

Volume 3 Issue 191

October 14, 1997

• CHECHEN PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN REPORTEDLY ABDUCTED.
• PAY UP OR ELSE.
• KREMLIN COMMENTS ON EUROPEAN-RUSSIAN SUMMITS.
• CUTS IN RUSSIAN PACIFIC FLEET.
• U.S. SIXTH FLEET COMMANDER VISITS UKRAINE.
• COMMISSION HOLDS FIRST MEETING ON RUSSIA'S 1998 BUDGET.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT TO DECIDE TODAY ON NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE.
• CHERNOMYRDIN SAYS JORDAN INCIDENT RESOLVED.
• CORRUPTION AND CONSPIRACY.
• GROZNY DECIDES AGAINST SENDING ITS REPRESENTATIVES TO THE DUMA.
• RUSSIAN-JAPANESE FISHING TALKS RESUME IN MOSCOW.
• RUSSIAN ARMY STRUGGLES WITH CONTRACT MILITARY SERVICE.
• GUKASIAN PREPARED TO SETTLE FOR DEAL WITH BAKU.
• KENTAU WORKERS STAGE HUNGER MARCH.

Volume 3 Issue 190

October 13, 1997

• RUSSIA WARNS TURKEY AGAINST INTERFERENCE.
• CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CALLS FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST MOSCOW.
• BELARUSAN OPPOSITION MOVES INTO WORKING-CLASS AREA.
• GEORGIA COMPLETES MILITARY EXERCISE.
• AZERBAIJANI ELECTORAL BLOCS TAKE SHAPE.
• RUSSIA'S 2000 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IS HEATING UP.
• YELTSIN SUBORDINATES PRISONS TO JUSTICE MINISTRY.
• IN STRASBOURG YELTSIN STEPS INTO A MINEFIELD...
• ...REPEATS CALL FOR "GREATER EUROPE."
• MASKHADOV SACKS ISLAMIC JUDGES.
• JAPANESE NAVAL ACTIONS RUFFLE MOSCOW.
• AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA CAUTIOUS ON YELTSIN'S INITIATIVE.

Volume 3 Issue 189

October 10, 1997

• UNHCR URGES MOSCOW TO PROTECT ASYLUM-SEEKERS.
• RUSSIAN OFFICIAL FAVORS HAND-OVER OF KURIL ISLANDS.
• MORE ON KREMLIN'S PARDONING OF CIA SPY.
• RUSSIAN LEFTISTS WELCOME KIM JONG IL'S ELEVATION.
• YELTSIN RULES OUT THIRD TERM.
• RUSSIAN DUMA REJECTS DRAFT BUDGET.
• COMMUNIST PARTY COURTS REGIONAL GOVERNORS.
• RUSSIAN-CHECHEN TALKS RESUME IN DAGOMYS.
• KULIKOV WARNS OF "CRIMINAL INVASION" OF DAGESTAN.
• BANKER GETS TEMPORARY VISA.
• MOSCOW DISMISSES REPORTS OF RUSSIAN-COLOMBIAN ARMS DEALINGS.
• ANOTHER CALL TO THE COLORS.
• INCIPIENT DETENTE BETWEEN MINSK AND MOSCOW.
• PROPERTY OF MAJOR UKRAINIAN CHURCH SEIZED BY RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES.
• A NATIONAL TREASURE RETURNS TO GEORGIA.
• ALIEV ISSUES ANTI-FLATTERY INSTRUCTIONS.
• BALGINBAEV APPOINTED PRIME MINISTER OF KAZAKHSTAN.

Volume 3 Issue 188

October 9, 1997

• SIBERIAN MAYOR ARRESTED.
• YELTSIN REPLACES REPRESENTATIVE TO CHECHNYA.
• YELTSIN PARDONS RUSSIAN SPY.
• RUSSIA'S "FIFTH GENERATION" FIGHTER IS FLYING.
• MOSCOW CALLS FOR BROADER PARTICIPATION IN MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS.
• UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT ENACTS INFLATIONARY PENSION LAW.
• DUMA TO DECIDE NEXT WEEK ON NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE.
• MASKHADOV SENDS LETTER TO YELTSIN.
• PUSHING THE START II TREATY.
• RUSSIAN-BULGARIAN RELATIONS: FROM BAD TO WORSE.
• ORT TV AFFAIR IN BELARUS: KREMLIN READY TO FORGET AND FORGIVE.
• LUKASHENKA BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS HIM.
• RAHMONOV CLAIMS RIGHT TO OVERRIDE NATIONAL RECONCILIATION COMMISSION DECISIONS.

Volume 3 Issue 187

October 8, 1997

• SHEREMET RELEASED PENDING TRIAL.
• INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER IN MOSCOW.
• RUSSIA NEAR TO NAMING NATO REP.
• PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN SAYS YELTSIN ENTITLED TO ANOTHER TERM.
• CHERNOMYRDIN PRESENTS 1998 BUDGET TO RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT.
• HIJACKERS ESCAPE TO CHECHNYA.
• FBI ARRESTS THREE ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES.
• BRAZAUSKAS BOWS OUT GRACEFULLY.
• KREMLIN TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH LUKASHENKA.
• LUKASHENKA ORDERS ANTI-BUSINESS MEASURES.

Volume 3 Issue 186

October 7, 1997

• BRAZAUSKAS DROPS OUT OF LITHUANIAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
• RED CROSS LAUNCHES EMERGENCY APPEAL.
• RUSSIAN POPULAR ATTITUDE TOWARDS OCTOBER 1993.
• MOSCOW DENIES GERMAN CORRUPTION ACCUSATIONS.
• NIAZOV RESUMES DUTIES.
• YELTSIN REACHES COMPROMISE WITH PARLIAMENT.
• CHUBAIS PREDICTS PASSAGE OF 1998 FEDERAL BUDGET.
• BRITISH PRIME MINISTER COMPLETES MOSCOW VISIT.
• RUSSIA SIGNS DEBT DEAL WITH LONDON CLUB.
• LUKASHENKA BIDS FOR RED SUPPORT AGAINST KREMLIN.
• KARABAKH SIGNALS NEW FLEXIBILITY ON ITS FUTURE POLITICAL STATUS.
• TAJIKISTAN: SIGNIFICANCE OF AN INDICTMENT.

Volume 3 Issue 185

October 6, 1997

• REPORT ACCUSES RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT OF COMPLICITY IN ORGANIZED CRIME.
• RUSSIANS WILLING TO RETURN DISPUTED ISLANDS TO JAPAN?
• PRESIDENT AND PARLIAMENT TRADE ACCUSATIONS AS MOSCOW REMEMBERS EVENTS OF OCTOBER 1993.
• YAVLINSKY ACCUSES YELTSIN OF INTIMIDATION.
• FORMER MAYOR OF ST. PETERSBURG UNDER INVESTIGATION.
• YELTSIN URGES EUROPEANS TO UNITE WITHOUT U.S.
• CANCELLATION OF LUKASHENKA'S VISIT ROCKS RUSSIA-BELARUS RELATIONS.
• LOCAL BORDER GUARD CHIEF WARNS OF POSSIBLE "PROVOCATIONS" ON RUSSIAN-AZERBAIJANI BORDER.
• GEORGIA ADOPTS MILITARY DOCTRINE.
• TAJIKISTAN STRUGGLES TO REBUILD ITS WAR-TORN ECONOMY.

Volume 3 Issue 184

October 3, 1997

• YELTSIN WARNS DUMA.
• RUSSIA'S NEW LAW ON RELIGION STARTS TO BITE.
• PRICES FALL IN RUSSIA.
• OIL PRIVATIZATION TO GO AHEAD.
• ANOTHER ROUND FIRED IN RUSSIAN BANK WAR.
• KREMLIN CALLS FOR NATO'S TRANSFORMATION.
• MOSCOW RESPONDS TO JAPANESE-U.S. AGREEMENT.
• RUSSIA SLAMS NATO ACTION IN BOSNIA.
• YELTSIN HINTS AT THIRD TERM.
• MOSCOW: IRAN TRIED TO PROCURE RUSSIAN MISSILE TECHNOLOGY.
• MORE POWER TO THE SOVIETS?
• SLOW PROGRESS IN THE RUSSIAN COUNTRYSIDE.
• RUSSIANS FLEX THEIR NUCLEAR MUSCLES.
• LUKASHENKA'S VISIT TO RUSSIA ABORTED BY THE KREMLIN.
• UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL FORMED.
• UKRAINE SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH NATO.

Volume 3 Issue 183

October 2, 1997

• RUSSIAN SPACE WALKS FROM SHUTTLE ATLANTIS.
• TOKYO CONSIDERS AID TO DISPUTED ISLANDS.
• MOSCOW DENIES ARMS SALE TO TAIWAN.
• LANDSBERGIS ACCUSED OF KGB LINKS IN RUNUP TO ELECTION.
• EXPULSION OF RUSSIAN OFFICIALS FROM CHECHNYA.
• MOSCOW UNLIKELY TO "FORGIVE AND FORGET;" ARSANOV CRITICIZED.
• CHUBAIS DEFENDS EX-PRIVATIZATION CHIEF.
• MOSCOW REJECTS U.S. CRITICISM OF IRANIAN GAS DEAL.
• SERGEEV MEETS WITH NATO COLLEAGUES.
• TAJIKISTAN ROUNDUP.

Volume 3 Issue 182

October 1, 1997

• DIPLOMATIC ROW ERUPTS BETWEEN MOSCOW AND GROZNY.
• CHECHEN REBEL LEADER WOUNDED.
• ST. PETERSBURG MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS INVALIDATED.
• CHUBAIS AGAIN UNDER ATTACK.
• MILITARY REFORM MONITORING AGENCY CREATED.
• NEW RUSSIAN GENERAL AT NATO MILITARY HEADQUARTERS.
• GEORGIA HOLDS MILITARY MANEUVERS.
• "POPULAR CAPITALISM" IN RUSSIA?
• RESIDENTS TAKE TO THE STREETS IN SUPPORT OF VLADIVOSTOK'S OUSTED MAYOR.
• "SAFER" ROUTE PROPOSED FOR OIL PIPELINE BY-PASSING CHECHNYA.
• MORE BUILD-UP TO HASHIMOTO-YELTSIN TALKS.
• KREMLIN DISAVOWS DUMA'S TERRITORIAL CLAIMS ON LITHUANIA.
• NEMTSOV ATTACKS LUKASHENKA FOR DISREGARDING UNION.
• TABACHNIK, FOLLOWING RAZUMKOV, RETURNS TO PRESIDENTIAL PALACE.
• RUSSIAN BORDER FORCES CHIEF HOLDS TALKS IN ALMATY.

Volume 3 Issue 181

September 30, 1997

• YELTSIN GIVES DETAILS OF NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT.
• HARE KRISHNA COMPLAIN OF POLICE HARASSMENT.
• RUSSIAN POPULATION CONTINUES TO SHRINK.
• SHUTTLE DOCKS WITH TROUBLED SPACE STATION.
• RUSSIAN-COLOMBIAN CRIME CONNECTION.
• UZBEKISTAN REPLACES DEFENSE MINISTER.
• OPPOSITION FORCES MEET IN MOSCOW.
• YELTSIN ADMONISHES DUMA.
• YELTSIN INSISTS ON RUSSIA'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY IN TALKS WITH CHECHNYA.
• NEMTSOV ADVOCATES ECONOMIC ISOLATION FOR CHECHNYA.
• NIKITIN AGAIN CHARGED WITH TREASON.
• IS RUSSIA GAINING CONTROL OVER CIS ELECTRICAL ENERGY?
• TRADE COLLAPSES BETWEEN BELARUS AND KAZAKHSTAN.
• DUMA QUESTIONS LITHUANIA'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER KLAIPEDA.
• LAZARENKO FORMS OPPOSITION PARTY, CHALLENGES KUCHMA.
• RUSSIAN POWER AGENCIES WEIGH IN ON RAHMONOV'S SIDE.

Volume 3 Issue 180

September 29, 1997

• MISSING GOLD.
• CHECHNYA WANTS TO PARTICIPATE IN OLYMPICS.
• DUMA CALLS ON YELTSIN TO SUSPEND REFORM OF RUSSIAN MILITARY.
• FRANCE NO LONGER AIMS NUCLEAR MISSILES AT RUSSIA.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR FRESH INVESTIGATION OF 1993 EVENTS.
• YAVLINSKY SAYS YELTSIN LIKELY TO SEEK THIRD TERM
• U.S. AND RUSSIA SIGN ARMS CONTROL DOCUMENTS...
• ...AS NATO AND RUSSIA LAUNCH NEW JOINT COUNCIL.
• INGUSH PRESIDENT COMPLAINS OF DOUBLE STANDARDS.
• UDUGOV PROPOSES TALKS AT PRESIDENTIAL LEVEL TO RESOLVE IMPASSE IN RUSSIAN-CHECHEN TREATY.
• YELTSIN SACKS ENVOY.
• KAZAKHSTAN TO INTRODUCE NATURAL MONOPOLY REGULATION.

Volume 3 Issue 179

September 26, 1997

• CHIRAC WELCOMED IN RUSSIAN CAPITAL.
• RUSSIAN PEOPLE'S VIEWS ON CHECHNYA.
• ASTRONAUT CLEARED FOR SERVICE ON RUSSIAN SPACE STATION.
• SLUMP IN SINO-RUSSIAN TRADE.
• DUMA OVERRIDES PRESIDENTIAL VETO ON LAND CODE.
• RUSSIA OFFERS CHECHNYA "SPECIAL STATUS" WITHIN FEDERATION.
• PROPOSED PIPELINE BYPASSING CHECHNYA POSES ITS OWN SECURITY RISKS.
• "THE GENERAL DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCHE."
• MOSCOW CAUTIOUS ON NEW JAPANESE-U.S. DEFENSE GUIDELINES.
• ORT TV TEAM'S PRETRIAL INVESTIGATION IS EXTENDED PAST DEADLINE.
• HIGH-LEVEL AZERBAIJANI DELEGATION PAYS UNUSUAL VISIT TO MOSCOW.
• TAJIKISTAN ROUNDUP.

Volume 3 Issue 178

September 25, 1997

• RUSSIAN ENVIRONMENTALIST TO BE CHARGED AGAIN.
• RUSSIA WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE SPACE STATION.
• JAPAN, RUSSIA ANTICIPATE IMPROVED TIES.
• DEADLOCK IN MOLDOVA.
• CONTROVERSIAL RELIGIOUS BILL APPROVED IN RUSSIA.
• YELTSIN BLAMES ISRAEL FOR MIDDLE EAST CRISIS.
• DEFENSE WORKERS CONTINUE PROTEST AFTER MEETING WITH NEMTSOV.
• POVERTY IN RUSSIA SHOWS SLIGHT DECLINE.
• UKRAINE CHANGES LAW ON PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.
• UZBEKISTAN WARY OF RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AND THE CIS.
• KAZAKHSTAN, CHINA SIGN MULTIBILLION DOLLAR OIL DEAL.

Volume 3 Issue 177

September 24, 1997

• TIGHTER LIMITS ON DOLLAR TRANSACTIONS IN RUSSIA.
• NOISY AND NASTY.
• NEMTSOV MEETS WITH PICKETING DEFENSE WORKERS.
• EUROPEAN UNION DEPLORES PUBLIC EXECUTIONS IN CHECHNYA.
• GORE-CHERNOMYRDIN: MIXED RESULTS ON ECONOMIC FRONT...
• ...AGREEMENT TO CONVERT RUSSIA'S PLUTONIUM-PRODUCING REACTORS.
• CONCERNS OVER TRENDS IN RUSSIA'S FOREIGN TRADE.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT MOVES TO TIGHTEN CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL MARKETS.
• YELTSIN CALLS FOR STRONGER STATE ROLE IN THE ECONOMY.
• EARLY RELEASE OF ORT TV TEAM UNDER CONSIDERATION IN MINSK.
• AZERBAIJANI OIL UPDATE.
• GEORGIA CREATES INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, DIMINISHES SECURITY MINISTRY'S ROLE.
• KAZAKHSTAN'S PRIME MINISTER DEPARTS UNDER A CLOUD.

Volume 3 Issue 176

September 23, 1997

• PRIMAKOV TO VISIT MIDDLE EAST.
• AIDS IN THE RUSSIAN MILITARY.
• LUCINSCHI ON "LONG MARCH TO EUROPE."
• GEORGIA SEEKS JOINT MILITARY EXERCISES WITH WEST.
• AZERBAIJAN SENTENCES SPY FOR IRAN.
• YELTSIN CASTIGATES SECURITY OFFICERS.
• U.S.-RUSSIAN TALKS: MIXED RESULTS IN MOSCOW...
• ...AND IN NEW YORK.
• DEFENSE WORKERS TAKE TO RUSSIA'S STREETS.
• LANDSBERGIS DISSATISFIED WITH PERFORMANCE OF SECURITY AGENCIES.
• HAS A CEASE-FIRE BEEN DECLARED IN THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN "SUGAR WAR?"
• RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH CRUSADES IN UKRAINE.

Volume 3 Issue 175

September 22, 1997

• YAVLINSKY TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT.
• DUMA ADOPTS REVISED DRAFT OF RELIGION BILL.
• GORE IN MOSCOW...
• ...RUSSIA PROPOSES JOINT OVERSIGHT OF IRANIAN POWER PLANT.
• RESTORATION OF CHECHEN PIPELINE TO BEGIN THIS WEEK.
• MISSIONARIES DISAPPEAR IN NORTH CAUCASUS.
• CHINA REJECTS CHECHNYA'S OVERTURES.
• CHUBAIS COMPLAINS ABOUT RUSSIA'S EXCLUSION.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT REACTS TO EXECUTIONS IN GROZNY...
• ...WHILE IGNORING THOSE IN DAGESTAN.
• PRO-MILITARY ORGANIZATION HOLDS FOUNDING CONGRESS.
• MORE ON POSSIBLE MISSING NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
• AN UNEXPECTED TURN IN RUSSIAN-JAPANESE RELATIONS?
• SYRIAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNITS IN RUSSIAN MANEUVERS.
• BELARUS SINKS DEEPER INTO ISOLATION.
• GEORGIA REFORMING STATE SECURITY MINISTRY.
• U.S.-LED MILITARY EXERCISE ENDS SUCCESSFULLY IN UZBEKISTAN.

Volume 3 Issue 174

September 19, 1997

• CHECHNYA CONDUCTS TWO MORE PUBLIC EXECUTIONS.
• MOSCOW OPENS ITS FIRST HOSPICE.
• YELTSIN AND LEBED ADDRESS RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES.
• SAMARA'S NEW MAYOR LOWERS RENTS.
• ORT JOURNALISTS TO GO ON TRIAL IN BELARUS.
• "HISTORIC" EXERCISE COMPLETED IN UKRAINE.
• BRAWL IN THE ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT.
• AZERBAIJAN REJECTS RUSSIAN ALLIANCE.
• TAJIKISTAN ROUNDUP.
• KAZAKHSTAN OPPOSES RUSSIAN ENCROACHMENT ON ITS CASPIAN SECTOR.

Volume 3 Issue 173

September 18, 1997

• RUSSIA TO STOP TAKING LOANS FROM IMF.
• DUMA FAILS TO ELECT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER.
• RUSSIAN PUBLIC TV CHIEF RESIGNS.
• DIRECTOR OF A MOSCOW MARKET MURDERED.
• GOVERNOR OF ST. PETERSBURG SUES FORMER MAYOR.
• SECURITY THREATS TO RUSSIA ARE OUTLINED.
• RUSSIAN ARMS SALES ANALYZED.
• RUSSIA JOINS PARIS CLUB.
• STATUS OF CHECHNYA CANDIDLY ADDRESSED.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES OIL ROUTE BYPASSING CHECHNYA.
• DUMA LEADERS REMAIN RELUCTANT TO RATIFY START II.
• SIGNS OF DISARRAY IN ESTONIA'S MILITARY.
• UDOVENKO ELECTED UNGA PRESIDENT; UKRAINE SEEKS PERMANENT SEAT ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL.
• PRIMAKOV CHIDES KARABAKH.
• TALIBAN ADVANCE TO UZBEK BORDER.

Volume 3 Issue 172

September 17, 1997

• YELTSIN DISMISSES TWO AIDES.
• YELTSIN'S WIFE GETS TV POST.
• ESTONIA SHATTERED BY SOLDIERS' DEATH.
• UKRAINE HOSTS ANOTHER NATO EXERCISE.
• GEORGIA TO RECEIVE TURKISH CUTTERS.
• NIAZOV SLOW TO RECOVER.
• RUMORS CONTINUE OVER ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL CHUBAIS.
• KREMLIN SAYS PRIMAKOV TO STAY.
• LITHUANIA, POLAND DEVELOPING UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP.
• MOSCOW STUNG BY LUKASHENKA'S OBDURACY IN ORT CASE.
• VIOLENCE IN WESTERN GEORGIA.
• HISTORIC U.S.-LED MILITARY EXERCISE BEGINS.
• NURI, OPPOSITION LEADERS ARRIVE IN DUSHANBE.

Volume 3 Issue 171

September 16, 1997

• YELTSIN BACKS START-2 RATIFICATION.
• U.S. AID TO RUSSIA WILL END BY 2001.
• HUMAN RIGHTS HOT LINE OPENS IN MOSCOW.
• PRIMAKOV LOOKS TO MIDDLE EAST...
• ...DENIES ASSISTING IRAN.
• RUSSIAN TANK PROBLEMS.
• YELTSIN READS BANKERS THE RIOT ACT.
• RUSSIA'S OIL WOES.
• PARTICIPANTS IN BUDENNOVSK RAID HONORED.
• JAPAN OPTIMISTIC ABOUT RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.
• SOVIET SECRECY MAY HAVE CAUSED ESTONIAN DEATHS.

Volume 3 Issue 170

September 15, 1997

• "RUSSIA'S SINATRA" EMBARKS ON POLITICAL CAREER.
• RUSSIA SELLS MORE AIR DEFENSE MISSILES TO FINLAND.
• NEZAVISIMAYA ASSAILS CHUBAIS.
• ROKHLIN SETS UP NEW DUMA GROUP.
• DAGOMYS TALKS PRODUCE MEAGER RESULTS.
• RUSSIA, NATO SPAR OVER BOSNIA POLICY.
• U.S. AIR FORCE STUDY SAID TO SUPPORT RUSSIAN VIEW ON "SEISMIC EVENT."
• UKRAINE DRAWS CLOSER TO CEFTA.
• KAZAKHSTAN PREPARING $500 MILLION IN NEW EUROBOND ISSUES.

Volume 3 Issue 169

September 12, 1997

• YELTSIN APPEALS TO RUSSIA'S DRINKERS.
• WATER A HEALTH HAZARD IN ST. PETERSBURG.
• CHUBAIS ALLY TO BE INVESTIGATED FOR "ROYALTY PAYMENT."
• MASKHADOV ANNOUNCES PLANS TO BUILD NEW CAPITAL.
• RENEWED TENSION BETWEEN MOSCOW AND GROZNY.
• POSTPONEMENT OF PUBLIC EXECUTIONS MAY BE SIGN OF DISAGREEMENT WITHIN CHECHEN LEADERSHIP.
• RUSSIA EXPECTS FURTHER DECLINE IN TRADE CREDITS IN 1998.
• YELTSIN APPOINTS ANOTHER CIVILIAN TO RUSSIA'S DEFENSE MINISTRY.
• MOSCOW DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN IRANIAN MISSILE PROJECT; BUT NEW EVIDENCE OF PROLIFERATION PRESENTED.
• UKRAINE INTRODUCES EXCHANGE-RATE CORRIDOR.
• REFORMERS LEAVE ARMENIA'S RULING PARTY.

Volume 3 Issue 168

September 11, 1997

• YELTSIN DENIES RUMORS OF PERSONNEL CHANGES.
• DUMA OFFICIAL ELECTED.
• SECURITY DIRECTOR KIDNAPPED IN INGUSHETIA.
• NO PUNISHMENT FOR COSMONAUTS.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF MAY MEET WITH NATO MINISTERS.
• FLOATING NUKE PLANT FOR RUSSIAN ARCTIC.
• KAZAKHSTAN TO BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.
• PROSECUTOR GENERAL TO INVESTIGATE NEMTSOV PHONE TAPPING.
• DUMA TO DEBATE AMNESTY FOR SICK AND ELDERLY PRISONERS...
• ...AND FOR CAPITAL FLIGHT.
• OFFICIALS DENY AID TO IRANIAN NUCLEAR MISSILE PROGRAM, LOST NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
• EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT MOSCOW.
• MOSCOW CONTINUES TO EQUIVOCATE IN SHEREMET SCANDAL.

Volume 3 Issue 167

September 10, 1997

• CHECHNYA POSTPONES PLANNED EXECUTIONS.
• WORLD BANK SEES RUSSIA AS ECONOMIC GIANT BY 2020.
• FRENCH-RUSSIAN TALKS.
• PRIMAKOV RESTATES MOSCOW'S STAND ON NATO.
• ESTONIAN-RUSSIAN BORDER TREATY ON ICE.
• NATO EXERCISE UNDERWAY IN LITHUANIA.
• BOMBS EXPLODE IN DUSHANBE.
• RUSSIA AND CHECHNYA REACH OIL TRANSIT AGREEMENT.
• LEADER OF DAGESTAN'S CHECHENS WARNS OF ETHNIC WAR.
• "RUSSIA IS OUR HOME" EXPELS REBELLIOUS GENERAL.
• MOSCOW CRITICIZES PAKISTAN FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATEMENT.
• AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES IN CIS DEPENDENT ON RUSSIA.
• CHUBAIS HEADS RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST UKRAINIAN SUGAR IMPORTS.
• MORE TROUBLE WITH RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS IN GEORGIA.

Volume 3 Issue 166

September 9, 1997

• NEMTSOV TO CHAIR KEY COMMISSION.
• STILL NO AGREEMENT ON CASPIAN OIL TRANSIT.
• YELTSIN, HASHIMOTO MEETING SET.
• ISRAEL CHARGES ALLEGED RUSSIAN MAFIA BOSS.
• YELTSIN DEFERS TO LUKASHENKA AND RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION.
• NATO MANEUVERS UNDERWAY IN LATVIA.
• CHECHNYA THREATENS ADDITIONAL EXECUTIONS.
• LEBED REVEALS MORE ABOUT "MISSING" NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT WORKING ON DEBT TO DEFENSE SECTOR.
• KREMLIN CONDEMNS MIDDLE EAST BOMBING.
• EU, UKRAINE HOLD FIRST-EVER SUMMIT.
• RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN TENSIONS DEEPEN OVER ALCOHOL CONVOY.
• TAJIK GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO ISOLATE OPPOSITION DELEGATION FROM THE PUBLIC.

Volume 3 Issue 165

September 8, 1997

• MANY CIS PRESIDENTS SKIP MOSCOW CELEBRATIONS.
• NIAZOV OUT OF INTENSIVE CARE.
• RUSSIA AND CHECHNYA TRY AGAIN TO REACH COMPROMISE ON OIL TRANSIT.
• CHECHNYA CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE, REJECTS RUSSIAN CRITICISM.
• LEBED STOKES FEAR OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS THEFT.
• NEW HEAD OF RUSSIAN ANTIMONOPOLY COMMITTEE APPOINTED.
• BORDER TROOPS COMMANDERS STALL RUSSIAN PLAN.
• MULTILATERAL SUMMIT IN VILNIUS.
• UKRAINIAN PREMIER CLEANING UP DNIPROPETROVSK?
• KUCHMA UNFAZED BY IMPEACHMENT MOVE.

Volume 3 Issue 164

September 5, 1997

• MOSCOW BEGINS THREE-DAY GALA
• KGB GENERAL SEEKS U.S. GREEN CARD
• RUSSIAN, JAPANESE REGIONS SIGN AGREEMENT.
• UPROAR IN RUSSIA OVER PUBLIC EXECUTIONS.
• MOSCOW FLIP-FLOPS ON OIL TRANSIT RATES.
• OSSETIAN-INGUSH AGREEMENT.
• YELTSIN DEFENDS SECURITY CHIEF.
• MILITARY JETS AND HELICOPTERS FOR INDONESIA.
• TURKISH CONTROL OF STRAITS IRKS RUSSIANS.
• KYRGYZSTAN, GEORGIA CONTINUE TO BOAST FASTEST GROWING CIS ECONOMIES.
• THE IMF DOESN'T BUY MINSK'S ECONOMIC NUMBERS.

Volume 3 Issue 163

September 4, 1997

• RUSSIA AND CHECHNYA SAID TO AGREE ON OIL TARIFF.
• SHOKHIN TO LEAD "RUSSIA IS OUR HOME."
• RUSSIAN DUMA BANS JOURNALISTS.
• GENERAL FORECASTS CUTS IN RUSSIAN DEFENSE INDUSTRY.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT RECONVENES.
• PUBLIC EXECUTIONS IN DJOHAR-GALA.
• HERZOG WINDS UP VISIT TO MOSCOW.
• ALTERNATIVE MILITARY SERVICE MOOTED IN ST. PETERSBURG.
• IS THE EU SUPPORTING RUSSIA'S WTO BID? IS UKRAINE NEXT?
• SOROS FOUNDATION IS FORCED TO LEAVE BELARUS.
• ALIEV SETS FOCUS ON PARTNERSHIP WITH THE U.S.
• NAZARBAEV LAYS BASIS FOR RELATIONS WITH PERSIAN GULF STATES.

Volume 3 Issue 162

September 3, 1997

• RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER URGES RATIFICATION OF START II.
• SODIROV REDIVIVUS IN TAJIKISTAN.
• NIAZOV UNDERGOES HEART SURGERY.
• MASSIVE DEFEAT FOR COMMUNISTS IN FORMER "RED BELT" REGION.
• RUSSIAN NUCLEAR TEST ON NOVAYA ZEMLYA: SMOKE OR FIRE?
• GERMAN PRESIDENT HOLDS TALKS IN RUSSIA.
• RUSSIA'S EXTERNAL ECONOMIC POSITION CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN.
• ESTONIA'S LATEST DEMOGRAPHIC DATA: A MIXED PICTURE.
• LUKASHENKA BIDS FOR RUSSIAN COMMUNIST SUPPORT.
• KARABAKH ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT.

Volume 3 Issue 161

September 2, 1997

• YELTSIN SAYS HE WON'T RUN IN 2000.
• CHERNOMYRDIN: ECONOMIC RECOVERY LOOMS IN RUSSIA.
• BIG RESULTS FROM RUSSIAN SPY "HOTLINE?"
• MOSCOW DENIES NUCLEAR TEST.
• TEHRAN, MOSCOW REITERATE FRIENDLY RELATIONS.
• RUSSIAN SOLDIERS GET THEIR BACK PAY.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT RECONVENES AS GOVERNMENT SPLIT WIDENS.
• REVISED VERSION OF RELIGION BILL SAID TO BE EVEN TOUGHER THAN THE FIRST.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT UNVEILS 1998 PRIVATIZATION PROGRAM.
• ETHNIC CHECHENS CLASH WITH POLICE IN KHASAVYURT.
• STILL NO AGREEMENT ON RUSSIAN-CHECHEN OIL TRANSIT...
• ... AS RUSSIA THREATENS TO BYPASS CHECHNYA.
• BORDER TROOPS CHIEF OUTLINES REFORM PLANS.
• MORE GOOD FINANCIAL NEWS FOR UKRAINE.
• ARMENIA SIGNS MILITARY ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA.

Volume 3 Issue 160

August 29, 1997

• RUSSIA CHURCH LEADER REJECTS "NORTH AMERICAN" VALUES.
• DID RUSSIA CONDUCT A NUCLEAR TEST?
• PERSONNEL CHANGES IN RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.
• PRIMAKOV TO CHAIR RUSSIAN NATO COMMISSION.
• MOSCOW, BEIJING SIGN ARMS DEAL.
• TURKEY SEARCHES SHIP FOR RUSSIAN MISSILE PARTS.
• CHUBAIS DENIES RUMORS OF RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT REFORM.
• BATURIN OUT; KOKOSHIN TO HEAD PRESIDENTIAL MILITARY INSPECTORATE.
• A TOUGH REFORM BUDGET FOR RUSSIA IN 1998?
• DOUBTS CAST ON RUSSIA'S DRAFT 1998 BUDGET.
• CHECHNYA TO BUILD OIL PIPELINE TO GEORGIAN COAST?
• YELTSIN URGES AMNESTY TO EASE PRISON OVERCROWDING.
• YELTSIN PROCLAIMS SUCCESS THOUGH PRIMAKOV FAILS TO FREE RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS JAILED IN BELARUS.
• SRI LANKAN AIR FORCE OFFICIAL SACKED OVER UKRAINIAN HELICOPTER DEAL.

Volume 3 Issue 159

August 28, 1997

• RUSSIAN PUBLISHER SHOT DEAD.
• ZHIRINOVSKY CAMPAIGNS AGAINST WESTERN FOOD IMPORTS.
• MOSCOW TO REDOUBLE EFFORTS AGAINST JAPANESE FISHERMEN...
• ...BUT SEEKS RELEASE OF RUSSIAN BOAT.
• ARMS DEALINGS TOP THE AGENDA IN RUSSIAN-CHINESE TALKS.
• COSSACKS IN KRASNODAR KRAI GIVEN FREE REIN.
• RUSSIA MAKES PITCH TO SELL ARMS IN EUROPE.
• RUSSIA, KAZAKSTAN, KYRGYZSTAN IN BIG URANIUM DEALS.
• UDOVENKO PUTS POSITIVE SPIN ON MOSCOW MEETING.
• INTER-TAJIK POLITICAL AGREEMENT NOT YET TAKING EFFECT.
• RUSSIAN-KAZAKHSTANI TREATY ON "SLEEPING CITIZENSHIP" ENTERS INTO EFFECT.

Volume 3 Issue 158

August 27, 1997

• RUSSIAN POLICEMEN AMBUSHED ON CHECHEN BORDER.
• YELTSIN AIDE TO REMAIN EARTH-BOUND?
• INDONESIA, RUSSIA TO NEGOTIATE AIRCRAFT DEAL.
• MOSCOW CRITICIZES TRANSDNIESTER SECESSION.
• GEORGIA DENIES CHANGE OF HEART ON BLACK SEA FLEET.
• KAZAKHSTAN CANCELS GOLD MINING CONTRACT WITH CANADIAN FIRM.
• TAJIK FORUM POSTPONED "INDEFINITELY."
• NEW PRIME MINISTER IN DAGESTAN.
• MOSCOW DENIES PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO TEHRAN.
• RUSSO-JAPANESE RELATIONS: PROBLEMS AND PROGRESS.
• TWO RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS STILL JAILED IN BELARUS.
• UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN MINISTERS TALK OF USING EX-SOVIET BOMBERS.
• UKRAINE SCORES BIG ON INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKETS.
• UZBEKISTAN PROPOSES INTERNATIONAL FORUM TO SETTLE AFGHAN CONFLICT.

Volume 3 Issue 157

August 26, 1997

• YELTSIN AIDE PLANS SPACE TRIP.
• LUKASHENKA, PRIMAKOV TO DISCUSS RELEASE OF TWO RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS.
• WORLD UKRAINIAN FORUM.
• CHECHNYA AND AZERBAIJAN ACCUSE RUSSIA OF DELAYING REPAIR OF CHECHEN OIL PIPELINE.
• CHECHNYA INVESTIGATES RANSOM CHARGES.
• ISRAEL AND RUSSIA COULD CLASH OVER CRIME BOSS, ASSISTANCE TO IRAN.
• YELTSIN HINTS AT CORRUPTION IN ARMS TRADE.
• PROBLEMS WITH RUSSIAN CIVIL AVIATION.
• NATO-SPONSORED NAVAL EXERCISE UNDERWAY IN UKRAINE.
• RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN TRADE DOWN 18 PERCENT.
• KAZAKHSTAN FORESEES OIL EXPORT ROUTE VIA IRAN.

Volume 3 Issue 156

August 25, 1997

• TAX COLLECTION IN RUSSIA: DANGEROUS WORK.
• ISRAELI MINISTER IN RUSSIA.
• GEORGIA DROPS BID FOR PART OF BLACK SEA FLEET.
• RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC STAGNATION CONTINUES.
• PROGRESS IN ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY TALKS.
• RUSSIAN, FINNISH PRIME MINISTERS HOLD TALKS IN KARELIA.
• TATARS TO TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT THEIR LANGUAGE.
• ROW WITH BELARUS REGRETTABLE BUT UNION TAKES PRECEDENCE, CHERNOMYRDIN SAYS.
• UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT REVAMPED.
• RUSSIAN PARATROOPERS RELEASED IN GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ DEAL.
• GEORGIAN GOVERNMENT "THOROUGHLY STUDIES" THE SMUGGLERS' CONVOY STOPPED AT RUSSIAN BORDER.
• TAJIKISTAN UPDATE.

Volume 3 Issue 155

August 22, 1997

• YELTSIN SAYS SPACE EXPLORATION REMAINS NATIONAL PRIORITY.
• CORRUPT AZERBAIJANI OFFICIALS ARRESTED.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES 1998 BUDGET.
• MASKHADOV PRESSES FOR SPEEDY SIGNING OF CHECHEN-RUSSIAN TREATY.
• RUSSIAN, CHECHEN GOVERNMENTS INVESTIGATE RANSOM REPORTS.
• SHAKEUP OF THE ARMS TRADERS.
• U.S. DIPLOMAT WITHDRAWN FROM MOSCOW FOLLOWING AUTO ACCIDENT.
• RUSSIA-BELARUS CRISIS: DID YASTRZHEMBSKY ULTIMATUM BACKFIRE?
• GEORGIA IS URGED TO RESCUE RUSSIAN PARATROOP HOSTAGES.
• TAJIKISTAN UPDATE.

Volume 3 Issue 154

August 21, 1997

• MINSK TO RELEASE THREE RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS.
• RUSSIAN COMPANIES SIGN OIL CONTRACTS WITH IRAQ.
• MOSCOW CRITICIZES TURKISH CYPRIOTS.
• MORE GRIM STATISTICS FROM THE RUSSIAN ARMY.
• RUSSIAN MISSILES NO LONGER AIMED AT NATO TARGETS.
• YELTSIN ENTERS HOSTAGE ROW.
• BEREZOVSKY HITS BACK.
• SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSES NORTH CAUCASUS.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY GETS MONEY FOR BACK WAGES.
• MOSCOW, LUKASHENKA AVOID ROW OVER JAILING OF RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS.
• GEORGIAN PREMIER RETURNS EMPTY-HANDED FROM ABKHAZIA.
• AZERBAIJAN, U.S. GROUP SIGN MAJOR METAL-MINING CONTRACT.

Volume 3 Issue 153

August 20, 1997

• YELTSIN CHAIRS SECURITY COUNCIL SESSION, MARKS COUP ANNIVERSARY.
• BORIS VERSUS BORIS.
• NUCLEAR PROCESSING FACILITY FACES OPPOSITION.
• NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER HAD KGB CONTACTS.
• MOSCOW WINS CONTRACT TO SUPPLY INDONESIAN AIR FORCE.
• RUSSIAN MEDIA TYCOON ACCUSES CHECHEN GOVERNMENT OF COMPLICITY IN KIDNAPPINGS.
• ALLEGATIONS THREATEN CHECHEN PEACE DEAL.
• RUSSIA'S LATEST MONETARY REFORM STARTS SMOOTHLY.
• U.S. CONGRESS TO REOPEN MERCHANT SHIP LASER INCIDENT.
• LUKASHENKA STEPS UP OPERATION AGAINST RUSSIA'S STATE TV.
• TAJIK GOVERNMENT DECLARES VICTORY OVER MUTINEERS.

Volume 3 Issue 152

August 19, 1997

• RUSSIAN, BRITISH POLICE SEIZE HEROIN IN SIBERIA.
• GEORGIAN GUERRILLAS ACTIVE IN ABKHAZ SECURITY ZONE.
• NTV REPORTERS FREED AFTER 100-DAY ORDEAL.
• YELTSIN AND MASKHADOV PAPER OVER THE CRACKS.
• WOULD A TATARSTAN-TYPE TREATY SUIT CHECHNYA?
• SOME NEW WARPLANES TO MISS MOSCOW AIR SHOW.
• MOSCOW QUIET ON ARREST OF ITS JOURNALISTS IN BELARUS.
• BALLOONING TRADE DEFICIT CAUSES BELARUS'S TO CONSIDER IMPORT DEPOSITS.
• BELARUSAN AIR DEFENSE UNITS EXERCISING IN RUSSIA.
• U.S. SENATOR DESCRIBES GEORGIA AS LEADER IN CIS ECONOMIC REFORM.
• TAJIK ARMY REBELS SAID TO LOSE GROUND.

Volume 3 Issue 151

August 18, 1997

• ST. PETERSBURG PRIVATIZATION CHIEF ASSASSINATED.
• FORMER CHECHEN PRESIDENT FOUNDS PARTY.
• U.S. OUTSTRIPS RUSSIA IN ARMS SALES.
• FACTIONAL FIGHTING RAGES IN TAJIKISTAN.
• RUSSIAN, CHECHEN PRESIDENTS MEET TODAY.
• A HICCUP IN RUSSIA'S MILITARY REFORM?
• POLITICAL CONFLICT DEEPENS OVER KREMLIN'S DEFENSE POLICIES.
• MOSCOW'S BEGGARS ARE ALSO VICTIMS OF THE MAFIA.
• UKRAINIAN STEEL EXPORTS IMPERILED BY U.S. ANTI-DUMPING INVESTIGATION.
• BELARUS DETAINS ANOTHER RUSSIAN TV TEAM.
• GEORGIAN, ABKHAZ LEADERS HOLD LANDMARK MEETING.

Volume 3 Issue 150

August 1, 1997

• UNENVIABLE PROGRESS.
• RUSSIAN MINISTER IN THAILAND.
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ASSAILS JAPANESE MEDIA...
• ...WARNS AGAINST PURSUIT OF BOSNIAN WAR CRIMINALS.
• NEW COMMANDER OF RUSSIAN NORTH CAUCASUS DISTRICT.
• TANKED IN THE URALS.
• YELTSIN AND MASKHADOV PREPARE TO MEET.
• RUSSIAN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE CLAIMS SUCCESSES.
• LUKASHENKA CONFRONTS YELTSIN OVER ARRESTED JOURNALISTS.
• EXPERT BLASTS BELARUS'S "ECONOMIC MIRACLE".
• DIVISION OF BLACK SEA FLEET DELAYED.

Volume 3 Issue 149

July 31, 1997

• BIZARRE MOSCOW SPY TRIAL COMES TO INCONCLUSIVE CLOSE.
• NO COMMENT FROM RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE ON JAPANESE ALLEGATIONS.
• INGUSH REFUGEE CAMP ATTACKED.
• YELTSIN TO OFFER CHECHNYA A TATARSTAN-STYLE TREATY.
• YELTSIN APPEALS TO THE ARMED FORCES FOR SUPPORT.
• YELTSIN STEPS UP FOR SHEREMET.
• EUROPEAN UNION-MEDIATED TALKS IN BELARUS SUSPENDED.
• GUNFIRE STOPS "ALCOHOL CONVOY" AT RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER.

Volume 3 Issue 148

July 30, 1997

• WORKERS REFUSE TO EAT THEIR GREENS.
• LENINISTS MOBILIZE ON THE VOLGA.
• TOKYO AUTHORITIES SEEK ALLEGED RUSSIAN SPY.
• MASKHADOV HALTS NEGOTIATIONS WITH MOSCOW.
• MOSCOW REBUFFS CHECHNYA'S ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS.
• ROW CONTINUES OVER RUSSIAN TELECOMS AUCTION.
• RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE MINISTERS APPLAUD IMPROVED RELATIONS.
• ARMS DEALS OLD AND NEW.
• NEXT CIS SUMMIT TO BE HELD IN MOLDOVA.
• BELARUSAN PRIME MINISTER DENIES RESIGNATION RUMORS...
• ...WHILE PRESIDENT FEELS OPPOSITION'S PRESSURE.
• INTEGRATION COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN DISMISSED FROM KAZAKHSTANI GOVERNMENT POST.

Volume 3 Issue 147

July 29, 1997

• DESERTION A GROWING PROBLEM IN RUSSIAN ARMY.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY TO CRACK DOWN ON FINANCIAL OFFENDERS.
• JAPAN TO HELP DEVELOP RUSSIA GAS FIELD?
• PARLIAMENTARIAN WARNS YELTSIN OF IMPEACHMENT DANGER.
• MOSCOW APPEARS TO FAVOR OSSETIAN SIDE IN INGUSH CONFLICT.
• CHECHEN FORUM CALLS FOR DAGESTAN TO RETURN TERRITORY.
• MOSCOW SOFTENS ITS POSITION ON KOREAN SETTLEMENT.
• LATVIAN PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS, SUCCESSOR DESIGNATED.
• EX-NAVY DOLPHINS CURE DISEASES, FIND CHEMICAL WEAPONS.

Volume 3 Issue 146

July 28, 1997

• FOURTEEN REGIONAL BOSSES FAIL TO HAND IN THEIR INCOME DECLARATIONS.
• HOMELESS CHILDREN IN MOSCOW.
• RUSSIAN-CHINESE BORDER DEMARCATION WOES.
• BELARUSAN OPPOSITION DEMONSTRATES ON INDEPENDENCE DAY.
• UKRAINIAN ARMS EXPORTS UP.
• PRO-KREMLIN CANDIDATE WINS IN SIBERIA.
• YELTSIN VETOES LAND CODE; APPROVES FIRST PRODUCTION-SHARING SITES.
• YELTSIN EXPLAINS HIS MILITARY REFORMS.
• IS CHECHNYA BUILDING A NATIONAL ECONOMY?
• OSSETIAN-INGUSH CRISIS PUTS KREMLIN IN DIFFICULT POSITION.
• ANOTHER TURNING POINT FOR THE UKRAINIAN ECONOMY.
• ROMANIA, MOLDOVA SIGN MILITARY COOPERATION AGREEMENTS.
• NEW FORMAT FOR GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ NEGOTIATIONS.

Volume 3 Issue 145

July 25, 1997

• JUSTICE MINISTRY TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR PRISONS.
• FORMER YELTSIN CRONY JOINS LUZHKOV TEAM.
• MOSCOW MAYOR SLAMS MILITARY REFORM EFFORT...
• ...AS DUMA COMMITTEE CHIEF CAMPAIGNS AGAINST GOVERNMENT'S MILITARY POLICIES.
• RUSSIAN ARMY STILL RACKED BY BULLYING, NON-COMBAT DEATHS.
• JOINT BALTIC NAVAL EXERCISE UNDERWAY.
• SHEVARDNADZE COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES.
• GEORGIAN MONUMENT BLOWN UP IN SOUTH OSSETIA.
• LENIN ON TOUR?
• GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION IN IRKUTSK OBLAST.
• YELTSIN GIVES UP ON PARLIAMENT.
• SECURITY COUNCIL DRAFTS RECOMMENDATIONS ON PRIGORODNY DISTRICT.
• SOLDIERS STILL HELP BRING IN THE HARVEST.
• JAPAN TO TRY NEW TACK IN APPROACH TO TERRITORIAL DISPUTE WITH RUSSIA.
• UKRAINE MULTIPLIES FOREIGN MILITARY CONTACTS.
• TURKMEN GAS EXPORT PIPELINE DEAL SIGNED, MAY SET REGIONAL TREND.
• CENTRAL ASIAN SUMMIT DISCUSSES ECONOMIC AND SECURITY COOPERATION WITH WEST.

Volume 3 Issue 144

July 24, 1997

• CHECHEN OFFICIAL ACCUSES "CHRISTIAN WEST" OF TRYING TO DESTABILIZE CHECHNYA.
• OSCE'S CHECHEN MISSION BURGLARIZED.
• AGREEMENT ON CONVENTIONAL ARMS TREATY.
• PRIMAKOV OFF ON ASIA TOUR.
• YELTSIN WARNS PARLIAMENT OVER RELIGION BILL...
• ... THREATENS TO EXPOSE OFFICIALS WHO DO NOT DECLARE THEIR INCOME.
• LUZHKOV UPSTAGES NEMTSOV.
• DEFENSE EXPERT ASSAILS KREMLIN'S MILITARY REFORM PLAN.
• MILITARY PROTESTERS ALSO VOTING WITH THEIR FEET.
• RASH OF ATTACKS ON WESTERNERS IN VILNIUS.
• QUIET PROGRESS ON BLACK SEA FLEET'S PARTITION.
• DEATH SENTENCE FOR SABOTEUR IN AZERBAIJAN.
• NO RUSSIAN-AZERBAIJANI AGREEMENT ON BORDER TROOPS.
• CRACK REOPENS IN RANKS OF TAJIK REGIME.

Volume 3 Issue 143

July 23, 1997

• ABKHAZIA PEACEKEEPING OPERATION TO BE INTERNATIONALIZED.
• BRZEZINSKI IN BAKU AHEAD OF ALIEV'S U.S. VISIT.
• LUKASHENKA'S ROAD TO DAMASCUS.
• BREAKTHROUGH IN KURIL ISLAND FISHING TALKS?
• YELTSIN CONGRATULATES MILOSEVIC.
• YELTSIN VETOES RELIGION BILL.
• YELTSIN SETS UP INTERETHNIC COUNCIL.
• RUSSIA'S NEW JUSTICE MINISTER DISCUSSES HIS PLANS.
• RUSSIA'S MILITARY BUREAUCRACY RESISTS REFORM.
• NAVY PERSONNEL CHANGES CONFIRMED.
• UKRAINIAN CHURCHES SIGN AGREEMENT ON COEXISTENCE.

Volume 3 Issue 142

July 22, 1997

• YELTSIN SIGNS DECREE ON EXPORT OF DIAMONDS.
• MORE NON-COMBAT DEATHS IN RUSSIAN ARMY.
• UKRAINE'S TRADE FALLS.
• UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT REJECTS LOAN.
• SHEVARDNADZE DISCUSSES ABKHAZIA AT UN.
• ALIEV BLASTS CORRUPTION.
• HIGH-POWERED U.S. GROUP TO PROMOTE COOPERATION WITH TURKMENISTAN.
• RUSSIAN PRIVATIZATION DEALS MOVE FORWARD.
• RUSSIAN-AMERICAN URANIUM DEAL.
• NO SOLUTION TO INGUSH-OSSETIAN CRISIS.
• POLITICAL STAKES RISE ON RUSSIAN DEFENSE REFORM.
• LATVIAN GOVERNMENT IN CRISIS.
• SHEVARDNADZE WINDS UP LANDMARK VISIT TO THE U.S.
• YEGHORIAN FOUNDS INDEPENDENT POLITICAL FORCE.

Volume 3 Issue 141

July 21, 1997

• YELTSIN TO MEET WITH SERGEEV, NEMTSOV IN SAMARA.
• BELARUS GAS SUPPLIES UNDER THREAT.
• UKRAINE RATIFIES EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTION.
• CHERNOMYRDIN RETURNS EMPTY-HANDED FROM BRUSSELS.
• FINAL INCOME DECLARATIONS FILED.
• EX-GENERALS CRITICIZE KREMLIN'S DEFENSE REFORM PLANS.
• FIRST MEETING OF NATO/RUSSIA COUNCIL A LOW KEY EVENT.
• TENSIONS ON THE BOIL IN NORTH CAUCASUS.
• BELARUSAN POLITICAL DIALOGUE BOGS DOWN.
• MOLDOVA'S "UNNATURAL ALLIANCE" FRUSTRATES ANOTHER REFORM ACT.
• TAJIK REFUGEE REPATRIATION, PRISONER EXCHANGE BEGIN.
• TURKMEN-PAKISTANI RAPPROCHEMENT ADVANCES.

Volume 3 Issue 140

July 18, 1997

• RUSSIA TO CALL-UP FEWER CONSCRIPTS IN THE FALL.
• YELTSIN TO VISIT CHINA.
• KREMLIN WARNS LITHUANIA OVER IVANOV CASE.
• INTERNATIONALIZE ABKHAZIA SETTLEMENT TALKS, U.S. AMBASSADOR ADVISES.
• TAJIK OFFICER DRUG-DEALING IN UZBEKISTAN.
• POPE, PATRIARCH APPEAL TO YELTSIN ON RELIGION BILL.
• TOP RUSSIAN OFFICIALS SUBMIT INCOME DECLARATIONS.
• RUSSIAN MONOPOLY POLICY ON HOLD.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY INDUSTRY STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE.
• MORE ON RUSSIAN MILITARY REFORM.
• YELTSIN SPEAKS WITH INGUSH PRESIDENT ON TELEPHONE.
• WEST LOOKS TO REASSURE RUSSIA AFTER NATO SUMMIT.
• RUSSIA TO PHASE OUT SOVIET PASSPORTS.
• BELARUS POLITICAL UPDATE.
• MOLDOVAN ANTI-REFORMERS ON THE OFFENSIVE.

Volume 3 Issue 139

July 17, 1997

• SENATE THREATENS TO CUT AID IF YELTSIN ENACTS RESTRICTIVE LAW ON RELIGION.
• GRENADE ATTACK ON INGUSH REFUGEES.
• TRUCE DECLARED IN BANK WAR.
• RUSSIAN TAX CONCERNS.
• RUSSIA TO PAY UKRAINE FOR USE OF MISSILE WARNING RADARS.
• BALTIC LEADERS RULE OUT DEAL WITH RUSSIA AT NATO'S EXPENSE.
• UZBEK PRICES TO RISE.
• RUSSIAN AND CHECHEN SECURITY SERVICES TO COOPERATE.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SIGNS WAGE AGREEMENT WITH NUCLEAR POWER WORKERS.
• YELTSIN REPORTED TO HAVE SIGNED MILITARY REFORM DECREES.
• YELTSIN, HASHIMOTO MEETING MAY BE ON FOR THE FALL.
• RUSSIAN AUTO INDUSTRY ON UPTURN; UKRAINE LOOKS TO FOLLOW.
• KUCHMA PAYS HIGH POLITICAL PRICE FOR APPROVAL OF NEW PRIME MINISTER.
• ARMENIAN AND GREEK DEFENSE MINISTERS CEMENT TIES.
• U.S. ENCOURAGES KYRGYZSTAN'S ECONOMIC AND SECURITY POLICIES.

Volume 3 Issue 138

July 16, 1997

• YELTSIN EXPECTED TO LEAVE KARELIA THIS WEEK.
• RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER TO SUPERVISE ARMS EXPORT COMPANY.
• NEW RUSSIAN SPECIAL FORCES?
• ANOTHER RUSSIAN GENERAL CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION.
• NOMINEE ADDRESSES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN RUSSIA.
• ESTONIA TO BE INVITED BY EUROPEAN UNION TO FIRST-ROUND ACCESSION.
• VAVILOV DENIES GUILT.
• RUSSIAN, BRITISH POLICE TO JOIN FORCES AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME.
• AUSHEV CALLS ON KREMLIN TO DECLARE PRESIDENTIAL RULE IN CONFLICT AREA.
• MANNING RUSSIA'S ARMED FORCES.
• IVANOV SENTENCED IN LITHUANIA, DEFENDED BY RUSSIAN ALLIES.
• ANTI-NATO BILLS FAIL IN UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT.
• RUSSIAN GRU SPY SENTENCED IN AZERBAIJAN.
• DEMIREL IN GEORGIA.
• UZBEKISTAN POISED TO BEGIN EXPORT OF OIL PRODUCTS TO CIS COUNTRIES.
• CORRECTION:

Volume 3 Issue 137

July 15, 1997

• AUSHEV WARNS YELTSIN OF MORE TROUBLE IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS.
• PROTEST MARCH NEARS MOSCOW.
• RUSSIAN JET SALE TO BULGARIA OFF AGAIN.
• CONGO BANS RUSSIAN PLANES AND PILOTS.
• BELARUSAN COMMUNISTS PURGE LUKASHENKA'S SUPPORTERS.
• RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK CHIEF ACCUSES COMMERCIAL BANK OF EMBEZZLING STATE FUNDS.
• THREE RUSSIANS MAKE FORBES 200.
• YELTSIN BEEFS UP THE POWERS OF REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES.
• HEAD OF BORDER GUARDS ANNOUNCES "RESTRUCTURING;" EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT MILITARY REFORM AND BUDGET CUTS.
• ALBRIGHT VISIT PRECEDES MAJOR NATO EXERCISE.
• UKRAINIAN TIGHTENS BUDGET BELT.
• RUSSIA, BELARUS CREATE JOINT COMMITTEE TO PROTECT BELARUS' BORDERS.
• SLAVIC UNIVERSITY INAUGURATED IN MOLDOVA.
• GEORGIA REPEATS CLAIMS TO SOVIET ARMS.

Volume 3 Issue 136

July 14, 1997

• MOSCOW POLICE INVESTIGATE MYSTERY BOMB.
• MOSCOW CONDEMNS NATO ACTION IN BOSNIA.
• CFE ADDRESSED BY ALBRIGHT, PRIMAKOV.
• PACKET OF ECONOMIC AGREEMENTS FINALIZED BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHECHNYA.
• PRO-GOVERNMENT CANDIDATE ELECTED IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD, WHILE LEBED SUPPORTER WINS IN SAMARA.
• TYUMEN OIL COMPANY PRIVATIZATION IN DOUBT...
• ...TRUCE IN ALUMINUM WAR?
• ALLEGED BANK FRAUD MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENED.
• PRIMAKOV OFFERS CROSS-GUARANTEES TO BALTIC STATES.
• DNIPROPETROVSK FIGURE NOMINATED FOR PRIME MINISTER OF UKRAINE.
• MAJOR NATO EXERCISE COMPLETED IN UKRAINE.
• PRO-PRESIDENTIAL HARD-LINER ELECTED LEADER OF ARMENIA'S RULING PARTY.

Volume 3 Issue 135

July 11, 1997

• YELTSIN DENOUNCES INCOMPETENT MANAGERS.
• RUSSIAN-CHECHEN TALKS COLLAPSE.
• CHECHNYA TO CUT RUSSIAN TV PROGRAMMING.
• MOSCOW BOMBS WERE PRACTICAL JOKE, POLICE SAY.
• RUSSIA TO PRIVATIZE MOST MILITARY CONSTRUCTION UNITS.
• BLACK LIST OF RUSSIA'S ENEMIES.
• MOSCOW CRIES FOUL IN ARMS DEALINGS.
• RUSSIAN-SOUTH KOREAN TRADE COMMISSION.
• UKRAINE MOVES TO REASSURE FOREIGN INVESTORS.
• GEORGIAN COMMUNIST SENTENCED.
• TAJIK CONCILIATION COMMISSION AGREES ON MUTUAL FORGIVENESS AND AMNESTY.
• RUSSIAN MOTORISTS WILL STILL FACE THE BOOT.
• KIDNAPPINGS CONTINUE IN NORTHERN CAUCASUS.
• SHAMIL BASAEV QUITS CHECHEN GOVERNMENT, SECURITY CHIEF MAY FOLLOW.
• CHERNOMYRDIN ISSUES INCOME DECLARATION.
• RUSSIA: NOT SO MUCH OF A GOLD MINE.
• NEW MILITARY SUPPORT ORGANIZATION DOMINATED BY EXTREMISTS.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY PERSONNEL TO GET BACK PAY BY SEPTEMBER.
• THREE YEARS OF LUKASHENKA.
• UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER CANDIDATE BOWS OUT.

Volume 3 Issue 134

July 10, 1997

• RUSSIA DENIES NUCLEAR EXERCISE STORY WHILE SHOWCASING NEW MISSILE.
• RUSSIAN-CHECHEN ECONOMIC ACCORDS COULD PAVE WAY FOR OIL AGREEMENT.
• RUSSIAN PROCURATOR DEFENDS HIS AGENCY'S RECORD.
• FRAUD CHARGES FLY ANEW IN THE RUSSIAN PRESS.
• MOSCOW CONTINUES TO SNIPE AT NATO DEVELOPMENTS.
• NATO-UKRAINE CHARTER SIGNED.
• NATO CONTINUES EFFORT TO RESHAPE EUROPE'S SECURITY LANDSCAPE.
• JAPAN AND RUSSIA CLASH AGAIN ON FISHING RIGHTS.
• RUSSIAN JUDGES TO BE ISSUED WITH SPECIAL MINI-PISTOLS.

Volume 3 Issue 133

July 9, 1997

• HOW MANY TAJIK REFUGEES IN AFGHANISTAN?
• "FROM THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA TO THE SHORES OF..."
• U.S. DEFINES POLICY TOWARD BELARUS.
• MILITARY POLICE TO BE INSTITUTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RUSSIAN ARMY.
• PROPOSED FSB REORGANIZATION COULD RESTORE MUCH OF ITS LOST CLOUT.
• YELTSIN PROMISES TO CLEAR PUBLIC SECTOR WAGE ARREARS BY YEAR'S END.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AGAIN LOOKS FOR WAYS TO TIGHTEN BUDGET DISCIPLINE.
• DEATHS, KIDNAPPINGS MOUNT IN AND AROUND CHECHNYA.
• ENLARGEMENT IS LAUNCHED: POLAND, HUNGARY, AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC INVITED TO JOIN NATO.
• ROMANIAN SENATE NARROWLY RATIFIES TREATY WITH UKRAINE.

Volume 3 Issue 132

July 8, 1997

• WESTERN FIRMS TO TAKE OVER FLAGSHIP METALLURGICAL PLANTS.
• GEORGIAN SECURITY MINISTER RESIGNS IN WIRETAPPING SCANDAL.
• RUSSIA AND AZERBAIJAN CANNOT AGREE ON FATE OF STRATEGIC RADAR SITE.
• BAKU AGREES TO TRILATERAL AGREEMENT ON CASPIAN OIL.
• UKRAINE HINTS IT MIGHT SCRAP SOVIET STRATEGIC BOMBERS.
• MAJOR MULTINATIONAL MILITARY EXERCISE UNDERWAY IN UKRAINE.
• UKRAINE AND THE IMF: IS THE "HONEYMOON" OVER?
• JAPANESE-RUSSIAN FISHING TALKS COME UP EMPTY?
• MOSCOW DISPARAGES NATO SUMMIT.
• BELARUS CANCELS ACCREDITATION OF ANOTHER RUSSIAN TV CORRESPONDENT.
• UZBEKS SEEM CONTENT WITH UZBEK-STYLE DEMOCRACY.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT REVOKES INGUSHETIA'S OFF-SHORE STATUS.
• FINANCES CONSTRAINING RUSSIA'S PFP PARTICIPATION?
• ROKHLIN SURVIVES OUSTER ATTEMPT.
• RUSSIA'S FEDERATION COUNCIL REJECTS LAW ON TRADE WITH IRAQ.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS IT CAN'T MEET YELTSIN WAGE DEADLINE.
• FSB: LEANER AND MEANER?
• POTEMKIN LIVES AS YELTSIN STARTS KARELIAN HOLIDAY.

Volume 3 Issue 131

July 7, 1997

• RUSSIAN-AZERBAIJANI SUMMIT.
• THREE COUNTRIES LAUNCH MAJOR REGIONAL PROJECT.
• MAJOR INVESTMENT PLANNED FOR KAZAKHSTAN'S ALUMINUM INDUSTRY.
• NATO FRACTIOUSNESS EVIDENT ON EVE OF MADRID SUMMIT.
• YELTSIN EXPECTED TO VETO LAND CODE.
• PRIVATIZATION OF STATE INSURANCE COMPANY ON HOLD.
• MOSCOW BOMB THREAT BY LENIN SUPPORTERS.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES CONTROVERSIAL LAW ON RELIGION.
• YELTSIN STARTS HOLIDAY.
• NEW BLOW TO PRESS FREEDOM IN RUSSIA.
• MOSCOW SAYS SPIES ARE PROLIFERATING...
• ...AS EX-DIPLOMAT SENTENCED FOR SPYING.
• MASKHADOV SETS UP ANTI-KIDNAP SQUAD.
• MOSCOW SIGNS POWER-SHARING AGREEMENTS WITH FIVE MORE REGIONS.

Volume 3 Issue 130

July 3, 1997

• DISAPPOINTED IN CIS CUSTOMS UNION, KYRGYZSTAN SETS HOPES ON CHINA.
• WILL BAKU ACCEPT CHECHNYA AS AN EQUAL PARTNER?
• LANDMARK YELTSIN-ALIEV MEETING FACES CONTENTIOUS ISSUES.
• U.S. CRITICIZES COMMENTS BY BELARUSAN PRESIDENT ON NUCLEAR SILOS.
• RUSSIA NOW AGAINST UKRAINIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN MOLDOVA.
• IRAQI PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION IN MOSCOW.
• U.S. SAYS RUSSIA IS PROLIFERATOR OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
• CHECHEN PRESIDENT DISCUSSES BORDER ISSUES WITH DAGESTAN.
• YELTSIN APPOINTS FORMER SECURITY CHIEF TO JUSTICE POST.
• PRIME MINISTER OF UKRAINE RESIGNS; CABINET RESHUFFLE PREDICTED.
• CYBER CAFE OPENS IN MOSCOW.
• RUSSIAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS CENTER DECLARED A CLOSED ZONE.
• YELTSIN TO MEET WITH SPEAKER TOMORROW.
• RUSSIAN SPY GETS PRISON TERM.
• GENERAL SAYS RUSSIAN MILITARY MOVEMENT LAUNCHED.

Volume 3 Issue 129

July 2, 1997

• RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS: AMBITIONS OUTRUN MEANS.
• MOLDOVAN PRESIDENT WARNS PARLIAMENT AGAINST BLOCKING REFORMS.
• UKRAINE SEEN AS PART OF CENTRAL EUROPE.
• LAZARENKO RESIGNS.
• LATVIAN MINISTERIAL RESIGNATIONS CONTINUE.
• LUKASHENKA SEEKS ENTENTE WITH CASTRO.
• UDUGOV SAYS LATEST ROUND OF TALKS WITH MOSCOW WERE "77 PERCENT SUCCESSFUL."
• RUSSIAN PUBLIC HAS LOW FAITH IN INSTITUTIONS.
• PROTESTING WORKERS BLOCK TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
• CONFUSION REGARDING GOVERNMENT DEBTS TO THE MILITARY.
• KILLING TWO DOGS WITH ONE BONE; YELTSIN SACKS SIBERIAN GOVERNOR.
• WRANGLE OVER RUSSIAN DEFENSE POLICY CONTINUES.
• NEW CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST RUSSIAN NUCLEAR WHISTLE-BLOWER.
• FIRST FLIGHT OF NEW RUSSIAN ATTACK HELICOPTER.
• KREMLIN DEFENDS DYACHENKO APPOINTMENT.

Volume 3 Issue 128

July 1, 1997

• IS AZERBAIJAN GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT STRUCTURAL REFORM?
• TER-PETROSIAN SQUASHES REFORMER'S BID FOR RULING PARTY'S CHAIRMANSHIP.
• OTHER CIS COUNTRIES' EXPORTS TO RUSSIA DOWN SHARPLY.
• MORE CONSOLIDATION IN MILITARY AVIATION INDUSTRIES.
• MILITARY DEBTS: MORE GOVERNMENT PROMISES AND MORE PROTEST ACTIONS.
• MOSCOW DISMISSES JAPANESE PROTEST OVER SHOOTING INCIDENT.
• UNLIKELY RUSSIAN REPRESENTATION AT NATO SUMMIT.
• NO WINNERS IN REGIONAL ELECTIONS.
• KAZAK PRESIDENT PUZZLED AT RUSSIAN OBJECTIONS TO RESEARCH FLIGHTS.
• CHERNOMYRDIN SAYS HE WILL CALL ON DUMA TO RECONVENE; YELTSIN ACCUSES IT OF VIOLATING CONSTITUTION.
• DYACHENKO NAMED AS ADVISOR TO YELTSIN.
• MOSCOW BACKS BEIJING ON HONG KONG.
• RUSSIAN RESEARCHER DIES IN NUCLEAR ACCIDENT.
• NEW RUSSIAN MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.
• RUSSIAN MISSILE TROOPS OUT OF BELARUS.
• YELTSIN, CHUBAIS TO GO ON HOLIDAY.

Volume 3 Issue 127

June 30, 1997

• NAZARBAEV ACCUSES RUSSIAN CIRCLES OF DESIGNS ON KAZAKSTAN.
• TAJIKSTAN'S "THIRD FORCE" SKEPTICAL ABOUT PEACE AGREEMENT.
• GEORGIA'S SECURITY MINISTER UNDER FIRE.
• LEFTISTS IN THE STREETS AND IN PARLIAMENT PRESSURE KUCHMA.
• SITUATION ABOARD MIR SPACE STATION CONTINUES TO IMPROVE.
• RUSSIA AND CHINA SIGN TRADE AGREEMENTS; REAFFIRM PARTNERSHIP.
• KREMLIN QUANDARY OVER PRIMORSKY KRAI.
• KREMLIN DERIDES KORZHAKOV ALLEGATIONS.
• KREMLIN ASSERTS RIGHT TO SACK GOVERNORS.
• KAZAKSTAN ALSO FIRM TOWARD ITS COMMUNISTS.
• ...BREAKS UP COMMUNIST CONGRESS.
• AZERBAIJAN INSTITUTES A NEW NATIONAL HOLIDAY LINKED TO ALIEV...
• RUSSIAN EMPLOYMENT CENTER FOR RETIRED OFFICERS ATTRACTS HIGH-RANKING CLIENTS.
• ROMANIA'S LOWER HOUSE RATIFIES TREATY WITH UKRAINE.
• FIVE DEAD IN BOMB BLAST ON RUSSIAN TRAIN.
• CHURCHES NOT CONSULTED OVER LAW ON RELIGION.
• NATO-RUSSIA COUNCIL COULD CONVENE IN LATE JULY.
• INDONESIA TO BUY RUSSIAN JETS.

Volume 3 Issue 126

June 27, 1997

• TAJIK PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED.
• FRESH REPRESSIVE MEASURES IN BELARUS.
• UKRAINIAN PEACEKEEPERS SOON TO ENTER TRANSDNIESTER.
• RUSSIAN COAST GUARD FIRES ON JAPANESE BOATS.
• RUSSIAN VOTERS TO GO TO POLLS IN LEADING REFORM REGIONS.
• RUSSIAN TAX CODE: LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE.
• CHUBAIS SAYS PENSION ARREARS FULLY PAID.
• RUSSIAN PRESSING AHEAD WITH UTILITIES REFORM.
• TOP PRISON OFFICIAL DISMISSED.
• RUSSIAN DRUG TRADE DATA.
• U.S. OFFER RUSSIA HELP IN DEFENSE REFORM.
• TAJIK EMBASSY CAR CARRIED HEROIN IN ALMATY.
• CHECHNYA CANCELS CUSTOMS AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA.

Volume 3 Issue 125

June 26, 1997

• INTER-TAJIK POLITICAL AGREEMENT SCHEDULED TO BE SIGNED TOMORROW.
• MOLDOVA SEEKS ISRAELI INVESTMENTS.
• ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS DISAGREE OVER RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION.
• LITHUANIAN-POLISH JOINT BATTALION CREATED.
• LATVIAN PREMIER PURSUES ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADE.
• NEMTSOV COMPLETES TWO DAYS OF TALKS IN CHINA; CHERNOMYRDIN TO SIGN AGREEMENTS.
• RUSSIA APES NATO COLD WAR NUCLEAR POLICY.
• DUMA LEADER ISSUES INFLAMMATORY CALL TO ARMED FORCES.
• DEPUTY PREMIER THREATENS DUMA WITH DISSOLUTION.
• YELTSIN SUSPENDS MINISTER IN SEX SCANDAL.
• ALEKSANDR LEBED EXPECTED IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD.

Volume 3 Issue 124

June 25, 1997

• RUSSIANS BRISTLE OVER U.S.-KAZAK ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEY.
• TURKMEN PRESIDENT LASHES OUT AT MILITARY.
• LUKASHENKA AMASSES MORE POWER.
• BANKING SCANDAL IN LITHUANIA.
• MOSCOW MAINTAINS CRITICISM OF NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• UNEASE OVER FATE OF LENIN'S TOMB.
• TRANSIT RATES STILL THE STICKING POINT IN RUSSIAN-CHECHEN NEGOTIATIONS ON SHIPMENT OF AZERBAIJANI OIL.
• PATRIARCH CONDEMNS FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.
• UKRAINE RESERVES NATO OPTION.
• TURKMEN-RUSSIAN GAS COMPANY DOOMED BY UKRAINE'S INSOLVENCY.
• RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF EXPRESSES SATISFACTION WITH HOTLINE.
• PACE-IPA AGREEMENT DOES NOT MEAN RECOGNITION OF CIS.
• ...PASSES PRIVATIZATION LAW.
• MASKHADOV GETS HOT-LINE.
• FBI SPY RECEIVES LONG JAIL SENTENCE.
• DUMA BEGINS 45-DAY RECESS...

Volume 3 Issue 123

June 24, 1997

• TURKMENISTAN ECONOMIC PLAN IN TROUBLE.
• ARMENIAN-GREEK MILITARY TIES DEVELOP.
• BELARUSAN POPULAR FRONT HOLDS LANDMARK CONGRESS.
• BRAZAUSKAS HINTS HE WILL NOT SEEK REELECTION.
• UKRAINE TAKES FIRST REAL STEP TOWARD REDUCING DEPENDENCE ON RUSSIAN OIL.
• RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN ARMS SALES.
• RUSSIAN-U.S. COMPROMISE ON SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ.
• CHECHNYA ALLEGEDLY LAYS CLAIM TO DAGESTANI TERRITORY.
• DUMA COWED, NEMTSOV UPBEAT.
• RUSSIAN DUMA TRIES TO REINSTITUTE STATE CONTROL OVER RELIGION.
• AZERBAIJAN STOPS CARRYING IRANIAN TV PROGRAMS.
• NEMTSOV IS RUSSIA'S MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN.
• LAZARENKO HOSPITALIZED.

Volume 3 Issue 122

June 23, 1997

• DOUBTS CLOUD SIGNING OF TAJIK PEACE AGREEMENT.
• GEORGIA PUSHES CLAIM TO PART OF BLACK SEA FLEET.
• MOLDOVA SETS ITS HOPES ON WINE.
• UKRAINE ASSUMING ROLE IN TRANSDNIESTER.
• ANOTHER YELTSIN MISSILE PLEDGE MISFIRES?
• FAVORITES NECK-AND-NECK IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD.
• UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LAUNCHES FRESH BID FOR CONTROL OVER CRIMEA.
• DENVER SUMMIT PRODUCES MODEST ECONOMIC RESULTS FOR RUSSIA.
• RUSSIA'S JUSTICE MINISTER SUSPENDED OVER SEX SCANDAL.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY PROMISED MORE MONEY IN 1998.

Volume 3 Issue 121

June 20, 1997

• KAZAKSTAN-GEORGIA PIPELINE UNDER ACTIVE CONSIDERATION.
• JAPAN ENTERING CASPIAN OIL BUSINESS IN FORCE.
• SHEVARDNADZE REVIEWS RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPING IN ABKHAZIA.
• UKRAINIAN PREMIER IS SHUNTED ASIDE.
• BELARUS DIALOGUE ADJOURNS.
• ADMIRAL SAID TO ADMIT TO CORRUPTION CHARGES.
• YELTSIN TO BE A NO-SHOW AT NATO SUMMIT.
• G-7 SUMMIT: HASHIMOTO TO PRESS YELTSIN ON TERRITORIAL DISPUTE.
• YELTSIN CALLS ADOPTION OF TAX CODE "ENORMOUS VICTORY."
• BULGARIA TO BUY RUSSIAN MIGS.
• ESTONIA'S NAVAL FLEET BECOMING OPERATIONAL.
• UZBEKISTAN, AZERBAIJAN LOOK WESTWARD.
• SOBCHAK UNDER INVESTIGATION.
• MOSCOW OPPOSES TOUGH STANCE ON IRAQ.
• RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS EVACUATED FROM CONGO.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.

Volume 3 Issue 120

June 19, 1997

• SOUTHERN TAJIK REGION, MUTINOUS COLONEL JOIN FORCES.
• LUKASHENKA SQUEEZES HANDOUT FROM CHERNOMYRDIN.
• UKRAINIAN MINERS STAGE PROTESTS IN KYIV.
• CHECHEN DELEGATION GOES HOME EMPTY-HANDED.
• LEV KOPELEV DIES.
• SU-37 ARRIVES "FASHIONABLY LATE" TO PARIS AIR SHOW.
• STRATEGIC AIR FORCE TO SKIP A GENERATION.
• PRIMORSKY GOVERNOR HOLDS CLOSED-DOOR TALKS WITH RIVAL.
• NORTH KOREAN-RUSSIAN TALKS END INCONCLUSIVELY.
• BURYATIA LEAVES RUSSIA -- BUT JUST FOR A WHILE.
• RUSSIAN BUDGET STANDOFF CONTINUES.
• MIGRATION TO RUSSIA SLOWING DOWN.
• RUSSIANS ARE NOT PARTY ANIMALS...
• ...LOOK TO BE ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER.
• AGENDA FOR CHERNOMYRDIN'S CHINA VISIT.
• RUSSIAN, ISRAELI COMPANIES TO BUILD EARLY WARNING JET.

Volume 3 Issue 119

June 18, 1997

• TAJIKISTAN ROUNDUP.
• POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN IN BELARUS.
• A RARE GLIMPSE INTO RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN MILITARY COOPERATION.
• UKRAINIAN LEFTISTS STAB KUCHMA IN THE BACK.
• YELTSIN REVELS IN G-7 ROLE.
• NAZDRATENKO CALLS FOR EARLY ELECTIONS.
• RUSSIAN BUDGET CLIFFHANGER CONTINUES.
• RUSSIAN DUMA VOTES DOWN SOCIAL SPENDING REFORMS.
• KARABAKH TO BEAM RADIO BROADCASTS AT AZERBAIJAN'S ETHNIC GROUPS.
• MOLDOVA WANTS UKRAINIAN PEACEKEEPERS.
• RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET NUCLEAR CAPABLE BUT NOT NUCLEAR ARMED.
• CHURCH OFFICIAL JOINS LENIN DEBATE.
• NEMTSOV URGES TAX CRACKDOWN.
• TOKYO MULLS TERRITORIAL ISSUE.

Volume 3 Issue 118

June 17, 1997

• AZERBAIJAN'S ISLAMIC PARTY SAID TO CHANGE STRATEGY.
• WESTERN PARTICIPATION BROADENS IN AZERBAIJANI OIL PROJECTS.
• LITHUANIA RECEIVES INVESTMENT-GRADE CREDIT RATING.
• MOSCOW TO HAVE OFFICIAL RED LIGHT DISTRICT.
• RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION'S PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY LOOKS BACK TO USSR.
• MOSCOW RAISES CONTENTIOUS MISSILE DEAL TO CYPRUS.
• RUSSIA'S NEW MOBILE FORCES WILL BE EXPENSIVE.
• CHECHNYA AND MOSCOW REACH PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT ON OIL PIPELINE.
• ORGANIZED CRIME A GROWING PROBLEM FOR RUSSIA.
• YELTSIN AIDE URGES CLOSURE OF LENIN MAUSOLEUM.
• CHAGALL AT LAST ACKNOWLEDGED IN HIS NATIVE BELARUS.
• YELTSIN APPROVES EARLY ELECTIONS IN PRIMORSKY KRAI.
• SHOOTING OF SOCCER TEAM DIRECTOR: A CONTRACT KILLING?
• YELTSIN ANNULS CONTROVERSIAL DECREE.
• MASKHADOV DISBANDS ELITE REGIMENT, ROGUE ARMY.

Volume 3 Issue 117

June 16, 1997

• KAZAK MILITARY UPDATE.
• BELARUS TO RECEIVE 500 BILLION RUBLE LOAN FROM RUSSIA.
• LUZHKOV LAUNCHES INITIATIVE IN RUSSIAN-AZERBAIJANI RELATIONS.
• OKUDZHAVA TO BE BURIED THIS WEEK IN MOSCOW.
• MOSCOW HAS LITTLE TO SAY OF LATEST NATO DEVELOPMENTS.
• STAR ATTRACTION A NO SHOW AT PARIS AIR SHOW.
• RUSSIAN STEEL PRODUCERS HIT BY ANTI-DUMPING SUIT.
• FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IGNORES "RUSSIAN DAVOS."
• SAMARA GOVERNOR BACKS PRESIDENTIAL RIGHT TO SACK ELECTED EXECUTIVES.
• U.S.-UZBEKISTAN JOINT COMMISSION BEING CREATED.
• EARLY ELECTIONS LIKELY IN PRIMORSKY KRAI.
• ...PRODUCTION SHARING BILL MOVES FORWARD.
• BALTS COMMEMORATE DEPORTATIONS.
• LAZARENKO IN CANADA.
• AZERBAIJAN'S FIFTH MAJOR INTERNATIONAL OIL CONTRACT RATIFIED.
• RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK CUTS INTEREST RATE.
• RUSSIAN DUMA ADOPTS BUDGET CODE...

Volume 3 Issue 116

June 13, 1997

• TENSIONS SMOLDER IN TAJIKISTAN.
• LEZGIN IRREDENTISM AIRED IN RUSSIAN DUMA, DISAVOWED BY AMBASSADOR IN BAKU.
• MORE DETAILS ON RUSSIAN MILITARY REFORM.
• UKRAINE CHANGES ESSENCE OF CIS AGREEMENT ON OIL TRANSIT.
• GAIDAR'S PARTY CLAIMS PARENTAGE OF RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT REFORMS.
• AGENCIES COMPETE FOR CONTROL OF SECURITIES MARKET.
• YELTSIN CONGRATULATES RUSSIANS ON NATIONAL HOLIDAY.
• AZERBAIJAN TRIES NEW NEGOTIATING STRATEGY ON OIL CONTRACTS.
• U.S. BACKS ONLY THREE COUNTRIES FOR NATO MEMBERSHIP.
• WASHINGTON REASSURES ALLIES ON RUSSIAN NUCLEAR FORCES.
• MOSCOW OFFERS JETS TO INDONESIA.
• UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT AGAIN SNUBS FOREIGN INVESTORS.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER NOT ATTENDING NATO MEETING.
• RUSSIAN LEADERS SET TO VISIT CHINA.

Volume 3 Issue 115

June 12, 1997

• PRESIDENTS OF AZERBAIJAN AND KAZAKSTAN COORDINATE POLICY ON OIL ISSUES.
• PRIMAKOV, LUKASHENKA AGREE ON UNION'S GOALS.
• LATVIAN LEADERS CONDEMN ATTACK ON SOVIET MONUMENT.
• ARMY TO CREATE "UNITS OF THE FUTURE."
• RUSSIA URGES AUSTRIA TO FOREGO NATO MEMBERSHIP.
• NEMTSOV WINDS UP VISIT TO JAPAN.
• MORE KIDNAPPINGS IN CHECHNYA.
• NEMTSOV TO REPORT TO YELTSIN ON FAR EAST VISIT.
• RUSSIAN ECONOMY: STILL NOT GROWING.
• DUMA BANS SALE OF AGRICULTURAL LAND.
• RUSSIAN BUDGET CLIFFHANGER CONTINUES.
• BLACK SEA FLEET FLIES RUSSIAN FLAG.
• TALKS BOOST ECONOMIC COOPERATION BETWEEN IRAN AND UKRAINE.

Volume 3 Issue 114

June 11, 1997

• TAJIK PRESIDENT DECRIES ANARCHY IN OWN RANKS.
• LUKASHENKA, WARNING YELTSIN, PROCLAIMS COMMITMENT TO RESTORING USSR.
• ANOTHER SUICIDE IN THE RUSSIAN MILITARY.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY SEEKS TO DETERMINE REAL STAFFING LEVELS.
• MASKHADOV ORDERS UNIDENTIFIED FIELD COMMANDER TO RELEASE RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS.
• BASHKORTOSTAN SEES AUTONOMY AS THE KEY TO ITS SUCCESS.
• RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK TIGHTENS GRIP.
• ...ISSUES INCOME DECLARATION.
• CHUBAIS DEFENDS GOVERNMENT'S ECONOMIC STRATEGY...
• YELTSIN MAY SACK MAVERICK GOVERNOR.
• CULTURAL TREASURES LAW PASSED ONCE AGAIN.
• UKRAINE, CHINA DISCUSS COOPERATION IN DEFENSE INDUSTRY.
• LATVIAN PARAMILITARY VETERANS SUSPECTED IN MONUMENT BOMBING.
• TAJIK FIGHTERS CAUGHT IN RUSSIAN-MASOOD PINCER.
• DUMA TO CONSIDER GOVERNMENT'S BUDGET PROPOSALS.

Volume 3 Issue 113

June 10, 1997

• U.S. MILITARY DELEGATION PREPARES MAJOR JOINT EXERCISE.
• BELARUSAN OPPOSITION ACCEPTS WESTERN-MEDIATED TALKS WITH THE REGIME.
• SENIOR ARMENIAN OFFICIAL ON POSSIBLE ACCESSION TO RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION.
• RUSSIA'S DEFENSE COUNCIL EXPANDS AUTHORITY.
• CHECHNYA MOVES TOWARD ISLAMIC STATE.
• SERGEEV BEGINS HIS MILITARY REFORM.
• TATARSTAN OFFERS TO HELP CHECHNYA.
• RUSSIA TAKES HARD LINE IN OIL TALKS WITH CHECHNYA; PURSUES COOPERATION WITH IRAQ.
• YELTSIN PRAISES CABINET.
• MOLDOVA FINANCES REDUCED OSTANKINO BROADCASTS.
• KAZAKSTAN SENDS FIRST OIL TO IRAN.
• JAPAN TO BUY RUSSIAN FIGHTERS?

Volume 3 Issue 112

June 9, 1997

• BLAST DAMAGES SOVIET MEMORIAL IN RIGA.
• WILL CASPIAN OIL HEAD WEST, OR EAST?
• UKRAINE RENOUNCING NONALIGNMENT ON THE ROAD TO NATO.
• INFLATION CONTINUES TO FALL IN UKRAINE BUT UNEMPLOYMENT THREATENSTO RISE.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION.
• PRIMORSKY GOVERNOR EFFECTIVELY STRIPPED OF POWERS.
• RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS FREED.
• RETENTION, NOT CUTS, TO BE MILITARY'S PROBLEM.
• VOLGOGRAD STRIKES BRING CITY TO A HALT.
• TAX POLICE TRACK FALSE COMPANIES.
• KREMLIN ABANDONS IDEA OF SPECIAL STATUS FOR IMPERIAL FAMILY.
• RUSSIA'S COMMUNISTS REJECT YELTSIN'S PROPOSAL TO BURY LENIN.
• SHEVARDNADZE ON RIGHTS OF DETAINEES.
• EX-GOVERNOR OF TULA ARRESTED.

Volume 3 Issue 111

June 6, 1997

• GEORGIA WARNS IT COULD SEND RUSSIAN TROOPS HOME.
• CHINA WINS CONTROL OF MAJOR KAZAKSTANI OIL COMPANY.
• MOLDOVA GOES HAT IN HAND TO MOSCOW.
• A DECOMMISSIONED SUBMARINE SINKS.
• RUSSIA REITERATES RESERVATIONS ABOUT NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT REJECTS DUMA BILL ON IRAQ.
• CHECHNYA NEGOTIATES NOVEL AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA.
• YELTSIN EMPOWERS HIS REPRESENTATIVE IN PRIMORSKY KRAI.
• RUSSIAN STATE DUMA BLASTS PRIVATIZATION PROGRAM.
• GOVERNMENT DISCUSSES 1998 BUDGET.
• WINDOWS TO THE SOUL.
• TATARSTAN OFFICIAL COMPLAINS OF ESPIONAGE.
• NO NATO POST FOR GRACHEV.
• PLANNED KAZAK SALE OF MISSILES TO IRAN DRAWS U.S. PROTEST.
• KAZAKSTAN PROTESTS RUSSIAN COSSACK DEPLOYMENT.

Volume 3 Issue 110

June 5, 1997

• COSSACK DEPLOYMENT PROCEEDS ON RUSSIA-KAZAKSTAN BORDER.
• CRIMEA GETS NEW PRIME MINISTER.
• WHAT IS BEHIND PIRTSKHALAISHVILI'S RESIGNATION?
• RUSSIAN REPUBLIC TO HAVE OFFSHORE STATUS.
• RUSSIAN, CHECHEN LEADERS DISCUSS BAKU-NOVOROSSIISK PIPELINE.
• DUMA TO DEBATE NATO-RUSSIA FOUNDING ACT.
• DOUBLE-AGENT HOTLINE?
• YELTSIN, NEMTSOV FILE INCOME DECLARATIONS.
• CHINA WINS CONTROL OF MAJOR KAZAKSTANI OIL COMPANY.
• RUSSIAN NAVAL OFFICERS COMMIT SUICIDE.
• RUSSIAN FORCE N TRANSDNIESTER REDUCED.
• CUTS IN WEATHER BROADCASTING THE CAUSE OF AIR FORCE CRASHES?
• JUNDZIS RETURNS TO LATVIA'S DEFENSE MINISTRY.
• YELTSIN WEBSITE OPERATIONAL.

Volume 3 Issue 109

June 4, 1997

• GEORGIAN-CHECHEN CONTACTS GATHER MOMENTUM.
• UKRAINE'S ECONOMY SUFFERS THE EFFECTS OF A DETERIORATING FINANCIALSYSTEM.
• ANSWERS TO VIOLENCE IN THE MILITARY: GUARDS WITHOUT GUNS, MOVIESWITHOUT VIOLENCE?
• REGIONAL SUMMIT CARRIES HISTORIC SYMBOLISM.
• DUMA SCHEDULES SEQUESTRATION DEBATE.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT REVISES GROWTH PROJECTION.
• AFGHANISTAN UPDATE.
• YELTSIN REPORTED BEHIND FORMATION OF NEW MOVEMENT.
• YELTSIN TELLS MOSCOW MAYOR TO QUIT QUARRELING WITH GOVERNMENT.
• NEMTSOV WILL NOT DISCUSS KURIL ISLAND DISPUTE.
• YELTSIN MEETS WITH DEPUTY DEFENSE CHIEF.
• YELTSIN TO GET OWN WEBSITE.
• UKRAINIAN-ROMANIAN TREATY HAILED IN THE WEST.
• CHECHEN ELECTION DECLARED INVALID.
• "LEGISLATION FOR CASH."

Volume 3 Issue 108

June 3, 1997

• ARMED GROUPS SHOW WHO'S BOSS NEAR DUSHANBE.
• SHEVARDNADZE MEETS CHECHEN ENVOY.
• UKRAINIAN-ROMANIAN TREATY FINALLY SEALS STATUS QUO.
• ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN CIS GIVES WAY TO GREATER VARIATION.
• STRATEGIC AVIATION'S BLEAK FUTURE.
• LESS REASON NOW FOR NATO ENLARGEMENT, MOSCOW CLAIMS.
• YELTSIN ORDERS RESTRUCTURING OF SECURITY SERVICE.
• CRIMEAN PREMIER TO LEAD NEW MOVEMENT.
• KYRGYZSTAN'S SECURITY MINISTER CHALLENGES REFORMS.
• COMMUNIST WINS PARLIAMENTARY SEAT IN ROSTOV.
• AMNESTY PROPOSED IN RUSSIA.
• CONVICTED U.S. SPY TO GET LIGHTER SENTENCE.

Volume 3 Issue 107

June 2, 1997

• CHUBAIS DEFENDS U.S. ACADEMICS.
• UKRAINIAN-ROMANIAN TREATY ENSHRINES LONG-DISPUTED BORDERS.
• CHECHEN ELECTIONS DECLARED VALID.
• CLINTON DEFENDS NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• NEW COALITION MOVEMENT SET UP.
• YELTSIN'S REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES TO HAVE MORE RESPONSIBILITY.
• NEMTSOV DENIED MOSCOW RESIDENCE PERMIT.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO REQUIRE FIRMS TO FOLLOW INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS.
• CLINTON NOMINATES AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA.
• RUSSIAN SOLDIER KILLS COMRADES.

Volume 3 Issue 106

May 30, 1997

• HIGH LEVEL CONTACTS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN CONTINUE.
• GUARDS AT CHECHEN BORDER CHECKPOINT FIRE ON RUSSIAN POLICEMEN.
• ARE NAZDRATENKO'S DAYS NUMBERED?
• BOMB KILLS THREE IN DAGESTAN.
• JOINT RUSSIAN-U.S. SEA RESCUE EXERCISE.
• RUSSIA SAYS GEORGIA NOT ENTITLED TO BLACK SEA FLEET SHIPS.
• YELTSIN DEFENDS AGREEMENT WITH NATO.
• BONN CALLS FOR ACTION ON RUSSIAN NUCLEAR WARHEADS.
• SOLZHENITSYN HONORED.
• RED CROSS TO RETURN TO CHECHNYA.
• RUSSIAN SOLDIER KILLS FIVE.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY DISTRICT COMMANDER RESIGNS.

Volume 3 Issue 105

May 29, 1997

• UKRAINE INTENSIFIES MILITARY COOPERATION WITH GEORGIA.
• DISAFFECTION WITHIN THE RANKS.
• UKRAINE'S NAVAL TOEHOLD IN SEVASTOPOL.
• SUGAR AUCTION LEAVES SOUR TASTE.
• SOCIAL WELFARE REFORM ON THE WAY.
• VARIED REACTIONS TO SIGNING OF NATO-RUSSIA ACCORD.
• LUZHKOV ON THE WARPATH.
• NEMTSOV PROMOTES HIS REFORMS.
• EVERY DAY, 750 MUSCOVITES DIE AS A RESULT OF SMOKING.
• INDONESIA COULD TURN TO MOSCOW FOR AIRCRAFT PURCHASE.
• FAR EASTERN OFFICIALS DENY JAPANESE REPORT ON KURIL ISLANDS.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE OFFICIAL CHARGED WITH SPYING.

Volume 3 Issue 104

May 28, 1997

• SHEVARDNADZE SIGNALS NEW APPROACH TO ABKHAZIA.
• BELARUS GETS REFORM RELIGION...
• FIVE COUNTRIES TO COOPERATE ON REGIONAL SECURITY.
• CHERNOMYRDIN PLANS RIGHT-OF-CENTER COALITION.
• IS THE KREMLIN PLANNING ELECTORAL REFORM?
• CIS WON'T INVOKE COLLECTIVE SECURITY MACHINERY IN CENTRAL ASIA.
• YELTSIN'S MISSILE PLEDGE: IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS.
• RUSSIAN SOLDIER RETURNS HOME AFTER 18 MONTHS' CHECHEN CAPTIVITY.
• KOVALEV UNDERGOES OPERATION; SOLZHENITSYN LEAVES HOSPITAL.
• MOSCOW: NO MISSILE SALES TO SYRIA.
• HAS MOSCOW INFILTRATED NATO?

Volume 3 Issue 103

May 27, 1997

• KIEV URGED TO INTERVENE IN CRIMEA.
• MASKHADOV HAILS TREATY WITH TATARSTAN.
• YELTSIN AND LUKASHENKO SIGN UNION CHARTER.
• RUSSIA, CHECHNYA SIGN OIL DEAL.
• CHECHEN MAYORAL CANDIDATE KILLED.
• CHUBAIS SAYS RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT WILL PRESS AHEAD WITH SPENDING CUTS.
• YELTSIN MEETS WITH HIS NEW MILITARY LEADERS.
• CIS COLLECTIVE SECURITY COUNCIL CONVENES OVER AFGHANISTAN.
• YELTSIN SIGNS NATO-RUSSIA AGREEMENT.
• RUSSIAN DUMA HEARS TESTIMONY ON MOSCOW-NATO AGREEMENT.
• WILL COSSACKS LOSE PATRONAGE IN REORGANIZATION OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION?
• GANG WARFARE ON MOSCOW STREETS.
• RUSSIA NOT TO DEPLOY NUKES IN BELARUS.
• YELTSIN REVEALS HIS ASSETS.
• NEW HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP SET UP IN RUSSIA.

Volume 3 Issue 102

May 23, 1997

• DID CHINA BUY EX-SOVIET AIRCRAFT CARRIER FROM UKRAINE?
• RUSSIA TURNS TO INTERPOL TO HELP STOP ILLEGAL "CAPITAL DRAIN."
• MOSCOW OFFERS SUPPORT TO DAMASCUS.
• CHECHEN DELEGATION REFUSES TO TRAVEL ON PASSPORTS BEARING RUSSIAN EAGLE.
• YELTSIN REJECTS WAR TREASURES BILL.
• YELTSIN FIRES TOP TWO MILITARY LEADERS.
• RUSSIAN BANKS TO LOSE LICENSE.
• BELARUS-RUSSIA UNION CHARTER FINALIZED.
• JAPANESE MINISTER IN MOSCOW.
• INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OPENS IN THE HAGUE.
• SERGEEV APPOINTED RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER.

Volume 3 Issue 101

May 22, 1997

• INFLUENTIAL BROTHER OF ARMENIAN PRESIDENT DIES.
• REGION-WIDE CONSEQUENCES.
• NEW ERA IN UKRAINIAN-POLISH RELATIONS.
• OPPOSITION BUILDS TO ST. PETERSBURG GOVERNOR.
• AUSTRIANS WANT RUSSIAN HELP IN FINDING STASHED SOVIET ARMS.
• LAST-MINUTE NEGOTIATIONS ON RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION MARKED BY MAJOR DIFFERENCES.
• CRISIS IN PRIMORSKY KRAI DEFUSED.
• CHECHNYA AND TATARSTAN SIGN FRIENDSHIP TREATY.
• RUSSIAN AND CHECHEN POLICE TO COOPERATE.
• DUMA POSTPONES BUDGET VOTE.
• MOSCOW TO WITHDRAW MORE TROOPS FROM DISPUTED ISLANDS.
• ALIEV WANTS TRUTH ON RUSSIAN ARMS SUPPLIES TO ARMENIA.
• CHECHEN BOMB SUSPECTS CHARGED.
• SOLZHENITSYN HOSPITALIZED.
• RUSSIAN GENERAL IMPRISONED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEFS SACKED.
• RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER DEFECTS TO U.S.?
• CHECHEN MAVERICK REFUSES TO DISARM.

Volume 3 Issue 100

May 21, 1997

• RUSSIA STRIKES COTTON DEAL WITH UZBEKISTAN.
• KAZAKSTAN MINING UPDATE.
• RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN SUMMIT ON TRACK DESPITE PERSISTING DIFFERENCES.
• MAPO LICENSES IRAN TO BUILD AIRCRAFT ENGINES.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR STEEP SPENDING CUTS.
• MORBID STATISTICS.
• YELTSIN COMES TO THE AID OF THE AIRBORNE TROOPS.
• CHECHNYA ACCEPTS RUSSIAN APOLOGY OVER AIRPLANE INCIDENT.
• MORE JOUSTING OVER NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• TALIBAN LAUNCHES OFFENSIVE ON TWO FRONTS.
• UKRAINIAN-POLISH SUMMIT MARKS NEW CHAPTER IN HISTORY.
• PROMOTION FOR RUSSIA'S AGRICULTURE MINISTER.
• YELTSIN CANS LONG-TIME ALLY.
• RUSSIAN AIR FORCE OFFICERS ON HUNGER STRIKE.
• MOSCOW MAY BID FOR 2008 OLYMPICS.
• CHECHEN PRESIDENT COMPLETES HIS CABINET.

Volume 3 Issue 99

May 20, 1997

• CRIMEAN PRIVATIZATION CHIEF MURDERED.
• IMF SMILES ON ARMENIA, UKRAINE; FROWNS ON BELARUS, UZBEKISTAN.
• DOES MASKHADOV'S CHANGE OF ITINERARY SIGNAL POLICY REORIENTATION?
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT MAY THINK AGAIN ON TROPHY ART.
• CHECHNYA TO SIGN FRIENDSHIP TREATIES WITH TATARSTAN AND INGUSHETIA.
• IMF RESUMES LOAN PAYMENTS.
• YELTSIN MEETS WITH LEGISLATORS ON NATO AGREEMENT.
• JAPAN TO BACK RUSSIAN G-7 MEMBERSHIP?
• RUSSIAN "SPACE TUG" READY.
• GEORGIA SEEKS ITALIAN, TURKISH TRAINING OF ITS BORDER TROOPS.
• IS MOSCOW CIRCUMVENTING THE OSCE ON KARABAKH?
• YELTSIN WARNS AGAINST BALTIC ACCESSION TO NATO.
• INTERIOR MINISTER ANXIOUS OVER FAR EASTERN "SEPARATISM."

Volume 3 Issue 98

May 19, 1997

• KAZAKSTAN IS CIS LEADER IN PER-CAPITA FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT.
• NUDGED BY WASHINGTON, AZERBAIJAN IS LAST TO RATIFY CFE FLANKS ACCORD.
• MOLDOVAN PREMIER RULES OUT "FRATERNITY" TREATY WITH ROMANIA.
• UKRAINIAN-U.S. RELATIONS ADVANCE ACROSS THE BOARD.
• AFGHAN WAR HERO CHARGED OVER MASSACRE.
• CHECHEN AUTHORITIES STEP UP EFFORTS TO FREE KIDNAPPED JOURNALISTS.
• MASKHADOV ORDERS INDEPENDENT ARMED FORMATIONS TO DISBAND.
• CHARGES FILED AGAINST RUSSIAN DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER.
• RUSSIAN CONVICTED OF SPYING FOR U.S.
• BEIJING AND MOSCOW TO DEVELOP WEAPONS JOINTLY.
• NATO MOVES FORWARD ON AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA.
• UNPAID MINERS COMMIT SUICIDE.

Volume 3 Issue 97

May 16, 1997

• BREAKTHROUGH IN MAJOR GAS EXPORT PROJECT.
• U.S. SENATE RESPONDS TO COVERT ARMS TRANSFERS TO ARMENIA.
• NEW DEPUTY ENERGY MINISTER.
• CFE TREATY: SEVERAL COUNTRIES MAINTAIN RESERVATIONS.
• SHOKHIN EATS HIS WORDS.
• RUSSIA AND WEST CLASH OVER NATO AGREEMENT.
• MORE LIGHT ON THE REGIONS.
• RUSSIAN CRIME BOSS ARRESTED.
• KOCHARIAN, ARZUMANIAN DIFFER ON KARABAKH UNIFICATION.
• REFERENDUM ON RUSSIA/BELARUS UNION CALLED FOR.
• YELTSIN LAUNCHES YET ANOTHER DRIVE AGAINST CORRUPTION.
• DUMA PUTS PRESERVATION ORDER ON LENIN'S TOMB.
• RUSSIA, U.S. EXPAND MILITARY COOPERATION.
• SOLANA TO MEET WITH CLINTON.

Volume 3 Issue 96

May 15, 1997

• UKRAINIAN SUGAR HIT BY TARIFF.
• LUKASHENKO REJECTS RUSSIAN-PROPOSED POLITICAL UNION.
• CFE FLANKS AGREEMENT DOWN TO THE WIRE.
• EVIL EMPIRE STILL ALIVE.
• PROTESTS CONTINUE IN VLADIVOSTOK.
• A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A "NEW RUSSIAN."
• RELIGIOUS CONFRONTATION IN DAGESTAN PITS TRADITIONAL MUSLIMS AGAINST "WAHABIS."
• FEDERAL COMMISSION ON CHECHNYA HOLDS FIRST MEETING.
• RUSSIA, NATO REACH POLITICAL AGREEMENT.
• BATTLE LINES TAKE SHAPE IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD.
• STANKEVICH SETS CONDITIONS.
• NEW RUSSIAN CHIEF MILITARY PROSECUTOR.
• RUSSIA SEEKING MILITARY USE OF SPACE STATION?
• PRO-INDEPENDENCE DEMONSTRATION IN MINSK.

Volume 3 Issue 95

May 14, 1997

• YELTSIN VETO ON WWII TROPHY ART LAW OVERRULED.
• DISAGREEMENT ON WRECK OF RUSSIAN OIL TANKER.
• RUSSIA'S CASPIAN FLOTILLA SAID TO GET BUSIER.
• RUSSIAN OFFICER ASSASSINATED IN DUSHANBE.
• ESTONIA CALLS FOR NATO COMMITMENT TO CONTINUING ENLARGEMENT.
• NATO-RUSSIA TALKS CONTINUE.
• RODIONOV AND COHEN DISCUSS NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
• RYBKIN INSISTS PEACE AGREEMENT IS SILENT ON CHECHNYA'S STATUS; CHECHENS CLAIM IT RECOGNIZES THEIR INDEPENDENCE.
• BEREZOVSKY ANNOUNCES STEPS TOWARD ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION OF CHECHNYA.
• RUSSIA'S LONG-SUFFERING PENSIONERS.
• KIEV RECOGNIZES CORRUPTION PROBLEM, SEEKS U.S. HELP TO COMBAT IT.
• RUSSIA NOW ALONE IN NOT RECOGNIZING UKRAINE'S BORDERS.
• PRESIDENTS OF UKRAINE AND BELARUS SIGNAL INTENTION TO COOPERATE.
• JAPAN INTERESTED IN NON-RUSSIAN ROUTE FOR CASPIAN OIL.

Volume 3 Issue 94

May 13, 1997

• PROTESTERS BLOCK TRAFFIC IN VLADIVOSTOK.
• NEWSPAPER PROPOSES ZHIRINOVSKY BLACKOUT.
• BALTIC NAVAL EXERCISES UNDERWAY.
• LATVIAN DEFENSE MINISTER DISMISSED.
• TURKISH PRESIDENT TAKES STOCK OF INVESTMENTS IN TURKMENISTAN.
• INDONESIAN
• PEACE TREATY AIMS TO SET MOSCOW AND DJOHAR-GALA ON NEW PATH.
• YELTSIN GIVES NEMTSOV THE GREEN LIGHT.
• NEMTSOV LOOKS TO REFORM RUSSIA'S RAILWAYS.
• PENTAGON DISMISSES ALLEGED THREAT FROM RUSSIAN MISSILES.
• FOUR COUNTRIES CONCERNED BY PROPOSED REVISIONS TO CFE TREATY.
• UKRAINE: PRIVATIZATION WITHOUT PROGRESS?

Volume 3 Issue 93

May 12, 1997

• RUSSIAN BUDGET SEQUESTER UNPOPULAR.
• JAPANESE MINISTER TO VISIT MOSCOW.
• BULGARIA LOOKS FOR ALTERNATIVE GAS SUPPLIERS.
• "UKRAINE OUTSIDE NATO" LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE.
• YELTSIN AND MASKHADOV SIGN PEACE TREATY.
• THREE MORE RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS KIDNAPPED IN CHECHNYA.
• RADUEV RENOUNCES TERROR.
• RENEWED EFFORTS TO SPEED REPATRIATION OF INGUSH REFUGEES TO NORTH OSSETIA.
• MOSCOW LINES UP WITH BAGHDAD ON UN SANCTIONS.
• REGIONAL SECURITY PLANNING WITH NATO COUNTRIES.
• THE BELARUS ECONOMY: ARE THE CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST?
• UKRAINE TO CONTINUE MISSILE PRODUCTION.
• IS ALIEV LOSING HIS DIPLOMATIC TOUCH?
• KAZAKSTAN'S GERMANS SEEN AS ENGINE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Volume 3 Issue 92

May 9, 1997

• RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION SEEN AS STRATEGIC BOON BY COMMUNIST LEADERS.
• YELTSIN GIVES FOREIGN MINISTER A SHOW OF SUPPORT.
• MOSCOW FINALLY TO LAUNCH MILITARY REFORM.
• PRAGUE DENIES ARMS FOR DEBT DEAL WITH RUSSIA.
• RUSSIA TO BID FOR HUNGARIAN FIGHTER CONTRACT.
• STATE OF EMERGENCY IN VLADIVOSTOK.
• CRIMEAN TATARS ACCUSED OF SPYING.
• DOCUMENT ON TRANSDNIESTER SETTLEMENT MADE PUBLIC.
• VICTORY DAY IN MOSCOW.
• RUSSIA-NATO POLITICAL AGREEMENT: A DONE DEAL?
• RUSSIA CLAIMS INCREASED FOREIGN SPYING ON ITS TERRITORY.
• UKRAINE LOOKS TO IRON OUT DIFFERENCES WITH NATO.
• UKRAINIAN AIR FORCE TO GO INTO THE AIR CARGO BUSINESS.
• AZERBAIJAN AGAIN BALKS AT CFE FLANKS AGREEMENT.
• GEORGIAN LEADERS APPARENTLY TARGETED BY ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.
• MOSCOW ASSAILS SHEVARDNADZE AND GEORGIAN FOREIGN POLICY CONCEPT.
• TAJIK OPPOSITION GROUP CONTROLS DUSHANBE OUTSKIRTS.

Volume 3 Issue 91

May 8, 1997

• COMMUNISTS TO PROTEST NATO.
• SPANISH KING COMPLETES RUSSIAN VISIT.
• KORZHAKOV SUES FOR UNFAIR DISMISSAL.
• REGIONAL PROSECUTOR EXCOMMUNICATED.
• TOP OFFICIAL ARRESTED
• RUSSIAN COMMANDER CALLS FOR CONSOLIDATION OF SERVICE BRANCHES.
• RUSSIA AND BELARUS TO SIGN UNION CHARTER ON MAY 23.
• MORE POSITIVE SIGNALS FROM MOSCOW ON NATO AGREEMENT.
• MOSCOW OPTS OUT.
• YELTSIN AND MASKHADOV TO MEET SOON IN MOSCOW.
• RUSSIAN ANTI-TERRORISM COMMISSION MEETS.
• MOLDOVA TAKES THE PLUNGE.
• LUKASHENKO HOLDS "ANTI-TERRORISM" CARD IN RESERVE.
• RESTRAINED TONES ON SOLANA'S VISIT TO UKRAINE.
• ARMENIA CREATES TOP BODY FOR DIASPORA RELATIONS.
• UZBEKISTAN BUSINESS UPDATE.

Volume 3 Issue 90

May 7, 1997

• TWO RUSSIAN HOSTAGES FREED.
• MOSCOW SETS UP VICE SQUAD.
• NOVGOROD DEVELOPS ITS OWN FORM OF SELF-GOVERNMENT.
• LENIN IN THE PINK.
• EX-SECURITY CHIEF DENIES TIES TO JAPANESE CULT.
• DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS.
• AZERBAIJANI-TURKISH SUMMIT.
• STILL NO BREAKTHROUGH IN NATO-RUSSIAN TALKS.
• RUSSIAN BUDGET BATTLE LOOMS.
• YELTSIN REITERATES BACKING FOR A VOLUNTEER ARMY.
• GOVERNMENT PRESENTS UNITED FRONT ON MONOPOLIES.
• HISTORIAN CHAMPIONS MEDIEVAL NOVGOROD AS MODEL FOR RUSSIA'S DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT.
• UKRAINIAN PROPOSAL ON SEVASTOPOL REJECTED BY RUSSIAN GENERAL.
• RUSSIA DEMANDS AZOV SEA CONDOMINIUM WITH UKRAINE.
• LUKASHENKO CONCEDES DROP OF BELARUSAN PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR UNION WITH RUSSIA.

Volume 3 Issue 89

May 6, 1997

• RUSSIAN INFLATION CONTINUES TO FALL
• KULIKOV WARNS OF STATE BANKRUPTCY.
• RUSSIAN COMMANDER CALLS FOR CONSOLIDATION OF SERVICE BRANCHES.
• UKRAINE SUBMITS PROPOSAL FOR DEMILITARIZATION OF SEVASTOPOL CITY.
• KARIMOV CONCERNED BY IMPLICATIONS OF RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION.
• KAZAKSTAN ABOLISHES THREE MORE REGIONS.
• NATURAL MONOPOLY RESTRUCTURING PLANS.
• MOSCOW WORKING OUT "IMPORTANT" DOCUMENT ON CHECHNYA.
• CONFUSION IN CHECHNYA OVER HOW TO HANDLE MAVERICK.
• UKRAINE DEFENDS MOLDOVA'S INTERESTS ON THE EVE OF KREMLIN MEETING.
• THE IMF LOOKS FAVORABLY ON BAKU; LESS SO ON YEREVAN.
• GEORGIA "NEAR CRITICAL THRESHOLD" ON ABKHAZIA.
• SHEVARDNADZE ACCUSES RUSSIA OF ABETTING TERRORISM.
• HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE BETWEEN UZBEKISTAN AND THE WEST.

Volume 3 Issue 88

May 5, 1997

• BUDGET SEQUESTRATION PLANS.
• YELTSIN SIGNS CHEMICAL WEAPONS BILL.
• MOSCOW CONFIRMS FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH TEHRAN...
• ...AS IRAN PROPOSES COOPERATION BETWEEN IRAN, RUSSIA, AND CHINA.
• TAJIK SECURITY KILLS SUSPECTS IN THE ANTI-RAHMONOV PLOT.
• KUCHMA FORCED TO POSTPONE VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN.
• RUSSIAN-CHECHEN PEACE DEAL SAID CLOSE...
• ...BUT AGREEMENT COULD STILL BE DERAILED.
• NEW RUSSIAN TAX CODE DISCUSSED.
• RUSSIA, NATO SAID TO INCH CLOSER TO AGREEMENT.
• "TERRORISM" CHARGES IN BELARUS MAY BE AIMED AT STIGMATIZING THE OPPOSITION.
• UKRAINE, ROMANIA INITIAL LONG-OVERDUE INTERSTATE TREATY.
• THE IMF IN KAZAKSTAN AND UZBEKISTAN.

Volume 3 Issue 87

May 2, 1997

• RADUEV CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR FAR EAST EXPLOSION.
• CANDIDATE FOR RUSSIAN GROUND FORCES COMMAND.
• RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS SEIZED NEAR SMOLENSK.
• NO BREAKTHROUGH IN NATO-RUSSIA TALKS.
• RUSSIANS TAKE PART IN MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS.
• FORMER RUSSIAN COMMANDER MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENCY OF KARACHAEVO-CHERKESSIA.
• LIKHACHEV WARNS AGAINST RESTITUTION OF MONARCHY.
• LEFTISTS SHOW UNEVEN STRENGTH ON MAY DAY.
• UKRAINIAN MILITARY DELEGATION COMPLETES MAJOR U.S. VISIT.
• AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION REGROUPS, ELCHIBEY SET TO RETURN.
• KEY ABKHAZ OFFICES CHANGE HANDS.
• TAJIK SECURITY SPREADS TENTACLES AFTER ATTEMPT ON RAHMONOV'S LIFE.

Volume 3 Issue 86

May 1, 1997

• INGUSHETIA'S DEPUTY INTERIOR MINISTER SHOT DEAD.
• ALBRIGHT IN MOSCOW FOR NATO TALKS.
• CHUBAIS SAYS CASH IS ON THE WAY.
• DUMA GROUP RAISES SUSPICIONS ABOUT U.S. ORGANIZATIONS IN RUSSIA.
• PUBLIC INDIFFERENT TO YELTSIN'S "BUY RUSSIAN" APPEAL.
• BELARUS DEFENSE MINISTER FAVORS UNION WITH RUSSIA.
• YELTSIN RETURNS TO MOSCOW, GREETS RUSSIAN POPULATION ON MAY DAY.
• TOP RUSSIAN OFFICIALS IN CHECHNYA FOR TALKS.
• RUSSIA SAID TO BE CONNECTED TO SYRIAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS PRODUCTION.
• MILITARY DRAFTS ANOTHER REFORM PLAN.
• WHAT DO PROVINCIAL RUSSIAN CITIZENS THINK OF UNION WITH BELARUS?
• RUSSIAN EXCLAVE'S GOVERNOR URGES TROOP CUT.
• LUKASHENKO TRIES BUILDING IRON CURTAIN.
• TAJIK OPPOSITION DISAVOWS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON RAHMONOV.

Volume 3 Issue 85

April 30, 1997

• YELTSIN BERATES DUMA OVER CHEMICAL PACT.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF TO VISIT JAPAN; LEBED TO FOLLOW?
• MOSCOW DENIES NERVE GAS CHARGE.
• ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTS HOLD TALKS.
• AZERBAIJAN SENTENCES TALYSH SECESSIONIST LEADER.
• CENTRAL ASIAN MILITARY COOPERATION, NATO EXERCISE ON TRACK.
• TENSIONS HIGH IN WAKE OF PYATIGORSK BOMBING.
• TELECOM PRIVATIZATION IS ON, AGAIN.
• LATEST PUSH FOR NATO-RUSSIAN AGREEMENT BEGINS.
• EXPLODING AMMO DUMP STOPS TRANS-SIBERIAN RAIL TRAFFIC.
• ELITES DIVIDED OVER PROPOSED RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION.
• RUSSIAN EXCLAVE'S GOVERNOR CLAIMS AREA FROM LITHUANIA.
• ARMENIA LEGALIZES RUSSIAN MILITARY BASES.
• ATTEMPT ON TAJIK PRESIDENT'S LIFE REFLECTS REGIONAL TENSIONS.

Volume 3 Issue 84

April 29, 1997

• RUSSIA WINS PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT ON PARIS CLUB, WTO MEMBERSHIP.
• YELTSIN LAUNCHES NEW SET OF REFORMS.
• RUSSIAN DUMA IN RECESS.
• RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN COSMONAUTS MAKE FIRST JOINT SPACE WALK
• DANUBE FREE ECONOMIC ZONE AND EUROREGION PLANNED.
• CENTRAL ASIA-CHINA TRANSIT CORRIDOR AGREEMENT SIGNED.
• RUSSO-TURKISH PIPELINE DEAL.
• HOUSING REFORM GETS UNDER WAY.
• CHUBAIS DEMANDS COMPENSATION FOR NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• YELTSIN SUMMONS SECURITY OFFICIALS AS TWO PEOPLE DIE IN SOUTH RUSSIAN BOMB BLAST.
• UKRAINE PLACATES IMF, INTRODUCES CURRENCY CORRIDOR.
• KUCHMA SHOWS THE FLAG IN SEVASTOPOL; CALLS FOR CITY'S DEMILITARIZATION.
• ALTERNATIVE SOUTHERN ROUTE FOR AZERBAIJANI OIL CONSIDERED.
• UIGHUR ACTIVISTS EXECUTED IN XINJIANG -- RIPPLES REACH KAZAKSTAN.

Volume 3 Issue 83

April 28, 1997

• YELTSIN TO SKIP NATO SUMMIT.
• DUMA ADOPTS LAW ON FEDERAL-REGIONAL SUBORDINATION.
• CHINESE LEADER VISITS TULA.
• ULYANOVSK REGIONAL GOVERNMENT UNDER INVESTIGATION.
• RUSSIA'S YOUNG COMMUNISTS FALL OUT WITH THE PARTY.
• RUSSIAN-U.S. PLANE UNVEILED.
• MILITARY TRANSPORT SUCCESSFULLY FLIGHT-TESTED IN UKRAINE.
• ARMENIA'S LEFTISTS UNITE, URGE ACCESSION TO RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION.
• OSCE SUSPENDS KARABAKH MONITORING.
• DUMA PUTS OFF RATIFICATION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS BAN.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AGREES ON NEW TAX CODE; REVISED BUDGET.
• RADUEV CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR ARMAVIR BOMB.
• SUSPECTS DETAINED IN MOSCOW CEMETERY BOMBING.
• FORMER YELTSIN AIDE DIES.
• DATA SHOW CIS ECONOMIC RECOVERY SPREADING.
• MASS DEMONSTRATION IN MINSK AGAINST UNION WITH RUSSIA.
• KAZAKSTAN-RUSSIA OIL PIPELINE GETS INCENTIVES FROM YELTSIN

Volume 3 Issue 82

April 25, 1997

• NEMTSOV APPOINTED FUEL AND ENERGY MINISTER.
• YASIN SLAMS UNION WITH BELARUS.
• CHECHEN DEPUTY PRESIDENT GAVE ORDER TO SHOOT DOWN ALIEN AIRCRAFT.
• RUSSIAN JEWEL EXHIBIT STILL IN LIMBO.
• UKRAINE CREATES HIGH-LEVEL ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENCY.
• ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN MILITARY AGREEMENT SAID TO DISREGARD CFE TREATY.
• KAZAKSTAN TURNS POWER GRID OVER TO ABB.
• MOBILIZING THE HOME FRONT.
• ALBRIGHT TO VISIT MOSCOW FOR MORE TALKS ON NATO.
• SENATE ACTION ON CHEMICAL TREATY PUTS PRESSURE ON RUSSIAN DUMA.
• CAMDESSUS EXPECTS RUSSIA TO RECEIVE IMF FUNDS BY END OF MAY.
• ALUMINUM WARS CONTINUE.
• PRESIDENTS SIGN BORDER AGREEMENT.
• BALTS URGE CONTINUING NATO ENLARGEMENT AFTER MADRID.
• LUCINSCHI SOUNDS ALARM OVER STOPAGE OF REFORMS.
• BELARUSAN DEMOCRATS ASK YELTSIN TO STOP "ANNEXATION."

Volume 3 Issue 81

April 24, 1997

• FORMER RUSSIAN SECURITY CHIEF IMPLICATED IN 1995 TOKYO ATTACK.
• TWO KILLED, 20 WOUNDED IN EXPLOSION AT RUSSIAN RAILWAY STATION.
• RUSSIAN MISSILE CHIEF PRAISES START TREATIES.
• CHECHEN COMMANDERS ORDERED TO SHOOT DOWN MILITARY AIRCRAFT.
• CHECHNYA CARRIES OUT FIRST EXECUTION.
• LACK OF MONEY DELAYS JOINT RUSSIAN/UKRAINIAN MILITARY TRANSPORT.
• KAZAKSTAN WORRIED BY RUSSIAN COSSACK DEPLOYMENT.
• RUSSIAN-CHINESE SUMMIT YIELDS JOINT DECLARATION.
• CHECHNYA ASKS FOR FORMER OFFICIALS TO BE HANDED OVER FOR TRIAL.
• CHECHEN LEADERSHIP INVITES ARAB COUNTRY AMBASSADORS TO ESTABLISH ECONOMIC COOPERATION.
• INGUSH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED.
• YELTSIN NAMES RUSSIAN TEAM TO DRAFT DOCUMENTS WITH BELARUS.
• LEADERS OF RUSSIA'S NATIONAL REPUBLICS QUERY UNION WITH BELARUS.
• RUSSIAN PLAN FOR DIRECT UN-CIS TIES UNDERCUTS INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES.
• AZERBAIJANI-IRANIAN TALKS HIGHLIGHT DIFFERENCES.
• TAJIK GOVERNMENT MOVES UNDERMINE RECENT AGREEMENTS WITH OPPOSITION.
• KAZAKSTAN REORGANIZES SECURITY APPARATUS.

Volume 3 Issue 80

April 23, 1997

• CHINESE LEADER ARRIVES IN RUSSIAN CAPITAL.
• RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS MARK ANNIVERSARY OF LENIN'S BIRTH.
• PRESIDENT OF RUSSIAN HOCKEY FEDERATION MURDERED.
• LITHUANIAN-U.S. EXERCISE UNDERWAY.
• TER-PETROSIAN CONCERNED THAT WEAPONS SCANDAL MAY COMPLICATE FURTHER DELIVERIES.
• BAKU, KIEV MOVE ON TRANSIT CORRIDOR.
• GOVERNMENT, DUMA PREPARE FOR BUDGET BATTLE.
• CHERNOMYRDIN MUTES NATO ISSUE IN VISIT TO CZECH REPUBLIC.
• RUSSIA DECLINES TO JOIN EU ACTIONS AGAINST IRAN.
• RADUEV CLAIMS CHECHEN GOVERNMENT TRIED TO KILL HIM.
• WOULD UNIFICATION WITH RUSSIA INCREASE FINANCIAL DISCIPLINE IN BELARUS?
• KYRGYZ PARLIAMENT MORE CLEAR-SIGHTED THAN MOLDOVAN COUNTERPART.
• "POST-COLONIAL STRESS" IN RUSSIAN POLICY.
• UKRAINE SEES WEAK MOLDOVAN STAND IN TRANSDNIESTER TALKS.

Volume 3 Issue 69

April 22, 1997

• IMPASSE OVER RUSSIAN JEWELS.
• FORMER YELTSIN ASSOCIATE DETAINED.
• CENTRAL BANKER DISMISSED.
• GULDIMANN LEAVES CHECHNYA.
• SOME RUSSIAN MILITARY FACILITIES TO MOVE TO ARMENIA FROM GEORGIA.
• TERRORIST ACTS THWARTED ON ANNIVERSARY OF DUDAEV'S DEATH.
• BEREZOVSKY MEETS BASAEV.
• THREAT OF ETHNIC CONFLICT IN DAGESTAN.
• CLONING ILYICH, OR ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH.
• OFFICIAL DENIES REPORTED 1993 THEFT OF TWO NUCLEAR WARHEADS.
• NAVY CHIEF WARY OF CHINA BORDER AGREEMENT.
• BALTIC ACCESSION TO NATO WOULD EQUAL CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, SENIOR RUSSIAN ANALYST SAYS.
• LUKASHENKO'S ISOLATION IN EUROPE DEEPENS.
• MOLDOVA'S PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY SHOOTS ITSELF IN THE FOOT.
• ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTS CLEAR THE AIR AFTER ARMED CLASHES.
• TAJIK PRISON MASSACRE HAD POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS.

Volume 3 Issue 78

April 21, 1997

• LEBED'S PARTY REGISTERED.
• CHERNOMYRDIN IN CZECH REPUBLIC.
• MOSCOW EMPHASIZES PEACEFUL RESOLUTION TO KOREAN TENSIONS.
• MORE AZERBAIJANI-ARMENIAN CLASHES REPORTED.
• ARMENIAN OPPOSITION'S SPRING CAMPAIGN IN FULL SWING.
• COMMUNISTS, ROH HOLD CONGRESSES.
• RUSSIA SIGNS PROTOCOL OUTLAWING DEATH PENALTY.
• YELTSIN CRITICIZED FOR NATO REMARKS.
• BELARUS: THE CIS ECONOMIC TIGER?
• KIEV STANDS BY PRIME MINISTER REJECTED BY CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT.
• UKRAINE HAS BUSY WEEKEND IN THE BLACK SEA.
• DUMA RATIFIES TREATY ON RUSSIAN MILITARY BASES IN ARMENIA.
• CORRECTION:

Volume 3 Issue 77

April 18, 1997

• YELTSIN LEAVES FOR 10-DAY HOLIDAY.
• KREMLIN AGAIN DEFENDS TEHRAN.
• GREENPEACE EXPELLED FROM CHUKOTKA.
• YELTSIN EXTENDS STAY OF RUSSIAN TROOPS IN BOSNIA.
• FLUSH WITH SUCCESS.
• YELTSIN SAYS HE'LL GO TO PARIS.
• CHUBAIS WARNS OF BUDGET CRISIS.
• TWO MORE KIDNAPPED IN CHECHNYA.
• LIQUIDATING RUSSIA'S NUCLEAR ARSENAL: EVERYBODY WANTS TO GET INTO THE ACT.
• RUSSIA LOOKS TO LATIN AMERICAN ARMS MARKET
• RUSSIANS TEST ICBM FROM KAZAKSTAN BASE.
• MOSCOW CALLS FOR CONDIMINIUM WITH UKRAINE IN SEVASTOPOL AND AZOV SEA.
• WHERE IS ARMENIA HEADED?
• RUSSIA, IRAN JOINTLY SUPPLY AFGHAN CLIENTS.

Volume 3 Issue 76

April 17, 1997

• YELTSIN MAKES NEW GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.
• FEDERATION COUNCIL POSTPONES VOTE ON "TROPHY ART."
• FEDERATION COUNCIL REJECTS YELTSIN NOMINEE.
• RUSSIA TO FLOAT THIRD EUROBOND.
• STAVROPOL TO DIG ITSELF OFF FROM CHECHNYA.
• NATO-RUSSIA SUMMIT TO BE HELD IN PARIS, IF...
• INDIA GETS TWO MORE RUSSIAN FIGHTERS.
• BREAKUP OF INTER-TAJIK TALKS OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED.
• YELTSIN ARRIVES FOR TALKS IN GERMANY.
• IS THE CFE AGREEMENT UNRAVELING?
• DUMA SEEKS TO CONTROL TV COVERAGE OF ITS WORK.
• CHECHEN ENVOY MAKES ROUNDS OF WORLD CAPITALS.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF IN CHINA.
• RUSSIA TO MOVE FORWARD ON IRAQI OIL DEAL?
• INCIDENTS ON ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI FRONT REPORTED.
• SHEVARDNADZE ERUPTS OVER NONIMPLEMENTATION OF CIS SUMMIT AGREEMENT ON ABKHAZIA.

Volume 3 Issue 75

April 16, 1997

• RUSSIA CLAIMS ECONOMY IS GROWING.
• MOSCOW HIKES VODKA TAX.
• GOVERNOR WANTS DEFENSE INDUSTRIES MINISTRY RESTORED.
• RUSSIA TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN G-7 MEETING.
• RUSSIAN ENVOY IN DAMASCUS.
• RUSSIAN SHIPYARD TO REPAIR CHINESE SUBMARINES.
• BLACK SEA FLEET LAUNCHES MAJOR EXERCISE.
• UKRAINE WON'T SELL TURBINES FOR RE-EXPORT TO IRAN.
• LITTLE TO SHOW FROM NATO-RUSSIA TALKS.
• YELTSIN REPLACES ANOTHER LEADING GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL.
• AIR FORCE CHIEF DENIES UKRAINIAN CHARGES.
• RUSSIAN EXPERT WARNS OFF FALL IN ARMS EXPORTS.
• UKRAINE LAUNCHES ANTI-CORRUPTION PROGRAM.
• KUCHMA CONSIDERS STRATEGY TO REINSTATE INCENTIVES FOR FOREIGN INVESTORS.
• DECISIVE INTER-TAJIK TALKS BREAKS DOWN.
• OFFICIAL MOSCOW DISAVOWS MISINFORMATION ON TURKMENISTAN.

Volume 3 Issue 74

April 15, 1997

• WORLD BANK LOANS RUSSIA $6 BILLION.
• RUSSIAN OFFICER CHARGED WITH TREASON WINS ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE.
• HIJACKER OF RUSSIAN BUS DISARMED, HOSTAGES RELEASED.
• YELTSIN DISMISSES RUSSIAN TAX SERVICE CHIEF AND MINISTER OF RAILWAYS.
• YELTSIN URGES POPULATION TO "BUY RUSSIAN."
• MOSCOW OUTRAGED BY CHARGE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING IN KOENIGSBERG/KALININGRAD.
• NO "PUBLIC DEBATE" IN BELARUS; OPPOSITION ANNOUNCES MASS PROTESTS
• UNION WITH BELARUS "UNWORKABLE."
• ITALIAN JOURNALIST RELEASED.
• YELTSIN SAID PREPARING TO RETURN TROPHY ART.
• RUSSIA'S MILITARY SPACE FORCES IN "CRITICAL" FINANCIAL CONDITION.
• "THE PEOPLE AREN'T THE PROBLEM."
• UKRAINE CREATES TOP-LEVEL INVESTMENT COUNCIL.
• AZERBAIJAN SENTENCES ISLAMIST LEADERS FOR IRAN LINKS.
• BAKU REAFFIRMS WESTERN ORIENTATION AGAINST IRANIAN ATTACK.

Volume 3 Issue 73

April 14, 1997

• YAVLINSKY SAYS HE EXPECTS HIS FACTION TO JOIN GOVERNMENT.
• ACTING RUSSIAN FUEL AND ENERGY MINISTER APPOINTED.
• LEBED AND YAVLINSKY IN BRITAIN.
• MORE CUTS FOR RUSSIA'S AIRBORNE TROOPS.
• JAPANESE MINISTER MAY POSTPONE RUSSIA VISIT; NEMTSOV NAMED TO COMMISSION.
• RUSSIA AND CYPRUS SIGN ACCORDS.
• SHARANSKY VISITS UKRAINIAN HOMETOWN.
• TURKMENISTAN REJECTS STORY ON UKRAINIAN ARMS SHIPMENTS TO TALIBAN.
• MOSCOW REAFFIRMS FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH TEHRAN.
• MASKHADOV SAYS PEACE TREATY WITH MOSCOW COULD BE SIGNED IN A FEW DAYS.
• IS RUSSIA A SPECIAL CASE, OR JUST A HARD CASE?
• AX FINALLY FALLS ON GROUND FORCES COMMANDER.
• UKRAINE ADDS INSULT TO SELF-INFLICTED INJURY.
• PRIMAKOV BROKERS CHISINAU-TIRASPOL TALKS.
• DUMA EQUIVOCATES, RODIONOV CONDEMNS ILLICIT ARMS SUPPLIES TO ARMENIA.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY MISSION ATTACHED TO TAJIK ARMY.
• GERMANY TO PROVIDE MILITARY TRAINING FOR UZBEKISTAN.

Volume 3 Issue 72

April 11, 1997

• RUSSIAN MINERS END BLOCKADE.
• TATARS AND BASHKIRS JOIN FORCES.
• MASKHADOV POSTPONES PILGRIMAGE.
• DUMA GROUP TO PROMOTE BETTER TIES WITH NATO.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF OFF TO CHINA.
• BULGARIA MIG DEAL APPARENTLY OFF.
• OPPOSITION TO UNION BUILDS IN BELARUS.
• NEMTSOV TOPS POLL...
• ...TACKLES ELECTRICITY GIANT.
• RUSSIAN BUDGET CRISIS LOOMS, AGAIN.
• RUSSIAN SPACE WOES CONTINUE; NEW SHUTTLE PROPOSED.
• RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES STEP UP ACTIVITY, FOCUSING ON NATO EXPANSION.
• UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT'S FATE ON THE LINE AFTER ANOTHER SETBACK FOR REFORMERS.
• CONFUSION IN CRIMEA.
• CRIMEAN TATARS TO SWITCH TO LATIN SCRIPT.

Volume 3 Issue 71

April 10, 1997

• YELTSIN TO TAKE TWO-WEEK VACATION.
• CHIEF CHECHEN NEGOTIATOR HEADS FOR MOSCOW.
• YELTSIN NAMES NEW FOREIGN POLICY AIDE.
• MOSCOW GANGLAND MASSACRE LEAVES SIX DEAD.
• COHEN PUSHES PATRIOT MISSILES.
• YELTSIN ANNOUNCES NEW MEASURES AGAINST CORRUPTION.
• START II RATIFICATION STILL A PROBLEM.
• YELTSIN COULD TRAVEL TO PARIS FOR SIGNING OF NATO AGREEMENT.
• RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANKER SUPPORTS MONETARY UNION WITH BELARUS.
• UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN NAVAL DETENTE ANNOUNCED.
• SNOWBALLING REVELATIONS ON RUSSIAN ARMS DELIVERIES TO ARMENIA.
• INTER-TAJIK TALKS OPEN AND BREAK DOWN.

Volume 3 Issue 70

April 9, 1997

• KUCHMA APPOINTS NEW DEPUTY PREMIER IN CHARGE OF ECONOMIC REFORM.
• YELTSIN TO ISSUE DECREE ON BELARUS/RUSSIA UNION.
• RUSSIAN FUEL AND ENERGY MINISTER RESIGNS.
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN PARIS.
• LEBANESE PM HOLDS TALKS IN MOSCOW.
• MOSCOW ADMONISHES U.S. ON IRAQ.
• UKRAINE TO PROVIDE ENGINES FOR CHINESE MILITARY TRAINER.
• THE REAL REASON WHY YELTSIN SACKED RYURIKOV.
• TATARSTAN PRESS DENOUNCES BELARUS-RUSSIA UNION.
• TOKYO STILL TRYING TO INVEST IN RUSSIA.
• RUSSIA REACHES STEEL AGREEMENT WITH EUROPEAN UNION.
• MOSCOW QUESTIONS U.S. INTERPRETATION OF ABM TREATY.
• POPE SPEAKS OUT ON BELARUS.
• THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT IN DO-OR-DIE SITUATION.

Volume 3 Issue 68

April 7, 1997

• WARNING ABOUT RUSSIAN BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS.
• NEW CHIEF OF STAFF FOR BELARUS ARMED FORCES.
• YELTSIN CRITICIZES HUMAN RIGHTS IN BELARUS, SACKS AIDE.
• MORE CHANGES IN RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.
• BATTLE OVER NATURAL MONOPOLIES HEATS UP.
• DUMA DEFIES YELTSIN ON TROPHY ART.
• CORRUPTION SCANDAL IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD.
• CHECHEN PRESIDENT PLANS PILGRIMAGE.
• ANOTHER CALL TO THE COLORS.
• WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ISSUES TRAVEL ADVISORY.
• UKRAINE LIFTS RESTRICTIONS ON RUSSIAN MILITARY OVERFLIGHTS, BUT QUESTIONS PERSIST.
• KUCHMA PROMISES "CONCRETE DECISIONS" OVER CRIMEA.

Volume 3 Issue 67

April 4, 1997

• CHERNOMYRDIN DENIES WEALTH CLAIMS.
• DUMA ANTI-NATO COMMISSION TO ASSIST ANTI-NATO GROUP.
• REPORT SLAMS RUSSIAN ARMY.
• PRO-INDEPENDENCE DEMONSTRATORS SENTENCED IN BELARUS.
• MOSCOW MAYOR GETS HIS OWN FRAGRANCE.
• THE YELTSIN-LUKASHENKO AGREEMENTS: PROCEDURES AND QUESTION MARKS.
• IMPORTANT PERSONNEL CHANGES CONTINUE IN MOSCOW.
• THE LOGIC BEHIND THE IMF'S LOAN RENEWAL.
• OSCE MISSION IN CHECHNYA TO GET NEW HEAD.
• DUMA TO APPOINT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER.
• RUSSIANS DO NOT TRUST THE POLICE OR THE COURTS.
• UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN AIR INCIDENTS.

Volume 3 Issue 66

April 3, 1997

• AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ACCUSES RUSSIA OF USING TORTURE.
• DUMA BID FAILS TO RESTORE RED FLAG.
• PARLIAMENTARY GROUP SLAMS NATO.
• MOSCOW DENIES ISRAELI MISSILE REPORT.
• RUSSIA TO CUT BOSNIAN GAS DELIVERIES.
• SHAMIL BASAEV NAMED AS FIRST DEPUTY PREMIER OF CHECHNYA.
• U.S. CALLS FOR RUSSIA TO PRESS AHEAD WITH ECONOMIC REFORM.
• GOLD MINES NOT REALIZING THEIR POTENTIAL.
• CHILDREN PLAY WITH LEAKING MISSILE FUEL.
• POPULAR ATTITUDES TOWARD REFORM.
• IS ESTONIA'S LIBERAL FARM POLICY COMING TO AN END?
• MASS PROTEST IN MINSK.
• UKRAINE-NATO COOPERATION GAINING MOMENTUM.
• TOP UKRAINIAN REFORMER QUITS, KUCHMA PLANS REMEDIAL MEASURES.

Volume 3 Issue 65

April 2, 1997

• INDIA WANTS TO BUY RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER.
• SOME NEW, SOME OLD FACES TO HEAD CIS BODIES.
• DIFFERENCES EMERGE OVER NEW CONFLICT-SOLVING BODY.
• YELTSIN AND LUKASHENKO SIGN TREATY; FUEL HOPES FOR RESTORATION OF OLD UNION.
• U.S. GOVERNMENT PUZZLED BUT NOT WORRIED ABOUT RUSSIAN BUNKERS.
• IMF TO RESTART LOAN PAYMENTS TO RUSSIA.
• WORKERS CONTINUE STRIKE IN TATARSTAN.
• MORE LEADERS IN RUSSIA'S FAR EAST OBJECT TO TRANSFER OF LAND TO CHINA.
• RUSSIAN JOBLESS RISING.
• IRAQ TO GET RUSSIAN TANKS?
• IRANIAN-RUSSIAN MISSILE DEAL REPORTED.
• RUSSO-JAPANESE RELATIONS SAID TO BE ON TRACK.
• RUSSIAN GROUND FORCES COMMANDER STILL NOT CHARGED.
• STATUE OF LAST RUSSIAN CZAR BLOWN UP.
• LUKASHENKO ADMIRES NAZI AND SOVIET "AUTHORITY."

Volume 3 Issue 64

April 1, 1997

• SECOND BATCH OF UKRAINIAN TANKS FOR PAKISTAN NEARING COMPLETION.
• RESOURCE-POOR KYRGYZSTAN NEEDS RUSSIA.
• UZBEK PRESIDENT CHAMPIONS INDEPENDENCE.
• TURKMENISTAN OPPOSES SUPRANATIONAL BODIES.
• NAZARBAEV DEFENDS COOPERATION OUTSIDE CIS.
• GEORGIA SEES CIS RISKS AS EXCEEDING BENEFITS.
• UKRAINIAN LEADERS ELATED BY BILATERAL MEETING WITH YELTSIN.
• RUSSIAN TUBERCULOSIS RATE ON RISE.
• THE CIS SUMMIT: LUKASHENKO "THE MOST FRIENDLY" TO MOSCOW.
• TOLBOEV AND MASKHADOV NEGOTIATE WITH FIELD COMMANDERS OVER KIDNAPPED JOURNALISTS.
• RUSSIA TO RENEG ON ARMS TRADE PLEDGE?
• MOSCOW STILL INCHING TOWARD NATO; YELTSIN NOT TO ATTEND MADRID SUMMIT.
• SHARIAT COURTS BROUGHT INTO THE FIGHT AGAINST KIDNAPPING IN CHECHNYA.
• YELTSIN TO VISIT GERMANY.

Volume 3 Issue 63

March 31, 1997

• RUSSIAN CHAIRMANSHIP PRESERVED, FOLLOW-UP SUMMIT SCHEDULED.
• RUSSIA, GEORGIA, SCORE VICTORIES IN CASPIAN ENERGY BATTLES.
• IMPASSE MAY PERSIST IN ABKHAZIA.
• INTEGRATION CONCEPT SHELVED.
• YELTSIN REDEFINES CIS ON ANTI-WESTERN BASIS AT MOSCOW SUMMIT.
• RUSSIA'S CHILD VICTIMS.
• JEWISH UNIVERSITY TO BE ESTABLISHED IN MOSCOW.
• EROSION OF RUSSIAN OFFICER CORPS CONTINUES.
• RECRIMINATIONS OVER LOW TURN-OUT IN LAST WEEK'S PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS.
• RUSSIAN-CHECHEN NEGOTIATIONS RESUME; TITLE OF PEACE AGREEMENT STILL A STUMBLING BLOCK.
• CHECHNYA CONCERNED OVER MILITARY EXERCISES.

Volume 3 Issue 62

March 28, 1997

• MOSCOW EXTRADITES HUSSEINOV.
• GEORGIA, MOLDOVA, GAINING FINANCIAL RESPECTABILITY.
• PRIME MINISTERS ADOPT DILUTED CONCEPT OF INTEGRATION.
• THE WAR ON CORRUPTION IN THE RUSSIAN MILITARY.
• FOREIGN MINISTERS BAFFLED BY "PROLIFERATING" CIS STRUCTURES.
• YELTSIN'S G-7 REMARKS MARK POINT OF POTENTIAL DISCORD.
• U.S. SENT NEW BELARUSAN ENVOY HOME.
• RUSSIA OFFERS TURKEY LATEST MILITARY HELICOPTER.
• RUSSIAN DEMONSTRATIONS PASS OFF PEACEFULLY.
• RUSSIA'S MINERS: A LITMUS TEST.

Volume 3 Issue 61

March 27, 1997

• TAJIK GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION FORCES JOINTLY FIGHT THE SODIROVS.
• RYBKIN DEPLORES "FUSS" OVER KIDNAPPED JOURNALISTS...
• ...SAYS OIL SHIPMENTS BYPASSING RUSSIA WOULD HARM RUSSIAN AND CHECHEN ECONOMIES.
• BULGARIA WANTS TO BUY AND SERVICE RUSSIAN MIG-29S.
• DEFENSE MINISTERS' MEETING MARKS TIME.
• YELTSIN DEFENDS HIS PERFORMANCE IN HELSINKI.
• DID RUSSIA PAY TOO MUCH FOR ITS SECOND EUROBOND?
• MORE RUSSIAN CABINET APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED.
• UKRAINE INITIATES MAJOR TENDER ON OIL TRANSIT ROUTE.
• MOSCOW DISCARDS ALMATY'S CONCERN OVER COSSACKS.
• YELTSIN PROMISES MILITARY REFORM.
• RUSSIA AND UKRAINE CANNOT AGREE ON PRICE FOR BOMBERS.
• LATVIAN PRESIDENT URGES RUSSIA TO RETURN SOVIET-ERA ARCHIVES.
• RUSSIAN WORKERS PROTEST.
• KREMLIN TRIES TO DEFUSE TENSIONS.
• RUSSIAN OFFICIALS TO LOSE FOREIGN CARS.
• U.S. ISOLATES BELARUSAN REGIME.

Volume 3 Issue 60

March 26, 1997

• OSCE BARRED FROM TRANSDNIESTER MONITORING BODY.
• UKRAINIAN-AZERBAIJANI RAPPROCHEMENT ACCELERATES.
• CHINESE LEADER HOLDS TALKS IN MOSCOW...
• ...AS INDIA AND RUSSIA SIGN BILATERAL AGREEMENTS.
• RUSSIAN OFFICIAL DISMISSES TERROR WARNING AS "PROVOCATION."
• ORT WINS CASE AGAINST PARLIAMENT.
• PROSPECTS FOR NATURAL MONOPOLY RESTRUCTURING INCREASINGLY CONFUSED.
• STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF RUSSIA'S ALUMINUM INDUSTRY.
• U.S. RECALLS MINSK AMBASSADOR FOR CONSULTATIONS.
• LITHUANIAN CONSERVATIVES SWEEP LOCAL ELECTIONS.
• MOSCOW WILL OBSERVE SANCTIONS ON IRAQ.
• MISSILE OFFICER ARRESTED AS A SPY.
• RUSSIA AND UKRAINE TO RESUME TALKS ON STRATEGIC BOMBERS.
• MOLDOVAN AIRBASE FOR NATO-RELATED CIVILIAN ACTIVITIES.
• GEORGIA WATCHES RUSSIAN WARSHIPS CHASING TURKISH TRAWLERS.
• KAZAKSTAN CONCERNED BY ARMED COSSACKS JUST ACROSS THE BORDER.
• RUSSIA PREPARES FOR NATIONWIDE STRIKE.

Volume 3 Issue 59

March 25, 1997

• GEORGIA REDEFINES CONDITIONS FOR PEACEKEEPING IN ABKHAZIA.
• UKRAINE TO DO WITHOUT RUSSIAN HELP IN BUILDING TANKS FOR PAKISTAN.
• REPRESSION IN BELARUS.
• IN THE WAKE OF THE SUMMIT, MOSCOW LOOKS TO ASIA AND THE GULF.
• FOUL PLAY WITH RUSSIAN STATISTICS?
• COMMUNISTS AND NATIONALISTS DO WELL IN REGIONAL ELECTIONS.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT JITTERY IN ADVANCE OF THURSDAY'S GENERAL STRIKE.
• CHUBAIS CHARMS MINERS' LEADERS.
• SHOULD RUSSIA'S $39 BILLION 1996 TRADE SURPLUS BE A SOURCE OF PRIDE?
• EMPLOYERS OF KIDNAPPED JOURNALISTS REFUSE TO PAY RANSOM.
• TURKEY SEEKS MORE LIGHT ON RUSSIAN ARMOR DELIVERIES TO ARMENIA.
• CALL FOR REPLACEMENT OF YELTSIN'S HUMAN RIGHTS WATCHDOG.
• NEW PARTY WILL OPPOSE TERRITORIAL TRANSFER.

Volume 3 Issue 58

March 24, 1997

• UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE CHARTS WESTERN ORIENTATION.
• BELARUSAN OPPOSITION DEMONSTRATES ON INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY.
• JAPAN UNENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT G-7 AGREEMENT?
• IMPASSE IN RUSSIAN-SYRIAN ARMS TALKS.
• TOP OIL AND GAS EXECUTIVE ASSASSINATED IN KYRGYZSTAN.
• HELSINKI SUMMIT: AN UNANTICIPATED BREAKTHROUGH?
• ARMS CONTROL AT THE SUMMIT.
• MORE CHANGES IN RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT EXPECTED.
• NEMTSOV VOWS TO ABOLISH INSIDER PRIVILEGES FOR BANKS.
• REACTION TO HELSINKI SUMMIT: CAUTIOUS HOPE, CALLS FOR ACTION.
• ESTONIAN-RUSSIAN CULTURAL AGREEMENT SIGNED; LOOTED ART REMAINS A PROBLEM.
• KUCHMA LAMBASTS GOVERNMENT'S ECONOMIC POLICIES; APPOINTS LANOVY TO STATE PROPERTY FUND.

Volume 3 Issue 57

March 21, 1997

• CORRECTION:
• UKRAINE STEPS RESOLUTELY TOWARD NATO.
• CRIMEA IN THE GRIP OF INTERNECINE FEUDING.
• ARMENIA'S NEW PRIME MINISTER IS KARABAKH'S PRESIDENT.
• TATARSTAN DEBATES CITIZENSHIP LAW.
• HOW WILL RUSSIA'S GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLING AFFECT NATURAL MONOPOLY REGULATION?
• HELSINKI SUMMIT GETS UNDERWAY.
• NO CONCEALED WEAPONS.
• TURKMENISTAN OFFERS ITS GAS TO ISRAEL.
• MOSCOW REPROACHES THE CZECH REPUBLIC...
• ...AND GERMANY.
• PARATROOPERS HOLD FIRST LARGE EXERCISE IN SIX YEARS.
• BALTIC STATES BID FOR U.S. ATTENTION AT HELSINKI SUMMIT.
• KAZAKSTAN DIFFERS WITH RUSSIA ON CENTRAL ASIAN SECURITY.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT HOLDS FIRST MEETING.

Volume 3 Issue 56

March 20, 1997

• KYRGYZSTAN EXTENDS STAY OF RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS.
• REGION'S COUNTRIES TO HANG TOGETHER OR HANG SEPARATELY.
• LUKASHENKO MOVES AGAINST FOREIGN FOUNDATIONS, THREATENS TO PROSECUTE OPPONENTS.
• RUSSIA'S DOLLAR TRADE WITH THE CIS DOWN SHARPLY.
• MASKHADOV NAMES HIS GOVERNMENT.
• SOME STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE DEFENSE MINISTRY.
• STALEMATE IN RUSSIAN-CHECHEN TALKS.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT THREATENS CORPORATE TAX-DEBTORS.
• CHECHEN PARLIAMENT ELECTS SPEAKER.
• RUSSIA CRITICIZES ISRAEL OVER HOUSING CONSTRUCTION.
• RUSSIAN FIGHTER PROGRAM PUT ON HOLD.
• TUSSLE OVER FIGHTERS BUILT IN GEORGIA, PAID FOR BY MOSCOW.
• AZERBAIJAN SENTENCES REBEL GROUP.
• ATMOSPHERE TENSE AS HELSINKI SUMMIT BEGINS.
• KUSHNAREV REAFFIRMS NATO OPTION FOR UKRAINE.

Volume 3 Issue 55

March 19, 1997

• AZERBAIJAN SENTENCES LEZGIN MILITANTS.
• MAJOR KAZAKSTANI BANK EXPANDS INTO OIL.
• KUCHMA ORDERS INVESTIGATION INTO JOURNALIST'S SUSPICIOUS DEATH.
• UKRAINIAN LEFTISTS SHOW SOME MUSCLE.
• THE OTHER SHOE DROPS FOR THE PARATROOPERS.
• BELARUSAN AUTHORITIES CLAMP DOWN ON DEMONSTRATORS.
• FIFTY BELIEVED DEAD IN RUSSIAN AIRLINE CRASH.
• YELTSIN APPOINTS LIVSHITS TO PRESIDENTIAL STAFF.
• LEBED SAYS NATO ENLARGEMENT AIMED AT RUSSIA.
• ANOTHER SENIOR OFFICER CHARGED.
• UKRAINE WINS AN ARMS CONTRACT AT GULF EXHIBIT.
• LITHUANIA HOLDING WAR GAMES.
• ESTONIA SUBSIDIZES RUSSIAN CITY.
• CLANDESTINE EXPLOSIVES FACTORY UNCOVERED IN ESTONIA.
• U.S. OFFERS REASSURANCES TO NATO ASPIRANTS.

Volume 3 Issue 54

March 18, 1997

• SHEVARDNADZE ANGERED BY MOSCOW'S PARTIALITY IN ABKHAZIA.
• TURKMENISTAN DISTANCES ITSELF FROM MOSCOW IN TALKS WITH NATO LEADER.
• NEW ESTONIAN GOVERNMENT TAKES OFFICE.
• RIGA, VILNIUS NERVOUS OVER HELSINKI SUMMIT.
• UKRAINE FEELS "PUSHED TOWARD NATO" BY MOSCOW.
• FINANCIAL, LABOR TENSIONS MOUNTING IN NORILSK.
• YELTSIN MAINTAINS CRITICISM OF NATO.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT REFUSES TO INTRODUCE MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY.
• SOME SECTORAL MINISTRIES TO BE DISSOLVED.
• YELTSIN SUBMITS CHEMICAL TREATY FOR RATIFICATION.
• FIRST NEW SUKHOI FIGHTERS SENT TO INDIA.
• RUSSIA GETS TWO REFORMIST FIRST DEPUTY PREMIERS...
• YELTSIN SAYS HE'S FIGHTING FIT.
• SUMMIT DATE MOVED BACK A DAY.
• YELTSIN VETOES BILL ON LOOTED GERMAN ART.
• RUSSIANS DIVIDED OVER LENIN'S RESTING PLACE.

Volume 3 Issue 53

March 17, 1997

• MASKHADOV TELLS GEORGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER THAT DUDAEV "MADE SERIOUS MISTAKE" IN AIDING ABKHAZIA.
• MINSK DEMONSTRATORS SUPPORT LEGITIMATE PARLIAMENT AND CONSTITUTION.
• AZERBAIJAN, JAPAN NEARING OIL CONTRACT.
• NEW RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO BE ANNOUNCED.
• MASKHADOV BANS INDEPENDENT TV AND RADIO IN CHECHNYA.
• CHECHEN FIELD COMMANDERS VOTE TO DISBAND ALL UNITS THAT DO NOT JOIN REGULAR ARMY.
• RED CONCLAVE IN MINSK.
• TOWARD A "SINGLE CRIMINAL SPACE" ?
• YELTSIN SLAMS U.S. FOR FAILING TO SUPPORT REFORMS.
• GOVERNMENT ORDERED TO FIND BETTER WAY TO FEED THE MILITARY.
• RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR WARNS PRAGUE ABOUT NATO MEMBERSHIP.
• UZBEKISTAN, CITING BAN ON MISSIONARY ACTIVITIES, IMPOUNDS BIBLES.
• ONE SODIROV APPREHENDED.
• YELTSIN STAKES OUT HARD LINE FOR UPCOMING NATO TALKS.

Volume 3 Issue 52

March 14, 1997

• NATO LEADER VISITS THE REGION.
• UNLAWFUL RUSSIAN ARMOR DELIVERIES TO ARMENIA CONFIRMED.
• GEORGIAN FLEET SLOWLY TAKING SHAPE IN COOPERATION WITH UKRAINE.
• NOTHING SHEEPISH ABOUT THESE DOGS.
• CHECHEN SITUATION DISCUSSED AT WASHINGTON HEARINGS.
• RUSSIA ISSUES SECOND EUROBOND.
• MOSCOW LOOKS READY TO BARGAIN ON RELATIONS WITH NATO.
• SHAKE-UP BEGINNING IN THE RUSSIAN MILITARY LEADERSHIP?
• NAVY CHIEF TO GET THE AXE.
• RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN EXPORTS THREATENED BY PROTECTIONISM.
• SENIOR RUSSIAN OFFICER SHOT IN DUSHANBE.
• RUSSIAN SPACE TROOPS GET NEW COMMANDER.
• UKRAINIAN WARSHIP DETAINS TURKISH BOATS.
• REGIONAL GOVERNOR SAYS HE WILL SELL SUBMARINES TO COVER DEBT.
• JAPANESE DIPLOMATS SEE POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA.
• BEIJING RULES OUT ANTI-NATO ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA.
• RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY LOSING MEMBERS.

Volume 3 Issue 51

March 13, 1997

• HAS ECONOMIC RECOVERY BEGUN IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE?
• BELARUSAN OPPOSITION PREDICTS NEW PROTESTS DESPITE REPRESSION.
• UKRAINE MOVES ANOTHER STEP CLOSER TO NATO.
• UKRAINE WILLING TO SEND PEACEKEEPERS TO TRANSDNIESTER.
• DUMA DECLARES LIMITED AMNESTY FOR PARTICIPANTS IN CHECHEN WAR.
• SOME DISCORDANT NOTES IN ISRAELI-RUSSIAN TALKS.
• RUSSIA STEPS UP CONTROL OF CHECHEN BORDER; INTERNAL TROOPS TO OPERATE ON CHECHEN TERRITORY.
• YAVLINSKY STATES HIS TERMS.
• RUSSIAN WARSHIPS IN GEORGIAN WATERS ATTACK AND DETAIN TURKISH TRAWLERS.
• DETAILS OF BORDER PACT WITH CHINA MIGHT NOT BE DISCLOSED.
• UDMURTIA BOWS TO PRESSURE.
• ORT APPEALS TO SUPREME COURT.
• RUSSIAN-BULGARIAN ENERGY AGREEMENT.
• RUSSIANS AND CHECHENS EXCHANGE PRISONERS.

Volume 3 Issue 50

March 12, 1997

• COMMANDERS OF BORDER TROOPS CONSIDER RUSSIAN COOPERATION PROPOSALS.
• BALTS CONCERNED BY POSSIBLE YALTA-TWO.
• UKRAINIAN, MOLDOVAN PRESIDENTS AGREE ON CUSTOMS UNION AND TRANSDNIESTER CONFLICT SETTLEMENT.
• SIGNIFICANT RUSSIAN FORCE CUTS SAID TO BEGIN IN GEORGIA
• NATO CHIEF IN KAZAKSTAN AT START OF REGIONAL VISIT.
• TRANSDNIESTER CLOSES OSCE BRANCH OFFICE, BANS MISSION CHIEF.
• BAKU, YEREVAN STATEMENTS HIGHLIGHT KARABAKH IMPASSE.
• MOSCOW UNDERSCORES RELATIONS WITH IRAQ.
• SHAPOSHNIKOV NAMED TO PRESIDENTIAL POST.
• YELTSIN ORDERS REVAMPING, NOT RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.
• CHUBAIS' FIRST MOVE.
• JOURNALIST REPLACES CHUBAIS AS HEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION.
• NETANYAHU, YELTSIN CALL FOR IMPROVED BILATERAL RELATIONS.
• IS RUSSIA WINNING THE WAR AGAINST TAX EVASION?
• YELTSIN MAKES AN EXAMPLE OF UDMURTIA'S AUTHORITARIAN LEADERS.
• BELARUS-RUSSIA PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY: "GIVE THEM RHETORIC".

Volume 3 Issue 49

March 11, 1997

• GEORGIA NAMES NEW NAVY LEADER, REPEATS CALL FOR PART OF SOVIET FLEET.
• UIGHURS CLAIM RESPONSIBILITY FOR BEIJING BLAST.
• MORE TRIALS IN AZERBAIJAN.
• ARE YEREVAN'S RELATIONS WITH THE IMF BACK ON TRACK?
• YELTSIN ORDERS RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN.
• RUSSIA-NATO TALKS PICK UP SPEED.
• CHECHEN NEGOTIATIONS HIT SNAGS.
• MASS PROTEST IN MINSK AGAINST RUSSIA-BELARUS COMMUNITY.
• TRANSDNIESTER SUSPENDS COOPERATION WITH OSCE.
• UKRAINE CRUCIAL TO EUROPE'S FUTURE -- RIFKIND.
• RUSSIAN TRANSCAUCASUS COMMANDER SAID TO BE DISMISSED.
• MCDONALD'S EXPANDS INTO GEORGIA.
• FIVE BILLION RUBLES NOT ENOUGH: WORKERS CALL STRIKE.
• LEBED TO MAKE ASIAN TOUR?
• BASAEV UNHURT IN BOMBING ATTEMPT.
• ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER HOLDS TALKS IN MOSCOW.
• CHECHNYA'S NEW PARLIAMENT READY FOR WORK.

Volume 3 Issue 48

March 10, 1997

• ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS, MEDICAL REASONS QUESTIONED.
• HAS THE TAJIK OPPOSITION REALLY SURRENDERED MILITARILY?
• YELTSIN AND LUKASHENKO ON A TREADMILL.
• RUSSIA TO SET UP BODY TO FACILITATE CENTER-MINORITY DIALOGUE.
• RUSSIAN CADET KILLS SIX.
• ST. PETERSBURG OUT OF OLYMPIC RUNNING.
• RUSSIA'S MARITIME TERRITORY FACES COLOSSAL CLEANUP.
• NEW RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT BEING DRAWN UP.
• SOME HINTS OF MOVEMENT IN NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL.
• CONFUSION PRECEDES IMF VISIT.
• TOKYO APPLAUDS YELTSIN SPEECH.
• U.S. HOUSE MEMBERS SLAM NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• SUMMIT DATE CHANGED; PRIMAKOV VISIT TO U.S. IS SET.

Volume 3 Issue 47

March 7, 1997

• KAZAKSTANI GOVERNMENT UNDERGOES RADICAL REFORM.
• WAR OF WORDS OVER ARMS.
• TIRASPOL SHAKEN BY OSCE REPORT.
• UKRAINE'S ECONOMIC STABILIZATION CONTINUES IN 1997.
• LUKASHENKO DECREES BEAR HIS STAMP.
• TATARSTAN TO SIGN COOPERATION TREATY WITH CHECHNYA; DUMA APPROVES AMNESTY.
• YELTSIN'S ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT: FAMILIAR THEMES ON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY.
• BAKU RULES OUT TALKS WITH KARABAKH.
• TAJIK STATE SECURITY OFFICERS CAUGHT CARRYING LOAD OF DRUGS.
• CHERNOMYRDIN PROMISES CABINET REORGANIZATION.
• YELTSIN ORDERS GOVERNMENT TO NEGOTIATE WITH UNIONS.
• WOMAN DIES DURING POWER CUTOFF.
• UKRAINE CAUTIONS AGAINST SPHERES-OF-INFLUENCE DEAL.
• RUSSIA'S PARLIAMENT BANISHES A TV STATION.
• CHECHNYA BANISHES JOURNALISTS.

Volume 3 Issue 46

March 6, 1997

• FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN KAZAKSTAN KEEPS GROWING.
• UKRAINIAN EX-PREMIER RETURNS FROM ISRAELI REFUGE.
• SOUTH OSSETIA TALKS DRIVEN INTO IMPASSE.
• NEGOTIATING WITH NATO: A CHANGE OF TACTICS IN MOSCOW?
• WORKERS AND MANAGEMENT IN DEFENSE INDUSTRIES UNHAPPY.
• FOUR RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS, NOT TWO, KIDNAPPED IN CHECHNYA.
• CHUBAIS EXPECTED TO RETURN TO GOVERNMENT.
• MOSCOW MEETINGS UNDERSCORE IMPORTANCE OF RUSSIAN BANKERS.
• TOKYO WANTS EXPLANATION FOR RUSSIAN'S NO-SHOW.
• UAE MAY BUY RUSSIAN MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM.
• HUNGARY SIGNALS CONCERN OVER RUSSIAN INTENTIONS.
• YELTSIN PROMISES SWEEPING REFORMS.
• DUMA TO DISCUSS START II TREATY THIS MONTH.

Volume 3 Issue 44

March 4, 1997

• IS RUSSIA'S LONG-AWAITED ECONOMIC RECOVERY BEGINNING?
• ACADEMICIAN SHATALIN DIES.
• BELARUSAN OPPOSITION DEMONSTRATION: PATRIOTIC AND IMPISH.
• MOLDOVA OFFERS RUSSIA A "MINI-DAYTON."
• WHO IS HOLDING UP THE SALE OF UKRAINE'S STRATEGIC BOMBERS TO RUSSIA?
• INTER-TAJIK TALKS SUSPENDED AFTER GOVERNMENT DOUBLE-CROSS.
• SUMMIT CONSIDERS MILITARY RESPONSES TO TALIBAN.
• DUMA LEADER BACKS DEFENSE MINISTER.
• BEIJING WANTS BORDER DEMARCATION COMPLETED.
• TOKYO DENIES RUSSIAN SHIP WAS SPYING.
• RUSSIA TO SELL NEW HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS TO SLOVAKIA.
• RUSSIA TO HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCHDOG.
• CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS YELTSIN'S MOVE TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY.
• CONDITIONS IN RUSSIAN PRISONS CALLED INHUMANE.

Volume 3 Issue 42

February 28, 1997

• MOSCOW RAISING TALIBAN SPECTER TO DRAW CENTRAL ASIA INTO MILITARY BLOC.
• YELTSIN CRITICIZES RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AGAIN.
• DRAFT OF YELTSIN'S ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT LEAKED TO PRESS.
• RUSSIA'S JUSTICE MINISTER WARNS REGIONS TO TOE THE LINE.
• KOKOSHIN: MILITARY WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR NEW WEAPONS.
• BELARUSAN REGIME SEEMS TO BE LOSING ENTHUSIASM ABOUT MERGER WITH RUSSIA.
• GEORGIA SENDS MIXED SIGNALS ON ABKHAZIA.
• UKRAINE AND RUSSIA IN TALKS OVER MISSILE WARNING RADARS.
• PRIMAKOV ACCEPTS BALTIC ACCESSION TO EUROPEAN UNION.
• LATVIA REJECTS ETHNIC CRITERIA FOR CITIZENSHIP.
• BETTER THAN NOTHING?
• YELTSIN MEETS WITH GENERAL RUMORED TO BE CANDIDATE FOR DEFENSE MINISTER.
• TALIBAN LEADERSHIP REAFFIRMS NONINTERFERENCE POLICY TOWARD CENTRAL ASIA.
• CHECHEN PRESIDENT DECREES DEATH SENTENCE FOR KIDNAPPING.
• "OUR HOME" MEETS WITH CHINESE COMMUNISTS.
• MOSCOW PROTESTS JAPANESE TV REPORT.
• YELTSIN, CLINTON, DISCUSS UPCOMING SUMMIT.
• DESERTIONS, SUICIDES UP IN GROUND FORCES.

Volume 3 Issue 41

February 27, 1997

• INTER-TAJIK TALKS FACE NEW COMPLICATIONS.
• RUSSIA PUTS SQUEEZE ON UKRAINIAN TANK DEAL.
• YELTSIN-LUCINSCHI MEETING FOCUSES ON TRANSDNIESTER AND RUSSIAN TROOPS.
• PRIMAKOV: BALL IN NATO'S COURT.
• LATVIA ACCOMMODATES RUSSIA IN BORDER NEGOTIATIONS.
• MIG BUILDER SEES ROSY FUTURE.
• TAJIK GOVERNMENT "COMPLETES" ANTI-SODIROV OPERATION.
• SPECULATION OVER UPCOMING CHANGES IN RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.
• THE KREMLIN BLASTS RUSSIA'S DEFENSE MINISTER.
• YELTSIN SIGNS 1997 BUDGET INTO LAW.
• DRINKING ON THE JOB IN THE PRESIDENTIAL GUARD.
• A VICTORY FOR EX-SOVIET SOLDIERS.
• DUMA GROUP TO WORK AGAINST NATO'S EXPANSION.
• ILYUSHIN POSTPONES VISIT TO JAPAN.
• SPACE PROJECT MAY BE POSTPONED.

Volume 3 Issue 40

February 26, 1997

• BAKU PUTS RADICAL ISLAMIST LEADERS ON TRIAL.
• SODIROVS' FORCE CLASHES WITH TAJIK OPPOSITION.
• AZERBAIJAN RATIFIES ANOTHER BIG OIL CONTRACT.
• UKRAINIAN POLITICAL UPDATE.
• BELARUSAN SOCIAL PROTESTS MULTIPLY, TURN POLITICAL.
• ESTONIAN GOVERNMENT CHANGING IN SLOW MOTION.
• DEATH OF ANDREI SINYAVSKY.
• ASSURANCES THAT STRATEGIC NUCLEAR FORCES ARE UNDER CONTROL.
• SENIOR ADMIRAL CHARGED.
• RUSSIA WELCOMES NATO CFE PROPOSALS.
• RUSSO-JAPANESE TRADE TALKS.
• UIGHUR MILITANTS BLAMED IN BOMB ATTACKS.
• CHERNOMYRDIN PROMISES CABINET CHANGES.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER ASSAILS CIVILIAN RIVAL.
• INTERIOR MINISTER PROMISES TIGHTER SECURITY ON RUSSIA'S SOUTHERN BORDER.
• NO NEWS ON ITALIAN ABDUCTED IN CHECHNYA.
• MILITARY REFORM: THE PLOT THICKENS.

Volume 3 Issue 39

February 25, 1997

• TRANSDNIESTER SECURITY CHIEF DROPS MASK.
• BATURIN ANTICIPATES TROOP CUT IN MOLDOVA.
• UKRAINIAN-ROMANIAN TREATY NEGOTIATIONS STAND BETTER CHANCE.
• VILNIUS, RIGA REACT WARILY TO NATO-RUSSIA NEGOTIATIONS.
• COUNCIL OF EUROPE THREATENS RUSSIA WITH SANCTIONS.
• SPACE STATION LAUNCH DELAYED -- OR IS IT
• IS A "MOLE" IN THE SVR BEHIND RECENT U.S. COUNTERINTELLIGENCE SUCCESSES?
• PROGRESS IN NATO-RUSSIA TALKS?
• YELTSIN MEETS NEW HEAD OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURT.
• RUSSIAN PRESIDENT THREATENS CABINET RESHUFFLE.
• GEORGIA HITS RUSSIAN DISAPPROVAL OF DIRECT TIES AMONG CIS COUNTRIES.
• RUSSIA AND CHECHNYA COOPERATE IN SEARCH FOR MIAS.
• ILYUSHIN PLEADS FOR OLYMPIC GAMES.
• MORE TALK OF CUTTING RUSSIAN AIRBORNE TROOPS.
• BELARUSAN PREMIER SETS LIMITS TO MILITARY COOPERATION WITH MOSCOW.
• BELARUSAN INDEPENDENT TRADE UNIONS DEMAND REGISTRATION.

Volume 3 Issue 38

February 24, 1997

• "SLAV" ORGANIZATION AGITATES IN KAZAKSTAN.
• UKRAINE'S LEFTIST GROUPS SET TO COMBINE ANTI-REFORMIST AND PRO-RUSSIAN APPEALS.
• CHECHNYA, RUSSIA TALKS GET OFF TO GOOD START.
• YELTSIN MAKES AN EXAMPLE OF UDMURTIA.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT SEEKS TV BAN.
• IMF DELAYS PAYMENT OF MONTHLY LOAN TO RUSSIA.
• U.S. COST ESTIMATE FOR NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• RUSSIA, UKRAINE TO DEVELOP PLANES TOGETHER.
• IRAN LEASING RUSSIAN AIRLINERS.
• BELARUSAN WOMEN STAGE MARCH...
• ...WHILE PRESIDENT CREATES OBEDIENT YOUTH ORGANIZATION.
• AZERBAIJANI POLITICIAN-SCHOLAR ASSASSINATED.
• RUSSIAN COMMAND IN ABKHAZIA WARNS GEORGIAN "BANDITS."
• YELTSIN SAYS HE'S FULLY RECOVERED.
• LITTLE TO SHOW FROM RUSSIA-NATO TALKS
• NATO CFE OFFER TAKING SHAPE.

Volume 3 Issue 37

February 21, 1997

• ALIEV AND SHEVARDNADZE DISCUSS MAJOR REGIONAL PROJECTS.
• UZBEKISTAN LOOKS WEST.
• CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT IN CONCILIATORY MOOD.
• UKRAINIAN PATRIARCH AND YAKUNIN EXCOMMUNICATED BY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.
• THE RUSSIAN MILITARY: TOO MANY CHIEFS, NOT ENOUGH INDIANS.
• ALTHOUGH SUSPENDED, SEMENOV STILL SPEAKS HIS MIND.
• FURTHER ANTICS OF LEBED JUNIOR.
• NUCLEAR DANGERS IN MOSCOW.
• MOSCOW SECURITY OFFICERS ARRESTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING.
• KIEV CHALLENGES MOSCOW ON TANK DEAL.
• COUNTERING NATO EXPANSION... WITH NOSE DROPS.
• DOCTOR DENIES YELTSIN'S HEALTH IS DETERIORATING.
• YELTSIN SACKS DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE.
• NEW HEAD OF RUSSIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ELECTED.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT REVIEWS DRAFT TAX CODE.
• NO APPARENT MOVEMENT IN MOSCOW-NATO TALKS.

Volume 3 Issue 36

February 20, 1997

• MOSCOW SEEKS TO THWART UKRAINIAN TANK SALE TO PAKISTAN.
• DUSHANBE KILLING SPREE TARGETS RUSSIAN SOLDIERS.
• LEBED WILL NOT RUN IN TULA.
• LEBED'S YOUNGER BROTHER MAKING WAVES IN NEW JOB.
• CONGRESSMAN PUTS PRESSURE ON RUSSIAN SPACE EFFORT.
• CALM BUT FIRM REACTIONS TO RUSSIAN POLICY DOCTRINE.
• BELARUSAN COMMUNIST APPARATCHIK CONFIRMED AS PRIME MINISTER.
• NATO PROPOSALS TO RUSSIA TAKE SHAPE.
• PALESTINIAN LEADER HOLDS TALKS IN MOSCOW.
• PROFFERED POWER-SHARING TREATY REJECTED OUT OF HAND BY CHECHNYA.

Volume 3 Issue 35

February 19, 1997

• RUSSIA TO AUGMENT ITS BORDER TROOPS IN KYRGYZSTAN?
• MASSIVE FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN TURKMENISTAN'S OIL- AND GAS-PROCESSING SECTOR.
• MILITARY WORRIED ABOUT THE DRAFT.
• UKRAINE, KAZAKSTAN COORDINATE STEPS TO DEFEND NATIONAL PREROGATIVES.
• GEORGIAN OPPOSITION GROUP CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR RAIDS IN ABKHAZIA.
• ARMENIA'S INTERNAL PROBLEMS FESTER.
• DUMA GUNS FOR BEREZOVSKY.
• RUSSIA CLAIMS OUTSTANDING NUCLEAR SAFETY RECORD.
• PROCESSING OF NUCLEAR WASTE TO BE ACCELERATED.
• RUSSIA DOWNPLAYS BULGARIAN NATO DECLARATION.
• CENTRAL ASIAN UIGHURS PROTEST AGAINST CHINESE REPRESSION IN XINJIANG-UIGHURIA.
• MORE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ASSASSINATED IN TAJIK CAPITAL.
• NEW DUMA FACTION COULD UNDERMINE COMMUNISTS' DOMINANCE.
• RUSSIAN TV JOURNALISTS RELEASED.
• KREMLIN FURIOUS AS RUMOR MILL WORKS OVERTIME.
• ALBRIGHT PROPOSES NATO-RUSSIA BRIGADE.

Volume 3 Issue 34

February 18, 1997

• MILITARY EXERCISE WITH U.S. AND NATO TROOPS PLANNED.
• TAJIKISTAN HOSTAGE CRISIS ENDS PEACEFULLY, BUT QUESTIONS PERSIST.
• BELARUSAN PRO-INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT GAINS MOMENTUM.
• OFFICIALS SAY RUSSIAN ARMOR ILLEGALLY TRANSFERRED TO ARMENIA.
• ESTONIA URGES CONSISTENCY IN NATO'S ADMISSION CRITERIA.
• MOSCOW LITERARY ROW.
• AZERBAIJANI EXCLAVE AND IRAN AGREE ON DIRECT LINKS.
• MOSCOW AGAINST NATO POLITICAL ROLE IN SOUTH CAUCASUS CONFLICT SETTLEMENT.
• BULGARIA SAYS IT WANTS TO JOIN NATO.
• RUSSIAN OIL SPILL CONTAINED.
• YELTSIN BACKS HIS DEFENSE MINISTER.
• ALBRIGHT HOLDS TALKS IN BONN AND PARIS.
• CHECHNYA'S NEW PARLIAMENT MAY NOT CONVENE FOR TWO MONTHS.
• CONFUSION OVER RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT'S POLICY TOWARD GIANT MONOPOLIES.

Volume 3 Issue 33

February 17, 1997

• PROGRESS IN TAJIKISTAN HOSTAGE CRISIS.
• YELTSIN BRINGS COSSACK GROUPS INTO REGULAR MILITARY SERVICE.
• UKRAINIAN POLITICAL BATTLE LINES DRAWN.
• MOSCOW QUALIFIES POSITION ON MAJOR AZERBAIJANI OILFIELDS.
• SOLANA IN AZERBAIJAN.
• CHECHEN PRESIDENT PUTS HIS CABINET TOGETHER.
• LOW TURNOUT IN SECOND ROUND OF CHECHEN ELECTIONS.
• ALBRIGHT ARRIVES IN EUROPE; BEGINS PUSH FOR UNITY ON ENLARGEMENT.
• GAIDAR TEAM ACTING AS YELTSIN'S SPEECHWRITERS.
• RUSSIA POSTS ECONOMIC GROWTH FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1992.
• INDIA TO GET RUSSIAN REACTORS...
• ...BUT NO DEFENSE ALLIANCE IS PLANNED.
• RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSE CHIEF COOL ON MERGER.
• DUMA DEMANDS REPORT ON YELTSIN'S HEALTH.
• UNBEARABLE BEHAVIOR.
• SOVIET SOLDIERS APPEAL FOR HELP.

Volume 3 Issue 32

February 14, 1997

• UZBEK PRESIDENT PLANTS SEEDS OF CAPITALISM IN SEMI-ARID SOIL.
• STALEMENT CONTINUES IN TAJIKISTAN.
• BATURIN IN MOLDOVA, DISCUSSES FUTURE OF RUSSIAN TROOPS.
• "WORLD'S LAST GREAT WILDERNESS" TO BE PRESERVED IN SIBERIA.
• RUSSIA, DE BEERS FIND COMPROMISE.
• CHERNOMYRDIN VOWS PROGRESS ON MILITARY REFORM.
• ANTI-NATO RHETORIC AIMED AT LEBED?
• RUSSIA DENIES GIVING IRAN MISSILE TECHNOLOGY.
• IN VODKA VERITAS?
• YELTSIN REJECTS CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.
• RUSSIA ENDORSES TURKMEN CHALLENGE TO AZERBAIJANI OWNERSHIP OF OILFIELDS.
• INDIA TO GET RUSSIAN REACTORS.
• RUSSIA SELLING ITS STRATEGIC MINERALS STOCKPILE.
• ESTONIAN GOVERNMENT CRISIS.
• LATVIAN GOVERNMENT RECONSTITUTED.
• RUSSIA TO COMMISSION NUCLEAR REACTORS... MAYBE.
• YELTSIN GIVES INTERIOR MINISTER "CARTE BLANCHE" TO FIGHT ECONOMIC CRIME.

Volume 3 Issue 31

February 13, 1997

• KAZAKSTANI PAPER REPORTS UIGHUR RIOTS IN XINJIANG.
• ...AND MORE COOLLY IN ARMENIA.
• AZERBAIJANI POPULAR FRONT LEADER URGES RECONCILIATION WITH GOVERNMENT.
• SOLANA RECEIVED WARMLY IN GEORGIA...
• BELARUSAN RETAILERS JOIN POLITICAL OPPOSITION IN PRO-MARKET ACTION.
• TATARSTAN MOVES TOWARD FORMALLY INTRODUCING ITS OWN CITIZENSHIP.
• ... AS KREMLIN SHARPENS ITS INVECTIVE.
• LONE VOICES IN MOSCOW URGE CONCILIATION ON NATO ENLARGEMENT...
• YELTSIN'S SURGEON SAYS HE NEEDS MORE TIME TO RECOVER.
• U.S. WARNS RUSSIA NOT TO AID IRAN'S MISSILE PROGRAM.
• ALBRIGHT: PRESS FORWARD WITH ENLARGEMENT.
• TAJIKISTAN HOSTAGES UPDATE.
• BEREZOVSKY SUES FORBES.
• FEDERATION COUNCIL APPROVES RUSSIA'S 1997 FEDERAL BUDGET.
• MASKHADOV TO BE BOTH PRESIDENT AND PREMIER.

Volume 3 Issue 30

February 12, 1997

• DEAL SEEMS AT HAND IN TAJIKISTAN'S HOSTAGE CRISIS.
• LUCINSCHI SOLICITS NATO SECURITY GUARANTEES.
• KARABAKH MEDIATORS SETTLE OWN DISPUTE.
• DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIAN POLICY SIGNAL INTENSIFIED PRESSURE.
• IS RODIONOV'S HEAD ON THE BLOCK?
• SOME CONFUSION OVER RUSSIA'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS DOCTRINE.
• RUSSIA'S JUSTICE MINISTER FLOATS TRIAL BALLOON ON CHECHEN INDEPENDENCE.
• MASKHADOV SWORN IN.

Volume 3 Issue 28

February 10, 1997

• UKRAINE STANDS TO RECEIVE MORE IMF LOANS.
• TAJIK HOSTAGE CRISIS DRAGS ON.
• KORZHAKOV LEADS IN EARLY RETURNS.
• CHECHNYA'S STABILITY HINGES ON BASAEV.
• ...BUT QUESTIONS REMAIN ABOUT TAX REFORM AND THE BUDGET.
• IMF RESUMES RUSSIAN LOAN PAYMENTS...
• GORE AND CHERNOMYRDIN TALK ABOUT NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL.
• ... AND POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
• MOSCOW'S GEORGADZE GAME: HIDE-AND-SEEK.
• CHERNOMYRDIN'S U.S. VISIT CONCLUDES WITH THE SIGNING OF ECONOMIC ACCORDS...
• PRESIDENT KUCHMA NAMES OUSTED CRIMEAN SPEAKER AS HIS ENVOY.
• U.S. PROTESTS RUSSIAN-INDIAN NUCLEAR DEAL.
• YELTSIN EXPECTED TO ACCEPT TV CHIEF'S RESIGNATION.
• CLINTON ADMINISTRATION SEEKS INCREASE IN AID FOR FORMER SOVIET STATES.

Volume 3 Issue 26

February 6, 1997

• PRO-DUSHANBE GROUP SEIZES HOSTAGES.
• IMF APPROVES OF AZERBAIJAN'S REFORMS, EXPANDS LENDING.
• FRENCH-GEORGIAN SUMMIT.
• RUSSIA ARMS COMPANY DISTURBED OVER UKRAINIAN WEAPONS SALES.
• MOSCOW LOOKS ASKANCE AT A NATO NAVAL EXERCISE.
• COSSACK ATAMAN SAYS GOAL IS TO CREATE COSSACK UNITS IN RUSSIAN ARMY.
• KEY ELECTIONS APPROACH IN TULA.
• TAXING TIMES IN YAROSLAVL.
• GHOST OF "INDESTRUCTIBLE UNION" IS RESSURECTED.
• PURGE IN TAJIK DEFENSE MINISTRY.
• RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER BEGINS TALKS IN WASHINGTON.
• STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF RUSSIAN TV.
• RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE: NATO ENLARGEMENT COULD PROVOKE TERRORIST ATTACKS.
• CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT SACKS LEADERS.

Volume 3 Issue 25

February 5, 1997

• MOSCOW ADMONISHES DUSHANBE OVER KILLINGS.
• KAZAKSTAN SHARPLY QUESTIONS RUSSIAN MILITARY TESTING.
• MOSCOW POKES BIGGEST HOLE YET IN TRANS-CHECHNYA PIPELINE.
• CONFRONTATION BETWEEN MASKHADOV AND YANDARBIEV EXTENDS TO COURTS, MILITARY.
• RUSSIA'S INTERIOR MINISTER PROMOTED TO BATTLE ECONOMIC CRIME.
• OSCE REACTS CALMLY.
• ...AS MOSCOW ELITES LINE UP TO CRITICIZE THE WESTERN ALLIANCE.
• VOICE OF RUSSIA SILENCED.
• CHERNOMYRDIN SOUNDS THE ALARM OVER NATO ENLARGEMENT...
• LUZHKOV SLAMS NATO, WARNS KIEV.
• DUMA DROPS YELTSIN'S REMOVAL FROM AGENDA.
• CAR BOMB ATTACK MAY HAVE BEEN INTENDED TO WARN MINISTER.
• MOSCOW DEFLECTS CRITICISM ON HUMAN RIGHTS.
• CLINTON BACKS NATO PLANS.

Volume 3 Issue 24

February 4, 1997

• TAJIK CEASEFIRE HOLDING, BUT OTHER ARMISTICE TERMS STILL UNFULFILLED.
• GEORGIAN TERRORIST GROUP UNCOVERED.
• UKRAINE AND FRANCE HOLD GET-ACQUAINTED SUMMIT.
• UKRAINE DETERMINED TO OBTAIN SPECIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH NATO.
• SOVIET-STYLE "CORRELATION OF FORCES" IS ALIVE AND WELL.
• MOSCOW REACTS WARILY TO YUGOSLAV CRISIS.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNIST OPPOSITION TO UNITE AGAINST "COMMON ENEMY?"
• RUSSIA TO ISSUE MORE EUROBONDS.
• BEIJING REJECTS CRITICISM OF RUSSIAN-CHINESE BORDER AGREEMENT.
• ALBRIGHT TO VISIT MOSCOW.
• FROM INTERFRONT TO EUROPE.
• MOSCOW'S NEW CHECHNYA POLICY.
• CHECHNYA PRINTS ITS OWN CURRENCY.
• YELTSIN TO HAVE FEW MEETINGS THIS WEEK.
• MASKHADOV URGES FOREIGN STATES TO RECOGNIZE CHECHNYA'S INDEPENDENCE...
• ...SENDS REGRETS.

Volume 3 Issue 23

February 3, 1997

• AZERBAIJAN SENTENCES POPULAR FRONT ACTIVISTS.
• UKRAINIAN-ROMANIAN NEGOTIATIONS AT CRUCIAL JUNCTURE.
• YELTSIN ENVISAGES MILITARY DIMENSION TO CIS.
• RUSSIAN ARMS EXPORT PREDICTIONS CONTINUE TO GROW.
• ... AS RUSSIAN LEADERS CONTINUE THEIR HARD-LINE RHETORIC.
• CHIRAC AND YELTSIN CONFER ON NATO ENLARGEMENT...
• FINAL RESULTS IN CHECHEN ELECTION.
• ARMENIA COMPLETES ENERGY LINK TO IRAN.
• LOW-KEY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR EMBATTLED YELTSIN.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY LAWMAKERS LOSE THEIR FREE RIDE.
• RUSSIA WOULD OFFER CYPRUS MEANS TO DEFEND S-300 MISSILES.
• UKRAINE WANTS TO COOPERATE WITH RUSSIA ON ARMS EXPORTS.
• U.S. SAYS MOSCOW STILL A SPY THREAT.
• MOLDOVA WINS PRAISE, TRANSDNIESTER DOES NOT, IN HUMAN RIGHTS SURVEY.

Volume 3 Issue 22

January 31, 1997

• RUSSIAN GOODWILL RUNNING OUT, FOREIGN MINISTRY WARNS.
• TEHRAN ATTACKS BAKU OVER RADICAL ISLAMISTS.
• HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CRITICAL OF RUSSIA, SOME OTHER FORMER SOVIET STATES.
• DEFENSE COUNCIL SECRETARY COMPLETES FAR EASTERN INSPECTION.
• MASKHADOV INAUGURATION SET FOR FEBRUARY 10.
• VARIED RUSSIAN REACTION TO COUNCIL OF EUROPE CRITICISM.
• RUSSIA WILL RECOGNIZE CHECHEN ELECTION RESULTS.
• RUSSIA'S DWINDLING MERCHANT FLEET.
• MEXICO AND RUSSIA IMPROVE RELATIONS.
• CAVEAT EMPTOR?
• YELTSIN'S SUCCESSORS HOVER IN THE WINGS.
• NATO COOL ON LUKASHENKO'S NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE IDEA.
• RUSSIAN MOBSTER SENTENCED.
• RUSSIAN-U.S. AIRLINE MERGER DEAL?
• BATURIN "BEWILDERED" BY REDEPLOYMENT PLANS OF U.S. TROOPS IN JAPAN.

Volume 3 Issue 21

January 30, 1997

• AZERBAIJAN SENTENCES TWO GROUPS OF COUP PLOTTERS.
• KUCHMA NIXES MOVE BY CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT TO REPLACE GOVERNMENT.
• MOLDOVA'S OLD-NEW GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER.
• DEFENSE MINISTERS' MEETING ENDORSES RUSSIAN GENERALS FOR MAJOR POSTS.
• MASKHADOV'S OLIVE BRANCH REBUFFED.
• DUMA LEADER REPEATS HIS OBJECTIONS TO START II.
• ...LOOKS TO ACTIVATE ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ATTACKED AGAIN IN DUSHANBE.
• MASKHADOV TO FOCUS ON WINNING RECOGNITION OF CHECHEN INDEPENDENCE.
• LEBED PREFERS FRANCE TO SWITZERLAND.
• YELTSIN REBUFFS DUMA ON IRAQ.
• MOSCOW LAUNCHES CYPRUS INITIATIVE...
• PRESIDENT'S PRESS SECRETARY RULES OUT RESTORATION OF MONARCHY.
• MASKHADOV VICTORY CONFIRMED.
• YELTSIN STRUGGLES TO MAINTAIN A PRESENCE.

Volume 3 Issue 20

January 29, 1997

• RUSSIAN "PEACEKEEPERS" MARAUDING WITH ABKHAZ TROOPS.
• REGION NOT A RUSSIAN BACKYARD, TOP GEORGIAN OFFICIALS TELL WEST.
• MOSCOW USING BORDER ISSUES TO SLOW BALTIC PROGRESS TOWARD EU AND NATO.
• A BANNER YEAR FOR ARMS EXPORTS.
• RUSSIANS STUNG BY CRITICISM OF SPACE STATION EFFORTS.
• FORMER SOVIET DISSIDENT RETURNS TO RUSSIA.
• U.S. ANXIOUS OVER YELTSIN'S HEALTH.
• LENIN'S TOMB CLOSED FOR CLEANING.
• MOSCOW WARNS BALTS OVER U.S. CONGRESS BILL.
• LUZHKOV IN SEVASTOPOL: THERE'S MORE TO IT THAN APARTMENT BUILDINGS.
• MASKHADOV CLAIMS VICTORY.
• MOSCOW BREATHES A SIGH OF RELIEF.
• DUMA GROUP TO OPPOSE NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• SHIFT IN RUSSIAN TACTICS TOWARD BELGRADE?
• CYPRUS DENIES INTEREST IN SECOND RUSSIAN MISSILE.
• YELTSIN APPEARS ON TV.
• CHERNOMYRDIN IN SWITZERLAND.
• NATO AID DEAL DENIED.

Volume 3 Issue 19

January 28, 1997

• DUSHANBE SEEKS TO DISARM UZBEK-INHABITED WEST.
• SUBVERSIVES UNCOVERED AND ARRESTED IN AZERBAIJAN...
• ...AND IN GEORGIA.
• MOSCOW WARNS PRAGUE THAT ENLARGEMENT COULD CARRY REPERCUSSIONS.
• MOSCOW LINKING EUROPEAN TRADE TO NATO POLICY?
• COMMUNIST REACTION TO CHECHEN ELECTIONS.
• MOSCOW READY TO WORK WITH NEW CHECHEN GOVERNMENT.
• HIGH TURNOUT HIGH IN CHECHEN ELECTION; MASKHADOV LEADS IN EARLY RETURNS.
• YELTSIN RETURNS TO KREMLIN, BUT HEALTH CONCERNS MOUNT AS HE CANCELS FOREIGN TRIP.
• RUSSIA MAY OFFER ANOTHER MISSILE SYSTEM TO CYPRUS.
• DAGESTAN BANS STURGEON FISHING IN CASPIAN.
• AZERBAIJAN REJECTS TURKMEN CLAIM TO ITS OIL FIELDS.
• LEBED TO DAVOS.
• GUSINSKY LEAVING MOST BANK.
• YELTSIN URGES EXTENSION OF BOSNIA PEACEKEEPING MANDATE.

Volume 3 Issue 18

January 27, 1997

• CENTRAL ASIAN UNION DEVELOPS SECURITY STRUCTURES
• ARMENIA TO WITHDRAW FROM BILATERAL TALKS WITH AZERBAIJAN OVER KARABAKH.
• TURKMENISTAN DRIFTING TOWARD RUSSIAN POSITION ON CASPIAN SEA.
• THE BELARUSAN OPPOSITION: "NOBODY BEHIND IT?"
• CHUBAIS ADMITS HE EARNED A LOT IN 1996, BUT DENIES EVADING TAXES.
• BASAEV MAY BE MORE MODERATE THAN EXPECTED.
• MASKHADOV: RUSSIANS WOULD PREFER AN EXTREMIST TO WIN.
• ELECTIONS UNDER WAY IN CHECHNYA.
• FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIALS DISCUSS CFE TREATY.
• RUSSIAN ANTI-TERRORISM AGENCY CREATED.
• ALBRIGHT SIGNALS A SHIFT IN U.S. POLICY TOWARD YELTSIN?
• IMF MAY DELAY RUSSIAN LOAN.
• RUSSIA'S CENTRAL BANK TO CHARGE FOR SERVICES.
• DONALD TRUMP MAY BUY MOSCOW HOTELS.
• CIS SUMMIT POSTPONED SINE DIE.
• RUSSIAN DUMA APPROVES 1997 FEDERAL BUDGET.
• RUSSIANS "ALLERGIC" TO POLITICAL PARTIES.

Volume 3 Issue 16

January 23, 1997

• RUSSIAN TROOPS "CUT OFF" BY GEORGIAN SUSPENSION OF FLIGHT SERVICES.
• LUZHKOV'S CLAIMS TO SEVASTOPOL PICK UP POLITICAL SUPPORT ACROSS RUSSIA'S POLITICAL SPECTRUM.
• RUSSIAN POLICE CORRUPTION IS PUBLICIZED...
• ...AS MINISTERS VOICE CAUTION ON DEFENSE REFORM PLANS.
• HOW MANY "DEAD SOULS" IN THE RUSSIAN MILITARY?
• OSCE NAMES TEAM TO OBSERVE CHECHEN ELECTIONS.
• KOKOV INAUGURATED PRESIDENT OF KABARDINO-BALKARIA.
• ROW OVER OSCE FUNDING OF CHECHEN ELECTIONS.
• FAR EASTERN TROOPS WITHOUT MODERN WEAPONS.
• LANDSBERGIS ON NATO ACCESSION, RUSSIAN BALTIC ENCLAVE.
• DUMA FAILS IN YELTSIN OUSTER BID.
• DUMA CONSIDERS RE-INSTITUTING VICE-PRESIDENT.
• MOSCOW POLICE RETALIATE.
• TOKYO SAYS MOSCOW TOO FOCUSED ON WEST.
• CHERNOMYRDIN TO MEET WITH CLINTON.
• NOSTALGIA FOR USSR GROWING IN RUSSIA.

Volume 3 Issue 15

January 22, 1997

• TBILISI TRIES DIRECT TALKS WITH BREAKAWAY REGIONS.
• SIMFEROPOL AND KIEV ON CONSTITUTIONAL COLLISION COURSE...
• PLAYING THE "COSSACK CARD."
• ARE THE RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICES BEHIND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF RUSSIAN TV REPORTERS?
• MANEUVERING CONTINUES IN NATO-RUSSIA TALKS.
• NEGOTIATIONS ON REVISING THE CFE TREATY BEGIN.
• AZERBAIJANI OFFICIAL ARRESTED FOR TIES TO ACCUSED TRAITORS.
• YELTSIN RETURNS TO WORK IN THE KREMLIN; HE AND CHUBAIS UNDER ATTACK.
• TOKYO MISJUDGED OIL SPILL.
• GEORGIA BARS RUSSIAN MILITARY TRANSPORTS.
• RUSSIAN AIR FORCE FACES CRISIS.
• TOP U.S. DIPLOMAT TO MOSCOW.
• NIKITIN'S WIFE RETURNS TO RUSSIA.
• MOSCOW COMPLAINS OVER CHINESE BORDER CRASHERS.
• COMMUNIST YOUTH ORGANIZATION MAKES A COMEBACK.
• RUSSIAN SMALL BUSINESSES EMPLOY 14 MILLION PEOPLE.
• ALLA DUDAEVA ENDORSES YANDARBIEV.

Volume 3 Issue 14

January 21, 1997

• TEHRAN ROUND OF INTER-TAJIK TALKS ENDS; IMPORTANT QUESTIONS LEFT UNRESOLVED.
• AZERBAIJAN COMMEMORATES SOVIET CRACKDOWN WHILE THOSE IMPLICATED LOOK ON FROM MOSCOW.
• TAJIK REGIME AT BAY IN NORTH AND WEST.
• RIPPLES IN TBILISI FROM MOSCOW CIS MEETING.
• WHAT IS BEHIND UKRAINIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF'S RELEASE?
• ... AS MOSCOW AGAIN FLASHES ITS CHINA CARD.
• REGIONAL ALLIANCE PROPOSAL REVIVED.
• FUNDS PUMPED INTO RUSSIA'S SPACE INDUSTRY.
• LITTLE PROGRESS APPARENT IN NATO-RUSSIA TALKS...
• DIAMOND DEAL SAID READY FOR SIGNATURE.
• IMF REPORTED SATISFIED WITH RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC PROGRESS.
• PARLIAMENTARIAN CONTINUES TO PRESS FOR YELTSIN'S REMOVAL.
• ... IS FLEXIBLE ON NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• YELTSIN DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL.
• LEBED WANTS INAUGURATION LIKE CLINTON'S...
• LATVIAN GOVERNMENT FALLS

Volume 3 Issue 13

January 20, 1997

• MOSCOW MAYOR INFLAMES PASSIONS IN SEVASTOPOL.
• CONTROVERSY FOLLOWS COLLAPSE OF BRITAIN'S FIRST WAR CRIMES TRIAL.
• PRIME MINISTERS' MEETING THWARTS RUSSIAN POLITICAL OBJECTIVES.
• RUSSIA'S DEFENSE CHIEF PRAISES PARTNERSHIP WITH CHINA.
• MOSCOW DENOUNCES CHECHEN ELECTIONS.
• RUSSIA UNVEILS NEW FIGHTERS; PROBLEMS WITH THE OLD REMAIN.
• ROW CONTINUES OVER COSSACK DEMANDS TO CARRY ARMS.
• LEBED LEAVES GERMANY FOR WASHINGTON.
• NATO-RUSSIA TALKS BEGIN.
• UKRAINE DOESN'T WRITE OFF BELARUS.
• AZERBAIJANI OMON INFILTRATORS CAME FROM RUSSIA.
• RUSSIA LOSING MISSILE WARNING CAPABILITY.
• RUSSIA SELLS HELICOPTERS TO COLOMBIA.
• NIKITIN'S WIFE BARRED FROM RETURNING TO RUSSIA.
• BUSINESSMAN KILLED IN MOSCOW BLAST.
• YELTSIN TO LEAVE HOSPITAL THIS WEEK.

Volume 3 Issue 12

January 17, 1997

• ARMED CONFRONTATION IN TURSUNZADE RESUMES.
• AZERBAIJAN THWARTS SPECIAL ROLE FOR FRANCE IN KARABAKH NEGOTIATIONS.
• MOSCOW DRAGGING ITS FEET ON BUYBACK OF BOMBERS FROM UKRAINE?
• RUSSIAN DUMA ADOPTS BILL ON TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY.
• ROUGH RIDE IN MINSK FOR RUSSIA-BELARUS UNIFICATION PLAN.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF QUESTIONS MILITARY REFORM PLANS.
• COSSACK QUESTION BACK ON THE AGENDA.
• SIBERIAN CINEMA ACCEPTS EGGS, EMPTY BOTTLES.
• BAKU OMON REBELS SENTENCED.
• OSCE WILL SEND ELECTION OBSERVERS TO CHECHNYA.
• RUSSIANS GROWING LESS PESSIMISTIC.
• LEBED TO ATTEND CLINTON INAUGURAL?
• LAWMAKER PESSIMISTIC ABOUT CHEMICAL WEAPONS BAN.
• OIL CONTINUES TO WREAK HAVOC ON JAPANESE COASTLINE.
• U.S., EUROPE LOOK TO SWEETEN NATO-RUSSIA DEAL.

Volume 3 Issue 11

January 16, 1997

• IS ARMENIA'S PRIME MINISTER DISTANCING HIMSELF FROM THE PRESIDENT?
• MOLDOVA'S NEW PRESIDENT TAKES CHARGE.
• GENERAL BLAMED FOR 1995 FIGHTER CRASH IN VIETNAM.
• MORE YOUTHS THAN EVER DODGING THE DRAFT.
• RUSSIA REPORTS HUGE TRADE SURPLUS.
• CONCERN OVER DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF THOUSANDS OF CHECHEN REFUGEES.
• RUSSIA SLAMS HUNGARIAN PM FOR NATO REMARKS.
• RUSSIAN-IRAQI OIL DEAL.
• RUSSIA'S POLICIES ALIENATE CIS COUNTRIES, NAZARBAEV SAYS.
• SETBACK FOR YELTSIN OPPONENTS.
• WASHINGTON DENIES INVITATION TO LEBED.
• U.S. DOWNPLAYS RUSSIAN ARMS SALES TO CHINA.
• ANOTHER MOSCOW BANKER KILLED.

Volume 3 Issue 10

January 15, 1997

• MOLDOVA PRESSURED INTO MILITARY ALIGNMENT WITH RUSSIA.
• AZERBAIJANI-FRENCH SUMMIT YIELDS BIG OIL CONTRACT.
• OPPOSITION IN BELARUS WILL RESIST YELTSIN'S "ANNEXATION" PLAN.
• RUSSIA'S GROUND FORCES COMMANDER STILL IN LIMBO.
• U.S. AND RUSSIA RELEASE ONCE-SECRET ARCTIC DATA.
• LATVIA DENIES CONSIDERING SALE OF NAVAL BASE TO RUSSIA.
• CYPRUS DENIES DELAY IN MISSILE PURCHASE.
• RUSSIAN, CHECHEN INTERIOR MINISTERS SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENT.
• YELTSIN "IMPROVED," CHERNOMYRDIN DUE BACK FROM HOLIDAY.
• MOSCOW TO INCREASE SALE OF URANIUM FROM BOMBS TO U.S.
• RUSSIA APOLOGIZES FOR OIL SPILL.
• MORE SHENANAGHINS OVER IRISH BEEF EXPORTS?
• UKRAINE ARRESTS SENIOR RUSSIAN BLACK SEA OFFICER LINKED TO CRIMINAL GANG.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT MULLS OUSTING YELTSIN.
• RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS SLAM NEW YORK.

Volume 3 Issue 9

January 14, 1997

• INTER-TAJIK TALKS BOG DOWN.
• CRIMEAN TATARS APPEAL FOR HELP IN RETURNING HOME.
• YELTSIN ISSUES PLAN FOR UNIFICATION WITH BELARUS.
• WILL RUSSIA AND THE U.S. GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS BAN?
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY PRESSURED ON BALKAN POLICIES.
• U.S. WINS DELAY IN DEPLOYMENT OF MISSILES ON CYPRUS.
• RISKS AND REWARDS IN RUSSIA'S REGIONS.
• CHECHEN INTERIOR MINISTER IN MOSCOW.
• COSSACKS, CHECHENS MEET TO DEFUSE TENSIONS.
• U.S. COMMANDER PRAISES COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA.
• RUSSIAN DUMA TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBILITY OF YELTSIN OUSTER.
• RUSSIAN TEACHERS LAUNCH NATIONWIDE STRIKE.
• MOSCOW TO TAKE GEORGIAN URANIUM.
• RUSSIA DEVELOPING NEW NUCLEAR WEAPONS WITHOUT TESTING.
• IMF MISSION EXPECTED IN MOSCOW.

Volume 3 Issue 8

January 13, 1997

• "NEW STAGE" SEEN IN TRIPARTITE UNION.
• UKRAINE REDOUBLES EFFORTS TO FORMALIZE COOPERATION WITH NATO.
• KIEV HAS SOME LEVERAGE IN GAS TRADE WITH RUSSIA.
• CIS SUMMIT POSTPONED AGAIN.
• INCUMBENTS REELECTED.
• RUSSIA SAID TO HAVE SOLD TWO DESTROYERS TO CHINA IN SECRET DEAL.
• SPEAKER CALLS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.
• WAR OF WORDS ESCALATES OVER RUSSIAN MISSILE DEAL WITH CYPRUS.
• YELTSIN HAS DOUBLE PNEUMONIA.
• RUSSIANS EYEING FORMER NAVAL BASE IN LATVIA.
• CHUMAKAU CONFIRMED AS BELARUS DEFENSE MINISTER.
• RUSSIA SAID WILLING TO TAKE GEORGIAN URANIUM.
• ABKHAZ DEPUTIES PREVENTED BY RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS FROM TRAVELING TO U.S.
• OIL SLICK THREATENS JAPANESE NUCLEAR PLANTS.
• CHECHEN MUFTI APPEALS FOR RELEASE OF KIDNAPPED PRIESTS.
• YELTSIN PROPOSES RUSSIA-BELARUS REFERENDUM.
• U.S.-NATO TALKS.

Volume 3 Issue 6

January 9, 1997

• PRO-REGIME FACTIONS IN TAJIKISTAN TURN ON EACH OTHER.
• ABKHAZ POLICY ON REFUGEES INSPIRES SOUTH OSSETIA.
• UZBEKISTAN PROMULGATES LAW ON POLITICAL PARTIES.
• AOL CUTS RUSSIA OFF.
• RUSSIA SEEN AS DEMOCRATIC, YET CONSTANTLY AT WAR.
• TAX BREAK FOR GENERAL MOTORS IN TATARSTAN.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT FAILS TO BANKRUPT TAX-DEFAULTING AUTO-MAKER.
• DOLLAR RISES ON NEWS OF YELTSIN'S ILLNESS.
• ...AS RUSSIA AIMS TO LIMIT NATO FORCES IN EASTERN EUROPE.
• HUMANITARIAN AID TO TAJIKISTAN.
• ALBRIGHT REAFFIRMS U.S. SUPPORT FOR NATO ENLARGEMENT...
• GEORGIA WANTS TO SELL ITS WEAPONS-GRADE URANIUM.
• OIL SLICK HITS JAPANESE COAST.
• INDIA TO BUY RUSSIAN SUBMARINES.
• RUSSIAN NUCLEAR EXPORTS UP.
• YELTSIN HOSPITALIZED; PNEUMONIA SUSPECTED.

Volume 3 Issue 5

January 8, 1997

• KAZAKHSTANI LEADERSHIP INVITES OPPOSITION TO DIALOGUE.
• INTER-TAJIK TALKS RESUME AMID MAJOR DIFFERENCES.
• ACCUSED GANGSTERS ADMIT TO FANNING ETHNIC TENSION IN ESTONIA.
• RUSSIAN DELEGATION SIGNS AGREEMENTS IN BAKU.
• INTERNATIONAL BODIES TO DECIDE NEXT WEEK WHETHER TO MONITOR CHECHEN ELECTIONS.
• YELTSIN READS NAZDRATENKO THE RIOT ACT.
• "RED BELT" CITY RESTORES SOVIET SYSTEM.
• AZERBAIJAN, IN ANTI-FUNDAMENTALIST MOVE, BARS FOREIGN PROSELYTISM.
• GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER: MOSCOW TO EXACT A HIGH PRICE FOR NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• RUSSIAN OIL SLICK THREATENS JAPANESE FISHING VILLAGES.
• RUSSIA'S AGING AIR FORCE.
• MOLDOVA'S NEW PRESIDENT WANTS UKRAINIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN TRANSDNIESTER.
• ZHIRINOVSKY MEETS WITH GADHAFI.
• POLAND PREPS FOR NATO ENTRY.
• BELARUS-RUSSIA RELATIONS SEEN AS UNRELATED TO NATO'S ENLARGEMENT PLAN.

Volume 3 Issue 4

January 7, 1997

• RUSSIAN DELEGATION VISITS AZERBAIJAN.
• BELARUS-RUSSIA "UNIFICATION": SHAKHRAY SPILLS THE BEANS.
• RUSSIAN PRISONERS LEFT BEHIND IN CHECHNYA.
• HOW STRONG IS RUSSIA'S ARMS CONTROL CARD?
• MORE KREMLIN IN-FIGHTING OVER MILITARY REFORM.
• TOKYO DENIES SOFTENING ITS POSITION ON TERRITORIAL DISPUTE.
• YELTSIN TO VISIT THE HAGUE.
• KAZAKHSTAN REDUCES CUSTOMS TARIFFS.
• MOSCOW INTENSIFIES ITS OPPOSITION TO NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• U.S. UNHAPPY WITH RUSSIAN MISSILE SALE TO CYPRUS.
• MOSCOW UPBEAT ON ARMS EXPORTS.
• RUSSIANS CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS.
• YELTSIN HAS "HEAVY COLD."
• NO OFFICIAL RECOGNITION FOR RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY.
• YANDARBIEV SAYS HE WON'T JOIN RIVAL'S TEAM.

Volume 3 Issue 3

January 6, 1997

• RUSSIAN SOLDIERS GUNNED DOWN IN DUSHANBE.
• FLEXIBLE MORALITY IN ARMS SALES.
• ROMANIA SIGNALS RENUNCIATION OF TERRITORIAL CLAIMS ON UKRAINE.
• SIBERIAN REGION IN BID TO PRESERVE VIRGIN FOREST.
• RUSSIAN TV ACCUSES FORMER YELTSIN-ASSOCIATE OF FINANCIAL WRONG-DOING.
• CHECHEN CAMPAIGN OFFICIALLY BEGINS.
• LAST RUSSIAN SOLDIER LEAVES CHECHNYA.
• YELTSIN-KOHL MEETING FRIENDLY, BUT TENSIONS OVER NATO PERSIST.
• UZBEKISTAN PASSES BUDGET.
• INTER-TAJIK TALKS DELAYED.
• ESTONIA ACQUIRES ISRAELI MILITARY EQUIPMENT.
• MINSK PROTESTS DIPLOMAT'S TREATMENT.
• MODEST RUSSIAN SPACE GOALS FOR 1997.
• RUSSIA BALKS AT U.S. PLAN TO REMOVE FISSILE MATERIAL FROM GEORGIA.
• RUSSIA CONTINUES TO BACK MILOSEVIC.
• JAPAN BATTLES RUSSIAN OIL SPILL.
• WAR CRIMES TRIAL SET TO BEGIN.

Volume 3 Issue 2

January 3, 1997

• IMF UNHAPPY WITH ARMENIAN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE.
• SHEVARDNADZE TRIES CONCILIATION IN AJARIA; KEY OIL PIPELINE AT STAKE.
• UKRAINE TRIES AGAIN WITH NEW MILITARY TRANSPORT.
• BELARUSAN OPPOSITION HOLDS PARLIAMENTARY FORT.
• ONE THIRD OF RUSSIAN ENTERPRISES PAY NO TAXES.
• NEW RUBLE-DOLLAR BAND IN OPERATION.
• MOSCOW DEMANDS APOLOGY OVER MELEE INVOLVING DIPLOMATS.
• SIXTEEN PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS IN CHECHNYA.
• RUSSIA, CHINA REAFFIRM CLOSER TIES.
• BALTIC FREE TRADE AREA IS LAUNCHED.
• ARMENIA BRACES FOR MORE HARDSHIPS.
• RUSSIAN BID FOR DUTCH AIRCRAFT MAKER GETS A BOOST.
• TRIAL DATE SET FOR ACCUSED FBI SPY.
• MOSCOW BACKS EXTENSION OF IRAQI OIL DEAL.
• IRAN GETS ANOTHER RUSSIAN SUBMARINE.

Volume 3 Issue 1

January 2, 1997

• UZBEKISTAN TO PROCESS ITS OWN COTTON AT LAST.
• MOLDOVAN, ROMANIAN PRESIDENTS MENDING FENCES.
• KYRGYZSTAN REPLACES TOP MUSLIM CLERICS.
• LITHUANIAN MINISTER REBUKED IN ETHNIC ROW.
• DEFENSE CHIEF WARNS OF FOREIGN THREATS TO RUSSIA.
• LEBED PLANS TO LAUNCH NEW PARTY.
• DRAFT FEDERAL BUDGET IS APPROVED, BUT IMF HAS LESS WELCOME NEWS FOR MOSCOW.
• YELTSIN RESTORES STATE MONOPOLY ON ALCOHOL.
• REPATRIATED MISSILES BACK ON COMBAT ALERT.
• NO DEAL ON RUSSIAN RADAR SITE IN AZERBAIJAN.
• DUMA PASSES LAW ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS DESTRUCTION.
• DE BEERS ENDS DIAMOND DEAL WITH RUSSIA.
• MOSCOW MAYOR PLEDGES SUPPORT TO BOSNIAN SERBS.