Volume 4 Issue 48

March 10, 1999

• ANGER IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• PRESIDENTS WARN AGAINST PRECEDENT SET WITH BEREZOVSKY AFFAIR.
• KARIMOV, SHEVARDNADZE JOINTLY OBJECT TO CIS COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY.
• ARMY CONTINUES TO FACE REFORM WOES.
• COMMAND STRUCTURE OF RUSSIAN STRATEGIC FORCES REORGANIZED?
• BORDYUZHA'S HEART PROBLEMS--POLITICAL PROBLEMS IN DISGUISE?
• MOSCOW COOLS RHETORIC ON CHECHNYA.
• DANGER OF ANOTHER WAR IN THE CAUCASUS REMAINS.

Volume 4 Issue 238

December 24, 1998

• FINANCIAL CRISIS IS STATED CAUSE OF KYRGYZ GOVERNMENT'S FALL.
• PRIMAKOV IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• MARCHUK REPLACED AS HEAD OF FACTION IN UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT.
• MASSIVE UKRAINIAN IMPORT OF TURKMEN GAS SET TO RESUME.
• FORMER HEAD OF PRO-MOSCOW CHECHEN GOVERNMENT KIDNAPPED.
• RUSSIAN NAVAL WHISTLE BLOWERS PRESS THEIR CASES.
• SPARRING CONTINUES OVER UN POLICY TOWARD IRAQ.
• RUSSIA AND U.S. LOOK TO MEND FENCES.
• DUMA BEGINS DEBATE OVER 1999 BUDGET.
• ZYUGANOV "APOLOGIZES" FOR ANTI-SEMITIC REMARKS OF COMRADES.

Volume 4 Issue 237

December 23, 1998

• KAZAKHSTAN ELECTION PREVIEW: CANDIDATE ENGELS GABBASOV.
• BABAIAN SPEAKS HIS MIND IN YEREVAN.
• ZHIRINOVSKY IN TRANSDNIESTER.
• RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS YIELD MAJOR SECTOR TO GEORGIAN TROOPS.
• LAZARENKO COUNTERATTACKS.
• BANDITS REPORTEDLY DEMAND RANSOM.
• REGIONAL ORGANIZATION OR IMPOSED UNISON?
• START II RATIFICATION TAKES ANOTHER HIT.
• PRIMAKOV VISIT REFLECTS STRENGTHENED INDIAN-RUSSIAN TIES.
• STAROVOITOVA INVESTIGATION GETS MIRED IN DIRT.
• YELTSIN UPBRAIDS INTERIOR MINISTER, SAYING HE DOESN'T WANT DOCTORED CRIME STATS.
• KYRGYZ GOVERNMENT RESIGNS.

Volume 4 Issue 236

December 22, 1998

• AZERBAIJAN CONCERNED BY RUSSIAN FORCES IN ARMENIA.
• LUKASHENKA BLAMES JEWS FOR RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS. "
• UKRAINE: FORMER PREMIER MAY FACE UP TO FIFTEEN YEARS IN PRISON.
• LATVIA'S UNCERTAIN WAY.
• MILITARY CONSEQUENCES OF IRAQ DEVELOPMENTS DISCUSSED.
• ...AND MAY HAVE BIGGER FISH TO FRY.
• MOSCOW QUIETER ON IRAQ AS SECURITY COUNCIL BEGINS CONSULTATIONS.
• ST. PETERSBURG ELECTION WINNER ENUMERATES CASES OF HIGH-LEVEL CORRUPTION...
• BORDYUZHA GATHERS "POWER" MINISTERS TO DISCUSS CRIME, CORRUPTION AND EXTREMISM.

Volume 4 Issue 235

December 21, 1998

• MULTIBILLION OIL CONTRACT RATIFIED BY AZERBAIJAN.
• COMMUNIST PARTY DOWN AND OUT IN TAJIKISTAN.
• RUSSIA CRACKS DOOR TO ESTONIAN CULTURAL TREASURE.
• TKACHENKO OFFERS EXORBITANT PRICE FOR RUSSIAN RATIFICATION OF TREATY WITH UKRAINE.
• ITALIAN FIRM RESTARTS NEGOTIATIONS ON REFURBISHING DAGESTANI CASPIAN PORT.
• LUZHKOV'S "OTECHESTVO" HOLDS FOUNDING CONGRESS IN MOSCOW.
• YURI BOLDYREV WINS BIG IN ST. PETERSBURG VOTE.
• MOSCOW STOPS SHORT OF RUPTURE WITH WEST.
• MOSCOW CONTINUES TO DECRY DEVELOPMENTS IN PERSIAN GULF.

Volume 4 Issue 234

December 18, 1998

• AZERBAIJAN MAY RETALIATE AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL OIL AGREEMENT.
• KYRGYZ SPEAKER SAYS ANTICORRUPTION MEASURES INADEQUATE.
• NAZARBAEV WARNS OFFICIALS AGAINST OBSTRUCTING THE OTHER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
• RUSSIAN AIR POWER IN ARMENIA UPGRADED.
• UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT WHIPPED BY HIS LOYALISTS.
• BELARUSAN ELECTORAL LAW DESIGNED TO DISQUALIFY OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS.
• FIFTY THOUSAND RALLY IN SUPPORT OF MASKHADOV.
• RUSSIAN PRESS WEIGHS IN AGAINST U.S.-BRITISH AIRSTRIKES.
• POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF RUSSIA'S DISPLEASURE.
• MOSCOW DENOUNCES AIR STRIKES ON IRAQ.

Volume 4 Issue 233

December 17, 1998

• IMF CREDIT AIMS TO TIDE KAZAKHSTAN OVER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.
• IRAN BECOMES A PLAYER IN TAJIKISTAN.
• RUSSIAN CREDIT TO ARMENIA'S NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.
• GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES CLAIM CHECHNYA IS A TERRORIST HAVEN.
• SCHENGEN COUNTRIES LIFT VISA REQUIREMENTS.
• UKRAINIAN PLANE DOWNED IN WAR-TORN ANGOLA.
• LISOVSKY CASE GETS MURKIER AFTER ATTACK ON HIS LAWYER.
• THE ISSUE OF ANTI-SEMITISM FLARES UP AGAIN.
• U.S. PUTS MOSCOW ON ALERT OVER COOPERATION WITH IRAN.
• RUSSIA CONDEMNS ATTACKS ON IRAQ.

Volume 4 Issue 232

December 16, 1998

• TURKMENISTAN-TURKEY GAS PIPELINE PROJECT ON TRACK. U.
• EUROPEAN UNION CHIDED FOR CONCESSION TO LUKASHENKA.
• HEAVY FINES IMPOSED ON AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION PRESS.
• UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ON THE OFFENSIVE.
• CHECHEN PARLIAMENT IMPOSES STATE OF EMERGENCY.
• MASLYUKOV PRESSES CASE FOR RATIFICATION.
• ANOTHER DELAY IN DUMA DISCUSSIONS ON START II.
• BORIS FEDOROV GIVES KIRIENKO GOVERNMENT POOR MARKS FOR LAST AUGUST'S DECISIONS.
• PRIMAKOV SIGNS ORDER OUTLINING GOVERNMENT'S DEBT RESTRUCTURING SCHEME.

Volume 4 Issue 231

December 15, 1998

• TWO AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION LEADERS FACE COURT PROCEEDINGS.
• UKRAINE: RUKH NOMINATES PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
• U.S.-MOLDOVA FIGHTER PLANE DEAL ATTACKED IN CHISINAU.
• LATVIA, LITHUANIA RETAIN HOPE AFTER EU NONDECISION.
• RUSSIA LOOKS TO PEDDLE MILITARY HARDWARE IN AFRICA.
• INDIAN-RUSSIAN ARMS DEALINGS SET TO INCREASE.
• SKURATOV SAYS "SIGNIFICANT EXPOSURES" WILL SOON COME IN DIAMOND-HEIST CASE.
• OFFICIALS FROM LENDING AGENCIES SOFTEN THEIR CRITICISM OF RUSSIA.

Volume 4 Issue 230

December 14, 1998

• GEORGIA PLANS UNPRECEDENTED STEP AGAINST CORRUPTION.
• DESTRUCTION OF KHACHKARS IN NAKHICHEVAN ALLEGED.
• RUSSIA INCREASES KAZAKHSTAN'S OIL TRANSIT QUOTA.
• MASSIVE SALE OF UKRAINIAN TANKS TO UGANDA REPORTED.
• UKRAINE: CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS INVOLVE HIGH POSTS.
• TOP ESTONIAN ANALYST WARNS AGAINST ISOLATION OF LATVIA.
• RUSSIA TRUMPETS SUCCESSFUL FREEING OF FRENCH HOSTAGE.
• CHECHEN AUTHORITIES VOW "DECISIVE BATTLE" AGAINST CRIME.
• RUSSIAN ARMY'S WOES OUTLINED.
• MOSCOW AND WASHINGTON REMAIN DEADLOCKED OVER RUSSIAN-IRANIAN DEFENSE TIES.
• ...PRESIDENTIAL SWORD SWINGS IN WIDE ARC, BUT MEETS SOME "OPPOSITION."
• ARRESTS IN KYRGYZSTAN SET TO BE CRACKDOWN ON CORRUPTION.
• YELTSIN CONTINUES TO ASSERT HIMSELF, CANS VLADIVOSTOK MAYOR.

Volume 4 Issue 229

December 11, 1998

• ANOTHER HIGH-PROFILE ASSASSINATION IN ARMENIA.
• EAST CASPIAN OIL AND GAS MAY FLOW INTO BAKU-CEYHAN.
• UKRAINIAN CURRENCY TO FLOAT?
• LATVIA'S NEW GOVERNMENT DITHERS ON DEFENSE SPENDING.
• DID THE EUROPEAN UNION CAVE IN TO LUKASHENKA?
• RUSSIA SAID TO REJECT JAPANESE PROPOSAL ON KURIL ISLANDS.
• RUSSIAN ARMY TO GET BIGGER SLICE OF STATE BUDGET.
• RUSSIAN LAWMAKERS CONTINUE TO NAYSAY START II RATIFICATION.
• PRIMAKOV GOVERNMENT APPROVES DRAFT 1999 BUDGET.
• ...BUT HAS SERIOUS HURDLES TO OVERCOME.
• YELTSIN RETURNS TO KREMLIN, MOVES TO ASSERT AUTHORITY.
• NEW CENTER-RIGHT BLOC HOLDS ITS FIRST MEETING IN MOSCOW...

Volume 4 Issue 228

December 10, 1998

• PARTY OF NATIONAL UNITY BANNED IN TAJIKISTAN.
• G.U.A.M. CONSIDERS FORMING PEACEKEEPING UNIT.
• OPENING GAMBITS IN NEGOTIATIONS ON SOUTH OSSETIA.
• FREEDOM AWARD TO SHARAMET.
• LUCINSCHI SEEKS INTERETHNIC CONSENSUS THROUGH "EUROPEAN PATRIOTISM."
• KIRIENKO FIZZLES AT HARVARD.
• TABLOID ALLEGES TOP OUR HOME IS RUSSIA OFFICIAL WAS INVOLVED IN MURDER PLOT.
• ...WHILE NEWSPAPER CLAIMS SOME HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IGNORE INTERESTS OF RUSSIAN STATE. "
• POLL FINDS MOST RUSSIANS BELIEVE HUMAN RIGHTS NOT OBSERVED...
• POINTS OF FRICTION EVIDENT IN RUSSIAN-U.S. TALKS.
• SENIOR ARMENIAN MILITARY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED.
• LEADERS APPLAUD RUSSIA-NATO COOPERATION...

Volume 4 Issue 227

December 9, 1998

• KUCHMA VETOES POPULIST ECONOMIC LEGISLATION.
• UKRAINE PINS HOPE ON CASPIAN OIL VIA GEORGIA.
• ESTONIA LIBERALIZES CITIZENSHIP LAW.
• ...MASKHADOV AND CHECHNYA WEAKENED BY FOILED KIDNAPPING.
• FOUR WESTERNERS BRUTALLY MURDERED IN CHECHNYA.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER SAID TO BE UNDER CLOUD.
• START II RATIFICATION DERAILED AGAIN.
• REPORT SAYS RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS AIDING IRANIAN GERM WARWARE EFFORT.
• MEDIA AND POLITICAL CONTINUE TO CHEW OVER YELTSIN'S LATEST MOVES.
• VLADIVOSTOK DECLARES A STATE OF EMERGENCY.

Volume 4 Issue 226

December 8, 1998

• SWISS INVESTIGATOR OF LAZARENKO CASE ARRIVES IN UKRAINE.
• SHEVARDNADZE-ARDZINBA MEETING IN SUKHUMI ABORTED.
• "FOREIGN" INTELLIGENCE OPERATION THWARTED IN LITHUANIA.
• RUSSIA COMFORTABLE WITH OSCE RESOLUTION ON MOLDOVA.
• CIS TERMED AN EMPTY SHELL, ITS PROSPECTS BLEAK.
• MOSCOW, PYONGYANG MOVE FORWARD ON INTERSTATE TREATY.
• MANEUVERING CONTINUES OVER IRAQ PROCESS.
• MOSCOW RESTATES SUPPORT FOR BAGHDAD.
• ...WHILE MEDIA AND POLITICAL ELITE WEIGH IN WITH THEIR INTERPRETATIONS.
• LUZHKOV SAYS YELTSIN'S MOVES WEAKEN BEREZOVSKY.
• YELTSIN STRENGTHENS HIS CONTROL OVER POWER MINISTRIES...

Volume 4 Issue 225

December 7, 1998

• UNOCAL RENOUNCES MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR PROJECTS.
• OSCE BACKS AWAY FROM "COMMON STATE" SCHEME.
• LAZARENKO IN A SWISS JAIL.
• UKRAINE: LAW ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ADOPTED IN FIRST READING.
• KGB OFFICER APPOINTED FOREIGN MINISTER OF BELARUS.
• KUCHMA URGES PARLIAMENT TO ADOPT BUDGET.
• SPY CASE AGAINST AMERICAN IS EXTENDED.
• RUSSIA CRITICIZES ARREST OF BOSNIAN SERB GENERAL.
• INITIAL ST. PETERSBURG VOTE TABS SHOW YABLOKO WAY AHEAD.
• YUMASHEV'S REMOVAL MAY BE CONNECTED TO HIS SUPPORT FOR CHERNOMYRDIN.
• YELTSIN RETURNS TO KREMLIN, HEADS ROLL.

Volume 4 Issue 224

December 4, 1998

• KHARKIV INITIATIVE GETS OFF THE GROUND.
• NATO APPROVES EXPANDED PLAN OF COOPERATION WITH UKRAINE.
• FORMER UKRAINIAN PREMIER DETAINED IN SWITZERLAND.
• MOSCOW BACKS BELGRADE AT OSCE FORUM.
• YELTSIN ISSUES DECREE ON SOCIOECONOMIC POLICY IN CAUCASUS.
• RATIFICATION BILL APPARENTLY STILL CONTAINS CONDITIONS OF OBSERVANCE.
• DUMA MOVES FORWARD ON START RATIFICATION.
• WOUNDED AIDE TO STAROVOITOVA GIVES FIRST PRESS INTERVIEWS.
• ST. PETERSBURG'S DIRTY ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN ENTERS FINAL FEW DAYS.

Volume 4 Issue 223

December 3, 1998

• PITFALLS OF "COMMON STATE" CONCEPT SINGLED OUT BY AZERBAIJAN.
• LUKASHENKA FRANTIC TO BUY SOCIAL PEACE.
• UKRAINE ATHWART RUSSIAN AGENDA AT OSCE.
• UKRAINE: RUKH AND REFORMS AND ORDER PARTY UNITE IN A BLOC.
• CHECHEN COURT POSTPONES CARRYING OUT RADUEV SENTENCE.
• RUSSIA TAKES AIM AT NATO.
• MOSCOW AND TOKYO PREPARE FOR BORDER, TREATY TALKS.
• MOSCOW SAYS NO QUICK SOLUTION TO TERRITORIAL ROW WITH JAPAN.
• GAIDAR-CHUBAIS COALITION DEALT FURTHER BLOWS.
• YURI LUZHKOV'S CENTRIST MOVEMENT CONTINUES TO GAIN GROUND.

Volume 4 Issue 222

December 2, 1998

• OSCE AND THE KARABAKH CONFLICT: FAILURE OF A MISSION.
• UKRAINE: DEMOCRATIC PARTY ON VERGE OF SPLIT.
• MEDIATORS TRY NEW APPROACH TO TRANSDNIESTER CONFLICT RESOLUTION.
• RUSSIAN FORCES AGAIN ATTACKED IN DAGESTAN.
• CHECHEN AUTHORITIES DENY VLASOV WAS HELD ON THEIR TERRITORY.
• PAKISTAN CRITICIZES INDIAN-RUSSIAN ARMS DEALINGS.
• RUSSIA VIEWS PALESTINIAN DONOR CONFERENCE FROM AFAR.
• GREECE AND CYPRUS CLASH OVER RUSSIAN MISSILE DEAL.
• ...WHILE GAIDAR HOPES TO WIN AS MANY SEATS AS THE COMMUNISTS IN THE NEXT PARLIAMENT.
• KIRIENKO MAY BAIL OUT OF NEW CENTER-RIGHT COALITION...

Volume 4 Issue 221

December 1, 1998

• LATVIA MISSES CHANCE TO FORM A STABLE MAJORITY GOVERNMENT.
• ANTICRISIS MEASURES DEFERRED.
• NEW SYMPTOMS OF DISINTEGRATION.
• REORGANIZATION PLAN DECENTLY BURIED.
• MOSCOW AND ROME DISCUSS KURDISH LEADER; BILATERAL TIES.
• IMF OFFICIAL QUESTIONS AID'S EFFECTIVENESS, WHILE RUSSIAN DEPOSITORS LOSE OUT AGAIN.
• AS CAMDESSUS ARRIVES, PRIMAKOV GOVERNMENT SAYS IMF MONEY IS VITAL.
• ... AND LOOKS TO AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE.
• IMF MEETING WEIGHS RESULTS OF PAST SEVEN YEARS...

Volume 4 Issue 220

November 30, 1998

• NEW HEAD OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT'S ADMINISTRATION APPOINTED.
• UKRAINE: "PRESIDENTIAL PARTY" NOT UNANIMOUS ON ELECTORAL STRATEGY.
• MEMBER COUNTRIES' REACTIONS.
• BEREZOVSKY ATTEMPTS A POWER GRAB.
• PRESIDENTS' MEETING POSTPONED.
• RUSSIA SAID TO BLOCK UN STATEMENT CRITICIZING IRAQ.
• RUSSIAN ARMS TRADE COMPANY GETS NEW DIRECTOR.
• PRIMAKOV GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR CRACKDOWN ON CRIME.
• YAVLINSKY LAYS OUT REASONS FOR REFUSING TO JOIN NEW COALITION.
• A ROCKY START FOR NEW REFORM COALITION.

Volume 4 Issue 219

November 25, 1998

• REBEL STRONGHOLDS IDENTIFIED IN TAJIKISTAN.
• KEY ARMENIAN OFFICIAL FAVORS "AXIS" WITH RUSSIA AND IRAN.
• LUKASHENKA FACES TWO-FRONT CHALLENGE.
• MOSCOW SINKS SUMMIT IN KYIV ON TRANSDNIESTER SETTLEMENT.
• LEZGIN MOVEMENT HOLDS CONGRESS IN SOUTHERN DAGESTAN.
• SOUTH AFRICAN OFFICIAL ENDS VISIT TO RUSSIA.
• MOSCOW DECRIES CALLS FOR SADDAM'S OVERTHROW.
• IRAN AND RUSSIA DEEPEN NUCLEAR COOPERATION.
• IMF DELEGATION LEAVES MOSCOW DISSATISFIED.
• STARAVOITOVA IS LAID TO REST AND EULOGIZED.

Volume 4 Issue 218

November 24, 1998

• RUSSIAN COSSACK MERCENARIES IN ABKHAZIA.
• AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION JOURNALISTS PROTEST AGAINST LIBEL SUITS.
• CHIEF OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT'S ADMINISTRATION RESIGNS.
• ESTONIA RELEASES POPULATION STATISTICS.
• UNCERTAINTY SURROUNDS INDIAN-RUSSIAN SUMMIT.
• CHINESE RUSSIAN SUMMIT.
• JOINT STATEMENT CELEBRATES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP.
• ST. PETERSBURG: A TRAINING GROUND FOR CRIMINALS? "
• PRESS BLASTS GOVERNMENT INACTION IN THE FACE OF CRIME.
• YELTSIN'S HOSPITALIZATION RENEWS TALK OF EARLY ELECTIONS.

Volume 4 Issue 217

November 23, 1998

• UKRAINIAN LIBERALS OUST THEIR LEADER.
• SHEVARDNADZE, KOCHARIAN FIND COMMON GROUND ON REGIONAL SECURITY ISSUES.
• PRO-KUCHMA PARTY DIVIDED OVER PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN STRATEGY.
• RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA REACH DEBT AGREEMENT.
• RUSSIA REMAINS WILD CARD IN SPACE PROJECT.
• LIFT OFF FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
• COULD "DEMOCRATS" EVEN HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN MURDER?
• WHY WAS GALINA STAROVOITOVA MURDERED?
• YELTSIN HOSPITALIZED.
• STAROVOITOVA MURDER SENDS SHOCKWAVES THROUGH RUSSIA.

Volume 4 Issue 216

November 20, 1998

• TROUBLE SIMMERS IN TAJIKISTAN.
• GEORGIA'S NEW FINANCE MINISTER HAS A CRISIS ON HIS HANDS.
• COMMUNIST PARTY AIMS FOR UKRAINE'S PRESIDENCY.
• STEPASHIN SAYS DAGESTAN MIRED IN CRIME AND SUBVERSION.
• BRZEZINSKI SAYS MOSCOW FUELS BALTIC ANXIETY.
• UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ADDRESSES PARLIAMENT ON STATE OF THE ECONOMY.
• CONFLICT COULD LOOM OVER CONDITIONS ATTACHED TO TREATY BILL.
• MASLYUKOV MAY BE BEHIND TURN-ABOUT BY LAWMAKERS.
• RUSSIAN DUMA READY TO RATIFY START II?
• PRIME MINISTER OPENS FIRE ON HIS PREDECESSORS.
• LUZHKOV LAUNCHES HIS PROMISED "CENTRIST COALITION".

Volume 4 Issue 215

November 19, 1998

• UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT REPLACES STATE TELEVISION MANAGER.
• MASKHADOV APPEARS BEFORE SHARIA COURT, PREPARES ANTICRIME MEASURES.
• MASLYUKOV KEEPS UP PRESSURE OVER ARMS EXPORTS.
• YELTSIN TO SEND PRIMAKOV TO INDIA.
• RADICAL DUMA DEPUTY ALLEGES THAT YELTSIN WAS GIVEN SHARES IN RUSSIAN PUBLIC TELEVISION.
• RUSSIANS UNITE IN CONDEMNATION OF KALMYKIA'S PRESIDENT.

Volume 4 Issue 214

November 18, 1998

• GEORGIAN RADICAL GROUPS TAUNT AUTHORITIES ON TELEVISION.
• TAJIKISTAN: INTERNAL POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE UZBEK INCURSION.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF VISITS EGYPT AND SYRIA.
• PRIMAKOV CONSULTS WITH U.S. VICE PRESIDENT IN KUALA LUMPUR.
• YELTSIN, SCHROEDER DISCUSS JOINT ECONOMIC PROJECTS.
• SCHROEDER SAYS NO NEW FINANCIAL AID FOR RUSSIA.
• FSB CHIEF REACTS ANGRILY TO ACCUSATIONS, SOME NEWSPAPERS REACT SKEPTICALLY.
• FSB OFFICERS CLAIM THEY WERE ORDERED TO KILL BEREZOVSKY.

Volume 4 Issue 213

November 17, 1998

• COLD WAR BREAKS OUT BETWEEN UZBEKISTAN AND TAJIKISTAN.
• PRO-MOSCOW LEFT BECOMES MAIN OPPOSITION FORCE IN GEORGIA.
• ...GERMAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS TO REMAIN A PRIORITY DESPITE CHANGES.
• CHECHEN AUTHORITIES BOTCH ATTEMPT TO ARREST REBEL FIELD COMMANDER.
• GERMAN CHANCELLOR HOLDS TALKS IN MOSCOW...
• FORMER CENTRAL BANK CHIEF CHARGES THAT PROSECUTORS IGNORED LARGE-SCALE EMBEZZLEMENT.
• CONTROVERSY FLARES OVER ALLEGED INSIDER TRADING OF T-BILLS.

Volume 4 Issue 212

November 16, 1998

• FINANCIAL CRISIS GRIPS GEORGIA.
• GAZPROM, CUTTING MOLDOVA OFF, MAY LET HER OFF THE HOOK.
• DUMA LEGALIZES INTRUSIVE "PROTECTION OF COMPATRIOTS."
• MORATORIUM ON COMMERCIAL DEBTS OWED TO WESTERN CREDITORS EXPIRES.
• RUSSIAN PRESIDENT'S REPRESENTATIVE IN CHECHNYA FINALLY FREED.
• GOVERNMENT RELEASES 37-PAGE ANTICRISIS PROGRAM.
• RUSSIA AND JAPAN PLEDGE TO DEVELOP "CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP".
• STRIKES ON IRAQ ARE AVERTED; INSPECTORS PLAN RETURN TO BAGHDAD.

Volume 4 Issue 211

November 13, 1998

• OSCE PROPOSALS WELCOMED BY ARMENIA AND KARABAKH.
• UKRAINIAN EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP PROPOUNDS EUROPEAN IDENTITY.
• EUROPEAN UNION'S ADMISSION PROCESS TERMED KAFKA-ESQUE.
• CHECHEN VICE PRESIDENT CALLS FOR EXTREME ANTICRIME MEASURES.
• TEN CAPTIVES FREED IN CHECHNYA, WHILE OTHERS TAKEN HOSTAGE IN CAUCASUS.
• NEW COMMITTEES CREATED; JAPAN PLEDGES ECONOMIC AID.
• YELTSIN FALTERS, BUT MOSCOW AND TOKYO CLAIM SUMMIT SUCCESS.
• YELTSIN STEPS INTO THE MIDST OF ANTI-SEMITISM CONTROVERSY.

Volume 4 Issue 210

November 12, 1998

• RUSSIAN INPUT DISTORTS OSCE MEDIATION IN KARABAKH CONFLICT.
• SUMMIT SCHEDULED ON TRANSDNIESTER CONFLICT.
• CHECHEN PRESIDENT STRIPS OPPONENT OF MILITARY RANK.
• UKRAINE SEEKS OIL DEAL WITH KAZAKHSTAN TO BYPASS RUSSIA.
• CANADIAN, GERMAN MINISTERS MAKE ROUNDS IN MOSCOW.
• MOSCOW SAYS DIPLOMACY CAN STILL WORK IN PERSIAN GULF.
• SUSPENSE BUILDS FOR YELTSIN-OBUCHI TALKS.
• CONTROVERSY CONTINUES TO SWIRL OVER COMMUNISTS AND ANTI-SEMITISM.
• IS CENSORSHIP ON THE HORIZON?

Volume 4 Issue 209

November 11, 1998

• GEORGIA-U.S. MILITARY COOPERATION PROGRAM SIGNED.
• IOSELIANI AND ACCOMPLICES SENTENCED.
• UKRAINE-NATO COOPERATION PROGRAM APPROVED.
• ANTI-KUCHMA REFERENDUM INITIATIVE STOPPED FOR NOW.
• SPARRING ON EVE OF RUSSIAN-JAPANESE SUMMIT.
• MOSCOW LOOKS TO CHINESE, INDIAN SUMMITS.
• POLITICAL ELITE CONTINUES DEBATE PROPOSED BAN ON COMMUNISTS.
• ...WHILE COMMUNISTS DEMAND HIGH PRICE FOR THEIR SUPPORT.
• GOVERNMENT SUDDENLY GETS MONETARIST RELIGION...
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT PUSHES FOR START II RATIFICATION.

Volume 4 Issue 208

November 10, 1998

• U.S. CRITICIZES KAZAKHSTAN'S ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN.
• AZERBAIJANI ELECTION BOYCOTTERS AND ELECTION LOSERS CONCLUDE COOPERATION PACTS.
• ABORTIVE REBELLION IN TAJIKISTAN BACKFIRES.
• BALTIC UNITY CONCEPT CHALLENGED.
• RUSSIA BEGINS FUELING SPACE STATION MODULE.
• MASKHADOV PROMISES TO REVEAL DUDAEV'S BURIAL SPOT.
• CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ADMONISHES RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. U.S.
• GOVERNMENT PRESENTS ANTICRISIS PROGRAM TO DUMA.
• LEADING RUSSIAN POLITICOS ADDRESS ISSUE OF CORRUPTION.

Volume 4 Issue 207

November 9, 1998

• KAZAKHSTAN AGREED AND RUSSIA LIKELY TO AGREE TO CPC.
• VIOLENCE IN BAKU.
• REBELLION IN TAJIKISTAN ALMOST DEFEATED; UZBEKISTAN SEEN AS ITS INSTIGATOR.
• NOVEMBER 7 IN UKRAINE: LEFT, RIGHT RALLY WITH EYE TO ELECTIONS.
• ACCUSED SOVIET SPY IS INDICTED.
• NEW COMMANDER OF LATVIA'S ARMED FORCES APPOINTED.
• CYPRIOT-RUSSIAN MISSILE DEAL BACK IN NEWS.
• ANKARA WANTS NEW ASSURANCES ABOUT KURDISH LEADER.
• SMALL TURNOUT FOR NOVEMBER 7 PROTESTS.
• LUZHKOV VOICES SUPPORT FOR BELGRADE.
• DEBATE OVER ANTI-SEMITISM HEATS UP.

Volume 4 Issue 206

November 6, 1998

• TAJIK UPDATE.
• DIFFERENCES EMERGE IN AIOC OVER CHOICE OF PIPELINE ROUTE.
• WILL NATO PLAY THE "RED LINE" GAME?
• UKRAINE RELIEVED BY AGREEMENT WITH GAZPROM.
• CONFRONTATION IN CHECHNYA MAY BE REACHING CRITICAL MASS.
• MOSCOW DECRIES CZECH PRESIDENT'S NATO REMARKS.
• RUSSIAN FAR EAST JUMPS INTO ISLANDS DEBATE.
• MORE HIGH-LEVEL ARRESTS TO COME?
• TOP OFFICIAL IN MAJOR BANK ARRESTED.
• UN SECURITY COUNCIL ISSUES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING IRAQ.

Volume 4 Issue 205

November 5, 1998

• TAJIKISTAN UPDATE.
• KUCHMA PROPOSES SUMMIT IN KYIV TO SETTLE TRANSDINESTER CONFLICT.
• ZVIADIST PUTSCH LEADERS NOW ELIGIBLE FOR LENIENCY.
• UKRAINIAN MINERS AGAIN DEMAND WAGES IN KYIV.
• MOSCOW CRITICIZES IRAQ BUT STILL OPPOSES USE OF FORCE.
• EUROPEAN UNION DISAPPOINTS LATVIA AND LITHUANIA.
• ISLANDS NOT TO DOMINATE SUMMIT TALKS.
• RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO JAPAN SAID TO BE READY.
• DOES RUSSIA REALLY NEED GRAIN SHIPMENTS? U.S.
• RUSSIA DISCUSSES FOOD AID WHILE REGIONS EXPERIENCE ACUTE FUEL AND MEDICINE SHORTAGES.

Volume 4 Issue 204

November 4, 1998

• IMF VISIT TO KAZAKHSTAN.
• GEORGIAN GUERRILLAS ACTIVE IN ABKHAZIA.
• REBELS INVADE TAJIKISTAN FROM UZBEKISTAN.
• HOSTILITIES BETWEEN UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT AND PARLIAMENT RESUME.
• CLINTON, PRIMAKOV TO MEET IN MALAYSIA.
• LATVIA FORMING NEW PARLIAMENTARY LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNMENT.
• YELTSIN MEETS WITH DEFENSE MINISTER ON MILITARY REFORM.
• DIPLOMATIC DANCE OVER IRAQ BEGINS ANEW.
• YAVLINSKY FOR PRESIDENT?
• ...AND ENDS, POSSIBLY, WITH THE ASIAN MODEL.
• BANK BAILOUT BEGINS...

Volume 4 Issue 203

November 3, 1998

• ZVIADISTS PUBLISH "ULTIMATUM" TO SHEVARDNADZE.
• RUSSIA'S DUMA, LUZHKOV FIXATED ON SEVASTOPOL AND CRIMEA.
• UKRAINE GETS ANOTHER TRANCHE FROM CAUTIOUS IMF.
• ACCUSED RUSSIAN CAPTAIN WINS LEGAL REPRIEVE.
• COMMUNISTS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT POLITICAL TRENDS IN FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS.
• MORE JOCKEYING FOR ADVANTAGE ON AND AROUND KURIL ISLANDS.
• MOSCOW AND TOKYO GEAR UP FOR NEXT WEEK'S SUMMIT.
• ZYUGANOV IS WARNED.
• ...AND CONTINUES TO TAKE HEAT FOR IT.
• YAVLINSKY STEPS UP HIS ANTICORRUPTION CAMPAIGN...

Volume 4 Issue 202

November 2, 1998

• NAZARBAEV ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO UZBEKISTAN.
• POLITICAL EQUILIBRIUM CRUMBLING IN ARMENIA.
• PRESIDENTS ENDORSE BAKU-CEYHAN.
• COMMUNISM "NOT YET CONQUERED" IN BELARUS.
• PURGE IN LATVIA'S DEFENSE MINISTRY.
• MORE NEW MISSILES DEPLOYED.
• THE RUSSIAN PREMIER MEETS THE CHECHEN PRESIDENT.
• ARMY'S BUDGET PROBLEMS CONTINUE.
• ZHIRINOVSKY PLEDGES SUPPORT TO IRAQ.
• MOSCOW JOINS UN CONDEMNATION OF IRAQ.
• END OF LIBERAL REFORMS?

Volume 4 Issue 201

October 30, 1998

• U.S-RUSSIAN FOOD DEAL IN THE MAKING? U.S.
• ZHIRINOVSKY OFF TO IRAQ.
• SURVEY SUGGESTS RUSSIANS INDIFFERENT TO KOSOVO CONFLICT.
• DIAMONDS--PRIMAKOV GOVERNMENT'S BEST FRIEND. "
• YAVLINSKY CONTINUES TO ATTACK GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION.
• RUSSIA TO CONSIDER REVISING CONSTITUTION... YELTSIN LEAVES FOR VACATION.

Volume 4 Issue 200

October 29, 1998

• CIPCO STRIKES OIL ON THE EVE OF CRUCIAL MEETING ON PIPELINE.
• UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL ANSWERS FORMER PREMIER.
• RUSSIAN AND BELARUSAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES POOL EFFORTS.
• GEORGIA'S NEW SECURITY MINISTER TO REFORM THE SERVICES.
• MOSCOW OBJECTS TO FINNO-UGRIC CULTURAL TIES.
• MORE EXPRESSIONS OF UNREST FROM KURIL ISLANDS.
• MOSCOW IS FEELING THE BITE OF THE CRISIS.
• ...BUT FEW DENY CORRUPTION IS RAMPANT.
• YAVLINSKY'S CHARGES SPARK A FLURRY OF DENIALS AND COUNTERCHARGES...
• FOREIGN RELATIONS SUFFER FROM YELTSIN'S INFIRMITIES.

Volume 4 Issue 199

October 28, 1998

• MOSCOW TO SEND MORE BORDER GUARDS TO TURKMENISTAN.
• KAZHEGELDIN HIRES LAWYERS TO MONITOR ELECTIONS.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS TROOPS WILL STAY IN GEORGIA.
• MOSCOW SAYS ITS TROOPS WILL STAY IN MOLDOVA.
• TWO MAJOR PARTY LEADERS MAY NOT SUPPORT KUCHMA.
• RUSSIAN-CHINESE SUMMIT STILL ON.
• RESHUFFLE IMMINENT ATOP RUSSIAN ARMS EXPORT ESTABLISHMENT?
• RUSSIA KEEPS UP CRITICISM OF NATO OVER KOSOVO THREATS.
• ALL AWAIT THE ANTICRISIS PROGRAM.
• YELTSIN: DOWN AND OUT, OR ROPE-A-DOPE?
• YELTSIN'S ILLNESS SPARKS DISCUSSION ABOUT STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL POWER.

Volume 4 Issue 198

October 27, 1998

• NAZARBAEV EVOKES GRASS-ROOTS SUPPORT.
• GAKHOKIDZE QUITS.
• A SPLIT IN KYRGYZ GOVERNMENT OVER RUSSIA-IRANIAN ARMS CONTRABAND?
• SHEVARDNADZE POINTS FINGER AT "EVIL POWER."
• SEA BREEZE-98 UNDERWAY.
• CLINTON ADMINISTRATION EQUIVOCATES ON NATO MEMBERSHIP FOR LITHUANIA.
• LATVIAN MILITARY CHIEF OUT.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF MEETS WITH CHINESE LEADER.
• KURIL RESIDENTS CRY FOUL.
• RUSSIAN DUMA DELEGATION IN BEIJING.
• YELTSIN WARNS AUSTRIA AGAINST NATO MEMBERSHIP.
• WILL RUSSIA DEFAULT?
• EVERYONE'S BUILDING COALITIONS.
• YELTSIN HOSPITALIZED.
• YELTSIN'S HEALTH, AGAIN, IS FRONT AND CENTER.

Volume 4 Issue 197

October 26, 1998

• UKRAINE: FORMER PREMIER COUNTERATTACKS.
• PURGE IN GEORGIA'S DEFENSE MINISTRY.
• INTER-TAJIK POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS DEADLOCKED.
• PRO-KUCHMA PARTY CHIEF TAKES DISTANCE FROM PRESIDENT'S TACTICS.
• GREEK MINISTER IN MOSCOW.
• YELTSIN TO CIS MINISTRY: YE HARDLY KNEW 'EM.
• MOSCOW ABSTAINS.
• NO END TO OUTCRY IN MOSCOW.
• UN SECURITY COUNCIL APPROVES KOSOVO AGREEMENT.
• NEW STRATEGIC MISSILE FAILS FIFTH TEST.
• THE ANTI-LUZHKOV CAMPAIGN CONTINUES. "
• PRIMAKOV: INDECISION AS A STRATEGY.
• THE "VIRTUAL" ECONOMY LIVED, LIVES AND WILL ALWAYS LIVE.

Volume 4 Issue 196

October 23, 1998

• MEDIA STRUGGLES TO MAINTAIN INDEPENDENCE.
• GEORGIA UPDATE.
• TURKMENISTAN WEIGHS IMMEDIATE OPTIONS ON EXPORT PIPELINES.
• ESTONIAN "SPY" EXPELLED FROM RUSSIA; RUSSIAN SPIES "UNDER CONTROL" IN ESTONIA.
• LUKASHENKA BILLS RUSSIA FOR SERVICES RENDERED.
• THE GOVERNMENT SCRAMBLES FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING SOURCES, JUST IN CASE.
• GOVERNMENT LOOKS TO ALCOHOL MARKET AND OIL BARONS FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS.
• WE WON'T PRINT A LOT OF MONEY--THAT IS, IF THE IMF COMES THROUGH.
• AGREEMENTS BALANCED BY DISAGREEMENTS.
• ARMS DEALINGS TOP DISCUSSION AGENDA.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER IN BEIJING.

Volume 4 Issue 195

October 22, 1998

• UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT TO INVESTIGATE NATIONAL BANK OPERATIONS.
• MOLDOVA EXPERIENCES THE WORTH OF MOSCOW'S SIGNATURE ON TROOP WITHDRAWAL TREATY.
• EUROPEAN UNION, GERMANY SURGE AHEAD OF RUSSIA IN LATVIA'S TRADE.
• BEREZOVSKY POWER GRAB FAILS DESPITE TACTICAL SHIFT.
• RUSSIAN-GERMAN SUMMIT IS SET.
• MOSCOW DENIES REPORT OF MISSILE DEALINGS WITH IRAQ.
• RUSSIA STYMIES CONTACT GROUP EFFORT.
• FAR RIGHT ACTIVE IN RUSSIA'S SOUTH.
• IS YAVLINSKY THE REAL RISING STAR?
• DUMA VEERS FAR TO GOVERNMENT'S LEFT.

Volume 4 Issue 194

October 21, 1998

• NEW KAZAKHSTANI MINISTRY AND ECONOMIC COUNCIL CREATED.
• KYRGYZSTAN PRESSED TO ACCEPT RUSSIAN-IRANIAN GUN-RUNNING.
• ZVIADIST MUTINY FAILS, BUT ARMED DIEHARDS REMAIN AT LARGE.
• MOSCOW REITERATES ITS ADHERENCE TO "ONE CHINA" POLICY.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF IN HANOI.
• UKRAINE: LARGEST PRIVATE BUSINESS TO SINK WITH POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS.
• JOCKEYING OVER DISPUTED ISLANDS CONTINUES.
• THE INTERIOR MINISTRY PLANS NEW SPECIAL UNITS.
• NIKITIN FINALLY GOES ON TRIAL.
• MONEY WILL BE PRINTED.
• LUZHKOV TEARS INTO PREVIOUS GOVERNMENTS AND OUSTED REFORMERS.

Volume 4 Issue 193

October 20, 1998

• RUSSIAN ECONOMIC FAVORS TO BELARUS.
• A ZVIADIST MUTINY IN THE GEORGIAN ARMY.
• RUSSIANS IN FORMER ESTONIAN DISTRICT SEEK ESTONIAN CITIZENSHIP.
• MOSCOW REJECTS JAPANESE PROTESTS OVER FISHING NEAR KURIL ISLANDS.
• MORE DEPRESSING STATISTICS.
• YELTSIN RESTRUCTURES SECURITY SERVICES, PERHAPS WITH AN EYE TO RIVALS.
• ZHIRINOVSKY IN TAIPEI.
• YUGOSLAV LEADER'S BROTHER TAKES UP POST IN MOSCOW.
• THE INDUSTRIALISTS RISE AGAIN.

Volume 4 Issue 192

October 19, 1998

• CANDIDATES EMERGE FOR EARLY JANUARY 1999 ELECTIONS.
• ...AND AUTHORITIES REACT.
• KYRGYZ CONSTITUTION CHANGED BY REFERENDUM.
• MOSCOW SUDDENLY EMBRACES ALIEV.
• PRESIDENTS KNOCK AT NATO'S DOORS IN ALLIED CAPITALS.
• EUROPEAN UNION-UKRAINE SUMMIT.
• ...BUT TERRITORIAL DISPUTE REMAINS DIVISIVE ISSUE.
• RUSSIA AND JAPAN EXPRESS SATISFACTION OVER TALKS.
• STILL SOME HOPE FOR HELP?
• LUZHKOV MEETS RESISTANCE.
• PRIMAKOV FOR PRESIDENT?

Volume 4 Issue 191

October 16, 1998

• TASHKENT ISLAMISTS ON TRIAL.
• ALLEGED EXTORTIONIST GANG UNVEILED IN LENINABAD REGION.
• ALIEV DECLARED THE FIRST-ROUND WINNER.
• WHERE MOSCOW FAILS, MARKET FORCES SUCCEED.
• LATVIA UPDATES THE CONSTITUTION.
• MOLDOVAN GOVERNMENT CAVES IN TO GAZPROM.
• ...A LEGACY IN PART FROM FORMER PRIME MINISTER HASHIMOTO.
• JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER IN MOSCOW FOR TALKS...
• MOSCOW BACKS CONTACT GROUP ENDORSEMENT OF KOSOVO AGREEMENT.
• IS THE CENTRAL BANK OFF THE HOOK?
• LUZHKOV PILES ON.
• FOOD SHORTAGES THIS WINTER?

Volume 4 Issue 190

October 15, 1998

• ALIEV'S RIVALS CLAIM SUCCESS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• MASSIVE WEAPONS CARGO FOR AFGHANISTAN STUCK IN KYRGYZSTAN.
• KYIV SETS SPECIFIC GOALS FOR RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION.
• UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN CABINET FORMATION?
• LATVIA GAINS ADMITTANCE TO WTO.
• WAR CLOUDS ON CHECHNYA'S HORIZON.
• RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE QUESTIONS U.S. STING OPERATION.
• ...AND OBJECTS TO CONTINUED NATO THREAT AGAINST BELGRADE.
• SMALL BUSINESS GASPS FOR AIR.
• MOSCOW HIGHLIGHTS ITS ROLE IN KOSOVO AGREEMENT...
• ...WHILE STROEV AND SKURATOV TARGET AUGUST 17 DECISIONS.
• PRIMAKOV BASHES PRIVATIZATION...

Volume 4 Issue 189

October 14, 1998

• YELTSIN IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• ANTI-ISLAMIC TROIKA ACQUIRES MILITARY DIMENSION.
• MONITORS CRITICIZE AZERBAIJAN'S ELECTORAL PROCEDURES.
• LUKASHENKA INDICTS TWO ORTHODOX COUNTRIES FOR "BETRAYAL."
• PROSECUTOR GENERAL SAYS ONE OF THE BANKERS MAY BE IN TROUBLE.
• UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT REJECTS NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION AGAINST CABINET.
• ...PROPOSALS INCLUDED INVOLVEMENT OF THE WEST AND REDUCTION OF PRIVILEGED BANKS.
• THE GOVERNMENT AND THE BANKERS MEET TO DISCUSS THE BANKING SYSTEM...
• BROTHER OF MILOSEVIC OFF TO MOSCOW.
• MOSCOW LOOKS FOR PLACE IN MIDDLE EAST PEACE TALKS.
• ...NOTWITHSTANDING POSSIBLY DIVERGENT OPINIONS.
• MOSCOW CONTINUES TO BRISTLE WITH COLD WAR RHETORIC OVER KOSOVO...

Volume 4 Issue 188

October 13, 1998

• ABASHIDZE SNUBS SHEVARDNADZE'S OVERTURE.
• SUGGESTIONS OF A DEAL BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND PARLIAMENT.
• UKRAINE: RIGHT WING TO REDEFINE PRIORITIES.
• WINTER DISASTER LOOMS IN MOLDOVA.
• MORE INTRIGUE SURROUNDING HOSTAGES HELD IN CHECHNYA.
• YELTSIN'S OPPONENTS CONTINUE TO WORK FOR HIS EARLY RETIREMENT.
• MORE BOMBS IN DAGESTAN.
• ISSUE ONE: THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH.
• KREMLIN TO PUSH FOR START II RATIFICATION?
• MOSCOW'S RHETORIC HEATS UP OVER KOSOVO.

Volume 4 Issue 187

October 12, 1998

• BAHROM SODIROV SENTENCED TO DEATH.
• RUSSIA SEEKS OPEN-ENDED MILITARY PRESENCE IN TAJIKISTAN.
• ALIEV REELECTED.
• LUKASHENKA ONE-UPS MOSCOW IN SUPPORTING SERBIA.
• OFFICIAL PAN-SLAVISM RECRUDESCENT IN BELARUS.
• SOME RUSSIAN-WESTERN AGREEMENT ON KOSOVO.
• MORE WARNINGS FROM MOSCOW OVER KOSOVO.
• GREECE CHOOSES U.S. OVER RUSSIAN MISSILES.
• MORE SPECULATION ON YELTSIN'S PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL CONDITION.
• POSSIBLE PLANS FOR NEW CURRENCY.
• CHUBAIS COULD REJOIN THE GOVERNMENT, THEN AGAIN...

Volume 4 Issue 186

October 9, 1998

• AZERBAIJAN'S OPPOSITION MISCALCULATES.
• ...GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE LOOMING.
• UKRAINIAN CABINET WANTS MORE LOANS...
• ARAFAT IN MOSCOW.
• DIPLOMATIC MANEUVERING INTENSIFIES OVER KOSOVO.
• THE PRESIDENT MAKES AN APPEARANCE, LAYS DOWN THE LAW.
• NEWSPAPER GOES AFTER LUZHKOV.
• YET ANOTHER TOP POLITICIAN SAYS HE'S EYEING THE PRESIDENCY.

Volume 4 Issue 185

October 8, 1998

• CHALLENGERS IN AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• MOLDOVA FACES WINTER SHOWDOWN WITH GAZPROM.
• RUSSIA READY TO DELIVER MISSILES TO CYPRUS.
• NEWSPAPER REPORTS RUSSIAN ARMS SALES TO BELGRADE.
• ...AND FEEL LUZHKOV BREATHING DOWN THEIR NECK.
• NO MOVEMENT FROM RUSSIA ON KOSOVO CONFLICT.
• OLIGARCHS MAY HAVE FALLEN INTO A TRAP.
• OCTOBER 7 PASSES QUIETLY.

Volume 4 Issue 184

October 7, 1998

• ASTANA MODERNIZATION DESIGN APPROVED.
• GUAM COUNTRIES SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE.
• LUKASHENKA OFFERS ARMS TO THE SERBS...
• MORE ETHNIC UNREST IN DAGESTAN.
• MASLYUKOV CALLS FOR RUSSIAN NUCLEAR REARMING.
• ...BUT REMAINS UNCLEAR ABOUT HOW IT WILL PAY ITS BILLS.
• MOSCOW SAYS IT WILL VETO NATO MILITARY ACTION.
• GOVERNMENT DENIES IT WILL RESORT TO PRINTING MONEY.
• THE PROTESTS BEGIN.
• ...CLAIMS WEST PLOTTED TO ASSASSINATE HIM.
• BRZEZINSKI SANGUINE ON UKRAINE'S FUTURE.
• TURKMENISTAN TO ADD JAPANESE-BUILT PLANT TO TURKMENBASHI COMPLEX.

Volume 4 Issue 183

October 6, 1998

• STATE RATIONALIZATION PRESSES ON.
• UNHCR AWARDS CRIMEAN TATAR LEADER, REPORTS PROGRESS ON REPATRIATION.
• COMMUNISM TOPPLED FROM PAMIRS' PEAK.
• UKRAINE: UNITED SOCIAL DEMOCRATS SPLIT.
• RUSSIAN-U.S. SPACE DEAL.
• LATVIA'S NEW PARLIAMENTARY LANDSCAPE.
• POLITICAL LEADERS VOICE OUTRAGE OVER THREATENED NATO STRIKES.
• OIL OLIGARCHS CALL FOR ZADORNOV'S SCALP.
• DEPRESSING STATISTICS CONTINUE TO ROLL IN.
• MOSCOW WARNS MILOSEVIC.
• LUZHKOV'S DEMARCHES CREATE WAVES.

Volume 4 Issue 182

October 5, 1998

• SOLANA IN YEREVAN.
• REFERENDUM APPROVES FAR-REACHING LIBERALIZATION OF LATVIA'S CITIZENSHIP LAW.
• RUSSIA-BELARUS MILITARY AGREEMENTS RATIFIED.
• UNION REVIVAL MOVEMENT HOLDS INAUGURAL CONGRESS.
• OCTOBER 7 MAY PASS PEACEFULLY: IT MAY NOT.
• HAVE THE PRINTING PRESSES STARTED ROLLING?
• RUSSIAN OFFICIALS ASK FOR MORE MONEY...
• ...AND DANCE AWAY FROM LEFTIST POLICY PRESCRIPTIONS.
• WARNING THAT NATO-RUSSIAN COOPERATION ENDANGERED.
• FRENETIC RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY TO HALT NATO ACTION AGAINST BELGRADE.

Volume 4 Issue 181

October 2, 1998

• ULTIMATUM TO TAJIK RENEGADE FORCES.
• SOLANA IN BAKU.
• PRESIDENT NAZARBAEV STRESSES SOCIAL PROGRAMS.
• FORD SUSPENDS PRODUCTION IN BELARUS.
• PEASANTS PARTY CREATES FACTION IN UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT.
• DUMA'S MAJORITY SAID TO SIGN UP FOR EMPIRE.
• RUSSIA SEEMS TO OFFER SEPARATE SECURITY DEAL TO LATVIA.
• MOSCOW ANTICIPATES ARAFAT VISIT.
• KIDNAPPINGS IN CHECHNYA MAY HAVE A POLITICAL MOTIVE.
• EVEN THE DUMA ISN'T SPARED.
• FISHING IN MURKY WATERS.
• ROSSEL GOES ONE FURTHER.
• THE STATISTICS: MORE BAD ECONOMIC NEWS.
• MASLYUKOV'S GRAND PLAN ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS.
• UN SECURITY COUNCIL ISSUES STATEMENT ON KOSOVO.

Volume 4 Issue 180

October 1, 1998

• ...A REACTION TO "OPPOSITION" AND THE MEDIA?
• PRESIDENT NAZARBAEV PROPOSES DEMOCRATIZATION.
• SOLANA IN TBILISI.
• KYRGYZ PRESIDENT, PARLIAMENT AT LOGGERHEADS OVER POWERS AND REFORMS.
• ILVES RESIGNS FROM GOVERNMENT.
• PRIMAKOV SEES RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION AS NUCLEUS FOR SOMETHING BIGGER.
• WARNS NATO AGAINST EXPANDING INTO FORMER USSR.
• RUSSIA HOLDS FAST ON KOSOVO CONFLICT.
• FORMER RUSSIAN OFFICIALS SPEAK OUT.
• LUZHKOV IN 2000.
• ...THE COMMUNISTS REACT WITH DISFAVOR.
• ...FOR THE GOVERNORS, A CHANCE TO CONSOLIDATE THEIR OWN POWER.
• SHIFTS IN THE BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN RUSSIA.

Volume 4 Issue 179

September 30, 1998

• THE AGA KHAN VISITS TAJIKISTAN.
• UKRAINE: NUCLEAR PLANTS DEMAND WAGE ARREARS THREATENING NUCLEAR SAFETY.
• SOLANA IN MOLDOVA.
• THE WESTERN REGION SELEZNEV CALLS UKRAINE TO ORDER.
• GOVERNMENT REACHES DEBT RESTRUCTURING AGREEMENT.
• VLADIVOSTOK ELECTIONS PLAGUED BY SCANDAL.
• MASKHADOV UNDER ATTACK.
• PRIMAKOV THREATENS REBELLIOUS GOVERNORS WITH DISMISSAL.
• TOKYO AND MOSCOW LOOK TO GET CONTACTS BACK ON TRACK.
• RUSSIA SAYS IT IS BEING PUSHED OUT OF BALKANS.
• NEW GERMAN LEADER TO TRAVEL TO MOSCOW.

Volume 4 Issue 178

September 29, 1998

• TAJIK PACIFICATION BARELY SURVIVES THE LATEST ASSAULTS ON THE OPPOSITION.
• SHEVARDNADZE MAKES STATESMANLIKE OFFER ON ANNIVERSARY OF DEFEAT IN ABKHAZIA.
• DEADLY ATTACKS ON RUSSIAN SOLDIERS.
• UKRAINIAN-POLISH INFORMAL SUMMIT.
• BLACK SEA FLEET TALKS RESUME OVER UNSETTLED ISSUES.
• POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS IN KALININGRAD REGION'S PLEAS FOR BALTIC AID.
• RUSSIAN- AND AMERICAN-SUBCRITICAL TESTS DRAW CRITICISM.
• ABDUCTORS OF YELTSIN'S CHECHEN ENVOY READY TO SWAP HIM FOR WARTIME LEADER.
• SERVICEMEN TO GET BACK PAY.
• END OF KOHL ERA IN RUSSIAN-GERMAN RELATIONS.
• WEAKNESS OF RUSSIAN STATE BLAMED FOR RISE OF ORGANIZED CRIME.
• CRITICISM MOUNTS AS GOVERNMENT DRIFTS.

Volume 4 Issue 177

September 28, 1998

• AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION SEEKS POSTPONEMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• "FORCES OF HELL" OPPOSE RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION.
• ANOTHER DNIPROPETROVSK BUSINESSMAN SUSPECTED OF EMBEZZLEMENT.
• PASTUKHOV APPOINTED CIS COOPERATION MINISTER.
• ABDULATIPOV RETURNS TO NATIONALITY POST.
• DEMONSTRATORS CALL OFF PROTEST RALLY IN DAGESTAN.
• SHOKHIN CASTS DOUBT ON IMF LOAN.
• MALNUTRITION THREATENS RUSSIAN MOTHERS AND THEIR BABIES.
• GROUP CALLS FOR END TO RUSSIAN MILITARY DRAFT.

Volume 4 Issue 176

September 25, 1998

• KARACHAGANAK EXPORT ROUTES PONDERED.
• IVANOV CONTINUES PRIMAKOV'S HARD LINE.
• MOLDOVA ABOUT TO CAVE IN TO GAZPROM.
• RUSSIAN-JAPANESE FISHING AGREEMENT UNDER FIRE.
• IS FINNISH-RUSSIAN SCANDAL OVER?
• DISCORDANT VOICES.
• ZHIRINOVSKY MAY RUN FOR GOVERNOR.
• NATO WARNS MILOSEVIC; MOSCOW WARNS NATO.
• RUSSIAN ECONOMIC POLICY IN DISARRAY.

Volume 4 Issue 175

September 24, 1998

• FIRST NON-RUSSIAN PIPELINE FOR TURKMEN GAS BECOMES OPERATIONAL.
• RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN MILITARY EXERCISE UNDERWAY.
• SIEMENS RETURNS TO AZERBAIJAN.
• KUCHMA HOPES FOR "WINTER WITHOUT UPHEAVALS" AFTER TALKS ON RUSSIAN GAS.
• UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ADMITS GRAVITY OF CRISIS.
• LUKASHENKA LAUNCHES VERBAL MISSILES BUT LONGS FOR THE REAL ONES.
• WILL KARACHAEVO-CHERKESSIA GET A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT AT LAST?
• CHECHEN SECTION OF HIGHWAY COMPLETED.
• LATVIA'S SPEAKER BREAKS INTERNATIONAL QUARANTINE OF BELARUSAN REGIME.
• RUSSIAN LAWMAKERS IN IRAN.
• HELSINKI GROUP COMPLAINS OF VIOLATIONS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS.
• FINNISH-RUSSIAN SPY ROW?
• ...AND THE REFORMERS...
• UN SECURITY COUNCIL PASSES RESOLUTION ON KOSOVO.
• TWO TEAMS DRAFT ECONOMIC PROPOSALS: THE ACADEMICIANS...
• REGIONS GET GREATER VOICE IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

Volume 4 Issue 174

September 23, 1998

• ROMANIA THINKS BIG ON CASPIAN OIL.
• GOVERNMENT DEBATES DRAFT INDUSTRIAL POLICY.
• TWO TERRORIST ACTS IN ABKHAZIA.
• LATIFI ASSASSINATED.
• UKRAINE'S SOCIALISTS MOVE TOWARD CONSTITUTIONAL CONFRONTATION.
• AJAR LEADER SUPPORTS ETHNIC ARMENIAN GROUP AGAINST TBILISI.
• PRIMAKOV HONORS LUKASHENKA.
• NATO-SPONSORED EXERCISE HELD AT YAVORIV.
• GOVERNMENT TURNS ATTENTION TO NORTH CAUCASUS.
• IVANOV RESTATES RUSSIA'S FOREIGN POLICY GOALS.
• GOVERNMENT MAY NATIONALIZE BANKRUPT ENTERPRISES.
• NEMTSOV GETS NEW POST.
• MOSCOW MAY BE EASING OPPOSITION TO UN KOSOVO RESOLUTION.
• CABINET TO BE COMPLETE BY WEEK'S END.

Volume 4 Issue 173

September 22, 1998

• STANDARD AND POOR'S LOWERS KAZAKHSTAN'S CREDIT RATING.
• NAZARBAEV'S RIVAL ACCUSES AUTHORITIES OF ARRESTING POLITICAL AIDE.
• ILVES CALLS FOR MORE CLARITY ON NATO'S ENLARGEMENT.
• AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: ETIBAR MAMEDOV.
• AIR FORCE HAS POOR SAFETY RECORD.
• CONDOMINIUM PROPOSED FOR DISPUTED TERRITORY.
• LEBED MOVES AHEAD IN PRESIDENTIAL STAKES.
• NEWSPAPER DECRIES RUSSIA'S FOREIGN POLICY WOES.
• IVANOV-ALBRIGHT MEET.
• YAVLINSKY HOSPITALIZED.
• JAPANESE-RUSSIAN RELATIONS STAY ON TRACK.
• FRESH SUPPORT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE REORGANIZATION.
• RUSSIA STILL WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT.

Volume 4 Issue 172

September 21, 1998

• TAJIKISTAN PUTS UZBEKISTAN'S PROTEGES ON TRIAL.
• ALIEV AND THE OPPOSITION HOLD RIVAL RALLIES.
• ENTER ZYUGANOV IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.
• RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN SUMMIT.
• BRITISH HOSTAGES RELEASED.
• MUSLIM LEADER LOSES IMMUNITY.
• NEW RUSSIAN BORDER CHIEF NAMED; MVD TROOPS FACE CUTS.
• PRIMAKOV SHIES AWAY FROM REGIONAL REFORM.
• DUBININ DENIES THAT IMF LOANS WERE MISUSED.
• CABINET TAKES SHAPE.
• ...WHILE PRIMAKOV PLACATES WESTERN BANKERS.
• RUSSIA TACKLES LIQUIDITY CRISIS...

Volume 4 Issue 171

September 18, 1998

• UNITED STATES PROVIDES ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA'S BORDER FORCES.
• NIAZOV PURGES HIS GENERALS.
• RUSSIA OFFERS TO TRANSIT TURKMEN OIL.
• GAS BOSS ARRESTED IN UKRAINE.
• RUSSIA FINALLY DECIDES TO PROFIT FROM BELARUSAN ARMS SALE.
• UKRAINIAN-POLISH TIES GROWING CLOSER.
• BIG CHARITIES "SPEND TOO MUCH, DO TOO LITTLE."
• YELTSIN-HASHIMOTO TALKS AT THE KREMLIN.
• MOSCOW AGAINST NATO MILITARY ACTION IN KOSOVO.
• RUSSIA HEADING FOR ITS WORST HARVEST IN FORTY YEARS.
• RUSSIAN HEALTH CRISIS THREATENS TO SPREAD.
• WESTERN BANKS ACCUSE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT OF DISCRIMINATION.

Volume 4 Issue 170

September 17, 1998

• KARIMOV IN ISRAEL.
• RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN RELATIONS: CONVERGENT FORECASTS FROM A COMMUNIST AND A DEMOCRAT.
• UKRAINIAN SCIENTISTS PICKET PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION, PARLIAMENT.
• GEORGIAN GUERRILLA LEADER APPEARS ON RUSSIAN TV.
• BELARUSAN GROUP DEFENDS NATIVE LANGUAGE.
• INTERNATIONAL ACTION ON BEHALF OF ARRESTED BELARUSAN DEPUTIES.
• FALLOUT FROM ABORTIVE CONFERENCE.
• RUSSIAN FORCES IN KALININGRAD TO ACCEPT LITHUANIAN FOOD AID.
• QUESTION MARKS IN MOSCOW OVER NORTH KOREAN MISSILE TEST.
• DAGESTAN'S LAKS DEMAND THEIR LEADER'S RELEASE.
• RUSSIAN TESTS TOPOL ICBM.
• RUSSIA'S FOREIGN POLICY GOALS LISTED.
• CHERNOMYRDONISM WITHOUT CHERNOMYRDIN.
• YELTSIN SAYS CABINET COULD TAKE ANOTHER WEEK.

Volume 4 Issue 169

September 16, 1998

• BLOODY INCIDENT IN ABKHAZIA.
• CREDIT APPROVED FOR VITAL UZBEK RAILWAY'S REHABILITATION.
• PLANS FOR LAKE BALKHASH NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CONTINUE.
• WEST SEEN AS AMBIGUOUS ON NATO'S ENLARGEMENT.
• WORLD BANK RESUMES LENDING TO UKRAINE...
• ...BUT RADA TORPEDOES REFORMS.
• REFORM CONFERENCE ABORTED, PRIME MINISTERS' MEETING POSTPONED INDEFINITELY.
• SITUATION IN DAGESTAN REMAINS TENSE.
• YELTSIN APPOINTS NEW PRESS SECRETARY.
• INDIA APPLAUDS PRIMAKOV APPOINTMENT.
• SHOKHIN IN, FEDOROV OUT.
• NEW SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY NAMED.
• CONTINUITY AT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY.
• IMF DELAYS LOAN PAYMENT TO RUSSIA.

Volume 4 Issue 168

September 15, 1998

• JAPAN BOOSTS ECONOMIC PRESENCE IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• AGRICULTURAL MOLDOVA TRIES TO EXTRICATE ITSELF FROM RUSSIAN MARKET.
• UKRAINE'S SECOND LARGEST MINING UNION DEMANDS CABINET RESIGNATION.
• U.S. SIXTH FLEET FLAGSHIP CALLS AT POTI.
• BALTRON OUT TO SEA IN NATO-LED EXERCISE.
• LITPOLBAT TAKES TO THE FIELD.
• MINSK BLASTS YELTSIN AS "GORBACHEV" AFTER POSTPONEMENT OF SUMMIT.
• ESTONIAN PRESIDENT CALLS FOR AID TO RUSSIA...
• ...WHILE RUSSIAN TROOPS RATTLE ARMOR IN KALININGRAD REGION.
• INGUSH PRESIDENT SAYS WAR WITH NORTH OSSETIA WAS ONLY NARROWLY AVERTED.
• HIGH-LEVEL TALKS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
• LONDON MEETING DISCUSSES RUSSIAN ECONOMIC WOES.
• PRIMAKOV TELLS GOVERNORS TO TOE THE LINE.
• NO FOOD FOR RUSSIA'S SOLDIERS.
• YELTSIN MEETS WITH PRIMAKOV.
• PRIMAKOV WARNS OF "EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES."

Volume 4 Issue 167

September 14, 1998

• KAZAKHSTANI GOVERNMENT TO HOLD DOWN BORROWING COSTS.
• ...SUPPORTS UKRAINIAN ROUTE FOR CASPIAN OIL.
• OPPOSITION, POLICE CLASH IN BAKU.
• WASHINGTON URGES UKRAINE TO DESERVE MORE CREDITS...
• FRESH TENSIONS BETWEEN INGUSH AND OSSETIANS.
• POLITICAL FRONTS HARDEN IN BELARUS.
• ROCKET CRASH MAY AFFECT UKRAINE'S AIRSPACE PLANS.
• YELTSIN FIRES PRESS SECRETARY.
• CHANGE AT THE TOP OF ORT.
• ANOTHER SERVICEMAN MURDERS HIS COMRADES.
• RUSSIA GETS NEW FOREIGN MINISTER.
• PRIMAKOV DEFENDS START II; DECRIES CONFRONTATION.
• PRIMAKOV FAVORS POWER-SHARING DEAL.
• BACK TO THE USSR?

Volume 4 Issue 166

September 11, 1998

• KYRGYZSTAN ALMOST REVOKES HINT ABOUT RELATIONS WITH THE TALIBAN.
• REDS FOIL KUCHMA'S CHOICE OF PRIVATIZATION CHIEF.
• UKRAINIAN ROCKET CRASH SETS BACK GLOBALSTAR PROGRAM.
• FUNDING FOR TRANSPORT ROUTES SEEMS WITHIN REACH.
• PRIMAKOV'S COUNTERPARTS CONCERNED BY HIS PROMOTION.
• LUKASHENKA'S TEAM TAKES HEART FROM PRIMAKOV'S ASCENT.
• RUSSIAN SAILOR BARRICADES SELF INSIDE NUCLEAR SUB.
• EMIGRATION FIGURES TO ISRAEL CONTESTED.
• CHECHEN WAR LORD DEMANDS RELEASE OF ARRESTED DAGESTANI.
• RUSSIA'S BANKS CANNOT PAY THEIR DEBTS.
• PRIMAKOV IN; KOKOSHIN OUT?
• PRIMAKOV THE DIPLOMAT: A MIXED BAG FOR THE WEST.
• PRIMAKOV EXPECTED TO BE APPROVED TODAY.

Volume 4 Issue 165

September 10, 1998

• KAZAKHTELECOM IN FAVORABLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEAL.
• KYRGYZSTAN PERHAPS TO RECOGNIZE TALIBAN GOVERNMENT.
• MOSCOW'S OBJECTIONS BRUSHED ASIDE BY TRACECA PARTNERS.
• ROMANIA RESUSCITATES POLEMICS WITH UKRAINE OVER ETHNIC MINORITY.
• KUCHMA'S OPPONENTS PREPARE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS.
• FRESH TENSION IN MAKHACHKALA.
• MASKHADOV AND BASAEV TRADE INSULTS.
• FEW ELIGIBLE RUSSIANS APPLY FOR LATVIAN CITIZENSHIP.
• INCREASE IN EMIGRATION TO ISRAEL ANTICIPATED.
• BRITISH HOSTAGES ALIVE AND WELL.
• WASHINGTON DOWNPLAYS UPCOMING G-7 MEETING. U.S.
• RUSSIA AWAITS NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCH.
• JAPAN-RUSSIA FORUM IS LAUNCHED IN TOKYO.
• KALININGRAD GOVERNOR DENIES STATE OF EMERGENCY.
• YELTSIN NOMINATES PRIMAKOV.

Volume 4 Issue 164

September 9, 1998

• PORK BARREL PROJECTS FOR TAJIK PRESIDENT'S NATIVE AREA.
• TWO WAYS TO MARK BELARUSAN MILITARY ANNIVERSARY.
• HISTORIC TRACECA AGREEMENT SIGNED; RUSSIA AND IRAN DISSENT.
• RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS, EVICTED FROM POTI, YIELD GEORGIA'S SEABOARD.
• NUCLEAR WORKERS PICKET OVER WAGES, FUNDING.
• HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO RUSSIA UNDER CONSIDERATION.
• MOSCOW DEFENDS ARMS DEALS WITH INDIA.
• REGIONS SCRAMBLE TO FEED POPULATION.
• G-7 MEETING ON RUSSIA MAY BE POSTPONED.
• GOVERNMENT MAY PEG RUBLE TO BASKET OF FOREIGN CURRENCIES.
• ROSNEFT SALE LIKELY TO BE CANCELED.
• TATARSTAN SUSPENDS PAYMENTS TO FEDERAL BUDGET.
• WILL YELTSIN RE-NOMINATE CHERNOMYRDIN?

Volume 4 Issue 163

September 8, 1998

• YELTSIN POSTPONES SUMMITS IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• NAZARBAEV STRESSES INDEPENDENCE FROM RUSSIA.
• IMF APPROVES MASSIVE CREDIT PROGRAM TO UKRAINE.
• AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION ATTACKS ALIEV FOR INVITING ARMENIA TO EU-SPONSORED CONFERENCE.
• ANOTHER CHANGE FOR THE GROUND FORCES.
• RUSSIANS IN BALTIC REGION HIT BY RUSSIA'S CRISIS.
• NEW QUESTIONS REGARDING NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCH.
• YELTSIN POSTPONES KAZAKHSTAN VISIT.
• INTERIOR MINISTRY DENIES ALERTING TROOPS.
• EUROPEAN UNION MULLS RUSSIA CRISIS.
• SUPPORT BUILDING FOR LUZHKOV AMONG REGIONAL LEADERS.
• CENTRAL BANK CHAIRMAN RESIGNS.
• DUMA REJECTS CHERNOMYRDIN AGAIN.

Volume 4 Issue 162

September 4, 1998

• RUSSIAN-TAJIK MILITARY EXERCISE HELD.
• A BELARUSAN PERSPECTIVE ON SUVOROV.
• FRENCH PRESIDENT IN KYIV.
• U.S. WARSHIP IN SEVASTOPOL.
• DEFENSE MINISTER RENEWS CALL FOR START II RATIFICATION.
• UNRESTRICTED ENLARGEMENT OF NATO URGED.
• CHINESE AID FOR RUSSIA; NO DATE FOR BEIJING-MOSCOW SUMMIT.
• RUBLE FALLS FURTHER.
• CLINTON DEPARTS FROM MOSCOW. U.S.
• CHERNOMYRDIN PROMISES "ECONOMIC DICTATORSHIP."
• PARLIAMENT TO DEBATE CHERNOMYRDIN CANDIDACY.

Volume 4 Issue 161

September 3, 1998

• POLITICAL SIGNALS ON KARABAKH'S INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY.
• DAGESTAN PLACATES REBELLIOUS VILLAGERS.
• KUCHMA'S FOES PONDER IMPEACHMENT TO HALT REFORMS.
• FEDOROV FAVORS ADOPTION OF CURRENCY BOARD.
• SUPPORT BUILDS FOR CHERNOMYRDIN IN UPPER HOUSE...
• ...AS JUSTICE MINISTER THREATENS DUMA.
• BEREZOVSKY SAYS YELTSIN MAY HAVE TO GO.
• CHERNOMYRDIN'S PROGRAM... AND THE DUMA'S.
• JAPAN HAILS RUSSIAN-U.S. MISSILE AGREEMENT.
• MODEST ARMS CONTROL MEASURES FROM MOSCOW SUMMIT.
• YELTSIN, CLINTON OUTLINE AREAS OF AGREEMENT AND DISCORD.

Volume 4 Issue 160

September 2, 1998

• TAJIK OPPOSITION COMMANDER APPREHENDS SUSPECTED KILLERS OF UN OBSERVERS.
• BRIBES BEHIND ARREST OF RUSSIA'S FIRST DEPUTY FINANCE MINISTER.
• TRANSDNIESTER SAYS NYET TO NATO.
• KOCHARIAN CHOOSES ARMENIAN-AMERICAN AS SPOKESWOMAN.
• SECURITY ISSUES ALSO DISCUSSED.
• MOSCOW SENDS MIXED SIGNALS ON NORTH KOREAN MISSILE TEST.
• CHERNOMYRDIN DRAWS UP NEW CABINET.
• RUSSIAN ECONOMIC REFORM DOMINATES FIRST DAY OF SUMMIT.
• DUMA MAY BE DISSOLVED ON SEPTEMBER 14, CHERNOMYRDIN-SUPPORTERS WARN.

Volume 4 Issue 159

September 1, 1998

• BALGIMBAEV AND NAZARBAEV SEEK TO REASSURE FOREIGN INVESTORS.
• LUKASHENKA EMBRACES VIETNAM.
• PAN-SLAV PARTY CREATED IN UKRAINE.
• SKRUNDA SHUTS DOWN.
• WORLD LEADERS CLAMOR FOR RUSSIA TO STAY THE COURSE.
• MARKETS REACT TO RUSSIAN CRISIS.
• CLINTON ARRIVES IN MOSCOW FOR RUSSIAN-U.S. SUMMIT. U.S.
• RUSSIA'S CRISIS DEEPENS. U.S.

Volume 4 Issue 158

August 31, 1998

• KAZAKHSTAN WELCOMES CHERNOMYRDIN'S NOMINATION.
• DEADLY RAID IN TAJIKISTAN BLAMED ON HUDOBERDIEV AND UZBEKISTAN.
• LEBED IN CHECHNYA.
• MOSCOW CONDEMNS U.S. AIR ATTACKS.
• RUSSIAN-CHINESE SUMMIT IS POSTPONED.
• WISDOM OF CLINTON VISIT DEBATED.
• RUSSIAN-U.S. SUMMIT UNDER CLOUD.
• JAPAN CALLS ON G-7 TO CONFER.
• RUSSIA'S POWER-SHARING AGREEMENT UNDER THREAT.

Volume 4 Issue 157

August 14, 1998

• TALIBAN VICTORIES IN AFGHANISTAN PROMPT DIVERGENT REACTIONS IN CIS COUNTRIES.
• IMPLEMENTATION OF DEFENSE CONCEPT NO SURE BET.
• MORE ON RUSSIAN DEFENSE CONCEPT; MILITARY REFORM.
• DUMA STILL PLAYS HARD TO GET.
• ROW CONTINUES OVER STATE CONTROL OF PRIVATE TV.
• YELTSIN RULES OUT DEVALUATION.

Volume 4 Issue 156

August 13, 1998

• KOCHARIAN SENDING HIS PRIME MINISTER TO AZERBAIJAN.
• LESSER-KNOWN ASPIRANTS TO AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENCY.
• KUCHMA VETOES POPULIST LEGISLATION.
• PUSTOVOYTENKO ISSUES DIRE THREATS TO OFFICIALS OVER UNPAID TAXES.
• NO CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST ACCUSED AGENT FOR ISRAEL.
• CHELYABINSK MINERS LIFT RAIL BLOCKADE.
• RUSSIAN PRESSURES ON LATVIA AIM TO RECOUP INFLUENCE.
• KOKOSHIN CALLS FOR BETTER RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL.
• KHRISTENKO PREDICTS FIGHTS OVER 1999 BUDGET.
• NO CHANGE IN MOSCOW'S KOSOVO POLICY.
• RUSSIA'S STOCK MARKET IN FREE FALL.
• MIR'S LAST MISSION?
• SOROS URGES RUSSIA TO DEVALUE RUBLE.
• DUMA REFUSES TO BE RUSHED.

Volume 4 Issue 155

August 12, 1998

• CLASHES ACROSS THE GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ DEMARCATION LINE.
• OPPOSITION GOING TO THE BRINK IN BAKU.
• RUSSIA-U.S. SET SUMMIT DATE.
• THIRD TIME LUCKY.
• NATIVE-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER THREATENED IN MINSK.
• WESTERN-ORIENTED YOUNG MEN RISING IN GEORGIA'S LEADERSHIP.
• A SETBACK FOR SEA LAUNCH.
• "RED BANKER" TO RUN FOR MAYOR.
• ISRAELIS ACCUSED OF WIDE-RANGING ESPIONAGE ACTIVITIES.
• RUSSIAN BLUE CHIPS CONTINUE TO FALL.
• RUSSIAN SECURITY CHIEF WINDS UP TALKS IN ISRAEL.

Volume 4 Issue 154

August 11, 1998

• U.S. ARMENIAN MOVES FROM WORLD BANK TO PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE IN YEREVAN.
• JAPANESE COMPANIES MODERNIZE UZBEK AIRPORTS.
• CHELYABINSK MINERS RESUME RAIL BLOCKADE.
• RUSSIAN CHURCH IN ESTONIA SEEKS RETENTION OF ITS SOVIET-ERA POSITION.
• RUSSIAN NAVAL FORCE LEVELS IN UKRAINE CODIFIED.
• ...AMID FEUDING BETWEEN CENTRAL BANK AND FINANCE MINISTRY.
• RUSSIA STILL FACES BUDGET SQUEEZE...
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT THREATENED BY EROSION OF ELITE SUPPORT.
• COMMUNISTS AND UNIONISTS LOCKED IN BATTLE.
• MORE RUSSIAN-CHINESE DEFENSE COOPERATION?

Volume 4 Issue 153

August 10, 1998

• WILL KAZAKHSTAN BECOME A MONOETHNIC REPUBLIC?
• BOUYGUES NAMED GENERAL CONTRACTOR FOR ASHGABAT MODERNIZATION.
• LORTKIPANIDZE CONFIRMED, OUTLINES GOVERNMENT PROGRAM.
• ABKHAZ INCURSION INTO GEORGIA.
• KAZAKHSTAN HIKES REFINANCING RATE.
• PUSTOVOYTENKO STEPS UP PRESSURE AGAINST STATE OFFICIALDOM OVER TAXES.
• KUCHMA SIGNS DEFICIT-CUTTING, TAX-RELIEF DECREES.
• MOSCOW TESTS LATVIAN RESOLVE ON SKRUNDA RADAR.
• RUSSIAN SECURITY CHIEF IN ISRAEL.
• RUSSIA AGAINST NATO ACTION IN KOSOVO.
• WORLD BANK APPROVES US$1.5 BILLION LOAN FOR RUSSIA.
• KIRIENKO MAKES A CONCESSION.
• YELTSIN REJECTS DUMA'S BILL ON TRANSFER OF POWERS.

Volume 4 Issue 152

August 7, 1998

• ARMENIA'S PROSECUTOR-GENERAL ASSASSINATED.
• A STUNNING FORM OF TAX COLLECTION IN KYIV.
• KOCHARIAN APPRECIATIVE OF ALIEV'S INVITATION.
• PARAMILITARY EXERCISE IN ESTONIA RECALLS ANTI-SOVIET RESISTANCE.
• BELARUSAN LEADERS RESIST PROPOSAL TO SWAP PROPERTY FOR RUSSIAN GAS.
• ANTI-AMERICAN PROTESTS LAUNCH JOINT NAVAL MANEUVERS.
• RUSSIAN-JAPANESE NAVAL HOT LINE?
• DESCENDANTS OF DEPORTED CHECHENS DEMAND RETURN OF THEIR LAND.
• TAX SERVICE SEIZES OIL COMPANIES' ASSETS.
• STRIKE WAVE SUBSIDES.
• MOSCOW IN THICK OF LATEST IRAQ CONFLICT.
• RUSSIA PUTS NEW LIMITS ON VISAS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.

Volume 4 Issue 151

August 6, 1998

• FLAWED LEGISLATION DISCOURAGES INVESTMENT IN KYRGYZSTAN'S GOLD AND RARE METAL INDUSTRY.
• POVERTY IN KAZAKHSTAN'S SMALL TOWNS GROWS.
• LEBED'S AIDE IN TRANSDNIESTER SUES SERGEEV AFTER COLLECTING FROM GRACHEV.
• MASSIVE DONATION OF AMERICAN M14S.
• ARMENIAN AND RUSSIAN MILITARY LEADERS IN FLURRY OF MEETINGS.
• COMMUNISTS CALL FOR NATIONWIDE STRIKE.
• WOMEN'S PARTY TO BE SET UP IN RUSSIA.
• RUSSIA TO BE A PART OF NATO EXERCISES IN ALBANIA.
• PROBLEMS BEATING NUCLEAR PLOWS INTO PLOWSHARES.
• CHECHEN CHILDREN DISCOVER MASS GRAVE IN DJOHAR.
• MASKHADOV IN WASHINGTON.
• GOVERNMENT VOWS TO PRESS AHEAD WITH LAND REFORM.
• DUMA TO DISCUSS STABILIZATION PACKAGE.

Volume 4 Issue 150

August 5, 1998

• RESPITE IN "RAILWAY WAR?"
• RUSSIA SET TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
• OBUCHI TO VISIT RUSSIA; CALLS FOR RETURN OF KURILS.
• SPY SCANDAL DOOMS SOUTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER.
• RUSSIAN MARKET SHRINKAGE HALTS KAZAKHSTAN'S NUCLEAR FUEL EXPORT.
• ALIEV INVITES KOCHARIAN.
• ZVIADIST APPOINTED MINISTER IN AJARIA.
• UKRAINIAN-U.S. MILITARY EXERCISE REHEARSES COMMANDO OPERATIONS.
• UKRAINIAN-MOLDOVAN BORDER RECTIFICATIONS SAVE VITAL MOLDOVAN OIL TERMINAL.
• MOSCOW COMMENTS ON DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ.
• RUSSIA OBJECTS TO LATVIAN BORDER SECURITY PLAN.

Volume 4 Issue 149

August 4, 1998

• SAKHALIN MINERS RELENT.
• YELTSIN TO RESUME HIS VACATION.
• KREMLIN APPROVES MAJOR DEFENSE POLICY DOCUMENT.
• SAKHALIN FACES TOTAL BLACKOUT.
• LAW ON MORTGAGES COMES INTO EFFECT.
• CHECHNYA GETS ACTING PRIME MINISTER.
• KOSOVO CIRCASSIANS RESETTLE IN RUSSIA.
• U.S.-RUSSIAN NAVAL MANEUVERS SAID TO BE CURTAILED.
• ALFRED SCHNITTKE DIES.
• RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE-GATHERING AND PENETRATION EFFORTS INCREASE.
• PAN-SLAVISM PLUS COLLECTIVISM EQUALS EMPIRE.
• GEORGIA ASSUMING MARITIME BORDER CONTROL WITH HELP OF FRIENDS.
• KURDISH SPECTER ALARMS AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION.
• FRENCH RESOURCES HEADED DOWN THE STRAITS?
• PROBLEMS AFFLICT KAZAKHSTAN'S PENSION REFORM.

Volume 4 Issue 148

August 3, 1998

• LITTLE ACHIEVED AT MASKHADOV-KIRIENKO MEETING.
• MASKHADOV TO VISIT UNITED STATES.
• MOSCOW MAYOR SAYS CHECHNYA SHOULD BECOME INDEPENDENT.
• IMF CHECKS RUSSIA'S PROGRESS.
• MOSCOW, WASHINGTON AT ODDS OVER IRAQ SANCTIONS.
• MINERS' STRIKES CONTINUE.
• GOVERNOR JOINS IN PROTEST AGAINST US MARINE LANDING.
• LEBED'S PARTY HOLDS CONGRESS.
• HEAD OF RUSSIA'S LARGEST DIAMOND-PROCESSING PLANT SHOT DEAD.
• KYIV AGREES TO IMF'S CONDITIONS FOR EFF LOAN.
• ASSAULT ON DETRACTOR OF KUCHMA.
• CHURCH-BUILDING ACTIVITY IN KARABAKH.
• AZERBAIJANI AUTHORITIES MAKE CAUTIOUS OVERTURE TO ISLAM.
• U.S. MILITARY DEVELOPS CONTACTS WITH TURKMENISTAN.
• TAJIK OFFICIAL KILLED IN PROBABLE GANGLAND INFIGHTING.

Volume 4 Issue 147

July 31, 1998

• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT PROMISES WIDER ACCESS TO FOREIGN INVESTORS.
• RUMORS OF GOVERNMENT SHUFFLE PERSIST.
• RUSSIA REACTS TO SANCTIONS DECISION.
• INVITATIONS TO TOKYO.
• PASSING THE BUCK LITTLE HELP IN NUCLEAR CLEAN-UP.
• RUSSIAN PREMIER, CHECHEN PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO MEET TOMORROW.
• LITHUANIA DROPS LUKOIL, CHOOSES U.S. PARTNER.
• LUZHKOV ENDORSES LATVIA'S REDS AHEAD OF ELECTIONS.
• INVESTIGATION AGAINST LAZARENKO PICKS UP SPEED.
• ALIEV ENCOURAGES UKRAINIAN ROLE IN OIL TRANSIT.
• LORTKIPANIDZE TAKING CHARGE OF GEORGIA'S CABINET OF MINISTERS.
• RAHMONOV REJECTS OPPOSITION'S LEADING MINISTERIAL CANDIDATES.

Volume 4 Issue 146

July 30, 1998

• YELTSIN RETURNS TO MOSCOW.
• WASHINGTON LEVELS SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIAN FIRMS.
• SOUTH KOREA DENIES DEAL ENDING SPY ROW.
• YELTSIN TRANSFERS PRISONS TO JUSTICE MINISTRY.
• FORMER GROZNY MAYOR ON TRIAL.
• MASKHADOV LIFTS STATE OF EMERGENCY.
• ROUGH SAILING FOR RUSSIAN NAVAL EXERCISES?
• PASTUKHOV MISSION DEMONSTRATES CONCEPTUAL CONFUSION ON CASPIAN STATUS.
• TURKMEN GAS EXPORT ROUTE TO BYPASS RUSSIA AND IRAN.
• OIL REFINERY PROBLEMS INCREASE.

Volume 4 Issue 145

July 29, 1998

• RUSSIAN ARMY JOINS EXPORT CONTROL EFFORT.
• PRIMAKOV-ALBRIGHT TALKS.
• RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA RESOLVE SPY DISPUTE.
• WHAT ELSE MIGHT "THE FOUR" HAVE IN MIND?
• GOVERNMENT DOWNPLAYS "LETTER OF THE FOUR."
• POLITICAL COALITIONS BEGIN TO EMERGE FROM THE SHADOWS.
• CHECHNYA COMPLAINS ABOUT RUSSIAN EXERCISES ON ITS BORDER.
• ENDGAME IN UKRAINE-IMF LOAN NEGOTIATIONS.
• GENEVA TALKS ON ABKHAZIA INEFFECTIVE.
• CCL OIL TAKES KAZAKHSTANI GOVERNMENT TO COURT.
• OFFICIAL CORRUPTION IN KAZAKHSTAN DETAILED.
• AKAEV URGES MILITARY READINESS AND MILITARY REFORM.

Volume 4 Issue 144

July 28, 1998

• PRIMAKOV COMMENTS ON SOUTH ASIAN NUCLEAR TESTS.
• PRIMAKOV, ALBRIGHT MEET IN MANILA.
• RUSSIAN-CHINESE MILITARY TALKS.
• SACKING OF RUSSIAN SECURITY CHIEF REMAINS A MYSTERY.
• STATE DUMA COMMISSION HOLDS FIRST HEARING ON YELTSIN IMPEACHMENT.
• YELTSIN ORDERS SALE OF GAZPROM SHARES.
• JOINT COMMAND EXERCISE UNDERWAY ON CHECHEN BORDER.
• KIRIENKO EXPECTED TO MEET MASKHADOV THIS WEEK.
• KALININGRAD AUTONOMY PROPOSAL SHOT DOWN.
• YOUNG FRONT DEMONSTRATES IN MINSK ON INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY.
• MOROZ STARTS DRAWING BATTLE LINES FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• MORE RUSSIAN CASUALTIES IN ABKHAZIA.
• GOVERNMENT REFORM IN GEORGIA.
• RAHMONOV CONCERNED BY MILITARY LAWLESSNESS.
• NTV CORRESPONDENT BANNED FROM TAJIKISTAN.

Volume 4 Issue 143

July 27, 1998

• GORE COMPLETES TALKS IN RUSSIA. U.S.
• TENSIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND SOUTH KOREA FESTER.
• RUSSIANS APPLAUDS DEVELOPMENTS IN JAPAN.
• YELTSIN SACKS SECURITY CHIEF.
• YELTSIN ORDERS KIRIENKO TO MEET CHECHEN PRESIDENT.
• LEBED WARNS KREMLIN OVER TROOPS' PAY.
• VOLGA REGIONS APPEAL TO YELTSIN OVER LAND CODE.
• CHECHEN FIELD COMMANDERS CONTINUE TO BLAME RUSSIAN SECURITY SERVICES FOR ATTEMPT ON MASKHADOV.
• LARGE INDONESIAN ARMS DEAL LOST; CONFUSION REGARDING INDIAN SALE.
• MEETING OF OFFICIAL ISLAMIC CLERGY IN NORTH CAUCASUS CONDEMNS "WAHHABISM."
• LARGE-SCALE MILITARY EXERCISE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED.
• UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT'S PARTING SHOT.
• LEKISHVILI RESIGNS, ALLEGES "CRISIS OF POWER."
• U.S. ENVOY DRAWS MIXED PICTURE OF RELATIONS WITH UZBEKISTAN.

Volume 4 Issue 142

July 24, 1998

• GORE ARRIVES FOR TALKS IN MOSCOW. U.S.
• MOSCOW DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN MASKHADOV ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.
• COMMUNIST S SPLIT ON MASLYUKOV'S CABINET POST.
• COHEN OFFERS HELP FOR RUSSIAN MILITARY REFORMS. U.S.
• JAPANESE ORGANIZATION SEEKS TO PROMOTE TIES WITH RUSSIA.
• LUZHKOV CALLS FOR PROTECTION FOR RUSSIAN LANGUAGE.
• ALLA PUGACHEVA TO RUN FOR PARLIAMENT.
• BELARUSAN PRESIDENT ATTACKS RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT...
• ...WHILE ANTANOVICH FINDS COMFORT IN RUSSIA'S EMBRACE.
• GORE IN UKRAINE. U.S.
• ALIEV IN BRITAIN.
• TALBOTT AND RALSTON IN TBILISI.
• "MINE WAR" IN ABKHAZIA.
• NAZARBAEV CONCENTRATES POWER.
• CORRUPTION DESCRIBED AS MAJOR THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY.

Volume 4 Issue 141

July 23, 1998

• NEW RUSSIAN STANCE ON KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY?
• COMMUNIST OFFERED CABINET POST.
• OIL GIANTS WARN OF SOCIAL UNREST.
• MAKHACHKALA MAYOR SURVIVES ANOTHER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.
• FURTHER EMERGENCY MEASURES IN CHECHNYA.
• WILL UDUGOV BE NEXT VICTIM OF CHECHEN "ANTI-WAHHABI" CAMPAIGN?
• PROMINENT REFORMERS ESTABLISH CAUCUS IN UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT.
• UKRAINE'S WOULD-BE FBI THWARTED.
• GERMANY THANKS ARMENIA FOR RETURNING CULTURAL ASSETS.
• THREE NEW CONTRACTS FOR AZERBAIJANI OIL.
• RAHMONOV PUNISHES MILITARY OFFICIALS FOR KILLINGS OF UN OBSERVERS.
• ANTI-ISLAMIC TRIALS NOW ALSO IN WESTERN UZBEKISTAN.

Volume 4 Issue 140

July 22, 1998

• RUSSIAN FOREIGN TRADE POSITION WEAKENS.
• RUSSIAN ECONOMY CONTINUES TO STAGNATE.
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER OFF TO BEIJING.
• GERMAN-RUSSIAN MILITARY TALKS.
• MOSCOW PROTESTS SEIZURE OF JOURNALIST IN KOSOVO.
• WORKERS OF FEDERAL NUCLEAR CENTER THREATEN TO GO ON STRIKE.
• CHECHEN GOVERNMENT ADMITS THREAT OF CIVIL WAR.
• BASAEV BLAMES RUSSIAN SECURITY SERVICES FOR GUDERMES FIGHTING.
• SEVASTOPOL NAVAL PORT NOW ACCESSIBLE TO FOREIGN VESSELS.
• LUCINSCHI-SMIRNOV MEETING FUTILE.
• YERKRAPAH TURNS INTO POLITICAL PARTY.
• TBILISI PREPARED TO ENTRUST BORDER PROTECTION TO REGIONS AND MINORITIES.
• NAZARBAEV'S SON, AKAEV'S DAUGHTER ARE MARRIED.
• UN OBSERVERS ASSASSINATED IN TAJIKISTAN.

Volume 4 Issue 139

July 21, 1998

• IMF APPROVES MULTIBILLION DOLLAR LOAN TO RUSSIA.
• ENTHUSIASM FOR T-BILL EXCHANGE.
• IMPEACHMENT COMMISSION SETS AGENDA.
• FIVE SOUTH KOREAN DIPLOMATS RECALLED FROM RUSSIA.
• RUSSIAN-CYPRIOT MISSILE DEAL HIGHLIGHTED ANEW.
• MORE FOREIGN ARMS SALES ANNOUNCED.
• RUSSIAN, INDIAN NUCLEAR OFFICIALS SIGN AGREEMENT.
• MASKHADOV GOES FOR BROKE.
• TOP EUROPEAN OFFICIALS PROMISE TO LIFT PRESSURE ON LATVIA.
• POLITICAL ELITE GROUPS IN RUSSIA RALLY TO LUKASHENKA'S SUPPORT.
• MOLDOVA'S "TRANSIT ARGUMENT" WINS REPRIEVE FROM CASH-STRAPPED GAZPROM.
• AZERBAIJAN BROADENS CRITICISM OF RUSSIA'S MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN THE REGION.
• AJARIA FOLLOWS ABKHAZIA IN REJECTING GEORGIAN BORDER TROOPS.

Volume 4 Issue 138

July 20, 1998

• RUSSIAN-IRANIAN TALKS IN TEHRAN.
• NORWAY, RUSSIA CLASH OVER FISHING RIGHTS.
• TOKYO: RUSSIAN-JAPANESE CONTACTS TO PROCEED AS PLANNED.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT BYPASSES PARLIAMENT.
• BREATHING SPACE IN RAIL BLOCKADE.
• MASKHADOV EXTENDS STATE OF EMERGENCY.
• BALTIC CHALLENGE-98 UNDERWAY.
• FORMER ESTONIAN TOWN FLIRTS WITH ESTONIA.
• SHUMEIKO CALLS FOR ELEVATING KALININGRAD REGION TO RUSSIAN BALTIC REPUBLIC.
• ANOTHER RUSSIAN-BUILT, UKRAINIAN-OWNED ILYUSHIN CRASHES.
• USSR REVIVAL MOVEMENT LAUNCHED IN KYIV.
• SHEVARDNADZE SURGERY SAID TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
• ABKHAZIA RELEASES GEORGIAN COMMANDER AFTER CHECHEN INTERCESSION.
• PLAN TO STATION MORE RUSSIAN ARMS TO ARMENIA ALARMS AZERBAIJAN.
• FROM UNION TO ECONOMIC COMMUNITY.

Volume 4 Issue 137

July 17, 1998

• YELTSIN TO ATTEND TSAR'S FUNERAL.
• RUSSIA'S SECURITY AGENCIES INVOLVED IN EXPORT CONTROL.
• RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF IN ISRAEL.
• A SPACE-LAUNCH SUCCESS.
• MISSILE WARNING SYSTEM FAILS.
• DROUGHT IN RUSSIA WILL HURT GRAIN HARVEST.
• YELTSIN TO SEND DEPUTY PREMIER TO KUZBASS FOR TALKS WITH MINERS.
• MOLDOVA UNVEILS LEVERAGE VIS-A-VIS GAZPROM.
• KYIV PUTS CASPIAN OIL TRANSIT ROUTE ON THE DRAWING BOARD.
• SHEVARDNADZE RECUPERATES AFTER SUCCESSFUL SURGERY.
• KURDASHI MULTINATIONAL OIL CONTRACT RATIFIED.
• TURKMENISTAN TURNS THE TABLES ON MOSCOW WITH REGARD TO DEBTS.
• BIG COST OVERRUNS ON KAZAKHSTAN-RUSSIA OIL PIPELINE PROJECT.
• SPECULATION OVER DATE OF KAZAKHSTANI PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Volume 4 Issue 136

July 16, 1998

• RUSSIAN DUMA PONDERS RESCUE PACKAGE...
• ...AS TERMS BECOME CLEARER.
• MOSCOW MOVES AGAINST ILLEGAL EXPORTERS OF MILITARY TECHNOLOGY.
• MORE ON RUSSIAN-CHINESE TALKS.
• COMMUNISTS REFUSE TO DROP IMPEACHMENT.
• FRESH VIOLENCE IN CHECHNYA.
• TATARSTAN SET TO ADOPT RUSSIA'S FIRST LAW ON ALTERNATIVE SERVICE.
• CRIMEAN SPEAKER BLASTS TATAR LEADERS' DRIVE FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT.
• IS TKACHENKO THE NEW MOROZ?
• MOODY'S LOWERS MOLDOVA'S RATING.
• MORE VIOLENCE IN ABKHAZIA.
• MARSHAL SERGEEV IN ARMENIA.
• KAZAKHSTAN BUILDS CASPIAN FLOTILLA.
• KAZAKH AND KYRGYZ PRESIDENTIAL OFFSPRING TO MARRY.

Volume 4 Issue 135

July 15, 1998

• YELTSIN IMPLIES HE WON'T RUN FOR THIRD TERM.
• RUSSIA'S COAL STRIKE POSSIBLY RUNNING OUT OF STEAM.
• LUZHKOV BUILDS PROVINCIAL NETWORK.
• RADUEV IS NOT AFRAID OF ARREST.
• ARREST OF DAGESTANI LEADER PROVOKES CHECHEN PROTESTS.
• THE BELL TOLLS FOR LENIN.
• U.S. JOINS QUARANTINE AGAINST BELARUSAN OFFICIALDOM.
• POLAND TO HOST RADIO FREE BELARUS.
• FATAL CRASH OF UKRAINIAN AIR FORCE PLANE MARS OTHERWISE SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM.
• ALIEV RULES OUT THE USE OF FORCE IN KARABAKH.
• HUSEINOV GOES ON TRIAL IN BAKU.
• NO DEAL ON CASPIAN DELIMITATION.
• PRO-RUSSIAN NAMED MAYOR OF KYRGYZ CAPITAL.
• KIRIENKO CONTINUES ASIAN TOUR.
• LATEST ON RUSSIAN-CYPRUS MISSILE DEAL.
• RUSSIAN OFFICIAL CHARGED IN SOUTH KOREAN SPY SCANDAL.

Volume 4 Issue 134

July 14, 1998

• IMF COMES THROUGH WITH RUSSIAN BAILOUT...
• ...REASONS FOR THE BAILOUT OPEN TO DEBATE.
• RUSSIAN MARKETS REVIVE ON NEWS OF IMF CREDIT.
• MOSCOW AND TOKYO REITERATE DETERMINATION TO IMPROVE TIES.
• RUSSIAN-JAPANESE RELATIONS AFTER HASHIMOTO.
• CYPRIOT AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS HOLD TALKS.
• NEW ESTONIAN CONCESSION TO RUSSIANS ON RESIDENCY.
• MORE COUNTRIES JOIN QUARANTINE OF BELARUSAN OFFICIALDOM.
• DEADLY ATTACK ON RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN ABKHAZIA.
• AZERBAIJAN CHANGES LAW ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS TO ACCOMMODATE THE OPPOSITION.
• HISTORIC MOSQUE IN BAKU REOPENS.
• WESTERN COMPANIES TO PROSPECT AND DEVELOP DEEP LAYERS AT GARASH-SYZLYK.
• PURCHASER OF KAZAKHSTAN'S LEADING NEWSPAPER REMAINS A MYSTERY.
• DEADLY CLASH IN TAJIKISTAN STILL UNEXPLAINED.

Volume 4 Issue 133

July 13, 1998

• TROUBLES AHEAD FOR RUSSIAN-JAPANESE RELATIONS.
• GREEK-CYPRIOT DEFENSE CHIEF IN MOSCOW.
• SCANDAL AT RUSSIAN MILITARY FOOD DEPOT.
• IMF SAID READY TO LEND RUSSIA US$11 BILLION.
• BATTLE FOR YELTSIN SUCCESSION HEATS UP.
• MINERS' PROTEST BEGINS TO BITE.
• ORDER FOR SALMAN RADUEV'S ARREST UNLIKELY TO BE CARRIED OUT.
• ANOTHER LATVIAN CONCESSION TO RUSSIAN LANGUAGE.
• WEST QUARANTINES BELARUSAN OFFICIALDOM.
• SOLANA IN UKRAINE.
• LEFTIST FORCES TIGHTEN HOLD OVER UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT.
• GEORGIA'S PRESIDENT AWARDED AS NATION-BUILDER.
• GEORGIAN ARMY DEMORALIZED, MINISTER SAYS.
• COMMUNIST FRONT CREATED IN AZERBAIJAN.
• A NOVEL JOINT MILITARY EXERCISE WITH RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION HELD IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• UZBEK CARS IN PRICE-CUTTING COMPETITION ON RUSSIAN MARKET.

Volume 4 Issue 132

July 10, 1998

• RUSSIAN-CYPRIOT MISSILE DEAL STILL IN NEWS.
• DEFENSE WORKERS JOIN LABOR PROTEST.
• POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL: GALINA BREZHNEVA DIES AT 70.
• MYSTERY SURROUNDS BASAEV RESIGNATION.
• RUSSIA'S UPPER CHAMBER FOR EMBARGO ON LATVIA.
• MIXED SIGNALS FROM TALBOTT. U.S.
• U.S.-BALTIC PARTNERSHIP COMMISSION INAUGURATED.
• BELARUSAN FOREIGN MINISTRY RESCINDS ULTIMATUM TO FOREIGN MISSIONS.
• A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS.
• GAZPROM TAKING OVER ARMENIA'S PIPELINES.
• U.S. GIANTS TEAM UP FOR TURKMEN GAS PIPELINE PROJECT.

Volume 4 Issue 131

July 9, 1998

• CONTACT GROUP MEETS IN BONN.
• MOSCOW PROTESTS RETALIATORY EXPULSION BY SOUTH KOREA.
• NEMTSOV SAYS NO TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS TO JAPAN.
• DUMA OFFICIAL PREDICTS SPRING ELECTIONS.
• YELTSIN AXES RAIL PROJECT.
• STRATEGIC SUBMARINE LAUNCHES GERMAN SATELLITE.
• TATARSTAN TO GET NEW PRIME MINISTER.
• GOVERNMENT PROFFERS OLIVE BRANCH ON NATIONALITY ISSUE.
• LUKASHENKA WANTS STRONG RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES.
• YELTSIN-NAZARBAEV MEETING RAISES MORE QUESTIONS THAN IT ANSWERS.

Volume 4 Issue 130

July 8, 1998

• GOVERNMENT ENDORSES STRATEGIC NUCLEAR TRIAD, BUT...
• RUSSIAN-U.S. SUMMIT IS SCHEDULED FOR AUTUMN.
• RUSSIAN-SOUTH KOREAN SPY SCANDAL.
• RUSSIA AND IMF REACH PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT ON NEW LOAN.
• TEN THOUSAND ATTEND ROKHLIN FUNERAL.
• STEPASHIN COMPLETES TOUR OF INSPECTION IN NORTH CAUCASUS.
• UKRAINE'S SIX "NO"S TO CIS.
• MOSCOW SEEMS TO REPUDIATE FLANK LIMITATIONS ON CONVENTIONAL FORCES.
• LITHUANIAN TELECOM PRIVATIZED.
• BELARUSAN GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO SEIZE DIPLOMATIC RESIDENCES.
• LEFTIST WINS UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT'S CHAIRMANSHIP.
• REFUGEES AND GUEST-WORKERS ARE DEBATED.

Volume 4 Issue 129

July 7, 1998

• GAZPROM VERSUS THE GOVERNMENT...
• ...SIGN OF CHAOS IN DECISION MAKING.
• MOSCOW AND WASHINGTON MANEUVER OVER KOSOVO.
• SEOUL PROTESTS DIPLOMAT'S EXPULSION.
• UN WARNS THAT RUSSIAN ECONOMIC WEAKNESS THREATENS OTHER TRANSITION ECONOMIES.
• ONEKSIMBANK PULLS OUT OF ROSNEFT AUCTION.
• SIBERIAN MINERS CONTINUE RAIL BLOCKADE.
• BEREZOVSKY IMPLICATED IN TAKEOVER BID IN UKRAINE.
• KUCHMA USING PRESIDENTIAL DECREES TO INTRODUCE REFORMS.
• RUSSIA'S BLACK SEA FLEET IN UKRAINE CHANGES COMMANDERS.
• SHEVARDNADZE PREPARED TO ORDER LEGAL STEPS AGAINST "SLANDERERS."
• SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL AND BISHOP IMPLICATED IN ARMENIAN CORRUPTION AFFAIR.
• ONE MORE GROUP OF ISLAMISTS SENTENCED IN TASHKENT FOR "TERRORISM."

Volume 4 Issue 128

July 6, 1998

• RUSSIA EXPELS SOUTH KOREAN DIPLOMAT.
• DELIVERY OF RUSSIAN MISSILES TO CYPRUS ON HOLD.
• STRIKING MINERS BLOCK TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD.
• SHAMIL BASAEV RESIGNS AS CHECHNYA'S ACTING PRIME MINISTER.
• CHECHEN "ROAD OF LIFE" OPENS.
• BRITISH AMBASSADOR APPEALS FOR RELEASE OF HOSTAGES.
• INGUSH MINISTER RELEASED.
• REDS COMMISSION ACTION PLAN FOR NEW UNION.
• NAZARBAEV ALL BUT GIVES UP ON CIS.
• LITHUANIAN-POLISH JOINT BATTALION TAKING SHAPE.
• YASTRZHEMBSKY URGES RUSSIAN REGIONS TO SNUB LATVIA.
• PRO-KUCHMA NOMINEE BARELY SHORT OF WINNING PARLIAMENT'S CHAIRMANSHIP.
• CHISINAU, TIRASPOL CREATE NEW NEGOTIATING TRACK.
• PRESIDENT SAYS "NO" TO REGIONAL AUTONOMY.
• RENEGADE TAJIK FORCE ACTIVE IN THE CAPITAL.

Volume 4 Issue 127

July 2, 1998

• KIRIENKO ORDERS SEIZURE OF GAZPROM ASSETS.
• MOSCOW APPLAUDS CHINESE-U.S. SUMMIT.
• YELTSIN URGES INDIA TO SIGN NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY.
• MOSCOW SAYS NO PARTICIPATION FOR KOSOVO REBELS.
• APPARENT GOOD NEWS FOR RUSSIAN ARMY.
• KIRIENKO WINS DUMA SUPPORT.
• IMF WARNS IT COULD RUN OUT OF MONEY.
• MASKHADOV DENIES THAT CHECHNYA WILL SEND TROOPS TO KOSOVO.
• MASKHADOV PERHAPS USING STATE OF EMERGENCY TO NEUTRALIZE RADUEV.
• MOSCOW HITS LATVIA WITH FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE.
• KREMLIN EMBARRASSED BY LUKASHENKA AT CRANS-MONTANA.
• KUCHMA TRIES PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESSURE ON THE PARLIAMENTARY LEFT.
• BAKU IRKED BY OIL CONSORTIUM'S INDECISION ON EXPORT PIPELINE.
• THE ABKHAZ WARNINGS A POSSIBLE BLUFF.
• ASTANA'S FIRST CONFERENCE.

Volume 4 Issue 126

July 1, 1998

• MOSCOW DISMAYED BY DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ.
• RUSSIA STATES ANEW ITS OPPOSITION TO NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• DUMA DISCUSSES ANTI-CRISIS PACKAGE.
• NO CHANGE AT RUSSIA'S GAZPROM.
• TATARSTAN TOLD TO BRING ITS CITIZENSHIP PLANS INTO LINE WITH FEDERAL LAW.
• TATARSTAN DEMANDS BILINGUAL LABELING ON IMPORTED CONSUMER PRODUCTS.
• CHECHNYA OFFERS TO SEND PEACEKEEPING TROOPS TO KOSOVO.
• CHECHNYA ASKS TO JOIN UN.
• STAGE SET FOR LATVIAN REFERENDUM ON CITIZENSHIP LAW.
• PRECARIOUS BALANCE OF FORCES IN THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT.
• KAZAKHSTANI GRAIN IN SEARCH OF NEW MARKETS.

Volume 4 Issue 125

June 30, 1998

• MARKETS CONTINUE TO FALL.
• POLISH-RUSSIAN TALKS IN MOSCOW.
• SELEZNEV: NO TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS, NO START II APPROVAL.
• NO PEACE FOR MIR.
• RETRIBUTION IS SWIFT.
• EXPERIMENT TO DEVOLVE POLICE POWERS.
• NORTH OSSETIA MAY BE BACK TO SQUARE ONE.
• TRIAL OPENS IN STAVROPOL.
• LEFTIST-RUSSIAN BLOC CREATED IN LATVIA.
• RUKH NOMINEE SLIGHTLY SHORT OF WINNING UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT'S CHAIRMANSHIP.
• RUSSIA AGREES TO BEGIN YIELDING CONTROL OF GEORGIA'S BORDERS.
• QUESTION MARKS MULTIPLY OVER RUSSIAN PLAN TO DIVIDE CASPIAN SEA.

Volume 4 Issue 124

June 29, 1998

• RUSSIA RAISES INTEREST RATE.
• RUSSIA: GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT TAXATION...
• ...LOOKING FOR REAL MONEY.
• MOSCOW REMAINS ACTIVE IN KOSOVO DIPLOMACY.
• DEADLINE MISSED FOR DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS.
• MOSCOW AND BUENOS AIRES SIGN AGREEMENTS.
• STEPASHIN SAYS KREMLIN WILL NOT PAY RANSOM FOR ENVOY.
• LEBED LAUNCHES "PEACE MISSION" TO NORTH CAUCASUS.
• OIL AND POLITICS DON'T MIX.
• NATO OFFICIAL RULES OUT "RED LINE."
• WAGE SETTLEMENT MIGHT FACILITATE REFORM OF UKRAINE'S COAL SECTOR.
• KUCHMA, KWASNIEWSKI MEET IN KHARKIV.
• TURKEY CONCERNED BY AJAR CHALLENGE TO TBILISI.
• QUADRIPARTITE UNION MARKS TIME.

Volume 4 Issue 123

June 26, 1998

• RUSSIA AT CENTER OF KOSOVO DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS.
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ISSUES FRESH WARNING TO NATO.
• JAPANESE OFFICIAL VISITS KURIL ISLANDS.
• IMF APPROVES US$670 MILLION PAYMENT TO RUSSIA.
• LEBED TO VISIT CHECHNYA.
• SAMARA LEGALIZES FREE SALE OF LAND.
• WORKERS PROTEST IN MARITIME KRAI.
• NO SURPRISES IN DAGESTANI ELECTION.
• SWEDISH HOSTAGES RELEASED.
• FRESH ELECTION TO BE HELD FOR MAYOR OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD.
• WILL MOSCOW "BREAK THE CAMEL'S BACK" IN LATVIA.
• YELTSIN POSTPONES VISIT TO UKRAINE SINE DIE.
• SHEVARDNADZE PLAYS DOWN AJAR CHALLENGE.
• KOCHARIAN CREATES POLITICAL COUNCIL.
• RUSSIAN-KAZAKH "ETERNAL FRIENDSHIP" ON HOLD FOR NOW.
• DISPUTE OVER KAZAKHSTANI ALUMINUM PLANT CONTINUES.

Volume 4 Issue 122

June 25, 1998

• CLINTON VETOES RUSSIA SANCTIONS BILL...
• ...CLAIMS BILL WOULD UNDERMINE U.S. NONPROLIFERATION EFFORTS.
• RUSSIAN-IRAQI OIL DEAL.
• GOVERNMENT SENDS SIX BILLS TO DUMA.
• IMF CONTINUES TO PONDER RUSSIAN BAIL OUT.
• RUSSIAN MINISTRY DEBATES NEW LABOR CODE.
• WAVE OF TERRORISM IN DAGESTAN.
• FEDERAL AUTHORITIES TO INVESTIGATE BASHKORTOSTAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• MOSCOW NOT SATISFIED WITH LIBERALIZATION OF LATVIA'S CITIZENSHIP LAW.
• GAZPROM CHIEF FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO COLLECT UKRAINIAN DEBTS.
• RUSSIAN NAVAL BASES IN CRIMEA: POSSIBLE STORAGE PLACE FOR NUCLEAR WARHEADS.
• AJARIA MOVES TOWARD CONFRONTATION WITH TBILISI.

Volume 4 Issue 121

June 24, 1998

• WASHINGTON DEPLORES RUSSIAN-INDIAN NUCLEAR PROJECT.
• RUSSIA AND ANGOLA SIGN AGREEMENTS...
• ...AS MOSCOW AWAITS VISIT BY ARGENTINE PRESIDENT.
• TERRITORIAL ROW NOT DISCUSSED AT RUSSIAN-JAPANESE TALKS.
• GOOD AND BAD NEWS FOR RUSSIAN HELICOPTER MANUFACTURER.
• YELTSIN THREATENS DUMA.
• STATE OF EMERGENCY IN CHECHNYA.
• DAGESTAN'S SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY RESIGNS.
• HEADS ROLL IN TATARSTAN.
• SARATOV LAND LAW UNDER FRESH CHALLENGE.
• BLACK SEA COUNTRIES BEGIN TALKS ON CONFIDENCE-BUILDING.
• GAZPROM PRESSURED TO GET TOUGH WITH EUROPEAN CIS COUNTRIES.
• YEREVAN INSISTS IT MAY DECLARE UNIFICATION WITH KARABAKH.
• KIRKORIAN LAUNCHES INVESTMENT PROGRAM IN ARMENIA.
• TURKMENISTAN SEEN IN MOSCOW AS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS COMPETITOR.

Volume 4 Issue 120

June 23, 1998

• RUSSIAN-INDIA SIGN NUCLEAR PLANT DEAL.
• MOSCOW IRATE OVER SPY INCIDENT IN SWITZERLAND.
• RUSSIAN MINISTER ACCUSES WEST OF PARTISAN SUPPORT FOR KOSOVO ALBANIANS.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO UNVEIL CRISIS PROGRAM.
• YELTSIN WARNS OF DANGER OF FASCISM IN RUSSIA.
• CONFLICTING REPORTS ON VLASOV KIDNAPPING.
• RUSSIAN SERVICEMEN ATTACKED ON EVE OF DAGESTAN'S ELECTIONS.
• INTERNATIONAL CIRCASSIAN ASSOCIATION ASKS PRIMAKOV TO HELP BROTHERS IN KOSOVO.
• LATVIA EASES NATURALIZATION OF NONNATIVE POPULATION.
• MERI AND ADAMKUS URGE STEADY ENLARGEMENT OF NATO.
• AMBASSADORS LEAVE BELARUS IN PROTEST.
• UPDATED BATTLE TANKS DESIGNED IN UKRAINE FOR EXPORT.
• ZHIRINOVSKY'S VIP IN MOLDOVA RIP.
• KAZAKHSTAN'S SECURITY SERVICE IDENTIFIES POTENTIAL THREATS.
• BOUYGUES BUILDS UP ASHGABAT.

Volume 4 Issue 119

June 22, 1998

• RUSSIAN GENERAL ASSAILS NATO OVER KOSOVO.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY LEADERSHIP HOLDS BRIEFING ON START II.
• RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN KILLED IN ARMS DEPOT FIRE.
• DUMA TAKES ANOTHER STEP TOWARD IMPEACHING PRESIDENT.
• YAKOVLEV SAYS KGB SPAWNED RUSSIAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT.
• RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER CHECKPOINT FIRED UPON.
• ADDITIONAL INTERNAL TROOPS TO BE SENT TO DAGESTAN.
• SOLANA SHOWS NATO FLAG.
• WESTERN AND OTHER NATIONS RECALLING AMBASSADORS FROM BELARUS.
• MOSCOW DISAVOWS ARMENIAN THREAT TO INCORPORATE KARABAKH.
• TAJIK POLITICAL DEADLOCK PERSISTS.
• KAZAKHSTAN'S PROSECUTOR GENERAL SLAMS REPUBLIC MEDIA.

Volume 4 Issue 118

June 19, 1998

• RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS TO VISIT BALKANS.
• SPIES EXPELLED FROM CENTRAL RUSSIA.
• THE LOOMING NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT BURDEN.
• CHUBAIS SAYS RUSSIA NEEDS US$10 BILLION-US$15 BILLION IN INTERNATIONAL AID.
• RUSSIA LAUNCHES ANOTHER EUROBOND.
• COMMUNISTS PRESS AHEAD WITH IMPEACHMENT PLANS.
• EX-BORDER SERVICE CHIEF TO SET UP NEW POLITICAL MOVEMENT.
• MAGOMEDOV SEEKS SECOND TERM IN DAGESTAN.
• COMMUNIST NARROWLY MISSES UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT'S CHAIRMANSHIP.
• KUCHMA TO INTRODUCE REFORMS BY DECREE.
• PAVLOHRAD MINERS RETURN TO WORK.
• MOSCOW "MEDIATORS" PATCH UP TURF DISPUTE OVER ABKHAZIA.

Volume 4 Issue 117

June 18, 1998

• DISCORD BETWEEN RUSSIA AND WEST OVER KOSOVO.
• DUMA ADOPTS STATEMENT SLAMMING WEST.
• MILITARY DENIES PROBLEMS IN SATELLITE LAUNCH.
• CHUBAIS TO ASSUME MORE PUBLIC ROLE.
• CHUBAIS TAKES OVER REINS AT RUSSIA'S DEMOCRATIC CHOICE.
• FACT-FINDING MISSION "VERIFIES" LOYALTY OF NORTH CAUCASUS REGIONS.
• POLICE ARREST THIRD SUSPECT IN CASE NEWSPAPER EDITOR MURDER.
• MOSCOW HURLING MORE EPITHETS AT LATVIA.
• BELARUS APPARENTLY BACKING DOWN IN THE DISPUTE WITH FOREIGN MISSIONS.
• UKRAINE SUSPENDS MILITARY CONSCRIPTION.
• BAKU-NOVOROSSIISK: PIPING THE OIL--OR JUST SWAPPING IT.

Volume 4 Issue 116

June 17, 1998

• MOSCOW CLAIMS BREAKTHROUGH IN KOSOVO TALKS.
• MILOSEVIC MEETS WITH HEAD OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.
• DUMA CRITICIZES WESTERN POLICY TOWARD KOSOVO.
• TURKEY RELEASES MISSILE-CARRYING CARGO SHIP.
• RUSSIAN ACCOUNTING CHAMBER ATTACKS BUDGET PRACTICES.
• MARKETS RALLY.
• MOSCOW SIGNS TREATY WITH FEDERAL CENTER.
• RUSSIA'S INTERIOR TROOPS TO BE HALVED.
• HEAVY FALLOUT FROM PRIMAKOV'S VISIT TO LITHUANIA.
• MOSCOW UNDER STRESS AFTER ESTONIAN COMMENT.
• LAST NATIVE-LANGUAGE LYCEUM CLOSES IN MINSK.
• COMPROMISE EMERGING IN UKRAINIAN COAL STRIKE.
• UKRAINIAN-MOLDOVAN MILITARY EXERCISE UNDERWAY.
• SHEVARDNADZE ANNOUNCES DIPLOMATIC INITIATIVE ON ABKHAZIA.
• WINNERS DECLARED IN TURKMEN OFFSHORE TENDERS.

Volume 4 Issue 115

June 16, 1998

• MOSCOW SLAMS NATO EXERCISE IN BALKANS.
• TURKEY DISCOVERS MISSILE PARTS; SUSPECTS CONNECTION TO RUSSIAN-CYPRIOT DEAL.
• KREMLIN OFFICIAL IN SOUTH AFRICA.
• AIR FORCE CHIEF TRIES TO BE OPTIMISTIC.
• PRIMAKOV DID NOT SWAY LITHUANIA FROM NATO COURSE. "
• LUKASHENKA HEADS PAN-SLAVIC ORGANIZATION.
• UKRAINE PROMOTES BLACK SEA-BALTIC CORRIDOR PLAN.
• NATO-SPONSORED EXERCISE UNDERWAY IN THE BLACK SEA.
• ZHIRINOVSKY'S REPRESENTATIVE IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
• BAKU-NOVOROSSIISK OIL PIPELINE--A HOSTAGE TO MOSCOW'S POLICIES.
• KAZAKHSTAN, CHINA FINALIZING PIPELINE PLAN.
• DEBATE CONTINUES OVER KAZAKHSTAN'S NEW CAPITAL.
• SYMBOLISM DOMINATES ASTANA FESTIVITIES.

Volume 4 Issue 114

June 15, 1998

• ROW BREWING BETWEEN RUSSIA AND NATO OVER KOSOVO.
• RUSSIA AND THE WEST: DISSONANCE OVER KOSOVO.
• G-8 MEETS TO DISCUSS SOUTH ASIAN DEVELOPMENTS.
• RUSSIA'S GAZPROM FLEXES POLITICAL MUSCLES.
• RUSSIAN MINERS REFUSE TO WITHDRAW DEMAND FOR YELTSIN RESIGNATION.
• CHERNOMYRDIN VISITS BUDENNOVSK.
• NORTH CAUCASUS LEADERS SEEK SOLUTION TO KIDNAPPINGS.
• CHECHEN LEADER THREATENS TO BLOCK OIL PIPELINE.
• BALTIC, NATO DEFENSE MINISTERS SIGN COOPERATION PLANS.
• PRIMAKOV IN LITHUANIA.
• ZHIRINOVSKY'S REPRESENTATIVE GUNNED DOWN IN TRANSDNIESTER.
• SERBIAN PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS FIND COMFORT IN MINSK.
• NATO AND UKRAINE MAP OUT COOPERATION PROGRAMS.
• THREE PARLIAMENTARY GROUPS BOYCOTT GEORGIA'S LEGISLATURE.
• COMPROMISE SOLUTION IN KARABAKH POWER STRUGGLE.
• TENSION SAID TO FOLLOW ARREST OF ISLAMISTS IN KYRGYZSTAN.

Volume 4 Issue 113

June 12, 1998

• RUSSIAN MARKETS WATCH FOR INTERNATIONAL HELP.
• YELTSIN DECREE SEEKS TO PREVENT RISKY REGIONAL BORROWING.
• DUMA SEEKS TO BAR YELTSIN FROM NEXT POLL.
• ROSNEFT TO BE FULLY PRIVATIZED BY END OF 1998.
• RAILROADS STRIKE BACK AT ARMED FORCES.
• NATO MOVES CLOSER TO KOSOVO MILITARY ACTIONS.
• AS KREMLIN ANNOUNCES UPCOMING VISIT BY MILOSEVIC.
• MISSILE COMPLEXES FOR CYPRUS READY TO GO.
• AUSHEV BLAMES DZASOKHOV FOR CRISIS IN OSSETIAN-INGUSH RELATIONS.
• RUSSIAN-ESTONIAN BORDER AGREEMENT ON ICE.
• UKRAINIAN COAL STRIKE UPDATE.
• AN-140 SUCCESSFULLY FLIGHT-TESTED IN UKRAINE.
• AZERBAIJAN IRKED BY CONSORTIUM'S PROCRASTINATION ON EXPORT PIPELINE.
• MOSCOW MEDIATION PROLONGS GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ STALEMATE.
• "ISLAMISTS" ARRESTED IN KYRGYZSTAN.
• SOVIET-STYLE ATHEISM RETURNING TO UZBEKISTAN.

Volume 4 Issue 112

June 11, 1998

• MIXED PROSPECTS FOR RUSSIAN TAX CRACKDOWN.
• RUSSIAN STOCK MARKET OFFICIALS ABSCOND.
• DUMA POSTPONES START II HEARINGS.
• CRITICAL REACTIONS IN MOSCOW, WASHINGTON.
• WEST MOVES TO STOP VIOLENCE IN KOSOVO.
• LEBED LEAPS IN PRESIDENTIAL POLL.
• REGIONAL GOVERNORS REACT WITH FURY AT CENTER'S ATTEMPT TO CONTROL THEIR FINANCES.
• HIGH-RANKING OFFICIALS VISIT VLADIKAVKAZ AND NAZRAN.
• MOSCOW COLD-SHOULDERS ESTONIAN REQUEST FOR RETURN OF CULTURAL VALUABLES.
• LUKASHENKA EXTENDS EVICTION DEADLINE--BARELY.
• HIGH-LEVEL RUSSIA-BELARUS MEETING FAILS TO SETTLE DIFFERENCES.
• AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION LEADERS CONSIDER BOYCOTT OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• EUROBONDS MAY FINANCE KAZAKHSTAN'S BUDGET DEFICIT.

Volume 4 Issue 111

June 10, 1998

• DUMA PRESSES AHEAD WITH PLAN TO IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT.
• MOSCOW ON KOSOVO: SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE?
• YELTSIN SAYS HE WILL MEET MILOSEVIC.
• YELTSIN WINDS UP VISIT TO BONN.
• RUSSIAN MISSILES IN CYPRUS?
• CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN BASHKORTOSTAN.
• HOSTAGES TAKEN IN NORTH OSSETIA.
• LEADERS AND LAGGARDS IN THE CIS ECONOMIES.
• SERIES OF MILITARY AND NAVAL EXERCISES IN PROGRESS.
• RUSSIAN BLACKLIST OF LATVIAN FIRMS IS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.
• DIPLOMATIC SCANDAL IN BELARUS WIDENS.
• UKRAINE PLANS TO PROVIDE TRANSIT ROUTE FOR CASPIAN OIL.
• POWER STRUGGLE IN KARABAKH NOT OVER.
• KUMTOR CRUCIAL TO KYRGYZSTAN.

Volume 4 Issue 110

June 9, 1998

• TOP GOVERNMENT NUMBER-CRUNCHER UNDER ARREST.
• HIGH-LEVEL RUSSIAN-GERMAN TALKS IN BONN.
• JAPANESE DEFENSE CHIEF WINDS UP RUSSIA VISIT.
• MOSCOW TO RESPOND TO HASHIMOTO PROPOSAL.
• TATARSTAN'S PRESIDENT LASHES OUT AT NATIONALIST WING.
• BALTBAT EXERCISE SHOWS STRIDES ACHIEVED.
• BELARUS LOCKS OUT U.S. AMBASSADOR, THREATENS TO CLOSE MISSION.
• LUCINSCHI OUTLINES MILITARY REFORM PLAN.
• ABKHAZIA FEELS ENCOURAGED TO UP THE ANTE IN MOSCOW TALKS.
• KAZAKHSTAN'S NEW CAPITAL MAKES INTERNATIONAL DEBUT.
• ECOLOGICAL ACCIDENT AT GOLD-MINING CONCESSION IN KYRGYZSTAN.

Volume 4 Issue 109

June 8, 1998

• RUSSIA OLIGARCHS CIRCLE THE WAGONS FOR YELTSIN.
• RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL STAGNATION CONTINUES.
• ETHNIC RUSSIANS LEAVING NORTH CAUCASUS.
• ST. PETERSBURG POLICE CHIEF SACKED.
• START II DEBATE IN RUSSIA NOT IMMINENT.
• START II RATIFICATION TO BE LINKED TO MILITARY REFORM?
• YELTSIN CONFERS WITH INDIAN LEADER.
• RED CROSS READY TO RETURN TO CHECHNYA.
• LEBED SWORN IN AS GOVERNOR OF KRASNOYARSK.
• ULMANIS SAYS NO TO FINLANDIZATION.
• REALISTIC MILITARY EXERCISE IN LATVIA.
• RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION SEEN AS WAY STATION FROM USSR TO RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
• UKRAINE SECURITY ROLE.
• RUSSIA'S GRU ACCUSED OF FOMENTING TROUBLE IN GEORGIA.
• SETBACK FOR THE BABAIANS IN KARABAKH.
• U.S.-KAZAKH MILITARY EXERCISE UNDERWAY.
• ANOTHER GROUP OF "EXTREMISTS" SENTENCED IN UZBEKISTAN.

Volume 4 Issue 108

June 5, 1998

• RUSSIA LOWERS REFINANCING RATE.
• YELTSIN REFUSES TO SIGN LATEST VERSION OF LAND CODE.
• NO REHABILITATION FOR STALIN'S POLICE CHIEF.
• "P-5" PRODUCE VAGUE STATEMENT ON SOUTH ASIAN ARMS RACE.
• FINAL DECISION ON LATVIAN CITIZENSHIP LAW HELD OFF.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE OFFICIALS VISIT SOUTH KOREA.
• MARCHING FORWARD INTO THE PAST. "
• UKRAINIAN COAL STRIKE STAMPEDES A WILLING PARLIAMENT INTO CONCESSIONS.
• BEREZOVSKY TRIES HAND AT MEDIATION.
• NAZARBAEV ADVERTISES KAZAKHSTAN'S METALLIC ORE DEPOSITS.

Volume 4 Issue 107

June 4, 1998

• RUSSIAN CRISIS OVER...UNTIL NEXT TIME.
• UNSCOM REPORT CRITICIZES IRAQ.
• PERMANENT SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS MEET IN GENEVA.
• GOVERNOR WARNS AGAINST GIVE-AWAY OF KURIL ISLANDS.
• FRESH CONTROVERSY OVER DEATH PENALTY.
• RUSSIAN CITIZENS INCREASINGLY TURNING TO THE COURTS.
• YELTSIN CRITICIZES CONSTITUTIONAL COURT.
• APPEAL TO EUROPEAN UNION PRECEDES CRUCIAL VOTE IN LATVIA.
• YELTSIN-KUCHMA MEETING POSTPONED.
• PROGRESS IN UKRAINE-VATICAN RELATIONS.
• KRAVCHUK EMERGES AS ANTI-COMMUNIST CHOICE FOR PARLIAMENT CHAIRMANSHIP.
• CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY RAISES DOUBTS IN TBILISI.
• NAZARBAEV STRENGTHENS RELATIONS WITH GULF STATES.

Volume 4 Issue 106

June 3, 1998

• KIRIENKO CANVASSES FRENCH SUPPORT FOR THE RUBLE.
• "RUSSIA MUST HELP ITSELF," YELTSIN TELLS BUSINESS LEADERS.
• IMF REPEATS THE MESSAGE.
• NEMTSOV TALKS TOUGH TO MINERS' LEADERS.
• RUSSIAN HEARINGS ON START II TREATY.
• JAPANESE-RUSSIAN DEFENSE TALKS.
• MOSCOW CAUTIOUS ON NATO DEPLOYMENT TO ALBANIA.
• NATO "FLYING RADAR" ON EXERCISE IN LITHUANIA.
• ULMANIS SEES DESTABILIZATION RISK IN RUSSIAN RHETORIC.
• PAHANYAYLA STRIPPED OF LICENSE.
• KUCHMA REPLACES ODESSA CITY AND REGIONAL HEADS.
• MOSCOW ACCUSED OF "DOUBLE GAME" IN ABKHAZIA.
• AZERBAIJAN SIGNS ANOTHER BIG OFFSHORE OIL CONTRACT...
• .. AND TWO ONSHORE ONES.
• IMF UPBEAT ABOUT KAZAKHSTANI ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE.

Volume 4 Issue 105

June 2, 1998

• PRESSURE BUILDS FOR OUTSIDE SUPPORT AS RUSSIAN MARKETS RESUME THEIR DOWNWARD TREND.
• GOVERNMENT REDUCES PRICE FOR ROSNEFT.
• RUSSIA STRUGGLES TO MEET SPACE STATION OBLIGATIONS.
• RUSSIAN NUCLEAR EXPERTISE BEING SOLD FOR "PEANUTS."
• PRIMAKOV VISITS FINLAND; SLAMS NATO.
• SAKHALIN GETS FEDERAL AID; DEMILITARIZATION OF KURILS DISCUSSED.
• SPLIT DISCERNED IN TATARSTAN'S "PARTY OF POWER."
• CHANGE OF GUARD AT LITHUANIA'S INTERNAL SECURITY AGENCIES.
• BRZEZINSKI IN UKRAINE, FORESEES EVENTUAL ACCESSION TO NATO.
• CONSPIRATORS SENTENCED IN AZERBAIJAN.
• SOUTH OSSETIA ROUNDUP.
• TAJIK OPPOSITION LEADER SAYS MOSCOW DISAPPROVES OF DUSHANBE'S LATEST MOVES.

Volume 4 Issue 104

June 1, 1998

• INTERNATIONAL AID TO BAIL OUT RUSSIA.
• ...AS GOVERNMENT TAKES EMERGENCY MEASURES.
• NEW TAX CODE SEEN AS CRUCIAL.
• RUSSIA'S COMMUNIST HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER LAUNCHES FIRST INVESTIGATION.
• MOSCOW JOINS CONDEMNATION OF PAKISTANI TESTS.
• SLOVAKIAN LEADER VISITS MOSCOW.
• SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY STRENGTHENED?
• OVERDUE JUSTICE ON CRIMES OLD AND NEW.
• UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN JOINT VENTURE TO DEVELOP OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS.
• MOSCOW CONTINUES PRO-ABKHAZ TILT IN THE WAKE OF FIGHTING.
• TAJIK GOVERNMENT URGED TO RESCIND ANTI-OPPOSITION MEASURES.
• KYRGYZSTAN SLIGHTLY BACKPEDALS ON ANTI-ISLAMIC CAMPAIGN.

Volume 4 Issue 103

May 29, 1998

• CONDEMNATIONS OF PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR TESTS.
• RUBLE WINS RESPITE.
• NEW TENDER TO BE HELD FOR ROSNEFT.
• ROSNEFT MANAGEMENT SACKED.
• GOVERNMENT PINS HOPES ON INTERNATIONAL HELP.
• YELTSIN DECREES NEW DEFENSE COMMISSION.
• CHINA PROTESTS ATTACK ON CHINESE FISHERMEN.
• RUSSIA AND CHECHNYA SIGN SECURITY AGREEMENTS.
• DIFFERENCES AIRED AT RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN TALKS.
• COSSACK STEPPE MILITARY EXERCISE HELD IN BRITAIN.
• DISCORDANT NOTES ON STATEHOOD ANNIVERSARIES.
• TAJIK PACIFICATION PROCESS UNRAVELING.
• KAZAKHSTAN'S MINISTER OF INTERIOR SPEAKS ON ORGANIZED CRIME AND POLICE CORRUPTION.

Volume 4 Issue 102

May 28, 1998

• RUSSIA FIGHTS OFF THREAT OF FINANCIAL MELTDOWN...
• ...CONFIDENCE, NOT STRUCTURE, AT THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM.
• NEW AGREEMENT BARELY SCRATCHES NUCLEAR WASTE PROBLEM.
• HARSH RHETORIC OUT OF MOSCOW ON NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• NATO-RUSSIA COUNCIL MEETS IN LUXEMBOURG.
• SERIES OF RUSSIAN-JAPANESE TALKS LOOKS SET.
• RUSSIA PLANS TO KEEP ITS TROOPS IN CIS COUNTRIES.
• SENIOR RUSSIAN GENERAL PREDICTS COUNTERMEASURES TO NATO BID.
• RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION HAS MILITARY DEPARTMENT, PLANS JOINT TROOPS.
• ABKHAZ HARDWARE ROUTS GEORGIAN GUERRILLAS.
• UZBEK GOVERNMENT FOUND TO PERSECUTE LEGITIMATE RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION.
• U.S. EXIM BANK TO FUND LARGE-SCALE TURKMEN PROJECTS. U.S.

Volume 4 Issue 101

May 27, 1998

• YELTSIN SLASHES FEDERAL BUDGET.
• ROSNEFT FAILS TO ATTRACT BIDDERS.
• NORWAY'S KING IN MOSCOW.
• QUESTION MARKS OVER YELTSIN PROPOSAL.
• RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS FIRE ON CHINESE FISHERMEN.
• RUSSIAN/UKRAINIAN TRANSPORT PLANE UPSETS NATO PLANS.
• REGIONAL SECURITY DISCUSSED AT BALTIC-NORDIC MINISTERIAL MEETING.
• UKRAINE ENTERS COMPETITION FOR CASPIAN OIL TRANSIT.
• "TROIKA" EMBOLDENS DUSHANBE TO VIOLATE PEACE AGREEMENTS.

Volume 4 Issue 100

May 26, 1998

• SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSES COAL INDUSTRY PROBLEMS....
• ...AND THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS.
• SENATE APPROVES SANCTIONS LAW.
• MOSCOW CRIES FOUL.
• PRIMAKOV ON START II RATIFICATION.
• MIXED SIGNALS IN MOSCOW DURING TURKISH MILITARY VISIT.
• STATE OF RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY LEAVES SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED.
• LITHUANIA COMMEMORATES THE MASS DEPORTATIONS.
• THREE PRESIDENTS PLAN CLOSER POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TIES.
• TURKEY ALSO SEEN AS UKRAINE'S PARTNER.
• FIGHTING IN ABKHAZIA PRODUCES NEW GEORGIAN EXODUS.
• KAZAKHSTANI AUTHORITIES WORRIED ABOUT DEPOPULATION.

Volume 4 Issue 99

May 22, 1998

• YELTSIN APPEALS TO MINERS TO ABANDON BLOCKADE.
• GOVERNMENT BY COMMISSION.
• IRANIAN-RUSSIAN MISSILE COOPERATION UNDER FIRE.
• LAWMAKERS TO MOVE ON START II.
• JAPANESE-RUSSIAN FISHING TREATY TAKES EFFECT.
• DAGESTANI CRISIS DEFUSED.
• DAGESTANI LEADER REPRESENTS "NEW WAVE" OF REPUBLIC POLITICIANS.
• CHECHNYA DENIES INVOLVEMENT.
• MOSCOW WARNS ESTONIA ABOUT "UNSOLVED PROBLEMS."
• MOLDOVA'S POST-ELECTION GOVERNMENT FINALLY IN PLACE.
• ABKHAZIA UPDATE.
• WESTERN AID PLEDGED TO KYRGYZSTAN AND TAJIKISTAN.

Volume 4 Issue 98

May 21, 1998

• YELTSIN PROMISES TO COOPERATE WITH WORLD BANK.
• PRESIDENT APPEALS FOR CALM AS MINERS' STRIKE SPREADS.
• COMMUNISTS LAUNCH IMPEACHMENT BID.
• POSSIBLE SANCTIONS AGAINST GAZPROM WAIVED.
• HIROSHIMA BIDS FOR G-8 SUMMIT.
• RUSSIAN TROOPS IN DENMARK.
• RUSSIA REBUFFS CHECHNYA'S BID FOR DIPLOMATIC STATUS.
• RUSSIA ACCUSES RADICAL FIELD COMMANDER OF KIDNAPPING VLASOV.
• CHECHNYA WELCOMES LEBED'S ELECTION.
• TENSE SITUATION ON CHECHEN-DAGESTANI BORDER.
• DAGESTANIS REPUDIATE "CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLES OF CHECHNYA AND DAGESTAN."
• COUNCIL OF EUROPE FINDS NO "PERSECUTION" OF PRO-MOSCOW ACTIVISTS IN LITHUANIA.
• WESTERN COMPLACENCY ON CHORNOBYL MAY FORCE UKRAINE TO LOOK EAST FOR ASSISTANCE.
• FIGHTING RAGES IN ABKHAZIA.
• TURKMEN PRESIDENT DISTANCES HIS COUNTRY FROM RUSSIAN-LED TROIKA.
• KAZAKHSTAN ASSUMES CHAIRMANSHIP OF ECO.

Volume 4 Issue 97

May 20, 1998

• OPPOSITION THREATENS YELTSIN WITH IMPEACHMENT.
• START II RATIFICATION POSSIBLY IN JEOPARDY.
• KREMLIN STEPS UP PRESSURE FOR ACTION ON START II.
• RUSSIA AND IRAN CONSIDER MORE NUCLEAR COOPERATION.
• MOSCOW ISSUES WARNING TO PAKISTAN.
• YELTSIN'S WORD.
• UKRAINIAN COAL STRIKE: STAGNANT BUT DANGEROUS.
• GEORGIA MAY BE DEVELOPING A MILITARY OPTION IN ABKHAZIA.
• GIORGADZE RESURGENT.
• KAZAKHSTAN PLANS PARTIAL PRIVATIZATION OF MILITARY PLANTS.
• RUSSIAN MARKETS IN PANIC.
• RUSSIA HIKES INTEREST RATES TO 50 PERCENT.
• MINERS CONTINUE PROTESTS.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT PLEDGES TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF FOREIGN SHAREHOLDERS.

Volume 4 Issue 96

May 19, 1998

• YELTSIN AND CLINTON DISCUSS MILITARY EXPORT CONTROLS.
• FRESH PLEDGES FROM MOSCOW TO CONTROL MISSILE TECHNOLOGIES.
• QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT START II RATIFICATION.
• RUSSIA, U.S. DRAW UP STATEMENT ON IRAQ.
• KREMLIN REACTS CAUTIOUSLY TO LEBED VICTORY.
• YELTSIN, AYATSKOV MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2000.
• BASAEV ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF ORGANIZATION SEEKING UNIFICATION OF CHECHNYA WITH DAGESTAN.
• CHECHEN PROSECUTOR GENERAL THINKS VLASOV'S KIDNAPPERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE.
• ADAMKUS MEETS THE POPE.
• LUKASHENKA'S SELECTIVE VIEW OF "UNITY" WITH RUSSIA.
• MAJOR CLASH IN ABKHAZIA.
• OSCE MEDIATORS REGISTER DEADLOCK ON THE KARABAKH CONFLICT.
• TRIALS OF MUSLIM ACTIVISTS CONTINUE IN UZBEKISTAN.
• NEW UZBEK LAW ON RELIGION CLARIFIED.

Volume 4 Issue 95

May 18, 1998

• LEBED VICTORIOUS IN KRASNOYARSK.
• RUSSIA PARTICIPATES FULLY IN BIRMINGHAM SUMMIT.
• KIRIENKO PROMISES TO PROTECT FOREIGN INVESTORS.
• YELTSIN AND CLINTON FIND COMMON GROUND.
• LENINGRAD GOVERNOR CALLS FOR DUMA ELECTIONS TO BE BROUGHT FORWARD.
• RUSSIA, CHECHNYA TO BOOST LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION.
• SHARIAH SECURITY CHIEF, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER KILLED IN CHECHNYA.
• CHERNOMYRDIN MAY RUN FOR STATE DUMA.
• COMMUNIST ELECTED SPEAKER OF CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT.
• IS THE MOLDOVAN ECONOMY ABOUT TO CRASH.
• IS YELTSIN MOVING TO END ANTI-LATVIAN CAMPAIGN.
• KGB ALIVE AND WELL IN TRANSDNIESTER.
• AJAR BOYCOTT IN THE OFFING.
• RAHMONOV THROWS INTO QUESTION POLITICAL SETTLEMENT OF TAJIK CONFLICT.

Volume 4 Issue 94

May 15, 1998

• STRIKING COAL MINERS BLOCK RAILWAYS.
• OUTRAGE AT MOSCOW SYNAGOGUE BLAST.
• WILL HE, WON'T HE RUN FOR A THIRD TERM.
• TURKEY USES CARROT AND STICK APPROACH ON RUSSIAN MISSILE SALE TO CYPRUS.
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY LOSING HOLD OF CIS AFFAIRS.
• LATVIA FACES MORE AMBITIOUS BI-NATIONAL RUSSIAN PROPOSALS.
• CASPIAN OIL CORRIDOR DEFINED AS UKRAINE'S "NATIONAL PRIORITY".
• PARLIAMENTARY LEADER MORALLY SUPPORTS GEORGIAN GUERRILLAS IN ABKHAZIA.
• RUSSIA PROPOSES ANTI-ISLAMIC TREATY WITH CENTRAL ASIA.
• CHINA AND KAZAKHSTAN CONSOLIDATE RELATIONS.

Volume 4 Issue 93

May 14, 1998

• INDIAN-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION THREATENED.
• MORE NON-COMBAT DEATHS IN RUSSIA'S ARMY.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY CONSCRIPTS AT RISK.
• ZHIRINOVSKY PREDICTS YELTSIN-LEBED RUNOFF IN 2000.
• INVESTIGATORS WANT TO QUESTION FORMER PRIVATIZATION CHIEF.
• RUSSIAN INFLATION CONTINUES TO SLOW.
• BLAST IN DOWNTOWN DJOHAR KILLS FOUR.
• JEWISH CEMETERY DEFACED IN IRKUTSK.
• THE UKRAINE TO MATCH RUSSIAN CRUISER IN THE BLACK SEA.
• THE FAMED ARMENIAN COGNAC TO ACQUIRE FRENCH FLAVOR.
• YEREVAN, BAKU HOLD UNBRIDGEABLE POSITIONS AHEAD OF OSCE TALKS.
• KAZAKHSTAN'S PRESIDENT CONFIRMS 2000 ELECTIONS.
• POLYGAMY PROVISION NIXED IN KAZAKHSTAN.

Volume 4 Issue 92

May 13, 1998

• RUSSIA JOINS CRITICISM OF INDIAN NUCLEAR TESTS.
• DISCOMFORT IN MOSCOW OVER DISARMAMENT.
• YELTSIN EXPOUNDS ON RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY.
• CHECHNYA MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF PEACE TREATY.
• SARATOV GOVERNOR CLAIMS HUGE POTENTIAL CONSTITUENCY FOR HIS NEW PARTY.
• PROSECUTOR GENERAL CHALLENGES SARATOV'S LAND LAW.
• PRESIDENTS RALLY TO LATVIA'S SUPPORT.
• THE NEW UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT HAS SIGNIFICANT LEFTIST CONTINGENT.
• EBRD MEETING IN KYIV PRODUCES STOPGAP MEASURES FOR CHORNOBYL.
• UZBEK TRIALS OF "RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS".
• TAJIK OPPOSITION APPOINTS NEW MILITARY COMMANDER.

Volume 4 Issue 91

May 12, 1998

• UNCERTAIN FATE OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER VARYAG.
• NEW TURN IN JAPANESE-RUSSIAN PEACE TALKS.
• IRANIAN NUCLEAR ENERGY CHIEF IN MOSCOW.
• ... AS PRESSURE MOUNTS FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST GAZPROM.
• LEBED WARNS KRASNOYARSK ELECTION MAY BE ANNULLED.
• OIL MARKET SITUATION STIMULATES UKRAINE'S INTEREST IN AZERBAIJANI OIL.
• SYMPTOMS OF DUAL POWER IN ABKHAZIA'S GALI DISTRICT.
• RUSSIAN-UZBEK-TAJIK TROIKA APT TO COMPLICATE PACIFICATION EFFORTS.
• ANOTHER "CONSPIRACY" IN KYRGYZSTAN.
• UZBEK "EXTREMISTS" ON TRIAL.

Volume 4 Issue 90

May 11, 1998

• MOSCOW REFUSES TO BACK SANCTIONS AGAINST BELGRADE.
• YELTSIN TO CHAT LIVE ON INTERNET.
• THOUSANDS MARK VICTORY DAY IN MOSCOW.
• UNEASY RUSSIAN-NATO RELATIONS CONTINUE.
• RUSSIA MEDIA ELITE CONSOLIDATES ITS POWER...
• ...AS LIKELY FUTURE TRENDS EMERGE.
• CABINET APPOINTMENTS COMPLETED.
• "RUSSIA IS OUR HOME" CONTINUES TO HEMORRHAGE.
• YELTSIN ADDRESSES ARMY'S PROBLEMS.
• KRASNOYARSK PARADE BREAKS UP IN CHAOS.
• MASKHADOV CONGRATULATES ALIEV ON HIS BIRTHDAY.
• CIS REFORM: TOWARD AN "EMPIRE OF THE EQUALS.
• CRIMEAN COMMUNISTS BAR FORMER SPEAKER FROM OFFICE.
• GEORGIAN CHIEF OF STAFF APPOINTED.
• KYRGYZ MUSLIM BOARD RESPONDS TO SECURITY MINISTRY'S ALLEGATIONS.

Volume 4 Issue 88

May 7, 1998

• DASHNAK PARTY OFFICIALLY RE-LEGALIZED.
• KAZAKHSTAN'S NEW CAPITAL: WAS AKMOLA, NOW ASTANA.
• THE UKRAINE TO RECEIVE U.S. ASSISTANCE IN NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION.
• MOLDOVAN COALITION GOVERNMENT TO REDUCE POPULAR FRONT'S ROLE.
• U.S.-LATVIAN MILITARY CONSULTATIONS AIM TO UPGRADE LATVIA'S DEFENSE.
• RUSSIAN NAVY CAPTAIN TO BE CHARGED AGAIN.
• KHRISTENKO TAKES CHARGE OF FINANCIAL POLICY FOR REGIONS.
• KIRIENKO SETS UP ECONOMIC POLICY PRESIDIUM.
• CHUBAIS'S UES APPOINTMENT RECEIVES STRONG REGIONAL SUPPORT.
• NEARLY ALL CABINET VACANCIES FILLED.
• ... CONTINUES TO BACK YUGOSLAV LEADERSHIP.
• MOSCOW PROCLAIMS EASING IN BELGRADE'S STANCE ON KOSOVO.

Volume 4 Issue 87

May 6, 1998

• WESTERN INVESTORS UPBEAT BUT URGE POLICY CONTINUITY IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• RUSSIA INITIATES ANTI-ISLAMIC TROIKA IN CENTRAL ASIA.
• COAL STRIKE IN UKRAINE.
• CIS DOCUMENT PERPETUATES DEADLOCK IN ABKHAZIA.
• MOSCOW INDIGNANT OVER FRESH INCIDENT AT RED ARMY MEMORIAL IN LATVIA.
• BELARUS WITHHOLDS RATIFICATION OF BORDER TREATY WITH UKRAINE.
• LATVIA DEBATES CONSOLIDATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY AT RIGA CONFERENCE.
• MIR SPACE STATION TO BE ABANDONED.
• CHINESE-RUSSIAN HOTLINE ESTABLISHED.
• RUSSIA'S ECONOMY SHOWS SLUGGISH GROWTH.
• YELTSIN ORDERS TIGHTER MILITARY EXPORT CONTROLS.

Volume 4 Issue 86

May 5, 1998

• MUSLIMS CLASH WITH POLICE IN XINJIANG-UIGHURIA.
• CRACKDOWN ON "RADICAL" ISLAM IN UZBEKISTAN.
• KYRGYZ SECURITY HITS TWO IDEOLOGICAL BIRDS WITH ONE STONE.
• AZERBAIJANI GENERAL WANTED IN BAKU IS PROTECTED IN MOSCOW.
• UZBEKISTAN REPUDIATES OLD DEBT TO RUSSIA.
• COMMUNISTS THREATEN TO BOYCOTT CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT.
• CHORNOBYL CHIEF REPLACED.
• PROTECTION OF RUSSIAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY COULD INCREASE FOREIGN INVESTMENT.
• FINAL APPOINTMENTS TO RUSSIAN CABINET EXPECTED TODAY.
• REGIONAL INEQUALITIES STILL GROWING.
• NEW LABOR MINISTER EXPLAINS HER POSITION.
• U.S. SENATE'S NATO VOTE: SILENCE IN MOSCOW.
• TOKYO PRESSING FOR RESOLUTION OF TERRITORIAL DISPUTE.

Volume 4 Issue 85

May 4, 1998

• UNEASY TRUCE AFTER FIGHTING IN DUSHANBE.
• GEORGIAN-TURKISH NAVAL EXERCISE: A BREAKTHROUGH FOR GEORGIA.
• SECURITY MINISTRY REORGANIZED AFTER ASSAULT ON SHEVARDNADZE.
• HAVE GEORGIAN GUERRILLAS SEIZED GROUND IN ABKHAZIA.
• ARMENIA TO RETURN GERMAN CULTURAL VALUABLES.
• SOCIALIST CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS ULTIMATE STAKE IN LATVIA'S ELECTIONS.
• BEREZOVSKY'S APPOINTMENT GETS MIXED RECEPTION.
• KRASNOYARSK GOVERNOR APPEALS FOR FEDERAL FUNDING.
• CABINET POST FOR YABLOKO MEMBER.
• YELTSIN'S REPRESENTATIVE TO CHECHNYA ABDUCTED.
• MOSCOW LOBBIES FOR UN ADVISOR POST IN IRAQ. A U.S.
• PERSONNEL LOGJAM ATOP RUSSIA'S DEFENSE HIERARCHY.
• ZYUGANOV DENOUNCED AS "TRAITOR" AT MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION.
• RUSSIA AT CENTER OF U.S. NATO DEBATE.

Volume 4 Issue 84

May 1, 1998

• MASSIVE FIGHTING NEAR TAJIK CAPITAL.
• BELARUS GETS A REPRIEVE FROM GAZPROM.
• MOLDOVA'S PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY FORMS BODIES OF POWER.
• SARATOV'S GOVERNOR AYATSKOV TO FOUND PARTY.
• MOSCOW DISMANTLES CIS COOPERATION MINISTRY.
• RESHUFFLED LATVIAN GOVERNMENT FIRMLY IN SADDLE.
• NEW MIG-29 MODEL AIMED AT NATO MARKET.
• FURTHER CABINET APPOINTMENTS.
• RETREAT FROM THE IRAQ RESOLUTION.
• CHUBAIS TO HEAD ELECTRICITY GIANT.
• KREMLIN DISSENTS ON SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA.
• RUSSIA'S TRADE WITH CIS COUNTRIES RISES, BUT OVERALL TRADE FALLS.

Volume 4 Issue 83

April 30, 1998

• BELARUS GETS A REPRIEVE FROM GAZPROM.
• SUMMIT IN MOSCOW.
• TRADE AMONG CIS COUNTRIES RISES, BUT OVERALL TRADE FALLS.
• NEW GOVERNMENT WANTS TO REIN IN RUSSIA'S REBELLIOUS REGIONS.
• RUSSIA FLOATS LIRA-DENOMINATED EUROBOND.
• RUSSIA EYES JAPANESE-U.S. DEFENSE COOPERATION.
• KIRIENKO AND THE REGIONS: A WAR ON TWO FRONTS.
• RUSSIA TO SHIP CONTROVERSIAL MISSILES TO CYPRUS.
• MOSCOW DENIES AIDING INDIAN MISSILE EFFORT.

Volume 4 Issue 82

April 29, 1998

• TEETHING PROBLEMS FOR KAZAKHSTAN'S AMBITIOUS PENSION REFORM.
• HAIRIKIAN, HOVHANISSIAN APPOINTED TO TOP ARMENIAN POSTS.
• KYIV DIFFERS WITH MOSCOW OVER NATO'S ENLARGEMENT.
• THE WESTERN-ORIENTED OFFICER CONFIRMED AS GEORGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER.
• CUSTOMS UNION SUMMIT.
• THREATENED PROTESTS BY ROKHLIN'S SUPPORTERS FAIL TO MATERIALIZE.
• EMIR KHATTAB RESPONSIBLE FOR CONVOY ATTACK ON CONVOY IN NORTH OSSETIA.
• LITTLE MOVEMENT LIKELY FROM MOSCOW ON KURILS.
• FORMER DEFENSE CHIEF FINDS NEW EMPLOYMENT.
• RUSSIA'S NEW GOVERNMENT TAKES SHAPE.

Volume 4 Issue 81

April 28, 1998

• KAZAKHSTAN TAKES FIRST STEPS TOWARD "BLUE CHIPS" SALE.
• CIS INSTITUTE HEAD CALLS FOR KAZAKHSTAN'S FEDERALIZATION.
• ASSOCIATION CREATED IN MINSK TO DEFEND POLITICAL PRISONERS.
• GEORGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER NADIBAIDZE REPLACED.
• ... BUT NOT UKRAINE.
• NO CHANGE IN SANCTIONS ON IRAQ.
• IMF READY TO DO MORE BUSINESS WITH RUSSIA...
• WASHINGTON RAISES ALARM OVER RUSSIAN-INDIAN MISSILE COOPERATION.
• IRANIAN-RUSSIAN COOPERATION REMAINS A U.S. CONCERN.
• NEW EXPLANATION FOR YELTSIN'S DECISION TO SACK GOVERNMENT.
• KIRIENKO TO PRESENT YELTSIN WITH CABINET PROPOSALS TODAY.

Volume 4 Issue 80

April 27, 1998

• U.S.-TURKMEN UNDERSTANDINGS ON ENERGY AND SECURITY.
• MOSCOW BLAMES TBILISI FOR "TERRORISM" IN ABKHAZIA.
• TRIPARTITE SUMMIT DISCUSSES ENERGY SUPPLIES IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS.
• CHORNOBYL ANNIVERSARY DEMONSTRATION.
• ...WHILE POLITICAL LEADERS SHOW LITTLE INTEREST IN REFORM.
• THE CORRUPTION IS RIFE IN UKRAINE...
• RULES FOR ASSESSMENT TENDER FOR SECOND SVYAZINVEST SALE ANNOUNCED.
• MOSCOW MOVES TO EASE UN INSPECTIONS IN IRAQ.
• FRESH CONFUSION SURROUNDS RUSSIAN ELECTRICITY MONOPOLY.
• LEBED LEADS IN KRASNOYARSK RACE.
• RUSSIA'S COMMUNISTS IN DISARRAY.
• WASHINGTON APPLAUDS KIRIENKO VOTE.

Volume 4 Issue 79

April 24, 1998

• BELGIUM AND KAZAKHSTAN CONSOLIDATE ECONOMIC RELATIONS.
• GOOD, BETTER, BEST FOR "RUSSIAN-SPEAKERS" IN KYRGYZSTAN.
• POWER-SHARING NEGOTIATIONS IN TAJIKISTAN ENTER DECISIVE STAGE.
• TWO OFFICIAL REACTIONS TO ASSESSMENTS OF ARMENIA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• GEORGIAN ENERGY MINISTER RESIGNS UNDER PRESSURE.
• FORMER DEPORTEE ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF MOLDOVA'S PARLIAMENT.
• OSKANIAN RULES OUT OSCE PROPOSALS ON KARABAKH SETTLEMENT.
• FOREIGN EXCHANGE SHORTAGE PUSHING BELARUS TOWARDS SWAPPING DEBT FOR EQUITY...
• ... RECENTRALIZING FOREIGN TRADE, AND LEGALIZING THE DOLLAR ECONOMY.
• TOP UKRAINIAN BANKER ASSASSINATED.
• UKRAINE TO SCRAP EX-SOVIET BOMBERS.
• KIRIENKO PROMISES TO PRIORITIZE THE PROBLEMS OF RUSSIA'S COAL MINERS.
• ITALY, RUSSIA SIGN DEFENSE COOPERATION PLAN.
• DUMA PREPARES FOR CRUCIAL VOTE.

Volume 4 Issue 78

April 23, 1998

• NEW LEADER AT KAZAKHTRANSOIL.
• KAZAKHSTANI STEELWORKS RECEIVES SYNDICATED LOAN.
• MAJOR EXPANSION OF BAKU-CEYHAN PIPELINE DISCUSSED.
• CENTER-RIGHT COALITION TO GOVERN MOLDOVA.
• KOVALYOV CALLS ATTENTION TO SOVIET-ERA SEQUELS.
• A SHIFT AT THE TOP OF UKRAINE'S SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT.
• HELICOPTER ACCOMPANYING STEPASHIN FIRED ON NEAR CHECHEN BORDER.
• CHECHNYA HAS NO DESIRE TO ACQUIRE NUCLEAR MATERIALS.
• INGUSH PRESIDENT BLAMES RUSSIANS FOR ATTACK ON MILITARY CONVOY.
• DUMA PASSES REVISED LAND CODE.
• MOSCOW SNUBS NATO SUPREME COMMANDER.
• LEBED FACING MAKE-OR-BREAK ELECTION IN KRASNOYARSK.
• JAPANESE PLAN FOR KURILS TO BE CONSIDERED AT MAY MEETING.
• TOP UKRAINIAN BANKER ASSASSINATED.
• MORE FEDERAL AID PROPOSED FOR RUSSIA'S DISPUTED KURIL ISLANDS.

Volume 4 Issue 77

April 22, 1998

• ANOTHER "TERRORISM" CASE IN TAJIKISTAN'S LENINABAD REGION.
• TURKMEN PRESIDENT VISITS THE UNITED STATES.
• MOSCOW-BASED OPPOSITIONIST FACES CHARGES IN TURKMENISTAN.
• TOP ENERGY OFFICIALS REPLACED IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• IRREDENTISM ENTERS ARMENIA'S FOREIGN POLICY.
• INTERNAL TENSIONS IN TRANSDNIESTER.
• UKRAINIAN POLITICAL SITUATION: STABLE, BUT STAGNANT...
• ..WHILE THE PARTY SYSTEM CONSOLIDATES.
• CHECHENS MARK ANNIVERSARY OF DUDAEV'S DEATH.
• "LENIN DID NOT BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS.
• IRAQ AND RUSSIA HOLD OIL TALKS.
• KREMLIN SHOWS CONTINUED FAITH IN RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF.
• BRITISH GOVERNMENT DEFENDS DECISION TO REPROCESS NUCLEAR WASTE FROM GEORGIA.
• YELTSIN TO MEET PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS.
• BATTLE FOR MONOPOLIES AT HEART OF RUSSIAN POWER STRUGGLE.

Volume 4 Issue 76

April 21, 1998

• TAJIK OPPOSITION BROADENS POLITICAL SCOPE.
• REFORMERS REJUVENATE POST-ELECTION GOVERNMENT IN ARMENIA.
• ARMENIA'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER COMES FROM THE DIASPORA.
• ADAMKUS SUPPORTS LATVIA AGAINST RUSSIAN PRESSURE.
• A "DIVISION OF LABOR" IN UKRAINE'S FOREIGN POLICY.
• TOYOTA CONSIDERING PRODUCTION IN RUSSIA.
• ONEKSIMBANK TO BID FOR ROSNEFT.
• UNITED STATES GETS ASSURANCES FROM KIRIENKO.
• RUSSIA REBUFFS JAPANESE PLAN FOR DISPUTED ISLANDS.
• WOULD DUMA DISSOLUTION BE AN ECONOMIC DISASTER FOR RUSSIA.

Volume 4 Issue 75

April 20, 1998

• PRESIDENTIAL PARTY LAUNCHED IN TAJIKISTAN.
• THE POLITICAL CHANGE LOOMING IN ARMENIA.
• MASKHADOV DENIES CHECHEN PARTICIPATION IN AMBUSH ON MILITARY CONVOY.
• WESTERN-ORIENTED TARASIUK APPOINTED FOREIGN MINISTER OF UKRAINE.
• "MAIN BATTLE LIES AHEAD," YELTSIN SAYS.
• POLICEMEN, GUNMEN KILLED IN SHOOT-OUT IN DAGESTAN.
• YELTSIN AND HASHIMOTO ANNOUNCE INITIATIVES...
• ...BUT UNDERTONE OF DISCORD REMAINS.
• YELTSIN SUMMITS IN JAPAN.

Volume 4 Issue 74

April 17, 1998

• GERMAN AND U.S. WARSHIPS TO GEORGIA.
• CASPIAN COUNTRIES PONDER RUSSIAN PROPOSAL ON LIMITED SECTORAL DIVISION.
• RUSSIAN TROOPS AMBUSHED IN NORTH OSSETIA.
• UKRAINE'S ARMS EXPORTS GROWING.
• U.S. ACTS AGAINST RUSSIAN-IRANIAN MISSILE COOPERATION.
• MOSCOW STILL LOOKING AT CUBAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.
• YELTSIN-HASHIMOTO TALKS APPEAR TO BE ON.
• DUMA REJECTS KIRIENKO FOR SECOND TIME.
• BEREZOVSKY DENIES RUMORS OF RIFT WITH YELTSIN.

Volume 4 Issue 73

April 16, 1998

• NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM UNVEILED BY KAZAKHSTAN.
• ANOTHER DISASTER IN RUSSIAN MILITARY EXERCISE IN TAJIKISTAN.
• LANGUAGE DAY CELEBRATION HIGHLIGHTS SHEVARDNADZE'S ROLE.
• ROMANIAN QUESTION AFFECTS MOLDOVAN COALITION TALKS.
• MOSCOW ACCUSES TBILISI OF SUPPORTING "TERRORISM" IN ABKHAZIA.
• TATARSTAN LEGALIZES FREE SALE OF LAND SALE AND PURCHASE.
• RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS KIDNAPPED IN INGUSHETIA.
• LARGE-SCALE NAVAL EXERCISES UNDERWAY IN THE BLACK SEA.
• HAS YELTSIN FALLEN OUT WITH BEREZOVSKY?
• KIRIENKO ORDERS INVESTIGATIONS INTO ALLEGATIONS OF POLICE BRUTALITY IN YEKATERINBURG.
• RUSSIAN-CANADIAN AIRLINE JOUST?
• DUMA MAY HOLD OPEN VOTE ON KIRIENKO.
• NETANYAHU CRITICIZES RUSSIA FOR DEFENSE TIES TO IRAN.

Volume 4 Issue 72

April 15, 1998

• FORGOTTEN CASUALTIES OF KAZAKHSTAN'S SEMEY NUCLEAR TESTING SITE.
• ...AND FORCES GOVERNMENT TO QUADRUPLE 1998 T-BILL EMISSION.
• RACE CONTINUES TO CONSTRUCT AKMOLA.
• IMF CANCELS STANDBY CREDIT FOR UKRAINE...
• FORMER GROZNY MAYOR SAYS THAT MONEY SENT FOR RESTORATION OF CHECHNYA IS BEING EMBEZZLED.
• RUSSIA PUTS THE SQUEEZE ON BELARUS.
• WARRANT ISSUED FOR ARREST OF CHECHEN FIELD COMMANDER SUSPECTED IN KIDNAPPINGS.
• YELTSIN AIDE SUPPORTS IDEA OF RE-DELEGATING PRESIDENT'S POWERS.
• FORMER BORDER SERVICE CHIEF NIKOLAEV TO CREATE CENTRIST PARTY.
• RUSSIA WILL NOT ATTEND G-7 MEETING IN WASHINGTON.
• YELTSIN TO QUERY CONSTITUTIONAL COURT'S RULING ON WAR BOOTY LAW.
• ISLAMIC CLERGY'S SUPPORT OF CHECHEN PEACE AGREEMENT A SETBACK FOR IRRECONCILABLE FIELD COMMANDERS.
• SELEZNEV CALLS ON PARLIAMENT TO BACK KIRIENKO.
• RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY: GIRDING FOR BATTLE?

Volume 4 Issue 71

April 14, 1998

• GOVERNMENT CRISIS CONTINUES FOR FOURTH WEEK.
• YELTSIN PUSHES FOR START-2 RATIFICATION.
• MIXED SIGNALS FROM TOKYO AND MOSCOW?
• RUSSIAN-JAPANESE SUMMIT ON REGARDLESS OF KIRIENKO'S FATE.
• KARIMOV SAYS HE FOLLOWS ATATURK'S MODEL.
• ABKHAZIA ROUNDUP.
• ANTI-IRANIAN IRREDENTIST GROUP STEPS UP ACTIVITIES IN BAKU.
• LATVIAN GOVERNMENT TO CARRY ON UNDER PRESSURE.
• FORMER RUSSIAN BORDER GUARD CHIEF ELECTED TO RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT.
• YELTSIN SLAMS FORMER BORDER GUARDS CHIEF.
• DUMA IN TOUGH MOOD.
• YELTSIN REJECTS CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.

Volume 4 Issue 70

April 13, 1998

• INAUSPICIOUS PRELUDE TO RUSSIAN WAR GAME IN TAJIKISTAN.
• KOCHARIAN APPOINTS YOUNG ECONOMIST AS PRIME MINISTER.
• AZERBAIJAN "NO SERF" TO MOSCOW, ALIEV SAYS.
• UDOVENKO RESIGNS.
• PRE-TERM LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS IN BELARUS RULED OUT.
• YAROSLAVL OBLAST GOVERNOR SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH CHECHEN PRESIDENT.
• WORKERS' DAY OF PROTEST PASSES PEACEFULLY.
• NEW JOINT MILITARY COMMAND.
• YELTSIN RENOMINATES KIRIENKO.
• ...REFLECTS CHRONIC DECLINE IN OIL INDUSTRY.
• RUSSIAN OIL EXPORTS SQUEEZED...
• MORE RUSSIAN GYROSCOPES SENT TO IRAQ?
• RUSSIA SAYS ILLEGAL SHIPMENT TO IRAN STOPPED: NEW CHARGES LEVELED.

Volume 4 Issue 69

April 9, 1998

• WORLD BANK LOAN TO SUPPORT KAZAKHSTAN'S FARMS.
• TENGIZ VENTURE IS FIVE YEARS YOUNG.
• KOCHARIAN OUTLINES POLICIES AS NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA.
• DEFENSE CHIEF DESCRIBES ARMY'S WOES.
• RUSSIA ANNOUNCES SANCTIONS AGAINST LATVIA; GOVERNMENT CRISIS IN RIGA.
• ...MAY NOT YET PROPEL LUZHKOV INTO THE PRESIDENCY.
• CAPITALISM LUZHKOV-STYLE...
• ...CAUCASUS OPTION STILL LOOKS MOST FEASIBLE.
• COUNTRIES WEIGH STRATEGIES IN THE GREAT OIL GAME...
• MOSCOW EMPHASIZES ECONOMIC COOPERATION PROPOSALS.
• RUSSIAN-JAPANESE SUMMIT SEEMS TO BE SET.

Volume 4 Issue 68

April 8, 1998

• KAZAKHSTANI RED ACTIVIST SENTENCED.
• GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES THROW LIGHT ON ZUGDIDI TERRORIST ATTACK.
• PRIMAKOV'S MINISTRY IRATE AT GEORGIAN CRITICS.
• TBILISI SAYS MOSCOW OWES MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR DEBT.
• AZERBAIJAN LAUNCHES CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST GULIEV.
• RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET'S EASTERN BASE IN BAD SHAPE.
• BELARUS AND RUSSIA COOL ECONOMIC TENSIONS.
• LUKASHENKA SAID TO AGREE TO PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.
• UKRAINIAN ECONOMIC POLICY UNCERTAIN AFTER ELECTIONS.
• YELTSIN SAYS HE WILL OBEY COURT RULING.
• KIRIENKO TO PRESENT HIS PROGRAM TO PARLIAMENT.
• YELTSIN STANDS BY HIS MAN.
• CLINTON AND YELTSIN CONVERSE.
• ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN MOSCOW.

Volume 4 Issue 67

April 7, 1998

• PEACE TALKS MAY OPEN AFGHAN ROUTE FOR TURKMEN GAS.
• CHANGE OF GUARD IN TAJIKISTAN.
• AZERBAIJAN SENTENCES SPY FOR IRAN.
• NEGOTIATIONS TO FORM MOLDOVAN GOVERNMENT MARK TIME.
• ANOTHER BOMB BLAST IN RIGA SETS OFF KREMLIN BLAST AGAINST LATVIA.
• MINSK COURTS SENTENCE PRO-INDEPENDENCE DEMONSTRATORS.
• RUSSIA SENDS EMERGENCY AID TO CHECHNYA.
• MORE BORDER VIOLENCE IN DAGESTAN.
• CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULES YELTSIN MUST SIGN WAR BOOTY LAW.
• ROW OVER NIZHNY ELECTION CONTINUES.
• NATURAL GAS PRICES FOR HOUSEHOLDS INCREASED APRIL 1
• ...HIGHLIGHTS CONFUSION OVER REFORM OF NATURAL MONOPOLIES.
• ACTING PRIME MINISTER PUSHES FOR MILITARY REFORM.
• UES MANAGEMENT RESHUFFLE...
• RUSSIA STEPS UP NUCLEAR COOPERATION WITH IRAN.

Volume 4 Issue 66

April 6, 1998

• KYRGYZSTAN REORGANIZES GOVERNMENT.
• OSCE DEVELOPS SERIOUS RESERVATIONS OVER ARMENIAN ELECTION.
• CLASHES IN ABKHAZIA.
• VIOLENCE BREAKS OUT AT ZVIADIST CHIEFTAIN'S FUNERAL.
• MINING DISASTER IN UKRAINE.
• ZHVANIA CALLS FOR U.S. SUPPORT AGAINST "ANOTHER 1921."
• LATVIA'S DEFENSE FORCES COMMANDER, ECONOMICS MINISTER DISMISSED.
• RUSSIA, BELARUS "DRAW RED LINE" AGAINST NATO ENLARGEMENT.
• MOSCOW PROPOSES CIS AGREEMENT ON PROTECTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
• SARATOV GOVERNOR GETS A WARNING.
• HIGH-RANKING GEORGIAN AND AZERBAIJANI REPRESENTATIVES ATTEND MEETING OF NORTH CAUCASUS LEADERS.
• CHUBAIS ELECTED TO BOARD OF ELECTRICITY GIANT.
• YELTSIN STANDS BY KIRIENKO NOMINATION.
• BACKGROUND BICKERING IN RUSSIAN-JAPANESE TALKS.
• KREMLIN POSTPONES YELTSIN-HASHIMOTO SUMMIT.

Volume 4 Issue 65

April 3, 1998

• RUSSIAN LEADER IN LATVIA DEMANDS BILINGUALISM.
• ALIEV LISTS POLICY DIFFERENCES WITH MOSCOW.
• VERDICT AGAINST TAJIK "TERRORISTS" QUESTIONED.
• RUSSIAN PREMIER FILES INCOME DECLARATION.
• BLAST AT SYNAGOGUE TARGETED COUNTRY.
• DAGESTANI BY-ELECTION BUCKS ETHNIC HABIT.
• PROTEST OVER ELECTION ANNULMENT IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD.
• GREEK MINISTER WINDS UP RUSSIA VISIT.
• KREMLIN SPEAKS UP FOR START II RATIFICATION.
• RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT VISITS BELGRADE.
• BANKERS FEUD OVER STATE CREDITS.
• YELTSIN AGREES TO CONSULTATIONS OVER NEW GOVERNMENT.
• RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER PONDERS ECONOMIC AGENDA.

Volume 4 Issue 64

April 2, 1998

• DIASPORAS' STATUS DISCUSSED BY RUSSIA AND KAZAKHSTAN.
• AZERBAIJANI REACTION SHOWS GOVERNMENT-OPPOSITION GULF.
• KOCHARIAN IS DECLARED ELECTED; OBSERVERS BLESS THE PROCESS.
• "SLAVIC NATION" REARS ITS CONCEPTUAL HEAD IN MINSK.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT DEFENDS LUKASHENKA'S REPUTATION.
• ONLY ONE TATAR ELECTED TO CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT.
• CANADIAN-RUSSIAN AIRLINE DISPUTE RESOLVED.
• RUSSIA INTRODUCING "INFORMAL" SANCTIONS, LATVIAN OFFICIALS REPORT.
• MOSCOW DENIES PRODUCING BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS.
• GREEK-RUSSIAN ARMS TALKS.
• YELTSIN MEETS WITH GREEK DEFENSE MINISTER.
• MAYOR MAY HAVE BEEN TARGET OF MAKHACHKALA BOMB.
• NIZHNY NOVGOROD ELECTION DECLARED INVALID.
• YELTSIN DEFUSES STAND-OFF WITH PARLIAMENT.

Volume 4 Issue 63

April 1, 1998

• MORE FACTS ON U.S.-GEORGIAN MILITARY COOPERATION REVEALED.
• RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS TO STAY PUT IN POST-WAR TAJIKISTAN.
• "ZVIADIST" CHIEFTAIN KILLED.
• SHEVARDNADZE EXTENDS OLIVE BRANCH TO PEACEFUL ZVIADISTS.
• LUKIN FOR INCREMENTAL SANCTIONS AGAINST LATVIA.
• COMMUNISTS WIN IN CRIMEA.
• KOCHARIAN CLEAR WINNER IN PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF.
• THE HUMAN RIGHT TO A SOVIET PASSPORT.
• BOMB ALERT IN MAKHACHKALA.
• ALLEGATIONS OF ELECTORAL FRAUD IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD.
• YELTSIN MEETS WITH PRESIDENT OF NAMIBIA.
• OPPOSITION WANTS YELTSIN NOMINEE WITHDRAWN.
• LAWMAKERS HAD URGED VETO OF UN EMBARGO.
• MOSCOW BACKS UN ARMS EMBARGO ON YUGOSLAVIA.

Volume 4 Issue 62

March 31, 1998

• APRIL FOOLS IN KYRGYZSTAN.
• BELARUS TO SUPPLY MORE MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO CHINA.
• SHEVARDNADZE CONCILIATORY TO AJARIA.
• LANDSBERGIS CALLS ATTENTION TO COLD WAR ON BALTS.
• UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS: COMMUNIST SUCCESS, BUT NO VICTORY.
• ARE RUSSIANS ANTI-SEMITIC?
• RUSSIA'S ELUSIVE BORDERS.
• ISRAEL PURCHASED RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE PHOTOS.
• UN SECRETARY GENERAL IN MOSCOW.
• RUSSIA TO GET GREATER PRESENCE ON UNSCOM?
• STEPASHIN APPOINTED ACTING INTERIOR MINISTER.
• KOCHARIAN VIRTUAL WINNER IN ARMENIA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• DUMA CALLS ON YELTSIN TO RECONSIDER KIRIENKO'S CANDIDACY.
• YELTSIN (AGAIN) DENIES INTEREST IN ANOTHER TERM AS PRESIDENT.
• KIRIENKO SEEKS ADVICE.

Volume 4 Issue 61

March 30, 1998

• CENTRAL TAJIKISTAN TENSE AFTER BATTLE.
• ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF.
• THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTY -- A PRESIDENTIAL ALLY IN INDUSTRIAL CENTERS.
• THE AGRARIAN PARTY OF UKRAINE -- A PRESIDENTIAL ALLY IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.
• YELTSIN TRIP TO JAPAN TO GO AHEAD AS PLANNED.
• SPRING WIND 98 MILITARY EXERCISE: TRAPPING THE INVADER.
• UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.
• CHERNOMYRDIN ANNOUNCES PRESIDENTIAL BID.
• DUMA TO CONSIDER KIRIENKO'S NOMINATION THIS WEEK.
• YELTSIN DECREE STREAMLINES SECURITY COUNCIL.

Volume 4 Issue 60

March 27, 1998

• NAZARBAEV SEEKS INTELLIGENTSIA'S SUPPORT TO STATE-BUILDING EFFORT.
• TAJIKISTAN JOINS CENTRAL ASIAN UNION, OPPOSITION LEADER JOINS GOVERNMENT DELEGATION.
• KUCHMA SAYS HE CANNOT GIVE CRIMEA'S TATARS THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
• LENIENCY OFFER TO ZVIADISTS REAFFIRMED.
• ROMANIAN PARTIES EYE "BESSARABIA" AND BUKOVINA.
• WHAT DID KOHL AND CHIRAC REALLY TELL YELTSIN ABOUT THE BALTIC STATES?
• CUBAN MINISTER ENDS MOSCOW VISIT.
• DAGESTANI PARLIAMENT AMENDS CONSTITUTION.
• AYATSKOV MOVES AHEAD WITH PLANS TO LEGALIZE PROSTITUTION.
• YELTSIN NOMINATES KIRIENKO AS PRIME MINISTER.
• CHERNOMYRDIN TAKES HIS DISTANCE.
• ANTI-AMERICAN UNDERTONE IN YELTSIN'S REMARKS.

Volume 4 Issue 59

March 26, 1998

• BATTLE IN CENTRAL TAJIKISTAN SHOWS OPPOSITION'S STRENGTH.
• KYRGYZSTAN CHANGES PRIME MINISTERS.
• U.S.-GEORGIA MILITARY COOPERATION PLAN SIGNED.
• KREMLIN SENDS PRO-KUCHMA SIGNAL TO UKRAINE'S ELECTORATE.
• LUKASHENKA WON'T BILL RUSSIA FOR MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR "DEBTS."
• NORWAY AND RUSSIA MOVE PAST SPY SCANDAL.
• CHECHEN PARLIAMENT RENAMES REPUBLIC AND ITS CAPITAL.
• FRESH ALLEGATIONS OF ANTI-SEMITISM AGAINST KRASNODAR GOVERNOR.
• RUSSIA IS BELGRADE'S STRONGEST BACKER.
• CONTACT GROUP HAMSTRUNG ON KOSOVO.

Volume 4 Issue 58

March 25, 1998

• AJARIA ENLARGES POWERS OF ITS SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT BODIES.
• BATTLE ERUPTS IN CENTRAL TAJIKISTAN.
• BELARUSAN COURT QUASHES SHEREMET-ZAVADSKY APPEAL.
• TURMOIL IN ODESSA.
• RUSSIA DENIES REPORT ON DISPUTED KURIL ISLANDS.
• CRIMEAN TATARS CLASH WITH POLICE.
• PRISON TRANSFER POSTPONED TILL FALL.
• RUSSIAN OFFICERS CONVICTED ON TREASON CHARGES.
• YET ANOTHER REPORT OF RUSSIAN-IRANIAN MISSILE COOPERATION.
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN AND DEFENSE MINISTERS GET VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.
• LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE IN RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT OVERHAUL?

Volume 4 Issue 57

March 24, 1998

• ANOTHER AJAR WARNING TO TBILISI.
• FIRST TURKMEN OIL SHIPPED WESTWARD.
• TAJIKISTAN REPORTS ECONOMIC GROWTH IN 1997.
• MOLDOVAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS INCONCLUSIVE.
• UKRAINIAN JEWISH LEADERS APPEAL FOR U.S. UNDERSTANDING OF UKRAINE'S PROBLEMS.
• MILITARY EXERCISE UNDERWAY.
• LUKASHENKA GRATEFUL TO RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE.
• CHECHEN LEADERS GIVE CONFLICTING ASSESSMENTS.
• RUSSIA'S MILITARY REFORM AND THE CABINET CHANGES.
• THE GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE: LITTLE IMPACT ON FOREIGN POLICY.
• KIRIENKO GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS.

Volume 4 Issue 56

March 23, 1998

• ABKHAZ, SOUTH OSSETIAN LEADERS DEVELOPING TIES IN RUSSIA.
• KAZAKHSTAN EXPELS IRANIANS ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE.
• TOP-LEVEL RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN-MOLDOVAN MEETING ON TRANSDNIESTER.
• MOSCOW EXTRADITES ONE GEORGIAN SUSPECT, KEEPS OTHERS.
• MOSCOW REPUDIATES AGREEMENT TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM MOLDOVA.
• ... THAT IS AGGRAVATED BY LUKASHENKA'S RESPONSE.
• MASS PROCESSION IN MINSK ON INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY.
• BELARUS HIT BY A CURRENCY CRISIS...
• SUMMIT MOVED FROM URALS TO MOSCOW.
• MOSCOW CRITICIZES U.S. AMBASSADOR.
• LEBED ASSAILS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT.
• YELTSIN DISMISSES ENTIRE GOVERNMENT.

Volume 4 Issue 55

March 20, 1998

• KAZAKHSTAN'S PRESIDENT TO DEMAND BAIKONUR RENT FROM RUSSIA.
• MASKHADOV DENIES CLAIMS OF ANTI-TERRORIST CHIEF.
• MOLDOVAN ELECTION PREVIEW.
• MOSCOW BACKS BELGRADE AT UN.
• BELGRADE SLIPS A PUNCH; AVOIDS SANCTIONS FOR NOW.
• PRESIDENTIAL RACE HEATS UP.
• YELTSIN RETURNS TO KREMLIN.

Volume 4 Issue 54

March 19, 1998

• DUSHANBE PRESSURING OPPOSITION TO DISARM.
• MOSCOW ARRESTS ZVIADISTS.
• UKRAINE'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND N.E.P. BLOC.
• "YELTSIN SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION."
• ...LOOKS TO COUNTER-BALANCE UNITED STATES.
• PRIMAKOV OUTLINES RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES...
• NORWEGIAN-RUSSIAN SPY DISPUTE WINDING DOWN?

Volume 4 Issue 53

March 18, 1998

• FORMER PRIME MINISTER REEMERGES AS A POLITICAL FACTOR.
• COMMUNIST STRENGTH REVEALED IN ARMENIA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN BELGRADE.
• YELTSIN ON THE MEND.
• VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY UNDER INVESTIGATION.
• UKRAINE'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: THE LIBERAL-LABOR BLOC.
• RUSSIA RETALIATES AGAINST NORWAY.

Volume 4 Issue 52

March 17, 1998

• TAJIK GOVERNMENT TROOPS STILL YIELDING GROUND TO OPPOSITION FORCES.
• CHERNOMYRDIN CONCEDES RUSSIAN DEFEAT ON OIL PIPELINE.
• GEORGIAN PRESIDENT TO ATTEND CIS SUMMIT CONDITIONALLY.
• RUSSIAN CAPITALIST FALLS ON HARD TIMES.
• CHECHNYA FAILS TO FREE HOSTAGES.
• RUSSIA HOLDS DEFENSE TALKS WITH GREECE.
• JOINT DEVELOPMENT OF KURIL ISLANDS STILL A QUESTION MARK.
• TAX BREAK FOR RUSSIAN-US OIL JOINT VENTURES.
• ...AFTER FIVE-YEAR BUREAUCRATIC BATTLE.
• CIS SUMMIT POSTPONED.
• RUSSIAN PREMIER CONSOLIDATES GRIP ON ARMS TRADE...

Volume 4 Issue 51

March 16, 1998

• THE PRINCIPAL CHALLENGERS.
• ARMENIAN ELECTION PREVIEW.
• "HISTORIC" GEORGIAN-TURKISH SUMMIT.
• DEMOCRATS AND COMMUNISTS COMPETE FOR BELARUS.
• YELTSIN IMPEACHMENT THREAT.
• ALIEV, SHEVARDNADZE WARN THEY MAY BOYCOTT CIS SUMMIT.
• THIRD-ROAD PARTY LAUNCHED IN LATVIA.
• ANOTHER RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SHAKE-UP ON THE WAY?
• ...DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH.
• DOUBLE AGENT AT CENTER OF SCANDAL.
• MOSCOW REACTS STRONGLY TO EXPULSION OF DIPLOMATS.

Volume 4 Issue 50

March 13, 1998

• ARMENIAN ELECTION PREVIEW.
• DUSHANBE SENTENCES LENINABAD OPPONENTS TO DEATH.
• MOSCOW SHUTS DOOR TO LATVIAN FOREIGN MINISTER.
• ECHOES OF 1991 PUTSCH.
• OSCE MEETING EXONERATES LATVIA.
• MOSCOW TARGETS ESTONIA TOO.
• NORWAY EXPELS RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS.
• MOSCOW WILL PLAY NO INTERMEDIARY ROLE IN KOSOVO CRISIS.
• ANOTHER YELTSIN HEALTH SCARE.
• FEDERATION COUNCIL APPROVES BUDGET.
• SPECULATIONS ON RUSSIA'S NEXT PRESIDENTIAL RUN.
• THE STATE OF RUSSIAN PUBLIC OPINION.
• COMMISSION PLANNED TO STOP TRANSFER OF RUSSIAN MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES.

Volume 4 Issue 49

March 12, 1998

• PRESIDENTIAL PARTY LAUNCHED IN DUSHANBE.
• ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PREVIEW.
• KOCHARIAN THE APPARENT FRONT-RUNNER.
• KYIV'S PULLOUT FROM BUSHEHR BOOMERANGS IN KHARKIV.
• OTHER EVIDENCE OF DISSONANCE.
• CRIMEAN TATARS THREATEN TO BLOCK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.
• NO SIGN OF BREAKTHROUGH ON IRAN IN RUSSIAN-U.S. TALKS.

Volume 4 Issue 47

March 10, 1998

• LUKASHENKA IN IRAN.
• ZVIADISTS ARE OFFERED AMNESTY AND POLITICAL DIALOGUE.
• ...AND WRECK ATTEMPT AT DECENTRALIZING UKRAINE'S GAS INDUSTRY.
• BALTIC RESPONSE UNEDIFYING.
• COMMUNIST CLONE?
• BULLYING THE LATVIANS.
• FOREIGN INVESTORS LOOK TO COURTS TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS.
• MOSCOW DRAGS FEET ON KOSOVO CRISIS.
• WASHINGTON LOOKS ANEW TO HALT RUSSIAN-IRANIAN MISSILE COOPERATION.

Volume 4 Issue 46

March 9, 1998

• KYIV ABANDONS IRAN NUCLEAR PLANT PROJECT.
• FISHERMEN'S WIVES PROTEST SALARIES PAID IN VODKA.
• MOSCOW WARNS OF POSSIBLE SANCTIONS AGAINST LATVIA.
• ALBRIGHT VISIT TO KYIV MARKED BY CONCERN OVER UKRAINE'S REFORMS.
• YELTSIN TO MEET WITH NORTH CAUCASUS ELDERS.
• GLASS CEILING VERY LOW IN RUSSIAN MILITARY.
• ZYUGANOV LIFTS VEIL ON SHADOW CABINET.
• MOSCOW MAY BUILD TWO MORE REACTORS FOR IRAN.
• MOSCOW SEEKS HIGH-RANKING UNSCOM POST.

Volume 4 Issue 45

March 6, 1998

• KAZAKHSTAN WANTS TO JOIN WTO -- BUT WITH SOME MISGIVINGS.
• POLISH AND CATHOLIC INFLUENCE IN WESTERN BELARUS IRKS THE GOVERNMENT.
• NEW RUSSIAN AIRLINER IN TROUBLE.
• IS LATVIA VIOLATING "ELEMENTARY HUMAN RIGHT" TO RIOT?
• RUSSIAN-PAKISTANI TALKS.
• RUSSIAN ENVOY RETURNS FROM IRAQ.
• BREVNOV STRENGTHENS HIS POSITION AT UES.
• SARATOV OBLAST HOLDS FIRST LAND AUCTION.
• MOSCOW MILITARY URGES DESERTERS TO RETURN.

Volume 4 Issue 44

March 5, 1998

• TOP-LEVEL MEETING SCHEDULED TO DISCUSS TRANSDNIESTER SETTLEMENT.
• STREET INCIDENT IN RIGA SPARKS DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT IN MOSCOW.
• RUSSIA REOPENS PLANE CRASH INVESTIGATION.
• PRESIDENTS OF RUSSIA'S NORTH CAUCASUS REPUBLICS TO MEET WITH MASKHADOV IN GROZNY.
• RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY EXPOUNDS ITS SUCCESSES.
• RUSSIAN OPPOSITION TO FORM SHADOW CABINET.
• ISRAELI MINISTER IN RUSSIA.
• RUSSIAN COAL INDUSTRY FACES DRASTIC CUTS.
• SOROS BAILS OUT RUSSIA.
• DUMA PASSES 1998 BUDGET.

Volume 4 Issue 43

March 4, 1998

• AVAR ELITE STRENGTHENS ITS GRIP IN MULTIETHNIC DAGESTAN.
• MOLDOVA CUTTING TROOPS.
• AN ABKHAZ SHOT ACROSS GEORGIA'S BOW IN THE BLACK SEA.
• IS UZBEKISTAN TRYING TO DERAIL TAJIK SETTLEMENT?
• KAZAN TRIES TO BOOST TATAR LANGUAGE.
• WHO ARE THE MIDDLE CLASS?
• WILL RUSSIA, UKRAINE COORDINATE WTO ACCESSION STRATEGIES?
• YELTSIN VISIT TO SARATOV SCUPPERED?
• NEW RUSSIAN BANKRUPTCY LAW COMES INTO EFFECT.
• KOKOSHIN NAMED NEW SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY.
• UN RESOLUTION LEAVES WASHINGTON FRUSTRATED.
• YELTSIN DECREE STRENGTHENS RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL.
• RUSSIAN DUMA APPROVES 1998 FEDERAL BUDGET.

Volume 4 Issue 42

March 3, 1998

• THE FIVE KEY COUNTRIES ENDORSE BAKU-CEYHAN PIPELINE.
• CENTRAL ASIAN REGIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION TO RECEIVE EXTERNAL AID.
• SHEVARDNADZE POINTS TO INTERNAL STABILITY AS OIL TRANSIT GROWS.
• AUSHEV REELECTED IN INGUSHETIA.
• EXIT SEROV, ENTER RYBKIN.
• MINATOM HEAD RESIGNS.
• RUSSIA AGAIN DENIES BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CHARGES.

Volume 4 Issue 41

March 2, 1998

• ALIEV BRINGS HOME OIL CONTRACTS AND CREDIT AGREEMENTS FROM JAPAN.
• TURANJOZODA RETURNS.
• LENINABAD REGION MAY HOLD BALANCE OF POWER.
• RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN SUMMIT.
• BELARUSAN TRADE DEFICIT, NATIONAL DEBT GROW IN 1997.
• DAGESTANI SECURITY SERVICES CLAIM KUWAIT FINANCES "WAHHABIS."
• INGUSHETIA POSTPONES REFERENDUM.
• OSCE MISSION OPENS IN BELARUS.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT DECIDES TO BURY IMPERIAL FAMILY IN ST. PETERSBURG.
• MASKHADOV SEEKS SUPPORT OF ISLAMIC CLERGY TO "REIN IN" RADUEV.
• COMMUNIST LEADER CONDEMNS CABINET RESHUFFLE.
• MOSCOW OPPOSES HARD-HITTING UN RESOLUTION.
• RUSSIAN MINISTER PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON UN INSPECTORS IN IRAQ.

Volume 4 Issue 40

February 27, 1998

• GOVERNMENT OF KAZAKHSTAN RESHUFFLED.
• POLITICAL BACKLASH IN KYIV.
• KUCHMA PREPARED TO MAKE SUBSTANTIAL ECONOMIC CONCESSIONS TO MOSCOW.
• ADAMKUS INAUGURATED AS PRESIDENT OF LITHUANIA.
• HALF OF RUSSIA'S OLD BANKNOTES REMOVED FROM CIRCULATION.
• DAGESTANIS PROTEST KIDNAPPINGS.
• YELTSIN PRAISES RUSSIA'S EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS.
• CHERNOMYRDIN CALLS FOR MORE SPENDING CUTS.
• GOVERNMENT MEETING ENDS IN CONFUSION.
• NEW RUSSIAN-IRANIAN ARMS DEALS?
• CHARGES OF RUSSIAN-IRANIAN MISSILE COOPERATION RAISED ANEW.

Volume 4 Issue 39

February 26, 1998

• ZVIADIST ABDUCTORS RELEASE REMAINING HOSTAGES, OBTAIN POLITICAL TALKS WITH GEORGIA'S LEADERSHIP.
• KUCHMA CAUTIOUS IN GRADING RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.
• POPULATION OF KARACHAEVO-CHERKESSIA DEMAND TO ELECT THEIR PRESIDENT.
• YELTSIN'S BALTIC CHARTER CUTS NO ICE.
• CHECHEN LEADERSHIP RELUCTANT TO CRITICIZE RADUEV.
• ROGUE FIELD COMMANDERS LIKELY TO IGNORE CHECHNYA'S NEW GUN-CONTROL LAW.
• DOKU ZAVGAEV'S NEPHEW KIDNAPPED IN MOSCOW.
• YELTSIN TO VISIT JAPAN.
• RUSSIAN TRADE WITH ASIA IN DOLDRUMS.
• RUSSIAN-SYRIAN TALKS.
• YELTSIN THREATENS TO SACK THREE MINISTERS.
• CONFUSION REGARDING MOSCOW'S MISSILE DEFENSES.
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: NO REASON TO THREATEN IRAQ.

Volume 4 Issue 38

February 25, 1998

• SHOOTING SPREE PROMPTS DISCIPLINARY MEASURES IN UZBEK ARMED FORCES.
• NIAZOV, AT EU AND NATO, CONFIDENT OF GAS EXPORT PROSPECTS.
• "IRANIAN AGENTS" ARRESTED IN ALMATY.
• KAZAKH GOVERNMENT HOPES RECENT DISPUTES WON'T DETER FOREIGN INVESTORS.
• TBILISI FORCED INTO NEGOTIATIONS WITH MOSCOW-BASED OPPONENTS.
• BELARUS CONVICTS POPULAR FRONT YOUTHS.
• CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT BOWS TO PRESSURE.
• ULMANIS CONDEMNS THE HOLOCAUST IN LATVIA.
• YELTSIN MEETS WITH NORTH CAUCASUS LEADERS.
• WASHINGTON CRITICIZES RUSSIAN-IRANIAN NUCLEAR PLANT DEAL.
• NEED FOR REFORM UNDERLINED ON RUSSIAN MILITARY HOLIDAY.
• COMMUNIST PARTY TO BACK LUZHKOV PRESIDENTIAL BID?

Volume 4 Issue 37

February 24, 1998

• GOVERNMENT "SUSPENDS" OIL AND GAS PRIVATIZATION.
• REPRESSION IN BELARUS PENALIZED BY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT.
• TBILISI LINKS "ZVIADIST" VIOLENCE TO RUSSIAN ATTEMPTS TO THWART PROJECTS.
• CRIMEAN FIRST DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER DIES FOLLOWING ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.
• KYIV CITES YELTSIN TO REFUTE LUZHKOV.
• ... BUT RUSSIAN ATTEMPTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO SUCCEED.
• ANNIVERSARY OF STALIN DEPORTATIONS OBSERVED IN CHECHNYA AND INGUSHETIA.
• TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN AUTO INDUSTRIES COME UNDER ATTACK...
• RUSSIAN OIL COMPANY SHARE ISSUE REVOKED.
• YELTSIN THREATENS CABINET RESHUFFLE.
• MOSCOW APPLAUDS IRAQ-UN AGREEMENT.

Volume 4 Issue 36

February 23, 1998

• TURAJONZODA FOR CONSTITUTIONAL COMPROMISE ON THE NATURE OF THE STATE.
• HIGH-LEVEL RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN MEETINGS FOCUS ON POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE.
• RIGA WILL NOT PROLONG RUSSIAN LEASE TO SKRUNDA.
• UKRAINE TO KEEP SOVIET CRUISER.
• MOSCOW MAYOR LUZHKOV REITERATES CLAIM TO SEVASTOPOL.
• JAPAN AND RUSSIA SIGN FISHING ACCORD.
• MORE ACCIDENTS AT MILITARY AMMO DUMPS.
• YELTSIN MARKS MILITARY HOLIDAY.
• OPPOSITION MARCHES ON EVE OF RED ARMY DAY.
• RUSSIAN BUDGET STAND-OFF CONTINUES.

Volume 4 Issue 35

February 20, 1998

• ZVIADISTS ARRESTED AS SUSPECTS; HOSTAGES SEIZED.
• COMMANDER REPORTS ON THE STATE OF THE STRATEGIC ROCKET FORCES.
• MOSCOW ADVANCES DEMAND FOR RADAR LEASE EXTENSION.
• UKRAINIAN TRADE UNIONS DISPLAY WEAKNESS BEFORE ELECTIONS.
• LAWMAKER TIES START II RATIFICATION TO IRAQ.
• IMF EXTENDS RUSSIAN LOAN.
• STATE OF EMERGENCY IN NAKHODKA.
• MOSCOW URGES SUPPORT FOR UN SECRETARY GENERAL IN IRAQ TALKS.
• AMENDED BUDGET FACES HOSTILE RECEPTION FROM DUMA.

Volume 4 Issue 34

February 19, 1998

• TAJIK GOVERNMENT WANTS OPPOSITION TO GIVE UP MILITARY LEVERAGE.
• UKRAINE'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: THE DIEHARD SOVIET MOVEMENTS.
• CIS PARTNERS HURTING RUSSIA'S ARMS EXPORTS.
• COURT SAYS INGUSH REFERENDUM DECREE VIOLATES FEDERAL LAW.
• ...SOFTENS CRITICISM OF U.S. ON IRAQ.
• RUSSIAN FIRMS DID NEGOTIATE WITH IRAQ OVER GERM WEAPONS EQUIPMENT.
• MOSCOW WELCOMES UN SECRETARY GENERAL'S PEACE MISSION...
• LAND CODE DEAD AND BURIED.
• BUDGET DEBATE POSTPONED.

Volume 4 Issue 33

February 18, 1998

• RUSSIAN-TURKMEN DISAGREEMENTS ON GAS TRANSIT CAST SHADOW ON YELTSIN'S VISIT.
• MOSCOW MAY EXTRADITE GIORGADZE GROUP LINKED TO ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN TBILISI.
• TRANSDNIESTER BLOCKS NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHISINAU ON CONFLICT SETTLEMENT.
• KALMYKIA INTRODUCES PRESIDENTIAL RULE.
• RUSSIA, CHINA RENEW TIES.
• RUSSIA GETS SERIOUS WITH THE WTO.
• YELTSIN SAYS BUDGET MUST BE AMENDED.
• FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES IN YELTSIN'S SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT.

Volume 4 Issue 32

February 17, 1998

• IS TASHKENT SHIFTING GEARS ON "WAHHABISM"?
• GEORGIA'S ROLE AS TRANSIT COUNTRY WAS THE TARGET, SHEVARDNADZE SAYS.
• KUCHMA ALARMED BY POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF CRIMINAL GROUPS.
• OMON TRIAL IN RIGA FOILED.
• IMF FUNDING FOR MOLDOVA POSTPONED AGAIN.
• POLAND TO ACT AS LITHUANIA'S ADVOCATE.
• RUSSIAN MP'S TO FACE AIR STRIKES.
• DUMA TO GIVE BUDGET FINAL READING THIS WEEK.
• CENTRAL BANK CUTS REFINANCING RATE.
• MOSCOW CALLS AGAIN FOR ANNAN VISIT.
• YELTSIN RULES OUT CABINET RESHUFFLE -- FOR NOW.
• YELTSIN PRIORITIZES ECONOMIC GROWTH IN STATE-OF-NATION ADDRESS...
• ...TOUCHES ON FOREIGN POLICY.

Volume 4 Issue 31

February 16, 1998

• KAZAKH OPPOSITION LEADER COOPTED?
• SHEVARDNADZE UPDATE.
• A VALENTINE CARD FOR NATO FROM MINSK.
• HASANOV OUSTED IN CORRUPTION SCANDAL.
• RETIRED INTELLIGENCE OFFICER CHARGED IN KHOLODOV CASE.
• OMON TRIAL UNDERWAY IN RIGA.
• RYBKIN BLAMES CHERNOMYRDIN FOR RUSSIA'S FAILURE TO MEET ITS COMMITMENTS TO CHECHNYA.
• GOVERNMENT TO CURTAIL ELECTRICAL POWER TO MILITARY.
• TATARSTAN POSTPONES VOTE ON CITIZENSHIP BILL.
• U.S., RUSSIA CONTINUE TO CLASH ON IRAQ.
• MOSCOW PRESSURES UN SECRETARY GENERAL TO VISIT IRAQ.
• RUSSIA'S COMMUNIST PARTY EDGES TOWARD THE CENTER.
• ASSASSINATION SUSPECTS ARRESTED.
• LAST-MINUTE REVISIONS TO STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS, DRAFT FEDERAL BUDGET.

Volume 4 Issue 30

February 13, 1998

• RADUEV CLAIMS CHECHEN INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SHEVARDNADZE.
• TAJIK OPPOSITION ACCEPTS GOVERNMENT POSTS.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY SEEKS EXTENSION OF LEASE TO RADAR IN LATVIA.
• DUMA STALLS RATIFICATION OF RUSSIA-UKRAINE TREATY.
• RUSSIANS AND UKRAINIANS ARGUE OVER CAUSE OF AIRCRAFT CRASH.
• RADUEV CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR SHEVARDNADZE ATTACK.
• CHECHEN, DAGESTANI LEADERS AGREE TO JOIN FORCES AGAINST CRIME.
• RUSSIA: TAXING PROBLEMS.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF ASSAILS U.S. FOR IRAQ POLICY.
• MOSCOW DENIES U.S. NEWSPAPER REPORT.

Volume 4 Issue 29

February 12, 1998

• TWO TRAPS BEFORE THE TAJIK OPPOSITION.
• ROMANIA NOT POPULAR IN MOLDOVA.
• UNOFFICIAL RUSSIAN HAND SUSPECTED IN THE ASSAULT ON SHEVARDNADZE.
• UN COMMISSION SUSPENDS WORK IN NORTH OSSETIA.
• LUKASHENKA URGES RUSSIA TO OPPOSE THE U.S.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT CAUTIOUSLY HOPEFUL THAT ECONOMIC GROWTH CAN BE MAINTAINED.
• RUSSIAN CARGO PLANE MAKES IT TO BAGHDAD.
• NORTH CAUCASUS OFFICIALS DISCUSS LAW ENFORCEMENT.
• RUSSIAN "FORCE MINISTRIES" CRITICIZED FOR INEFFECTIVENESS IN NORTH CAUCASUS.
• MOSCOW-BAGHDAD GERM WARFARE DEAL REPORTED.
• YELTSIN RETURNS TO RUSSIA.

Volume 4 Issue 28

February 11, 1998

• KAZAKH LEADS SPACE MISSION FROM BAIKONUR.
• CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BANNED IN AZERBAIJAN.
• WAS SHEVARDNADZE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON THE WORK OF ROGUE CHECHEN FIELD COMMANDER?
• SWEDEN SUPPLYING MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO THE BALTIC STATES.
• GEORGIA SHOCKED BY ATTEMPT ON SHEVARDNADZE'S LIFE.
• NEW TAX CODE DETAILS ANNOUNCED.
• PASTUKHOV HITS WESTERN ENCOURAGEMENT OF CIS COUNTRIES' INDEPENDENCE.
• SARATOV WANTS TO RENEGOTIATE POWER-SHARING AGREEMENT.
• YELTSIN DESCRIBED AS "BEFUDDLED" DURING ROME VISIT.
• OPPOSITION MOUNTS TO TATARSTAN'S CITIZENSHIP BILL.
• INTERNATIONAL ISSUES ALSO ON AGENDA.
• YELTSIN MEETS WITH POPE, ITALIAN GOVERNMENT LEADERS.

Volume 4 Issue 27

February 10, 1998

• ARMENIA POLITICAL UPDATE.
• UKRAINE'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: THE NATIONAL FRONT.
• A SURPRISING NUCLEAR ANNOUNCEMENT FROM BELARUS.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS STILL GROUNDED IN ARMENIA.
• LEBED CAMPAIGN GETS OFF THE GROUND.
• SUSPECT HELD IN KHOLODOV CASE.
• POLISH HOSTAGES FREED IN CHECHNYA.
• YELTSIN IN ITALY; IRAQ ON THE AGENDA.
• ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SHEVARDNADZE.

Volume 4 Issue 26

February 9, 1998

• KYRGYZ SECURITY ACTS AGAINST FOREIGN AGENTS AND "WAHHABIS."
• WHO WILL BE ARMENIA'S NEXT PRESIDENT?
• BELARUS ACCUSES POLAND OF SUBVERSION ON WEST'S BEHALF.
• ...ALLEGES THAT ROGUE FIELD COMMANDERS WANT TO DESTABILIZE SITUATION.
• YELTSIN TERMS BALTIC ACCESSION TO NATO "UNACCEPTABLE."
• MASKHADOV ACCUSES RUSSIANS OF "BLOCKADING" CHECHNYA...
• RUSSIAN INFLATION CONTINUES TO FALL.
• NATIONALISTS SPLIT.
• NO PROGRESS IN BAGHDAD TALKS.
• TATARSTAN TO DEBATE CONTROVERSIAL CITIZENSHIP BILL.

Volume 4 Issue 25

February 6, 1998

• PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS SCHEDULED IN ARMENIA.
• TURKMENISTAN NOW FIRMLY ON THE SIDE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN CASPIAN SEA.
• BELARUS RECALLS AMBASSADOR FROM POLAND.
• KYIV/YALTA DEADLOCK.
• MOSCOW ESCALATES THE RHETORIC.
• MILITARY TO ROB COLONEL PYOTR TO PAY LIEUTENANT PAVEL.
• AIR FORCE MOVES NUCLEAR WEAPONS AWAY FROM CHECHNYA.
• CHECHNYA OFFERS TO MEDIATE IN IRAQ CRISIS.
• UDUGOV DENIES HIS MOVEMENT WANTS POLITICAL UNION WITH DAGESTAN.
• YELTSIN CRITICIZES CLINTON OVER IRAQ POLICY.
• YELTSIN SUPPORTS "YOUNG REFORMERS."
• IRAQI COMPROMISE PROPOSAL REJECTED BY LONDON.

Volume 4 Issue 24

February 5, 1998

• POWER SHIFT IN ARMENIA; MOSCOW TERMS COUNTRY A RUSSIAN SPHERE.
• LAW AND JUSTICE IN BELARUS.
• CRIMEAN PARLIAMENT UPS THE ANTE.
• LATVIA'S INADEQUATE DEFENSE BUDGET BECOMING A SORE ISSUE.
• RADIATION SOURCE ON OUTSKIRTS OF GROZNY.
• CHECHNYA REJECTS "ASSOCIATED STATUS."
• MORE IMPEDIMENTS TO START II RATIFICATION.
• RUSSIAN SPACE CHIEF DENIES IRANIAN CONNECTION.
• RESIDENCY RULING HAS FAR-REACHING IMPLICATIONS.
• YELTSIN BACKS CHUBAIS' AUSTERITY PROGRAM.
• NEW LABOR CODE IN PREPARATION.
• YELTSIN RENEWS SUPPORT FOR "YOUNG REFORMERS."

Volume 4 Issue 23

February 4, 1998

• TUBERCULOSIS SPREADS IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• UKRAINE'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: THE PARTY OF REFORM AND ORDER.
• KREMLIN OFFICIALS ADVOCATE CIS MILITARY ALLIANCE FOR RUSSIA'S SECURITY.
• BATTLE FOR ELECTRICITY GIANT REFLECTS RUSSIA'S DUAL ECONOMY.
• MUCH ADO IN MOSCOW OVER IRAQ CRISIS.
• CLINTON'S CARELESSNESS SAID TO BE DANGEROUS.
• ARMENIAN PRESIDENT FORCED TO RESIGN.

Volume 4 Issue 22

February 3, 1998

• CRIMEA CLASHES WITH KYIV OVER YALTA.
• ARMENIAN PRESIDENT AT BAY.
• UKRAINIAN POLITICAL LEADERS REACT TO YELTSIN'S ENDORSEMENT OF KUCHMA.
• IMPERIAL FUNERAL SHOULD BE "AN ACT OF REPENTANCE."
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE OFFICIAL HOLDS TALKS IN CHINA.
• SOROS AND BEREZOVSKY CLASH AGAIN.
• RUSSIA SAYS TAX COLLECTION IS IMPROVING.
• RUSSIA FALLS PREY TO ASIAN FLU.
• KREMLIN EMBARRASSED ON REPORTED BREAKTHROUGH IN IRAQ CRISIS.

Volume 4 Issue 21

February 2, 1998

• UZBEKISTAN SAID TO RELEASE "WAHHABI" SUSPECTS.
• YELTSIN TO SUPPORT KUCHMA IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS.
• AZERBAIJAN POLITICAL ROUNDUP.
• UKRAINIAN CURRENCY UNDER PRESSURE.
• UPBEAT INAUGURATION FOR NORTH OSSETIA'S NEW BROOM.
• ATTACK ON DAGESTANI GARRISON.
• REGIONAL LEADERS REJECT "ASSOCIATED STATUS" FOR CHECHNYA.
• NO BREAKTHROUGH IN PRIMAKOV-ALBRIGHT TALKS.
• YELTSIN AND CHERNOMYRDIN DOWNPLAY RESHUFFLE RUMORS.
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PRESIDENT YELTSIN.

Volume 4 Issue 20

January 30, 1998

• GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR ETHNIC KAZAKH REPATRIATION CONTINUES.
• TURKMEN-UKRAINIAN GAS DEAL DRAMATIZES DEPENDENCE ON RUSSIA FOR TRANSIT.
• SERGEEV WARNS OF ANTI-NATO MOVE IN BELARUS.
• MAJOR OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER SUSPENDED IN UKRAINE.
• NUCLEAR SUBMARINE ACCIDENT IN NORTHERN FLEET.
• RUSSIAN DEFENSE CHIEF WINDS UP TALKS IN BONN.
• ST. PETERSBURG BIDS FOR IMPERIAL REMAINS.
• DAGESTAN'S LEADERS WARN OF DANGER OF CIVIL WAR.
• "BIG FOUR" MEET.
• YELTSIN SECURES BUDGET COMPROMISE.
• MOSCOW MAINTAINS ROLE IN IRAQ CRISIS.
• UN OFFICIAL KIDNAPPED.

Volume 4 Issue 19

January 29, 1998

• ALIEV LAUNCHES MORAL PURIFICATION CAMPAIGN.
• RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS SENTENCED IN BELARUS.
• MILITARY SHOOTINGS PROMPT HIGH-LEVEL RESPONSE.
• GROZNY ACCUSES PRO-MOSCOW CHECHEN OF RED CROSS MURDERS.
• MOSCOW CLASHES WITH NAZRAN OVER REFERENDUM.
• MOSCOW CONTINUES TO COURT EUROPE.
• MOSCOW AND WASHINGTON MANEUVER ON IRAQ STANDOFF.
• NEMTSOV DEFENDS HIS PROTEGE.

Volume 4 Issue 18

January 28, 1998

• PARLIAMENT REJECTS BILL ON AKMOLA'S STATUS.
• TURKMEN-RUSSIAN GAS TRANSIT TALKS FAIL WHILE ALTERNATIVE ROUTES EMERGE.
• ULMANIS CROSSES WATER'S EDGE IN RIFT WITH PRIME MINISTER.
• KULIKOV SOFTENS HIS TONE ON CHECHNYA.
• FIRST PROTEST MEETING IN KARACHAEVO-CHERKESSIA'S HISTORY.
• RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE TO GET EXPANDED POWERS.
• ZYUGANOV CLAIMS "BIG FOUR" WILL DISCUSS COALITION.
• RUSSIAN ENVOY ARRIVES FOR TALKS IN BAGHDAD.

Volume 4 Issue 17

January 27, 1998

• SENIOR RUSSIAN EXPERT BLASTS KAZAKHSTAN.
• INTER-TAJIK PEACE PROCESS RELAUNCHED.
• BASHKORTOSTAN'S LAST INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER TO BE CLOSED.
• UNDERGROUND ORGANIZATION CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR BUINAKSK RAID.
• STEADY PROGRESS IN RUSSIAN-JAPANESE RELATIONS.
• YELTSIN SENDS ENVOY TO BAGHDAD.
• CAPITAL FLIGHT FROM RUSSIA SINCE 1991 TOPS $60 BILLION.
• MINERS BLOCK TRANS-SIB.
• YELTSIN OUTLINES GOVERNMENT PROGRAM.

Volume 4 Issue 16

January 26, 1998

• WARM GLOW OF RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION SUMMIT.
• POSTMORTEMS ON CUSTOMS UNION SUMMIT.
• NO MORE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.
• RUSSIA TIGHTENS MILITARY EXPORT CONTROLS.
• RUSSIA STILL WITHOUT AN OFFICIAL ANTHEM OR FLAG.
• LEBED TO RUN FOR OFFICE?
• REVENGE IS SWEET.

Volume 4 Issue 15

January 23, 1998

• HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SMELL A RAT IN SARATOV.
• COMMISSION FORMED TO TACKLE JAPANESE-RUSSIAN PEACE TREATY.
• STRIKERS DEMAND PAYMENT OF WAGE ARREARS.
• NAZARBAEV HOLDS FIRM ON CONTENTIOUS OIL ISSUES.
• MORE ON NEW AIR FORCE COMMANDER.
• ALIEV ORDERS SWEEPING LEGAL REFORMS.
• STRAINS SHOW IN RUSSIAN FOREIGN TRADE.
• CIS CUSTOMS UNION.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO TIGHTEN BUDGET DISCIPLINE.

Volume 4 Issue 14

January 22, 1998

• ATTACKS ON ARMENIAN OFFICIALS TRACED TO DIFFERENCES OVER KARABAKH.
• UKRAINIAN SECURITIES MARKETS DEVELOP IN 1997.
• RUSSIAN ENERGY CORPORATIONS MOVE TO CONSOLIDATE THEIR POSITION IN THE CIS.
• POLISH COURT REFUSES TO EXTRADITE STANKEVICH.
• GOOD-BYE "NEAR ABROAD."
• MOSCOW BACKS ARAFAT IN MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT.
• GOVERNMENT/COMMUNIST REAPPROCHEMENT CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM.
• ROKHLIN'S STAR FIZZLES.

Volume 4 Issue 13

January 21, 1998

• UKRAINE PUSHES DEREGULATION.
• MOSCOW RESTATES SOVIET-ERA POSITION ON INCORPORATION OF BALTIC STATES.
• ...HIGHLIGHTS DILEMMA OVER REGION'S FUTURE.
• PESSIMISTIC ASSESSMENT ON THE EVE OF TWO SUMMIT MEETINGS.
• RUSSIAN SENSITIVITY OVER KALININGRAD...
• YELTSIN IMPLIES SYMPATHY FOR KULIKOV'S POSITION.
• YELTSIN PICKS NEW AIR FORCE COMMANDER, COMMENTS ON MILITARY REFORM.
• LUZHKOV TIPPED AS RUSSIA'S NEXT PRESIDENT.
• MOSCOW CONTINUES TO SEEK GREATER ROLE IN IRAQ CRISIS.
• WORLD'S LEADING OIL COMPANY IS CREATED IN RUSSIA.

Volume 4 Issue 12

January 20, 1998

• NEW RUSSIAN COMMANDER INSTALLED IN ABKHAZIA.
• ALMATY SUMMIT ON FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS.
• BELARUS SECURITY CHIEF LINKS U.S. CONGRESS TO OPPOSITION "PLOT."
• IMPROMPTU RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN SUMMIT SCHEDULED.
• KREMLIN TALKS OF PAY RAISE FOR SERVICEMEN.
• CHUBAIS PRESENTS RAIL REFORM PROGRAM.
• RUSSIA DEFENDS ITS FINANCIAL REPUTATION.
• SAMARA OBLAST GETS CREDIT RATING.
• YELTSIN SHOWS HE'S ALIVE.
• INCUMBENT OUSTED IN NORTH OSSETIA.
• RUSSIAN MINISTER WELCOMES FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN ENERGY SECTOR.

Volume 4 Issue 11

January 19, 1998

• ARMENIA QUALIFIES STANCE ON IRANIAN ROLE IN KARABAKH TALKS.
• NON-RUSSIAN OUTLETS FOR TENGIZ OIL.
• U.S.-BALTIC PARTNERSHIP CHARTER SIGNED.
• RUSSIAN-CHECHEN TALKS RESUME.
• VIOLENCE ERUPTS ANEW IN DAGESTAN.
• NO IMPROVEMENT IN SIGHT FOR RUSSIAN MINERS, MINISTER SAYS.
• FEDERATION COUNCIL SPEAKER WARNS OF DANGERS OF SPECIAL DEALS BETWEEN CENTER AND REGIONS.
• WASHINGTON MAKES SLOW PROGRESS IN STOPPING RUSSIAN AID TO IRAN.
• CHERNOMYRDIN SHOWS WHO'S BOSS.

Volume 4 Issue 10

January 16, 1998

• TAJIK OPPOSITION TEMPORARILY SUSPENDS COOPERATION WITH GOVERNMENT.
• DIVERGENT VIEWS ON KAZAKHSTAN'S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE.
• SHEVARDNADZE RECEIVES DEMOCRACY PRIZE IN ISRAEL.
• AZERBAIJAN'S EX-PARLIAMENTARY CHAIRMAN ACCUSED OF ORGANIZING CRIMINAL PLOT.
• WARNING STRIKE BY KUZBASS MINERS.
• LUKASHENKA LINKS OPPOSITION "PLOT" TO CIA AND MOSSAD.
• LUZHKOV SAYS HE WILL RUN FOR RE-ELECTION.
• CHERNOMYRDIN "JUST TIRED."
• SERGEEV PROPOSES THAT RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT MONITOR IRAQ.
• YELTSIN CALLS FOR START II RATIFICATION.

Volume 4 Issue 9

January 15, 1998

• NAZARBAEV EMPHASIZES EDUCATION.
• DIFFERENCES DEEPEN WITHIN ARMENIAN LEADERSHIP OVER KARABAKH.
• UKRAINE RATIFIES "HISTORIC" TREATY WITH RUSSIA.
• A TROUBLED FLEET TO REGAIN A CRUISER.
• RUSSIAN MILITARY REFORM SPUTTERS.
• YELTSIN TO REVIEW EVERY DEATH SENTENCE.
• MOSCOW OPPOSES MILITARY OPTION IN IRAQ CRISIS.
• RYBKIN: CHERNOMYRDIN MAY VISIT CHECHNYA.
• SVERDLOVSK GOVERNOR CLAIMS HE WAS TARGET OF ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.
• INTERFAX STOCK INDEX: THE RUSSIAN MARKET HAD A BANNER YEAR.
• CHERNOMYRDIN TAKEN SICK.
• RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT RECONVENES; YELTSIN'S SCHEDULE IS OUTLINED.

Volume 4 Issue 8

January 14, 1998

• KAZAKHSTAN'S PRESIDENT VOWS TO CRACK DOWN ON CORRUPTION.
• MOSCOW AGAINST SHEVARDNADZE'S PROPOSAL FOR BOSNIA-TYPE OPERATION IN ABKHAZIA.
• KAZAKHSTAN OPENS UP MORE OIL DEPOSITS ONSHORE.
• OFFICIAL MINSK RESISTS RUSSIAN PROPOSAL FOR LEGISLATIVE MERGER.
• DOES ARMENIA FAVOR IRANIAN MEDIATION IN KARABAKH CONFLICT?
• ...AS RUSSIAN COMPANIES WIN IRAQI OIL CONTRACTS.
• NEW RUBLES NOT DELIVERED TO CHECHNYA.
• RUSSIA AND U.S. SET TO CLASH AGAIN ON IRAQ...
• RUSSIAN TAX SERVICE INTRODUCES "TAX PARTNERSHIPS."
• YELTSIN TO DECIDE WHERE IMPERIAL FAMILY SHOULD BE BURIED.
• VIOLENCE IN GROZNY.
• YELTSIN DEMANDS ECONOMIC GROWTH.

Volume 4 Issue 7

January 13, 1998

• IMF APPROVES LOAN TO BAKU.
• SNEGUR CONTESTS PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION AS "RIGHT-WINGER".
• "CONSPIRACY" ALLEGED IN BELARUS.
• RUSSIA CANCELS VAT ON UKRAINIAN GOODS.
• KARIMOV SPILLS BEANS ON CANCELLATION OF SUMMIT.
• NEW BOOK SAYS USSR GOT FIRST A-BOMB SECRETS FROM BRITAIN, NOT U.S.
• RUSSIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD UNDER FIRE.
• WEAPONS SALE TO INDONESIA IN PERIL.
• CAR BOMB IN MAKHACHKALA.
• DISAGREEMENT OVER HOW TO TREAT BASAEV.
• KREMLIN TRIES TO ALLAY YELTSIN HEALTH RUMORS.
• CHECHNYA'S NEW GOVERNMENT.

Volume 4 Issue 6

January 12, 1998

• IS TURKMENISTAN READY FOR PRIME TIME?
• DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF MOSCOW'S BIGGEST HOTEL SHOT DEAD.
• YELTSIN'S VISIT TO CHECHNYA POSTPONED.
• ADAMKUS OUTLINES PRIORITIES AS LITHUANIA'S PRESIDENT.
• BELARUS CRACKS DOWN ON BORDER TRADE WITH POLAND.
• RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS COMMAND SET TO REOPEN DISPUTE WITH GEORGIA.
• TAJIK ARMED GROUPS PREVAIL IN DUSHANBE SHOWDOWN.
• IMF VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.
• ...WHILE INVESTORS IN RUSSIA ARE URGED TO LOOK TO THE LONG TERM.
• CONFLICTING ASSESSMENTS OF RUSSIA'S ECONOMY...

Volume 4 Issue 5

January 9, 1998

• CHERNOMYRDIN REACTS ANGRILY TO CENTRAL ASIAN SUMMIT.
• RUSSIA AND GEORGIA NEGOTIATE ON MILITARY BASES.
• UKRAINE TRIES FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY.
• ULMANIS CALLS FOR REAL ACTION ON NATIONAL DEFENSE.
• KULIKOV'S CALL DESCRIBED AS POLITICAL CALCULATION.
• FOOT DRAGGING IN OPENING RUSSIA'S SKIES.
• FIDDLING WHILE DAGESTAN BURNS?
• NEW HEAD OF FEDERAL BANKRUPTCY SERVICE.
• AMERICAN ACCUSED OF SPYING MAY NOT HAVE TO RETURN TO RUSSIA.
• MASKHADOV: CHECHNYA IS READY FOR ANYTHING.
• UNCONVINCING REPUDIATION OF KULIKOV'S CALL TO ARMS.

Volume 4 Issue 4

January 8, 1998

• LINGUISTIC CHANGE LOOMS IN KAZAKHSTAN.
• UKRAINE'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT PARTY.
• JAPAN AND RUSSIA CLASH OVER POLICY ON DISPUTED ISLANDS.
• ILLEGAL DRUG USE AND RELATED CRIMES UP IN RUSSIA.
• SIGNS OF GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT IN RUSSIAN ECONOMY.
• YELTSIN NOT EXPECTED BACK FOR TWO WEEKS.
• RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT DISSOCIATES ITSELF FROM KULIKOV'S PROPOSAL.

Volume 4 Issue 3

January 7, 1998

• BRZEZINSKI CALLS ATTENTION TO REGIONAL COUNTERWEIGHTS TO RUSSIA.
• REGIONAL SUMMIT FOCUSES ON PIPELINES AND SECURITY.
• EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT SCRAPPED.
• RUSSIAN-JAPANESE FISHING TALKS REACH SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION.
• YELTSIN POSTPONES TRIP TO INDIA.
• KREMLIN GIVES THE THUMBS-DOWN TO SELF-DEFENSE DETACHMENTS FOR DAGESTAN.
• RUSSIAN INTERIOR MINISTER CALLS FOR STRIKES ON CHECHEN FIGHTERS.

Volume 4 Issue 2

January 6, 1998

• ADAMKUS VICTORIOUS IN LITHUANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• UZBEKISTAN ASSERTS ROLE IN SHAPING TAJIKISTAN'S FUTURE.
• RUSSIA MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY FOR JOURNALISTS.
• CHINESE-RUSSIAN "DEAL OF THE CENTURY?"
• RADUEV CALLS FOR BAN ON "WAHHABISM."
• CAUTIOUS WORDS FROM RUSSIAN ARMS TRADERS.
• RUBLE RE-DENOMINATION GOES SMOOTHLY SO FAR.
• RUSSIA'S SECURITY COUNCIL: LIKE THE PHOENIX?

Volume 4 Issue 1

January 5, 1998

• GEORGIA HOPES FOR BOSNIA-TYPE OPERATION IN ABKHAZIA.
• UDUGOV TO BE NAMED FOREIGN MINISTER.
• UKRAINIAN-POLISH RAPPROCHEMENT GATHERS MOMENTUM.
• CHECHNYA TO GET NEW GOVERNMENT.
• PRESIDENT AND PARLIAMENT AGREE TO AGREE.
• RUBLE GETS NEW NOMINAL VALUE.
• KREMLIN APPROVES KEY NATIONAL SECURITY GUIDELINES.
• NEMTSOV UNDER FIRE.
• FEDERAL BUDGET PASSES SECOND READING.
• YELTSIN ECHOES BEREZOVSKY.
• WINNER ANNOUNCED IN LITHUANIAN PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF.
• YELTSIN ON HOLIDAY.
• YELTSIN HINTS AT GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE.