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FBIS3-14707_0 | Al-Qadhdhafi Receives Palestinian Alliance Force | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] The brother leader of the revolution received leaders of the Palestinian alliance forces: the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Islamic Jihad Movement, Fatah Movement-Intifadah, the Palestinian Liberation ... |
FBIS3-14719_1 | Report Details Iranian Concerns About Country's Future --FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | authority in Iran, held a top secret meeting devoted to discussing an important report prepared by the foreign intelligence service led by 'Ali Fallahian in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This security-political report was devoted to future Iranian-Iraqi relations, particularly the future situation i... |
FBIS3-14719_5 | Report Details Iranian Concerns About Country's Future --FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | him explicitly that important changes will happen in Iraq within the next few months. He told him that the international changes will eventually arrive in Iraq, which will be divided in accordance with a confederation system after international troops are sent into it. He also told him that many regions in Iraq will be... |
FBIS3-14725_0 | Dailies Examine Current State of Relations With U.S. U.S. Priorities Noted | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By V.K. Madhavan Kutty] [Text] Whenever a change takes place in the American Administration, especially from Republicans to Democrats, it is common practice in the media in India and also to some extent in government circles and among politicians to interpret it as a change for the g... |
FBIS3-14727_0 | Dailies Examine Current State of Relations With U.S. Factors Affecting Ties Assessed | Language: Tamil Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article] [Text] The United States has never been a close friend of India. At the same time, neither has it displayed any animosity. Of late, however, there has been a rapid change in the situation. The United States is doing everything possible to embarrass India. Why is i... |
FBIS3-14728_2 | `Press Briefing' Notes Activities of U.S. Envoy | to the resolution adopted by the Indian parliament and asserted that Pakistan's efforts to agitate the issue would not succeed in fulfilling its territorial ambitions. The foreign secretary regretted that Pakistan had taken steps such as the proposed closure of their consulate in Bombay and the embargo on Indian citize... |
FBIS3-14728_3 | `Press Briefing' Notes Activities of U.S. Envoy | on issues like narcotics control, education and culture and science and technology were noted with satisfaction as also the greatly increased levels of trade, investment and economic ties. The foreign secretary reciprocated Ms. Raphel's statement on behalf of the U.S. administration that the United States favours the s... |
FBIS3-14751_9 | President Meri Delivers 24 Feb Anniversary Speech | its armed forces from the Republic of Estonia by August 31st. In reference to this, I am pleased to recall that last year President Yeltsin based his congratulations on the 75-year continuity of the Republic of Estonia. During his visits to Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, President Yeltsin distanced h... |
FBIS3-14771_1 | Daily Carries Duma Amnesty Decree | an earlier date, are to be released from their punishments. 4. Persons who have been given a deferred custodial sentence or conditional sentence, and also persons sentenced to other noncustodial punishments, are to be released from their punishments. 5. Persons sentenced to up to three years' custody for premeditated c... |
FBIS3-14812_0 | Official Details Decision on Amnesty | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS observer] [Text] Moscow, 28 Feb -- The office of the Russian Federation Procurator General "was forced to take steps immediately to release those amnestied" after the State Duma's resolution on the amnesty was published and thus was entered into force. Deputy Procurator ... |
FBIS3-14832_18 | Paper Publishes Yeltsin's `Annual Message' | and eliminate legal and organizational confusion in the activity of the law-enforcement organs. We need to form within the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs a rigidly centralized system of subunits for combating organized crime, and first and foremost we need to supply these subunits with the best cadres, h... |
FBIS3-14832_25 | Paper Publishes Yeltsin's `Annual Message' | to create conditions promoting a healthy, active, and long life. The reform must primarily make provisions for: -- a structural restructuring of the sector and a transition to mandatory medical insurance for all citizens of Russia; -- support for the state and municipal health care systems. World experience shows that ... |
FBIS3-14832_54 | Paper Publishes Yeltsin's `Annual Message' | 1994: -- the institutions of a market economy; -- a system of state management; -- demonopolization; -- taxation; -- economic legislation. Upon completion of the check stage of privatization, a qualitatively new stage of this process will begin. An increase in investment activity, a weighty contribution to the structur... |
FBIS3-14832_60 | Paper Publishes Yeltsin's `Annual Message' | of production. We urgently need to make a breakthrough in the sphere of legal backup for market reform. Economic legislation lacks unity. Hitherto it has proved impossible to fully regulate legal relationships between the Federal Government and the regional authorities. The competence of state bodies at one level has n... |
FBIS3-14832_85 | Paper Publishes Yeltsin's `Annual Message' | concession system is drawn up. Fundamental changes are also necessary in running the education system. So far this work has been carried out by the actual administration workers in their own interests. The overall number of administrative workers per student has increased continuously. The new education system must be ... |
FBIS3-14837_7 | President Kravchuk Holds News Conference | who naturally are also interested in this decision by the president and what has caused it. [Correspondent] A question from HOLOS UKRAYINY. Leonid Makarovych, as is well-known, elections under conditions of a difficult economic crisis are always a risky matter. And Russia is an example of this. In addition, many of you... |
FBIS3-14837_24 | President Kravchuk Holds News Conference | to? You are all promising something, why should I go and vote? But elections must be held in order to preserve the state and make an important step in forming the political and power structures. Some say that the new Supreme Council will be worse than the present one. I will not say whether it will be worse or better. ... |
FBIS3-14854_1 | Former Agent Interviewed on Ames Case | services, have any knowledge of these matters. As soon as you consider this business you are immediately led to think that there might be a traitor among this very small group of people. [Cucurnia] You do not seem to be all that surprised by what has happened. [Kalugin] On the contrary, I was rather surprised by it bec... |
FBIS3-14858_0 | Commentary Views Case | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Commentary by ITAR-TASS correspondent Yuriy Romantsov] [Text] New York, 1 Mar -- After arresting the CIA employee Aldrich Ames and his wife on a charge of spying for Russia a few days ago, the Washington authorities might have concentrated their attention on finding the answer to thi... |
FBIS3-14859_1 | Overview of `Spy Scandal' | followed by an urgent trip of CIA officials to Moscow to "settle scores" and "persuade" the Russian side to "admit its guilt" in the Ames affair by ordering Lysenko to leave the U.S. and keep the whole incident away from the press. However, the Russian side made it clear that such issues should be settled by respective... |
FBIS3-14860_3 | Parallels Drawn Between Ames, Powers Cases | USSR. Relations between the United States and the USSR deteriorated sharply. Soon after that there was the Caribbean crisis, which almost plunged us all into World War III. It seems to me that something similar is going on right now. Except that this time certain forces in the United States would like to give Khrushche... |
FBIS3-14860_4 | Parallels Drawn Between Ames, Powers Cases | is operating in Moscow, too). But what about the damage that has been done to our country's economy by our native traitors, as it were? For example, the activity of Oleg Penkovskiy, who was recruited by the Western special services, really rocked the USSR's defense system in the past. And how can you assess the damage ... |
FBIS3-14874_0 | Pros, Cons of Association With NATO Viewed | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Article by Sergey Karaganov, deputy director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Europe Institute, under the "Opinion" rubric: "We Must Be the First at NATO's Doors"] [Text] A political game has begun in Europe over the expansion of NATO. We have won the first round, but we are starti... |
FBIS3-14927_0 | Dismissal Tied to Prisoners' Release | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Text] In an INTERFAX interview, presidential press secretary Vyacheslav Kostikov did not confirm reports that Nikolay Golushko was released from the post of director of the Federal Counterintelligence service because of family circumstances. Kostikov emphasized that the edict did not... |
FBIS3-14961_1 | Text of State Duma Amnesty Decree | to articles of the RSFSR Criminal Code. 2. Persons sentenced for actions envisaged by Point 1 of the present decree are to be released from punishment. 3. The following are to be released from punishment in the form of incarceration and also from punishments not involving incarceration: a) persons sentenced for crimes ... |
FBIS3-14978_1 | Kravchuk News Conference on U.S. Visit | the U.S. Administration and the entire Western community, because the parliament of Ukraine in fact failed to ratify the January agreement, you remain the sole guarantor of its implementation? [Kravchuk] I will start from the end: I do not think the parliament failed to ratify it. The parliament ratified START-I and ma... |
FBIS3-14999_8 | Saburov Discusses Initial Plans | is more, there is the dollar and the mark and everything else. Any economic decision is ambivalent, everything needs to be computed: Is this advantageous or disadvantageous. I fully understand Yuriy Aleksandrovich, who, of course, proceeded from the fact that being in the ruble zone is better than in the karbovanets zo... |
FBIS3-15044_0 | Former Lefortovo Inmate Anpilov Interviewed | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Viktor Anpilov by Valentina Nikiforova, under the general heading "Spring. Another Thaw in Russia?"; date and place not given: "Evening Conversation with Viktor Anpilov"] [Text] On the very day that the decree on the amnesty was being adopted, the freedom-loving State ... |
FBIS3-15047_0 | Colonel Achalov Discusses Amnesty, Future Plans | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Sergey Turchenko report incorporating interview with Colonel General V.A. Achalov: "Three Days After State Duma Decision on Amnesty, Lefortovo Prisoners Have Been Freed"] [Excerpts] Dozens of journalists and hundreds of representatives of the capital's patriotic movements gathered at... |
FBIS3-15048_2 | Implications of Lefortovo Prisoners Release Eyed | complicate cooperation between the president and parliament. Following the head of state's message, Duma committees have begun constructive work on implementing the strategic plan enshrined in that document. It has itself been greeted with understanding in parliament. Yet, what are the implications of a return to polit... |
FBIS3-15063_1 | Intelligence Official Stresses Cooperation With U.S. | of this trial. [Omelchenko] In my opinion, the passions raging around intelligence activities have a whiff of dirty tricks about them, because the intelligence service in all countries, at any time, is as it were an early warning system warning regarding conflicts, the various unpleasant things that menace the state. A... |
FBIS3-15065_2 | `Firmness' Against U.S. `Hysteria' Needed | It has enabled the Serbs to "keep face" and NATO members to avoid an utterly unprecedented operation that would be the prologue to a long and bloody conflict. Russia has found a solution acceptable to everyone. Moreover it risked its soldiers' lives in doing so. So what has driven Washington berserk? In my view, Moscow... |
FBIS3-15072_2 | Newsmen Briefed on Russian Moves in Bosnia | in response to UN Secretary General Butrus Butrus-Ghali's proposals, the Russian president asked the Federation Council to agree to allocate an additional troop contingent of 300 men to participate in the UN forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The upper chamber of parliament took a positive view of this proposal 25 February.... |
FBIS3-15073_0 | Adamishin on Bosnia Initiative, Situation | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Interview with First Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoliy Adamishin by Luisa Meireles by telephone; date not given] [Text] First Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoliy Adamishin is regarded as the "brains" behind the current Russian initiative in Bosnia. Responsible for the main guidelines ... |
FBIS3-15073_4 | Adamishin on Bosnia Initiative, Situation | factors, but it is very dangerous to see the conflict in ethnic and religious terms: If the Slav countries supported the Serbs, the Islamic countries would have to support the Muslims, and the Catholics would have to support the Croats. It is not correct to say that only the Serbs are to blame, because it is untrue and... |
FBIS3-15135_0 | Grachev, Patriarch Sign Cooperation Agreement | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Patriarch Aleksey II of Moscow and All Russia and Defense Minister Pavel Grachev signed a joint statement on Wednesday, providing for the creation of a coordinating committee for cooperation between the armed forces and the Russian Orthodox Church aimed at reviving the spiritua... |
FBIS3-15151_4 | Parliament Chairman Hryb Interviewed | the strength, experience, and ability that it takes to eliminate the causes of the crisis. As for the external causes, it is necessary first of all to immediately rebuild the wrecked economic ties with the former republics of the USSR. Especially with Russia. As I have already remarked a number of times, the situation ... |
FBIS3-15166_1 | Scientist Views Disadvantages of Disarmament | the advertised free market principles, based upon a balance of demand and supply? Third, if something really needs to be compensated for in full, it is Ukraine's growing strategic vulnerability. In accordance with the information issued by high-ranking representatives of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense that was broadcast... |
FBIS3-15170_1 | Commentary on British Spy | On Tuesday [1 March] hearings took place concerning the case of the Ames couple, who are accused of spying for Moscow. An ITAR-TASS correspondent reports that only a small group of journalists was admitted to the hearings on the pretext that there were "not enough seats." It can thus be said that the judicial part of t... |
FBIS3-15172_2 | `Spy Passions' Resulting From Ames Case Viewed | Committee and in the recent past the Russian Federation's ambassador to the United States, I asked a question also about the prospects of the "Ames case." "Foreign intelligence is commonplace in international practice," Vladimir Petrovich explained. "Today they have disclosed a spy in the United States, tomorrow they w... |
FBIS3-15173_0 | TASS Discusses Recent Espionage Cases | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS analyst Andrey Palaria] [Text] Moscow March 2 TASS -- The recent arrest of a British secret agent, who held a high-ranking position in Russia's military industrial complex, clearly indicated that Western special services did not intend to scale down their intelligence ac... |
FBIS3-15184_0 | Commentary on Government Approach to Bosnia | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Mikhail Pogorelyy commentary: "Growing Level of Activity To Resolve Bosnian Conflict"] [Text] In recent days some people have started speaking with hope and others with apprehension of Russia's increasing efforts to achieve a Yugoslav settlement. Certain politicians' voices quiver wi... |
FBIS3-15244_0 | Communications Minister on U.S. Trip | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Igor Borisenko] [Text] Washington, 2 March -- A Russian delegation that is in the United States at the invitation of the State Department has, along with the American side, signed a memorandum on understanding aimed at regulating cooperation in the area of ... |
FBIS3-15263_0 | Commentary on `Partnership for Peace' | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Valentin Ovsyannikov "Commentary": "Is Alliance With NATO Affordable?"] [Text] The strategic "Partnership for Peace" program approved at the January NATO summit is taking on real outline. A number of countries have not taken time out for lengthy contemplation of the proposed plan but... |
FBIS3-15271_3 | Economic Report Summarized | is not the breakdown of economic links, but limits on demand and the lack of money and customers." The Ministry of Economics officials point out that "the process of removal of state control and privatization developed dynamically and on a large scale in 1993. The position of the nonstate sector of the economy, which i... |
FBIS3-15297_0 | IZVESTIYA Comments on Kravchuk's U.S. Visit | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Report by Maria Starozhitskaya of UNIAN specially for IZVESTIYA, under "Events and Comments" rubric: "Ukrainian President Flies Off to United States Offended at His Compatriots"] [Text] Kiev -- In his last appearance on television before his visit to the United States, Leonid Kravchu... |
FBIS3-15480_0 | Intelligence Official Views Ames Case | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Studio interview with Tatyana Viktorovna Samolis, press secretary of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service director, by Vitaliy Gan; date not given; from the "Panorama" program -- recorded] [Text] [Gan] The tension in Russian-American relations caused by the arrest of the CIA staff me... |
FBIS3-15489_0 | Armed Forces Commander Views Bosnia Mission | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [From the "Military Courier" program] [Text] Russia is starting to play a more active role in settling the Balkans crisis, reinforcing its diplomatic efforts with a specific peacemaking contribution. [Unidentified correspondent] The arrival of Russian paratroopers in the Sarajevo area... |
FBIS3-15567_0 | Slight Improvement in Electricity Supply | Language: Georgian Article Type:BFN [Text] We have been informed by Sakenergo [electric power production and consumption department] that electric power supply has increased compared with previous weeks. The operation of Tbilisi regional state power station has been relatively stable. Due to the rise of the water level... |
FBIS3-15571_1 | Christopher Statement on Russia-CIS Relations Viewed | and best of all with the agreement of the United States itself. There is no denying that what Moscow undertakes should, as Christopher notes, accord with the letter and spirit of international laws. But another of the secretary of state's important premises cannot fail to give rise to dispute and keen doubt: Even in th... |
FBIS3-15573_7 | Zhirinovskiy Calls For Elimination of NATO, UN | that if the NATO pilots dare to bomb Serbian towns, this will mean a declaration of war on Russia. If French pilots drop bombs, this will mean war between France and Russia, and if German pilots do so, it will mean war between Germany and Russia. My words had a sobering effect on NATO. You saw that no war started. This... |
FBIS3-15622_2 | Human Rights Envoy on Russians Abroad, Cuba, DPRK | Russians like the situation of their compatriots in the countries which previously were part of the Soviet Union, including Latvia and Estonia. Not only Russia's democratic future, but also the fate of many states which were formed after the break-up of the USSR, and in the final analysis, international peace and secur... |
FBIS3-15684_1 | Lebed Sees Dim Prospects for Early Troop Pullout | said he would press for the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Moldova in 1994... [Lebed] I got you. As they say, desires do not always match abilities. When I am asked whether it is good when the Army of one state is on the territory of another state, I answer "no." Should it be pulled out? Yes, it should. Whe... |
FBIS3-15693_2 | `Growing' Trade in Radioactive Metals Detailed | the Latvian bureau and they reveal that at the last such meeting held in Lyons in September, it was the German representative who expressed extreme anxiety over the sharp increase in the number of such crimes in Germany. At the same time, he drew attention to the fact that in cases where the presence of radioactive ele... |
FBIS3-15697_12 | Foreign Minister's Policy Address in Sweden | help train this fledgling battalion while expressing the hope that Sweden and Finland will also join the PfP to strengthen the "Nordic axis" and to move towards an all-European security system. Another expression of our growing integration with Europe are our ongoing free-trade negotiations with the European Union. We ... |
FBIS3-15705_0 | Workings of Revised Citizenship Law Viewed | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Report by Sergey Karkhanin: "In Search of Justice. How Are the Amendments to the Law on Russian Citizenship Functioning?"] [Text] It is around seven months since this law was amended and amplified, so some conclusions can now be drawn. It was the topic of a seminar organized in Mosco... |
FBIS3-15738_4 | Hold News Conference | because the establishment of friendly relations with neighboring countries is one of the chief goals of our foreign relations policy. We hope to sign in the nearest future friendship and cooperation agreements with Belarus and Poland. As to ethnic minorities, I must say that ethnic minorities in Lithuania enjoy all the... |
FBIS3-15738_6 | Hold News Conference | to any of our national juridicial provision concerning the rights and liberties of the citizen. So we are ready always to align ourselves to any international regulations, provisions, agreements on the international level, including European level. But, of course, there is some conditions which is creating normal or un... |
FBIS3-15766_0 | European Union To Start Negotiations on Accord | Language: Georgian Article Type:BFN [Text] Georgian envoy to the European Union, Zurab Abashidze reported that on 8 March the council of the European Union made a decision to start negotiations with Georgia on preparing a comprehensive agreement on cooperation. This agreement is viewed as the first stage towards gettin... |
FBIS3-15786_1 | Commander Sees Dim Prospects for Early Troop Pullout | said he would press for the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Moldova in 1994... [Lebed] I got you. As they say, desires do not always match abilities. When I am asked whether it is good when the Army of one state is on the territory of another state, I answer "no." Should it be pulled out? Yes, it should. Whe... |
FBIS3-15798_0 | Zyuganov Criticizes U.S. View | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Communist Party of the Russian Federation Central Executive Committee press service report: "G. Zyuganov Has Met With R. Nixon"] [Text] Gennadiy Zyuganov, chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation [CPRF] Central Executive Committee and leader of the communist faction ... |
FBIS3-15811_1 | Kozyrev Meets With Croatian, Bosnian Leaders Granic Welcomes Russian Role | a meeting with his Russian counterpart Andrey Kozyrev. Their talks related to all the important elements of the crisis on the territory of former Yugoslavia, particularly the Washington Agreement between the Croats and Muslims, and its results. Elizabeta Gojan reporting from Moscow. [passage omitted] [Begin recording] ... |
FBIS3-15824_0 | Some Lipetsk Oblast Elections `Invalid' | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Report by own correspondent Vladimir Toporkov: "Voting with Their Feet"] [Text] Lipetsk -- Complete lack of confidence in the new electoral system instituted by the president's edict can describe the results of the elections to the Lipetsk Oblast deputies' assembly. Tormented by exce... |
FBIS3-15905_0 | Carrier Heads for Cuba With Humanitarian Aid | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "As a Mark of Gratitude"] [Text] Ukraine sent a consignment of humanitarian aid to Cuba yesterday. The Lilas Island, a bulk carrier chartered by the Cubans and flying the Panamanian flag, left the Ukrainian port near Odessa carrying 100 tonnes of powdered milk, 2... |
FBIS3-15958_0 | Commentary Sees `Cooling Off' in U.S. Relations | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Text] Much of the media has recently been writing about a cooling off in the Russian-American relations. Can we call it a crisis now? Here is our commentator Aleksey Sokolov's view. [Sokolov] Indeed, there are quite a few reports in the press on this. A lightweight diplomatic scandal... |
FBIS3-15978_2 | Kalugin Views Current Intelligence Tasks | in supporting communist parties all over the world. [Horvath] However, Washington might oppose the idea of Ukraine and Belarus joining Russia again.... [Kalugin] This does not fall in the jurisdiction of the CIA; they do not have so much power to decide on the fate of countries. One should not exaggerate the possibilit... |
FBIS3-15978_3 | Kalugin Views Current Intelligence Tasks | to obtain inside information from the U.S. State Department, because the United States was interested in weakening the Soviet Union. We no longer have such motives. [Horvath] Thus, the current spy hysteria is totally unfounded. [Kalugin] The current American campaign is a rather hypocritical thing, because American age... |
FBIS3-15998_4 | Intelligence Chief Outlines Election Platform | of sensational stories, complying, so to say, to the demands of certain forces... [Skipalskyy] We are still pursued by the inertia of class struggle. We must be directed by the policy of state building. Those who contribute to this goal should not be defamed all the time, discredited, and raised against others... [Verb... |
FBIS3-16105_0 | `Crisis' in Russian-U.S. Ties Examined | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Maksim Yusin report: "Relations Between Russia and the United States Are Experiencing the Most Serious Crisis of Recent Years. Kozyrev and Christopher Face Difficult Conversation in Vladivostok"] [Text] The Vladivostok meeting between the Russian foreign minister and the U.S. secreta... |
FBIS3-16135_0 | Japan Agrees To Limit Fishing in Russian Zone | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Vyacheslav Bantin] [Excerpts] Tokyo, 12 Mar -- Aleksandr Rodin, first deputy head of the Russian Federation fisheries committee, who headed the Russian delegation at the two-week-long Russian-Japanese talks on salmon fishing which ended in Tokyo today, said... |
FBIS3-16136_0 | Snegur Outlines Goals of Visit to Brussels | Language: Romanian Article Type:BFN [Cristian Nita dispatch from Chisinau] [Text] Moldovan President Mircea Snegur left today for an official visit to Brussels, where he will sign the general documents on Moldova's adherence to Partnership for Peace. Just before leaving, President Mircea Snegur made the following state... |
FBIS3-16150_0 | Tatar Center Helps `Deserters' Escape Draft | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Nail Gafutulin report: "Certificates That Have Put Deserters in Prison"] [Text] Samara -- A lot of ways have been thought up of avoiding the service draft All of these ways are illegal and punishable. That is clear to everyone. But, it turns out, there are whole organizations which a... |
FBIS3-16167_0 | Draft Budget Forecasts Protectionism, Halving of Ruble | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Yelena Kolokoltseva, Dmitriy Volkov report under the "Hopes" rubric: "Budget Passed to State Duma. Incentives for Domestic Producers May Cause Importers' Apathy"] [Text] The unapproved Russian draft budget for 1994 has been passed to the State Duma. Its main figures confirm that the ... |
FBIS3-16173_0 | Sensitive Exports Procedure Tightened | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent] [Text] Moscow, 14 Mar (ITAR-TASS) -- The Russian Governent has endorsed the provision on the procedure for controlling the export of certain types of raw materials, materials, equipment, technologies, and scientific and technical information (goods and ser... |
FBIS3-16205_0 | Talks Held With U.S. Team on Disarmament | Language: Belarusian Article Type:BFN [Text] A meeting of Belarusian and U.S. officials at the Defense Ministry level began in Minsk today. Delegations from the two countries will discuss a number of acute problems facing Belarus. These problems, first of all, concern difficulties Belarus is encountering in dismantling... |
FBIS3-16239_0 | Growing U.S.-Russia Tensions `Not Insoluble' | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN ["Topic of the Week" by commentator Aleksandr Golts: "Chill Must Not Develop Into Confrontation"] [Text] What is happening in U.S.-Russian relations now brings to mind a well-known anecdote: The pessimist says: "For some reason everything's gone wrong." Optimist: "That's nothing, it's... |
FBIS3-16283_1 | Military Budget Chief on Army Finances | currently of concern to Army and Navy personnel, workers at defense enterprises, and Armed Forces veterans. [Ivanyuk] Vasiliy Vasilyevich, the Finance Ministry's attempts to save on military spending have already been the subject of a political assessment: The proposed level of appropriations will lead to the ruin of t... |
FBIS3-16295_1 | Low Yaroslavl Election Turnout Viewed | industrial centers. And in eight of them where elections were nonetheless valid a critical level of tension persisted until nearly the very last hour of work of the polling stations. Here the control level of voting activity was just exceeded. The situation was saved by the inhabitants of the rural rayons. And not only... |
FBIS3-16314_1 | Islamic Movement Member Interviewed | students who were in the classroom were arrested. The KGB intended to send us to prison and then to exile us to Siberia. But we bribed them and were released. Then pressures on us and on our father started and we were unable to continue our studies in Dushanbe. Therefore, we went to Forqan Tappeh which was our home and... |
FBIS3-16339_1 | Oil Pipeline Construction Agreement Reached | project and its Turkish construction part were drafted by the Kiev-based Yugnipronefteprovod research institute. According to its experts, the project's pipe-line tracing, number of ramifications may be increased or altered, depending on the number of parties, which might be interested in its implementation. As tentati... |
FBIS3-16355_1 | Zyuganov Views Yeltsin, Amnesty, U.S. Ties | war, Europe will experience terrible hours. Rather, it would be a catastrophe for the entire planet. The Russian ship must travel in calm waters if it wants to berth in a good port. [De Bonis] Let us talk about the economy a little. President Yeltsin has abandoned his shock therapy policy. Was this the victory of the p... |
FBIS3-16395_0 | Assembly Party Leader on Coalition Plans | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tallinn, Mar 15, BNS -- Assembly Party leader Tiit Vahi yesterday spoke about Pro Patria as future coalition partner of his party. Vahi said in an interview to BNS that "with regard to the taxation system, we are of the opinion that the taxation policy of the future coalition b... |
FBIS3-16471_3 | `Partnership for Peace' for `Naive Fools' | practice. Thus, for instance, command and control of combat operations includes the processing and analysis of very varied battle management, support, and other information. But how is information from sources that have a totally different informational-linguistic and concept base and uncoordinated means of conveying i... |
FBIS3-16480_2 | Zhirinovskiy Interviewed by Israeli Paper | is murdered there. If you go on inciting and slandering, everybody will start killing you off. [Prokofiev] Are you sure you will become the next president of the state in spite of what you call the incitement and slander against you? [Zhirinovskiy] No doubt about it. There are no other candidates. If elections are held... |
FBIS3-16567_0 | Growing European Concern Over Nuclear Smuggling Issue | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Michael Bond report: "Europe Alert Over Threat of Nuclear Terrorism"] [Text] London -- Security forces in both western and eastern Europe are combining their efforts to tackle the growing menace of nuclear smuggling from countries of the former Soviet Union -- described by Nato as on... |
FBIS3-16588_0 | Snegur Invites WEU Military Observers to `Eastern Regions' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Chisinau BASAPRESS, 17/3/1994 -- At the end of his visit to Belgium, President Mircea Snegur had yesterday a meeting with Van Eekelen, secretary general of the Union of Western Europe [WEU], the presidential spokesman said. Van Eekelen told Snegur about the structures of WEU an... |
FBIS3-16620_0 | Remarks on Russian Ties | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Vladimir Nadein article: "Military Bridge Between Two Superpowers. The U.S. Defense Secretary Begins a Tour of Countries of the Former USSR"] [Text] U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry has called the present relationship between his country and Russia a "difficult love affair." Spea... |
FBIS3-16686_0 | Grachev Remarks on Armed Forces Underfunding Viewed | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Viktor Badurkin report: "Army on Brink of Poverty"] [Text] At yesterday's briefing Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev described as critical the situation regarding funding of the army. The amount the state owes to the military department no longer increases by the year but by the... |
FBIS3-16714_0 | Death Toll Reaches 12 | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [From the "Novosti" newscast] [Excerpt] [Passage omitted] We have just received the latest figures from Baku -- still preliminary. It is now reported that 12 people have died and there are 53 injured as a result of the explosion. But these figures too, may not yet be the final ones. |
FBIS3-16722_0 | People's Front Leaders Again Detained | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Baku (March 18) TURAN -- "The police continues illegal arrests of the members of the Popular Front", said the member of Consultative Council of the PFA, People's Deputy, Nadzaf Nadzafov. He said that last night the policemen raided the building of Baku's Sabail district headqua... |
FBIS3-16733_0 | Discuss Conversion, Aid, Space | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [From the "Novosti" newscast] [Text] U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry is being received in Almaty today following his visit to Moscow. [Correspondent Dukesh Baimbetov] Today, after a meeting at the Republic's Ministry of Defense, the U.S. military delegation headed by William P... |
FBIS3-16769_9 | Zyuganov Reports to Communist Party Plenum | which would assume government of the state through election victory. It is not ruled out that early elections will be necessary. In any case, the early presidential elections which the striking miners are demanding today could -- provided Yeltsin and the other organizers of the coup d'etat do not take part -- be the be... |
FBIS3-16788_0 | Low Turnouts Reported | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy March 20 TASS -- The elections to local councils in the Kamchatka region may fail due to a low turnout of voters. According to the regional electoral commission, only 12.5 per cent of the electorate went to the polls by 15:00, local time, on Sunday (el... |
FBIS3-16807_0 | Negotiator Returns From European Stability Talks | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tallinn, Mar 18, BNS -- The head of the Estonian delegation for talks with Russia, Vaino Reinart, returned from Brussels today where he held consultations with representatives of the European Union on preparations for the European stability pact. The European stability pact abo... |
FBIS3-16891_0 | Jursenas on Treaty With Poland, Peacekeepers | Language: Lithuanian Article Type:BFN [Text] Important international events were discussed at a news conference in the Seimas today. Guoda Salciute reports: [Salciute] The Seimas Chairman Ceslovas Jursenas commented at a news conference on today's events. They are the initialing of the Lithuanian-Polish Treaty in Warsa... |
FBIS3-16895_2 | ITAR-TASS Carries Press Review for 22 March | representative power bodies in the regions of the Russian Federation revealed, on the whole, the electorate's indifference and passivity. Irrespective of the final election results, this conclusion could be drawn immediately after the polls closed." TRUD on local election results: "Such outcome of the elections in a nu... |
FBIS3-16929_0 | Intelligence Chief Briefs Duma on Arms, U.S. Policy | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Text] [Announcer Irina Merkulova] A closed session of the lower house's Committee on International Affairs was held at the State Duma today. It was attended by Yevgeniy Primakov, director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service [FIS]. In an interview with our correspondent, Yuriy Ko... |
FBIS3-16946_4 | Moscow Mayor on Food, Public Order Problems | year daily sales in Moscow are traditionally more than 5,000 tonnes. Now it is 3,000-3,200. Yet people's personal stocks of potatoes and carrots are now exhausted. The meat situation is as follows: Not long ago 4,000-4,300 tonnes would go in a day; it is half that amount today. On the other hand, bread consumption has ... |
FBIS3-16983_0 | Further Reaction to Iranian Plane Crash Azeris Claim Proof Armenia Involved | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Baku (March 19) TURAN [dateline as received]--The wreck of Iran's airplane, a C-130 Hercules, which occurred on March 18 in Nagorno-Karabakh is in the focus of attention of politicians and military officials. Armenian authorities which have control over Nagorno-Karabakh said th... |
FBIS3-17042_1 | Akayev on Ethnic Issues, Neighbour Relations | A massive outflow of Slavic people would tip the ethnic balance in the republic, and the probability of interethnic clashes would grow sharply. [passage omitted] The main reason for the Slav emigration is a low living standard. The Kyrgyz leader thinks that Western countries have proven in practice totally indifferent ... |
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