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FBIS4-46565_10 | The Praise for Russian Arms Workers Multiplies in Tula | Japanese models. We are also trying to obtain credits for the creation of large-series production. [VPK] What difficulties are being encountered by the KBP in gaining access to the international market? [Shipunov] This is a complex issue. We do not yet have a law pertaining to intellectual property. The developer thus ... |
FBIS4-46568_14 | `Rubin' Maritime Equipment Central Design Bureau Is Not Only | vegetables will be cultivated the whole year round. Utilizing our previous experience of developing greenhouses on submarines that are going out on cruises for a prolonged period of time, we have already developed one greenhouse and we have adapted attic rooms to do that. We annually conduct four harvests of vegetables... |
FBIS4-46569_3 | Electronic Warfare Weapons Are Being Developed at RETIS NPO | those orders that would give us the capability to employ so-called dual use technologies for civilian production. [VOORUZHENIYE, POLITIKA, KONVERSIYA] What work is being conducted at your association in the context of conversion? [Perunov] The NPO has repeatedly proposed conversion programs. The appropriate plans, task... |
FBIS4-46569_4 | Electronic Warfare Weapons Are Being Developed at RETIS NPO | enormous difficulties in obtaining components. The prices for them are continuously increasing which leads to the need to increase prices for the end product and, consequently, creates difficulties with sales. [VOORUZHENIYE, POLITIKA, KONVERSIYA] What kind of contacts do you have with foreign countries and firms? [Peru... |
FBIS4-46570_19 | The Experience of Developing Standardized Radar Weapons | be utilized but the manufacturer must be the main actor in the sale. So far, the issue of the developers' participation in sales has not been resolved. Here we need to proceed from the fact that arms sales can be successful only when we, as sellers, organize concern on the entire life cycle of the weapon being sold. Th... |
FBIS4-46572_22 | The Military Interests of Russia | mutual nuclear restraint between the two countries could be fundamentally altered. Russia and the United States, in the long run, have a host of points of coincidence of interests in relation to questions of military-political stability, and Russian-American strategic relations could potentially be markedly different t... |
FBIS4-46572_27 | The Military Interests of Russia | of the end of the Cold War. The decision to destroy a large quantity of strategic arms of a counterbalancing nature and able to destroy heavily protected targets in a short time, together with the decision last year to destroy or put away a large quantity of tactical nuclear weapons, provides an opportunity for a consi... |
FBIS4-46573_9 | Some Issues of Military-Technical Policy | of mastery of the most important technologies for the development of future types of weapons and military equipment in the next 5-10 years. We would like to once again direct attention to certain aspects of military-technical policy. First of all this is the improvement of military-technical information, coordination o... |
FBIS4-46574_0 | Russia's Security Concept and Military Doctrine | 1993 17 June 1994 Geopolitics and Security Russia's Security Concept and Military Doctrine Russia's Security Concept and Military Doctrine 94UM0312F Moscow VOORUZHENIYE, POLITIKA, KONVERSIYA in Russian No 2, 1993 (Signed to press 12 May 93) pp 34-36--FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY 94UM0312F Moscow VOORUZHENIYE, POLITIKA, KONVER... |
FBIS4-46575_1 | The Military Industrial Complex and Arms Sales | country the term military industrial complex became an expletive in the mouths of a number of deputies and certain irresponsible politicians. They presented the matter in such a manner that we only had to reduce appropriations for the needs of the military industrial complex and, if prosperity did not come, then in any... |
FBIS4-46575_20 | The Military Industrial Complex and Arms Sales | issue of MOSKOVSKIY KOMSOMOLETS cites the following volumes of export deliveries of arms and military equipment: in 1987, the United States -- $16.8 billion, Russia --$17.8 billion, in 1991 -- $13.3 and $6.0 billion and, in 1992 $33 and $1.9 billion, respectively. In the process, it does not state if the data is cited ... |
FBIS4-46577_10 | The Strategic Missile Troops and Reform of the Russian | Inventor's Supervision [avtorskiy nadzor] Over the Operation of the Strategic Missile Complexes Located on Their Territories was signed at the beginning of September of this year at Yalta and entered into force from the moment it was signed. In this agreement, the parties, guided by the need for nuclear and ecological ... |
FBIS4-46579_10 | Information Technology in the Armed Forces of the Russian | Program should be defined within the framework of the amounts of financing allocated by the state and the restrictions defined by law. The specific nature of the armed forces does not permit the Program to be fundamentally open for the participation of the plans of various organizations on a competitive basis. Consider... |
FBIS4-46588_5 | Media `Fantasies' About Army Reform Rebutted | whole system has already taken shape in many respects today and is continuing to emerge. And as for epaulets... Well, there probably will come a time when a civilian occupies the post of defense minister in our country, as in the United States or the FRG, although I personally am opposed to this -- Russia has its own t... |
FBIS4-46599_2 | Report on Army Housing Problems Part II | service the vehicles -- soldiers under contract (almost all tank crews in the regiments consisted of volunteers) have not extended their contracts and have gone home. The majority of officers and ensigns are on leave and we do not know which of them will serve in this `hinterland.'" Indeed, the armored troops have been... |
FBIS4-46609_10 | Glukhikh: Reform, Stabilization of Defense Industry | nonetheless. This is finding support on the part of the government and other state administrative structures. The assurance of the steady operation of the defense complex under today's difficult conditions is considered to be one of the defining tasks in the cause of the country's security and the effectiveness of the ... |
FBIS4-46610_0 | Statistics on Deepening Crisis in Defense Industries | CSO [Article by D. A. Belyayev, chief, Production Analysis and Forecasting Administration, Center for Economic Conditions under Russian Federation Government: "Conversion of Military Production"] [Text] The production slump in defense sectors of industry continued to deepen in the first quarter of 1994. According to Ru... |
FBIS4-46616_8 | General Examines Nuclear Safety Concerns | fact been spent, but the American side shouldn't be the only one that is blamed. After all, each item in the agreements must pass through a very long and complex system of consideration and approval both there--in Congress--and here--in the Duma. On the other hand any assistance of this sort consists not of cash transf... |
FBIS4-46618_4 | Combined-Arms Battle: Security, Defense of Military | zone and by assigning areas of responsibility to guards outside the installation when the situation becomes complicated. With respect to practical recommendations, in my view it is apropos to look at the procedure for organizing the security system and one of its most important components, use of technical and engineer... |
FBIS4-46621_15 | Rear Services' Vorobyev on Military Legislation, Support | industrial production and construction. The Economic Service is to function along with existing finance entities. Economic structures presently permeate all military management entities, beginning with formations. [Chekmarev] In connection with the reduction in the Armed Forces, a considerable amount of arms, military ... |
FBIS4-46635_0 | Simferopol Brigade Commander Justifies National Guard | Presence 94UM0472A Kiev PRAVDA UKRAINY in Russian 14 Jun 94 p 3 94UM0472A Kiev PRAVDA UKRAINY Russian CSO [Interview with Colonel Aleksandr Kostyukov, commander of the Simferopol Brigade of the Ukraine National Guard, by Senior Lieutenant Igor Krol, press service officer of the Ukraine National Guard commander; place a... |
FBIS4-46648_10 | Danilevich et al on Development, Problems of Military | equipment; and revealing features of regional wars and armed conflicts. Not only must we take into account dominant traditional trends in the military-political and strategic situation and in the economic and military-technical base of warfare and means and methods of warfare, but also possible new objective and subjec... |
FBIS4-46649_2 | Tactics: Company, Battalion, Part II | as capitalist countries were threatening the country with aggression. The Soviet state did everything necessary to prevent war and exclude it from the arsenal of means for resolving contradictions among states. The struggle to prevent war has been an inalienable and very important element of the political aspect of Sov... |
FBIS4-46649_92 | Tactics: Company, Battalion, Part II | combat mission. In the defense he estimates that enemy grouping which may launch an attack on the axis of company (battalion) defense and on the flanks. As a rule, data on the enemy always will be insufficient and some may be unreliable, contradictory, obsolete and even false. But the company (battalion) commander must... |
FBIS4-46680_7 | International Forum Examines Airport Performance, Problems | Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Yakutsk, Magadan, and others). In order to develop mainline airports of federal significance, taking into account their role in the development of the economy of the Russian Federation, and to include the airfields of these airports in federal property, there is to be state support with a tendency ... |
FBIS4-46680_14 | International Forum Examines Airport Performance, Problems | this tendency, which frequently not only blocks the entry of airline companies into the market but also places them on the verge of destruction. The AEVT [Association of Air Transportation Operators] takes the following position here: The processes of separation of airports and their acquisition of independence should ... |
FBIS4-46681_0 | Pricing Policy for Stability of Economic System Urged | CSO [Article by V. Shprygin, president of the Center for Study of the Conditions of Prices and the Market (Tsenakor) of EKONOMIKA I ZHIZN, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Economic Sciences: "Price as a Lever of Financial Stabilization"] [Text] In countries with a developed market economy, stabilization o... |
FBIS4-46685_0 | Federal Program on Small Business Support Examined | CSO [Article by Sergey Viktorov: "The Authorities Have Decided What Small Entrepreneurs Need"] [Text] A special federal program is devoted to state support of small business in Russia. It has been approved by the decree "On Measures Regarding State Support of Small Entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation for 1994-19... |
FBIS4-46687_5 | Academician Aganbegyan Discusses Economic Crisis | investment funds and various credit and finance institutions. This process has already begun, and it will mount rapidly; b) many intermediate commercial structures engaging in speculative operations on the basis of the inflationary growth of prices will also go bankrupt. Almost all small companies which profiteered by ... |
FBIS4-46687_9 | Academician Aganbegyan Discusses Economic Crisis | case, there is only one way out--to declare the enterprises bankrupt and to break the entire insolvency cycle. The use of bills of exchange, including those with bank guarantees, is one of the possible devices for bringing temporary insolvency into regular confines. In this area, the initiative of the Tveruniversalbank... |
FBIS4-46690_2 | Yashin Discusses Use of High Technology To Bolster Economy | world division of labor, relying on less costly spheres of production. [Yashin] That kind of thinking is fundamentally wrong, and its implementation could cost our country very dearly in all respects, including the purely economic one. Only with the massive application of our country's helicopter technology (especially... |
FBIS4-46690_4 | Yashin Discusses Use of High Technology To Bolster Economy | will limit myself to what seem to me the three most important points. First: optimization of the process of converting defense branches of industry. Due to objective reasons, Russia's leading scientific-technological potential has turned out to be concentrated in the branches of the defense complex. The current way of ... |
FBIS4-46692_2 | Reasons for Pilots' Strike Viewed | sets its own, often unsubstantiated, prices of fuel, spare parts, and maintenance. Departing on a flight, pilots are forced to get from their enterprise literally a bag of money and from this bag to pay in cash for everything, including the cleaning of the airplane. We demand that steps be taken to stop the chaos and a... |
FBIS4-46695_2 | Lukyanenko Backs Plyushch Candidacy | have more spare time to examine candidates in a more serious and profound manner. As far as rescheduling the presidential elections is concerned, the motive is different. A legal foundation has not been laid, the rights and responsibilities of the president have not been fully set forth. The very time of the election--... |
FBIS4-46704_3 | Statute on Government Registration of Entities Undertaking | to the identification code) and signed by the petitioner. The completed registration card is at the same time the petition for state registration. The state registration organ when necessary offers the petitioner help in filling out the card. The petitioner is responsible for making sure the information on the registra... |
FBIS4-46713_2 | Parliament Deputy Views Agricultural Sector Challenges | poor in agricultural resources. If we use our land and resources wisely, they can feed the country and even enable us to help others. How can we speak of making productive use of our land when we have never managed to have a hectare produce an average of more than 26 quintals of grain, 60 quintals of fruit, 130 quintal... |
FBIS4-46720_3 | Jurgelis Discusses Security Service's Activities | [Sakalauskaite] Is the service conducting an investigation to try to determine who stole the documents? Is the service trying to get them returned? [Jurgelis] We are interested in the material that the KGB removed after the putsch. Russian ambassador to Lithuania N. Obertyshev stated that his country refused to negotia... |
FBIS4-46736_4 | Alignment of Sverdlovsk Political Forces Surveyed | of a certain eliteness of the elections. A sort of closed system (group of persons) is formed, which by the method of a periodic "shuffling of the cards" holds in its hands the authority of power. To this one might object: What is so bad about that? After all, the formation of a stable elite in society facilitates its ... |
FBIS4-46746_4 | Kremenyuk Ponders `Partnership' With West | of the Cold War the United States lost virtually nothing in terms of its international standing. It remains the largest nuclear superpower, its military and political blocs have not collapsed, and it continues to play the role of the largest provider of aid to other countries. The U.S. economy, though experiencing some... |
FBIS4-46747_5 | Observations on Duma Delegation's Visit to Former Yugoslavia | the information that had been rained down on them all at once, paraphrased these instructions thus: "Churkin said: Convey to the Serbs that there will be no more games; convey to them that they will now be hit hard and that we will, finally, support the NATO people...." The absolute majority of members of the delegatio... |
FBIS4-46756_5 | Transport Minister Interview on Railroad Performance | What is the rate policy on the railroad main lines? [Isingarin] The rates are regulated by the state. Everyone thinks that the railroad workers must not suffer any losses from the shipments, but at the same time the republic is experiencing a sharp increase in the prices of energy carriers, although in our republic the... |
FBIS4-46761_0 | Ecological Problems of Desert Zones Viewed | CSO [Article by B. Bakhritdinov, head of the environmental laboratory of the department of geography of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, and E. Chembarisov, head of the laboratory of hydrochemistry of the Institute of Water Problems: "The Desert Is Diminishing, and We Are the Losers"] [Text] The desert zone of Central As... |
FBIS4-46766_8 | Kryuchkov on Security, Opposition | Europe, established borders, and accomplished a change of a social system in the countries of East Europe. What immense, if perhaps tragic for the population, measures were implemented across the entire enormous expanse from the Baltics to the Black Sea! A geopolitical design was implemented which, as rumor goes, had e... |
FBIS4-46773_0 | Local Officials Raise Newspaper Delivery Costs | CSO [Article by ROSSIYSKAYA GAZETA correspondent: "A Quarter Kopek for a Heifer, Transit for a Ruble; Some Heads of Administration Do Not Want the Public To Know Its Rights?" [Text] According to the presidential edict, all legislative statutes, government decrees and documents signed by the president become effective u... |
FBIS4-46782_1 | Academic on Failure of Political Center | normal circumstances, people are somewhat less politically active than what we are seeing here. In the West, towards which we constantly look, a 50-60 percent turnout is considered wonderful, because it is natural for people to be more involved in other things than politics. Obviously, the turnout has to be large enoug... |
FBIS4-46783_0 | Church Political Activity Viewed | CSO [Article by Viktor Yelenskyy, Kiev: "The Crusaders: Ukrainian Churches and Great Politics!"] [Text] A Group Portrait of the old parliament would be incomplete without a tall white cowl of the then-Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav Ahafanhel, that formed a nice contrast to the grey suits in the halls of parliam... |
FBIS4-46783_6 | Church Political Activity Viewed | or Patriarch Alexei's court feels that two disparate approaches to politics are called for in Ukraine and Russia. Avhustyn and Sofroniy, as well as father Anatoliy Kyrychenko, who ran in Fastivka, Kiev region, should have been aware of their noncompliance with apostolic decrees. But willful noncompliance was and is a c... |
FBIS4-46790_6 | Lanovyy Foresees Continued Economic Downfall | (at a time when earnings have been growing in many neighboring countries -- Russia, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia). As a result of this trend, economic sectors that serve the consumer are collapsing. Thus, according to our estimates, consumer services have shrunk by 70%, the physical volume of state trade -- by 4... |
FBIS4-46791_1 | Decree on Urgent Measures To Overcome Payments Crisis, | 20 percent of the taxable turnover as of 1 July this year and on the possible reduction of this tax on domestically produced food staples and children's goods as of 1 January 1995; on the institution of excise taxes of 80 percent on hard liquor, 10 percent on table wines, 40 percent on filtered tobacco products, 25 per... |
FBIS4-46806_4 | Validity of Crime Statistics Examined | extremely dangerous, since this trend is on the increase. There is also a "pick-up" in the sphere of crimes committed for economic and mercenary motives. There also has been a sharp increase in crimes associated with the manufacture, possession, and use of drugs--from 162 to 368. Against this backdrop, the MVD [Ministr... |
FBIS4-46814_3 | Opposition Parties Seek Referendum for Seimas Elections | signatures), J. Tartilas said that "some imagine that one can be merely an observer, others are trying to latch on to something, are preparing programs." "However, I don't think that the cold status of an observer for the United Nations Organization is the best solution in this case," asserted the deputy chairman of th... |
FBIS4-46817_1 | Seimas Reviews Crime Situation in Republic | crimes this year is linked with the increase of crimes of violence per person, in particular of intentional murders, robberies, public thefts. One hundred fifty-eight intentional murders were committed, there were 20 attempts at murder. This is, respectively, 61 intentional murders (62.9 percent) and 5 attempts (33.3 p... |
FBIS4-46820_2 | RF-Ukrainian Scholars Warn Against Actions of Military, Right | of the further regionalization of Ukraine and Russia at best, and at worst--it could unleash a civil war. We are categorically against the policy of the two countries being determined by generals and admirals among whose functions this does not fall. We are against the emergence of a "Crimean Zhirinovskiy" in Ukraine, ... |
FBIS4-46834_3 | Transport Minister on Sector's Performance | many clients still have not settled accounts for the work performed last year. As a result, the river transportation workers do not have anything to pay for ship fuel and electricity, and, finally, to pay their specialists' wages. A paradoxical situation is taking shape: the fleet is prepared to work and shippers have ... |
FBIS4-46845_1 | Head of Federal Tax Service on Taxation System Reform | a variety of forms of taxation; the tax service carries out control over their receipt into the consolidated federal budget. Largely, the same principles of tax system design and structure are typical in the West and in the world practice in general. The forms of taxation depend on the source and form of income (profit... |
FBIS4-46846_1 | Economic Counterintelligence Tasks Viewed | Such forms of economic crime as the smuggling of strategic raw materials and centrally allocated resources, the illegal arms trade, banking crimes -- including the laundering of huge sums obtained through criminal means -- represent a serious threat. International narcotics syndicates are making a beeline for Russia. T... |
FBIS4-46859_0 | Conference Debates Social Policy Issues; Yarov Present | BFN [Olga Akulova report: "Are We Going To Live Better?"] [Text] The third all-Russia seminar-conference on the "Experience and Future Prospects of the Exercise of Powers by the Russian Federation Components in the Interests of the Regions' Social Development" has taken place under the auspices of the Russian Federatio... |
FBIS4-46867_4 | Ukrainians Said to be `Dying Nation' as a Result of | 46 percent of the pupils, and in 50 percent morphological and functional problems are present. Today, 5 to 8 percent of the graduates can be considered healthy. Children with chronic pathologies now make up 23.4 percent, and those with two chronic illnesses, 13.5 percent. About 80 percent of pre-school children have he... |
FBIS4-46867_5 | Ukrainians Said to be `Dying Nation' as a Result of | These poisonous substances essentially get into the organism through eating and drinking. With prophylactic methods, the child (and the adult) can be healthy even in today's unfavorable ecological conditions. The effectiveness of such prophylaxis depends on resolving several problems. It is necessary to have simple and... |
FBIS4-46868_1 | Institute of World Economy Director on Overcoming Economic | I would like to say that everything is going as planned. - ?.. - Well, this is a special plan that no particular person approved, but according to the plan everything is happening as irreversibly as a certain plant grows out of a certain seed and a different plant grows out of a different seed. January 1, 1992, the Rub... |
FBIS4-46883_1 | Issues, Problems with CIS Economic Integration Detailed Creation of `Single Economic Space' Discussed | of unrealizable hopes for the satisfying and warm embraces of the West and rich "spiritual-historical" relatives, and a sharper sense of the catastrophe of economic isolation. It is calculated that each percentage point of reduction or, in contrast, expansion of mutual deliveries impoverishes or enriches the partners i... |
FBIS4-46883_8 | Issues, Problems with CIS Economic Integration Detailed Creation of `Single Economic Space' Discussed | if not the "light at the end of the tunnel," is at least a flicker in the present currency absurdities of normalization of trade relations in which the old donor-distributor customs and the new economic interests tinged with national colors have become intricately intertwined. There is almost nothing to compare it with... |
FBIS4-46886_4 | Air Traffic Control Program Highlighted | improvement of the ATC Service, was raised repeatedly at various levels beginning in 1980, but the decisions needed were not made. The political and economic changes which began in the USSR made the functioning of the services in organizing and controlling air traffic even more complicated. Air traffic control had to b... |
FBIS4-46886_10 | Air Traffic Control Program Highlighted | few daily tasks which are no less important than those incorporated in the long-term programs. For example, we attach a great deal of importance to the expansion of airways and their straightening. The latter is especially important, because it enables us to reduce flight time and save fuel. We are devoting our main at... |
FBIS4-46887_10 | Ka-37 Pilotless Helicopter Profiled | contact-breaking electric plug and socket unit, which enables it to be disconnected automatically from the ground-based source when the helicopter takes off. Antennas for the automatic control system are located on the lower part of the tank. A 27-volt direct-current system provides electricity for the helicopter's uni... |
FBIS4-46889_23 | 1991-1993 Report on Association of Russian Banks' Activities | note to Government Chairman V.S. Chernomyrdin. For banks that put money in investments it is necessary to lower obligatory reserves, to make tax policy more favorable, to set apart the keeping of funds earmarked for these purposes, and so forth. Unfortunately, our proposals have not yet found a real way out. In our opi... |
FBIS4-46889_27 | 1991-1993 Report on Association of Russian Banks' Activities | Central Bank, opening of affiliates, availability of consultations, and a flexible approach to difficulties arising in commercial banks. The independence of the Central Bank often leads to direct arbitrariness with regard to commercial banks. Let us recall the writing off, without investigation, of funds from correspon... |
FBIS4-46892_26 | Prokhanov Interviews Anpilov | I believe that it is these two trends that condition modern development. And you will not escape this. But it would be wrong to say that the idea of a just society, a truly humane society, if you will, has been defeated. Struggle is under way, and everyone knows for what he is fighting. There is people's fraternity, an... |
FBIS4-46897_2 | Tatarstan Vice President on Treaty With Russia | reputation as represented by an entire republic. As for the intra-republic aspects of the treaty's realization, it will receive the support of the population only if it is oriented toward the specific individual. Specifically, immediately after we signed this treaty, people came up to me on the streets and in the store... |
FBIS4-46902_1 | Tatar Deputy Premier on Social Protection | actions will be the answer to all these difficult questions. It is from these positions that I would like to discuss all problems connected with the government's social policy for this period of time in respect primarily to children and veterans, and in our republic they constitute more than 2.3 million persons, or 55 ... |
FBIS4-46913_0 | Chelyabinsk Administration Relies on Opinion Polls | CSO [Article by L. Lagin: "Sociologists Suggest the Solution: How the Chelyabinsk Administration Makes Use of Their Conclusions and Predictions"] [Text] In the course of a little over two years, a group of sociologists from the Chelyabinsk branch of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as an a... |
FBIS4-46913_1 | Chelyabinsk Administration Relies on Opinion Polls | from the polls, a conclusion is drawn as to the advisability of the actions or measures planned by the municipal authorities. For example, the question was asked: "Are the citizens planning to get vegetables and potatoes at stores or are they relying on their own stock?" It was ascertained that most of the Chelyabinsk ... |
FBIS4-46915_2 | Volgograd 1994 First Quarter Socioeconomic Figures Cited | in cash money on hand among the main mass of the population is associated largely with the need for current savings to make purchases at sharply increased prices. Prices grow like grass in the springtime Consumer prices on goods and services provided to the population increased by 1.5 times during the quarter. Their gr... |
FBIS4-46923_2 | Juvenile Drug Users Increase Causing Alarm | lives. Among those whom you begin to treat, is there not a single person who has discussed this topic with adults? [Pushkareva] Why not? About 30 percent have been forced to listen to admonitions from their mothers and fathers. However, like fools, they learn from their own experience, although these children are far f... |
FBIS4-46925_2 | News From St Petersburg Tax Inspectorate Head Zubkov on His Work | understatement of payments to the budget. The computerization of our inspectorate is among the measures taken which we always mention with pleasure. In early May, we signed a memorandum on the creation of a computer network at the Tax Inspectorate of St. Petersburg with the Government of Denmark. This is a large projec... |
FBIS4-46926_0 | News From St Petersburg Mercury Pollution Found in Many Rayons | CSO [Article by Veniamin Bereslavskiy, under the "From a Fact to a Phenomenon" rubric: "Summer: Mercury Hunters"] [Text] Thirty children from a multifamily building on Parashyutnaya Street in Primorskiy Rayon finished out the school year at the clinic of the Medical Institute of Pediatrics. They were recently discharge... |
FBIS4-46926_3 | News From St Petersburg Mercury Pollution Found in Many Rayons | on occasion held in rooms where the maximum permissible concentration of mercury is exceeded? Is it normal for students to remain for a long time in laboratories contaminated with mercury? Is it normal for dozens of enterprises using mercury and instruments containing mercury not to be certified from the point of view ... |
FBIS4-46927_0 | News From St Petersburg Scholars Meet, Discuss Support for Science | CSO [Article by Svetlana Gavrilina: "Will the Duma Help Russian Science?"] [Text] The St. Petersburg Union of Scientists, jointly with the RAN [Russian Academy of Sciences] St. Petersburg Scientific Center, invited Oksana Dmitriyeva, a deputy of the State Duma and chairman of the budget subcommittee, to a regular semin... |
FBIS4-46935_7 | RF Foreign, Defense Policy Council Revises `Strategy for Council's Recommendations | is, Russian threat. Both in the West and in Russia there are forces that want us to "slip" and provoke a beginning of a new "cold war." 1.4. At the same time, the forces that wish a return to the Cold War do not have an upper hand either in Russia or in the West. Moreover, numerous analyses, including those conducted u... |
FBIS4-46938_0 | Moscow Backs Paris on `European Stability Pact' | CSO [Article by Mikhail Karpov: "Rules of Bon Ton for the `Nine'" [Text] Paris-- The European Stability Pact Conference, Which Opened Yesterday in Paris, Is Designed To Define Them"] The idea of the conclusion of a European Stability Pact, which was put forward, as we know, by French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur imm... |
FBIS4-46975_0 | Statistics on Republic's Small Enterprises Reported | CSO [Unattributed article: "Main Indicators of the Operation of Small Industrial Enterprises of Ukraine"] [Text] At the beginning of 1994, 13,600 small enterprises operated in the Ukrainian industrial sector. According to data from the Ukrainian Ministry of Statistics, this was 9,300 enterprises more than in 1991. This... |
FBIS4-46985_4 | Current Political, Economic Conditions Examined | produced," sometimes "imported." The authorities quickly assessed the situation and prohibited local chopping of wood. The price of a cubic meter of firewood then jumped to $45 as early as the end of autumn, reached $70 at the start of winter, then in the severe cold reached $80-$120 for a cubic meter of split wood. Th... |
FBIS4-46986_4 | RF Troops Serve as Armenia's Border Guards | checkpoint, in a word, the painfully familiar native "Armenian landscape"--V.A.). [Arutyunyan] We know from past years that the so-called border regime was quite strict. What kind of changes have there been in the essence of the border regime? [Ilin] By a decision of the Government of Armenia a number of forces that us... |
FBIS4-46988_8 | Democratic Party Looks to Elections | the current legal turmoil, 10-15 percent of society is making colossal fortunes, which also are being exported from the republic, incidentally. But we would emphasize the following reality as well. While subjected to the above repressive measures, the people are strangely yielding to implanted cliches of the type: Who ... |
FBIS4-46992_0 | Former Minister Reviews State of Economy | CSO [Interview with Aivars Millers, President of the Limited Liability Company Industrial Development Agency, by Vilis Selecks: "Industry: Yesterday, Today. And Tomorrow? A. Millers: I Think This Administration Is Leftist"] [Text] [Selecks] Let us begin, Mr. Millers, with a brief look at the past. Following the events ... |
FBIS4-46992_5 | Former Minister Reviews State of Economy | trade, financing. What do you say about this? [Millers] I do not agree. The state cannot exist without manufacturing. In all developed countries, about 25 to 30 percent of the workforce is involved in manufacturing. That is the main source of financial income. It should be the same in Latvia. Also, agriculture is neces... |
FBIS4-46993_0 | Arms Sales Policy Criticized | CSO [Unattributed article: "Analysis: The 'Struggle' for Arms Exports and the Struggle for Power 'At the Top'"] [Text] 1. The policy of the Yeltsin regime in the sphere of trade in Russian arms and military equipment has caused colossal political and economic damage to the long-term state interests of the Russian Feder... |
FBIS4-46994_1 | Alleged Clinton Briefing Paper Viewed | that the inadequate "elasticity" of Russia's leadership regarding U.S. recommendations to follow the political technologies of the transition period led to a situation where the possibility that ultra-nationalistic forces would come to power in Russia became more than real. The economic situation in the country could c... |
FBIS4-46994_7 | Alleged Clinton Briefing Paper Viewed | high echelons of power; in parallel, active work should be done to arrange cooperation with other CIS countries in order not to allow the restoration of another confederation; taking into account the economic situation and other difficulties in the Russian Federation, within the framework of diplomatic etiquette, there... |
FBIS4-46998_4 | Customs Post Chief on Russia-Belarus Import, Export Issues | somewhat, but up to then 130-200 trucks were lined up daily waiting to enter Russia, and there was no exit line. [Kozlov] What is being imported in Russia? [Agafonov] Mainly foodstuffs, alcohol, and consumer goods. Less frequently, equipment. [Kozlov] Each customs service has its history and traditions. What can the Ne... |
FBIS4-47007_0 | Impact of Yeltsin Economic Reform Edicts on Economy Previewed | CSO [Article by Vladislav Borodulin, Vadim Bardin, and Sergey Viktorov: "Economic Policy: "Attack in Waves"] [Text] The Russian political Olympus has already adapted itself fully to Boris Yeltsin's decisive steps following long pauses. An analysis of the package of presidential edicts, which was received for official d... |
FBIS4-47015_10 | Shaymiyev Addresses Supreme Soviet Session | is subsequently permitted to a moderate extent and there is selective support for the agro-industrial complex and individual sectors of the economy, the situation as a whole could prove not only critical but profoundly critical. And a real crisis in the economy could erupt in our republic also. The edicts of the Russia... |
FBIS4-47016_14 | Tatarstan Premier on Stabilizing Economy | of others); --introduce a mechanism of reorganization (bankruptcy) of enterprises of the military-industrial complex. The Cabinet of Ministers believes that the fundamental, long-term interests of Tatarstan require that we support enterprises that have promising programs and are capable of becoming pillars of its econo... |
FBIS4-47034_19 | Khabarovsk First Quarter 1994 Socioeconomic Statistics | total number of unemployed was 35 percent. EDUCATION. There are 234,000 pupils continuing education in general education schools. Of them, 10,900 school students are preparing to take 11th and 12th grade graduation exams. According to the data of a snapshot selective-sample survey, 80 percent of those studying in city ... |
FBIS4-47034_21 | Khabarovsk First Quarter 1994 Socioeconomic Statistics | per 1,000 population declined from 10.2 to 9.8, or 3.9 percent as compared to the analogous period in 1993, while the number of deaths increased from 12.4 to 13.1 (by 5.6 percent). The main causes of death still are cardiovascular disease (53.5 percent of the total number of deaths), trauma and poisoning (20.6 percent)... |
FBIS4-47035_3 | Tyumen Oblast Duma Session Reviewed | make sense in these times to spend scarce budgetary money for this project, and it is possible that the system that has been designated so far will prove suitable for the commercial and state banks: let them assume part of the expenditures. That is what the Duma decided, resolving to think the matter over and return to... |
FBIS4-47048_4 | `Drift' in Ties With ROK Deplored | the shortage of investment or the Korean side's reluctance to develop Siberia's resources or tackle other major projects. But we should not grumble at the Koreans for their intractability and formal approach -- they have their own interests, and this is not the main problem. The problem, it seems to me, is that Russia ... |
FBIS4-47056_2 | Status of Russo-Chinese Trade Relations Analyzed | employee told the KOMMERSANT-DAILY columnist, are today gathering dust in warehouses, unsold because of their poor quality. [begin box] Status of Russian Indebtedness to China Russia's Credit Indebtedness to China --$570 million--settlement-clearing indebtedness for goods delivery shortages to China, 1986-1990; --$350 ... |
FBIS4-47056_3 | Status of Russo-Chinese Trade Relations Analyzed | be replaced by mutual accounting operations using currency. Chernomyrdin might also convince the Chinese of the advantages of expanding military-technical cooperation. Russia is counting on the shipment of another consignment of Su-27's, Il-76 transport aircraft, and military helicopters. Moscow also hopes to sell subm... |
FBIS4-47059_2 | Renewed Trade Ties With Cuba Urged | now, the little country is learning how to live under the conditions of the harshest economic crisis in its history, having lost overnight almost all of its trading partners, 85 percent of whom had been allies from the former socialist camp. They have to economize on everything. Nevertheless, problems are gradually bei... |
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