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Specifications of MTP-A2 Wrecker
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by KRASNAYA ZVEZDA correspondent Oleg Vladykin under the "Arsenal" rubric: "An Essential Item"] [Text] We recently (KRASNAYA ZVEZDA No 14, 1994) presented information on field service vehicle MTP-A4, which is designed for field servicing and evacuating disabled heavy vehicles...
FBIS3-23631_9
Development, Role of Ukraine's Civil Defense Chief of Staff Grechaninov on Civil Defense Tasks
subdivisions in all the work. It is difficult even to single anybody out. The people let nothing stop them from rescuing the victims, organizing their evacuation, and giving them blood, food, and medical assistance. [Dmitriyev] In other words, they are doing their duty honorably. Many people are in need of their help. ...
FBIS3-23645_2
WIG Design Bureau Struggling to Survive
distinguished. The first has a low wing aspect ratio--up to 1. These are known as craft employing the dynamic principle of support. They have only a rudder, and they possess (conditionally) two degrees of freedom, like a car or a small boat. They are driven by boat captains. Craft employing the dynamic principle of sup...
FBIS3-23649_1
Korotchenko on `Information as Weapon'
force when all other available possibilities for influence are already exhausted or military actions will likely be brief and, as they say, certain of victory. A graphic example of this is the war in 1990-91 in the zone of the Persian Gulf. Thus, today information and information technologies are becoming a real weapon...
FBIS3-23649_9
Korotchenko on `Information as Weapon'
then there is also a sharp decline in the morale and psychological stability of people. And aggressive rumors upset the interrelationships of people, disrupt the established ties between them, and promote interethnic and interreligious hostility and hatred. How can one counteract the destructive effect of rumors, inclu...
FBIS3-23696_0
Pros and Cons of Cooperation on Alpha Space Station Project
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Lev Kamanin, under the rubric "Opinion": "The Space Joint Enterprise `Alpha': Will It Happen or Not? Recent Rivals Are Interested in Collaboration in Orbit"; first two paragraphs are source introduction] [Text] According to the predictions of futurologists, a cherished dre...
FBIS3-23735_9
Saadanbekov Details Political Views, Activities
from the same area that I do. Not knowing this themselves, the signers drove themselves into an ideological swamp. There is a new century outside and fresh winds of democracy, but they are arming themselves with the Bolshevist club of violence. In essence, both the extreme right and the extreme left radicals are Bolshe...
FBIS3-23735_16
Saadanbekov Details Political Views, Activities
two or three inveterate yellow-press newspapers. I do not read the hogwash with which they regale a narrow circle of readers, holding them to be loonies. I am a normal person who has his work, thoughts, family, hopes, and faith, and, therefore, I am not interested in the ideological prostitution of aggressive ignoramus...
FBIS3-23746_0
Sakha President Views Economic Progress
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Interview with Mikhail Yefimovich Nikolayev, president of the Sakha Republic, conducted by Robert Serebrennikov: "Mikhail Nikolayev, President of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Federal Assembly Deputy, Is VOSTOCHNYY EKSPRESS' Guest"] [Text] [Serebrennikov] Mikhail Yefimovich, what ...
FBIS3-23751_7
Tatarstan's Shaymiyev on Socioeconomic Situation Execution of the Consolidated and Republic Budgets of the Republic of Tatarstan
at the macroeconomic level. An escape from the impasse and real stabilization under the conditions of the evolved economy require an entirely different level of work of the state organs of administration. A surmounting of the cost-no-object nature of the economy and arrival at a sufficient level of competitiveness are ...
FBIS3-23752_12
Modern History, Prospects of Cossack Movement Viewed
stage of the movement under study, it developed from the outset as a sociopolitical organization. The Union of Cossacks set forth its programmatic demands in the "Declaration of the Cossacks of Russia." Most of its points have now been carried out (with the exception of the points on exempting the Cossacks from state t...
FBIS3-23757_2
Moscow Post Office's Increased Delivery Cost Threatens Newspapers
is the solution? First of all, it probably would be worth looking in detail at the calculations; that is, seeing exactly what is included in postal expenses for this new six-month period. In particular, are the wages justified for postal carriers, who incidentally have stopped delivering mail in afternoons and evenings...
FBIS3-23771_2
Expert Views Energy Crisis
such as gasoline, kerosine and diesel fuel, and a huge quantity of heavy fuels. Moreover, low yields from refining were tolerated. Ukrainian refineries get only 40 percent of light fuels from processed crude, whereas US refineries get up to 70 percent. The existence of rich deposits of inexpensive natural gas allowed u...
FBIS3-23771_3
Expert Views Energy Crisis
low-lying country with slow-flowing rivers would limit the development of this type of energy. This is why hydroelectric plants produce only 4 percent of power while their reservoirs take up hundreds of hectares of some of the richest black soil in the world. [Kulchynskyy] Recently, in this country and the world over, ...
FBIS3-23773_0
Trade Union Leader on Organization's Policy
Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Vladimir Goncharik, chairman of the Belarusian Trade Union Federation, by Galina Nikolaychik; place and date not given: "Strong Power Always Needs Strong Trade Unions"] [Excerpts] [Nikolaychik] Trade unions believe that it is their obligation to respond to every harsh ...
FBIS3-23775_5
Official on Unemployment Situation in Tallinn, Other Cities
card. Quite frankly, we experienced a veritable onslaught. The reason was quite simple: Starting in September there was compensation for heating costs, and the unemployed were covered by a free medical plan. [Olshak] Who is the typical unemployed person today, so to speak? Who has the least likelihood of finding a job:...
FBIS3-23782_2
Privatization Progress Reviewed
more difficult working conditions, compared to those of foreign companies. It is not something that most people cherish. Russian capital, for one, has been very eager to supplement, and to dilute, our capital. The only way to minimize that is to attract Western investors. In the course of privatization, someone's inter...
FBIS3-23784_8
Official Comments on New Election Law
the requirements of Articles 8 and 9. Besides, let us hope that political organizations will intensively monitor one another in the course of the election struggle. Our commission intends to approach relevant institutions involved in the investigation of the crimes of the totalitarian regime with a request to publish i...
FBIS3-23822_11
Fedorov Comments on Financial Policies
Exchange. What is all this about? Did they fail to envision that the exchange rate at foreign exchange stores may differ from the rate at the trading session by more than a few percentage points? Did they officially authorize robbery? B. Fedorov. As early as 1991 I told Gaydar's guys that elementary rules should have b...
FBIS3-23823_18
Yeltsin Experts on Future Orientation in Economy Protection of National Economic Interests and the New Foreign Political Doctrine
providing adequate support. Thus the opening of foreign markets for Russian goods was predetermined by an objective process, and it directly involves the interests of tens of thousands of enterprises and millions of their workers. All these people are real or potential bearers of the ideology of Russia's entry into the...
FBIS3-23823_20
Yeltsin Experts on Future Orientation in Economy Protection of National Economic Interests and the New Foreign Political Doctrine
Europe and the Near East), and the potential for cooperation with developing and new industrial countries (South Korea, Taiwan) is being inadequately utilized. At the same time, relations between Russia and the West are developing asymmetrically at the present time. The developed countries are not at all inclined to al...
FBIS3-23825_3
Petrakov on Academicians' Economic Reform Strategy
employment threshold, share of expenditures for education and health services in the GNP structure, and others)"; "to reject the naive belief in the automatism of improving the economy with the help of depersonalized monetarism and to restore state regulation in its natural and generally accepted functions"; "to switch...
FBIS3-23826_8
Yasin Analyzes Economic Reform Program
R120,000 not long ago. Think of it, we had 30 percent of the world value at one point. Now it has dropped to 80,000! For this reason, it is vitally important for us that the TEK [fuel and power complex] stand on its own feet. This is why I believe that freezing prices for energy resources is essentially a conservative ...
FBIS3-23830_1
Changes in Tax, Budget Strategy Under Consideration Russian Authorities in Search of Budget Revenues: Reliance on Rent Payments World Theory and Practice of the Utilization of Rent Payments in State Finances
securities (3 percent of the value of the transaction); --Replacement of income and profit tax with a consumption tax to be paid by legal entities. The establishment of a standard rate of value added tax in the amount of 10 percent. [end box] A radical change in the tax-budget strategy of the Russian authorities is bec...
FBIS3-23838_0
Goskomstat Statistics for Economy in January 1994
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [INTERFAX-SEGODNYA report: "The Russian Economy in the Beginning of 1994"] [Text] According to the Russian Federation [RF] Goskomstat [State Committee for Statistics], in January Russian industry produced more than 15 trillion rubles' [R] worth of output in current prices. However, th...
FBIS3-23841_1
Regional Enterprise Heads on Production Problems, Economy Vologda Oblast
models, while the prices were much lower. We even went so far as to set up an SP [joint venture] with one of the West German firms. However, the new manufacturing line soon turned out to be paralyzed: the customers did not have the money to pay for the orders. The promising production was stopped. A similar fate also b...
FBIS3-23848_5
Declining Soil Fertility Worries Agrarians Attempts to Counteract Erosion in Virgin Lands
over 20 million hectares, that is, on virtually all the virgin land regions, and to stop wind erosion there. Moreover, the use of these implements increased the grain crop yield by an average of two to five quintals per hectare. This is because preserving the plant remnants contributes to snow retention, and consequent...
FBIS3-23858_1
Homeless People on Rise, Social System Unable To Cope With Problem
facility itself, which is precisely this figure. An ordinary Moscow citizen, however, can draw only one conclusion from his own observations: the number of beggars and homeless on Moscow streets and underground crossings is growing steadily from year to year. It is especially noticeable in the winter. In the summer, fr...
FBIS3-23858_2
Homeless People on Rise, Social System Unable To Cope With Problem
it has not offered anything instead. A system of aid to those who have hit the social bottom was never set up, and thousands of people who found themselves not only below the poverty line but also outside of normal human existence were now completely left to their own devices. Left unattended, the illness progressed ra...
FBIS3-23860_0
VAZ Plant Motor Vehicle Production Resumes
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Interview with Mikhail Dobyndo, deputy director of Body-Assembly Production of the Volga Passenger Vehicle Production Association, by Sergey Bystrov, TRUD correspondent: "VAZ After Conveyor Start-Up"] [Text] The second work week at AvtoVAZ this year ended today. Only the second, beca...
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VAZ Plant Motor Vehicle Production Resumes
ones. In the new, modern shops, however, if we succeed in stocking them up, the program for 200,000 motor vehicles a year can be ensured with only about 100 people. In the second place, painting. Today Chrysler, it is true, has just a little less than our capacity, and employs 56 people, but in our plant -- there are a...
FBIS3-23874_16
Tatarstan President Views Treaty Prospect
is going a different way? [Shaymiyev] The adjustments have already been made. We have now released prices on many commodities. Did you notice, come to that, that we now have the lowest prices for bread, milk, and dairy products in Russia? [Vladina] A very marked difference! Although there are goods that are more expens...
FBIS3-23901_1
Terrorists Planned Attack on Sobchak
is being divided into spheres of influence; there have been recorded attempts on the part of the criminal capital to acquire blocks of stock of a number of commercial banks and objects undergoing privatization. Administration personnel have identified and foiled activities of five criminal groups attempting to steal ab...
FBIS3-23905_0
News From St Petersburg Oblast Reports Unemployment Figures
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by P. Chugunov: "Unemployment Will Grow"] [Text] A rapid increase in unemployment is reported by the oblast committee on labor after analyzing last year's figures. For the oblast as a whole, unemployment increased by a factor of more than 1.5 as compared with 1992. The oblast...
FBIS3-23906_7
News From St Petersburg City MVD Chief Interviewed
work performed by the guards. Very frequently he discovered people there who were wearing the militia uniform, but it turned out after the appropriate check that only one-third of them were our people. The others were employees of private guard agencies who had put on the militia uniform. [Potapenko] Guard companies ar...
FBIS3-23907_0
St Petersburg News Local Election Format Finalized
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Unattributed report: "Anatoliy Sobchak Decided To Hold Elections to City Assembly in Two Rounds"] [Text] Elections to the St. Petersburg City Assembly will be held in two rounds. This is the main news following from Decree No. 131-r of the St. Petersburg Mayor. On 16 February Anatoli...
FBIS3-23908_2
St Petersburg News Nominations for Local Elections Complete
of each creature. And it is naive to assume that after the elections they will live in peace and accord, remembering their joint programs. But even during the period of signature collection the eclectic nature of the lists has not brought about the desired effect. A politically aware voter would find a name of one cand...
FBIS3-23913_0
News From St Petersburg Election Bloc Leader Interviewed
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Interview with Aleksandr Filippov, leader of the All Petersburg electoral coalition, by NEVSKOYE VREMYA correspondent Irina Lebedeva; place and date not given: "All Petersburg: Let Us Start With an Island"] [Text] The election marathon is already halfway through. Of 35 electoral coal...
FBIS3-23914_0
News From St Petersburg Sobchak Adviser on Free Economic Zone
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Report by Lev Golovannik: "Petersburg Cannot Be Fenced In"] [Text] Petersburg cannot be a free economic zone, said the mayor's chief adviser Vatanyar Yagya yesterday at a meeting with journalists in the American-Russian Information Press Center. In his opinion, the idea--great by its...
FBIS3-23915_0
News From St Petersburg Military Enterprises on Verge of Collapse
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Report by Vadim Stasov: "Defense Industry Breaks the Oath of Silence"] [Text] Yesterday directors of Petersburg military-industrial complex [VPK] enterprises discussed the situation in their sector. "Enterprise collectives are rapidly moving towards an economic abyss", "a deliberate ...
FBIS3-23919_1
MFER Official on Russian-U.S. Economic Relations
stage. "Attempts at a rapprochement have been made repeatedly, by people of several generations, it may be said. And all such attempts have had one thing in common: They have been imperiously dictated to both countries by some irresistible forces and fateful circumstances which forced the politicians of Moscow and Wash...
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MFER Official on Russian-U.S. Economic Relations
the former USSR and which had operated in respect to Russia. Thus Russia has for the first time since 1951 been accorded most-favored-nation status in trade. The legislative prohibitions on credit to us along the lines of the Commodity-Credit Corporation and the Export-Import Bank of the United States have been revoked...
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Ministry Official on Economy, Reforms
the republic. The systematic reduction in the supplies to retail trade of the basic foodstuffs is a cause of particular concern. The supply of meat and meat products declined 65 percent, of dairy products, 48 percent, sugar and confectionery, 92 percent, cotton cloth, 44 percent, silk cloth, 56 percent, knitwear, 40 pe...
FBIS3-23933_1
Shikhmuradov on National Reform Course
look at the events of the recent and distant past, we said to ourselves: All that has happened has been both good and bad--that is our history. And how it will continue now depends on us. Such a sober view of our own history has now become a foundation for peace and harmony in the society. Of course the republic leader...
FBIS3-23933_3
Shikhmuradov on National Reform Course
have studied various models of socioeconomic development and familiarized ourselves with the experience of Turkey, the United States, France, China, India, and Pakistan. And still we have created our own purely Turkmen model of transition to the market. It takes into account our country's specific features, its customs...
FBIS3-23934_3
Yeltsin Federal Assembly Representative Views Tasks
the idea that the unity of authority is a predominant principle. Therefore, a situation arose not of separation, but of dualism of powers: Both centers tried to concentrate power in their own hands; therefore, rivalry between them proved to be inevitable. It is precisely in this that I see the tragedy of the past. It r...
FBIS3-23938_2
Economic Revival Spurs Restart Plans for AES
London last week, President Levon Ter-Petrosyan announced that Russia and Armenia will soon sign an agreement on creating a joint Armenian-Russian enterprise on the base of the AES. Thus, it was made clear to the West that it should not fear potential "nuclear ambitions" on the part of Yerevan: the station's operation ...
FBIS3-23945_15
Chernomyrdin's 4 March Report to Government 2. Move Forward While Taking Account of Socioeconomic Realities 3. Formulating Effective Mechanisms for Economic Stabilization
date the number of federal executive and state government organs has dropped from 93 to 77, including a fall in the number of organs in the Government from 37 to 23. The number of apparatus personnel, including government apparatus personnel, is also being cut. Agrarian reform provides a classic example of the formatio...
FBIS3-23947_10
Yavlinskiy on Results of Reforms, Strategy for Transitional Period
is quite natural that a different approach is needed here. For instance, the Russian economy cannot be based on only one export sector (for instance, fuel and power engineering), leaving all other industrial sectors to the mercy of fate. And external demand will never be able to make up for the collapse of domestic dem...
FBIS3-23963_11
Data on Living Standard in Moscow, Regions for 1991-93
30 times more than the corresponding income in poor families. Poor families are characterized by a higher proportion of income in the form of pensions, subsidies, and stipends. The proportionate weight of these incomes nonetheless declined in poor families by comparison with the initial period of reform in 1992. Among ...
FBIS3-23971_0
Progress, Problems in Providing Financial Relief to Agriculture Government Moves to Allot Credits
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Igor Ostrovskiy: "Get Your Money Ready: The Government is Allocating Preferential Credit to Agriculture. The Pace of Inflation Will Increase in Coming Months"] [Text] For 2.5 hours on 3 February the members of the government's presidium discussed the draft, "Economic Condi...
FBIS3-23978_3
Deputy Labor Minister on New Orientation in Labor Legislation
for firing at management's initiative. Why does our country still have such a conservative Labor Code? [Kalashnikov] Yes, it is true, in the United States, only 6 states have legislation on insurance for temporary incapacity, and the other 44 do not have it. A number of other countries do not start paying benefits for ...
FBIS3-23979_0
Labor Ministry Study on Social, Labor Situation
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by OBSHCHAYA GAZETA social problems department: "The Runaway Decline Has Been Halted, But Somehow Life Has Not Become Easier"] [Text] Did we become richer or poorer over the past, difficult and troubled, year of 1993? The usual answer to this question is: "We are getting impo...
FBIS3-23979_1
Labor Ministry Study on Social, Labor Situation
those engaged in entrepreneurial activities, increased 11-fold as compared to 1992. Taking into account the consumer price index, income increased by 9 percent. Society is being rapidly stratified into rich and poor. The income of the 10 highest percent of the population exceeds the income of the poorest by a factor of...
FBIS3-23985_0
Seminar on Criminology Held Introduction to Criminology Association Seminar
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Yuriy Nekrasov, member of the Criminology Association, under the heading "Business under the Criminological X-Ray": "Let He Who Speaks Be Heard"] [Text] Let us ask, as they say, a point-blank question: Has the Criminology Association, which organized the international semi...
FBIS3-23986_1
Seminar on Criminology Held 1990-1993 Crime Figures, Pessimistic Prognosis for Future
crime groups have been identified. More than 130 "Russian" stores selling Russian antiques have been found abroad. Organized crime families operate in the sphere of privatization, conversion to joint-stock holding, financial and credit relations, and exchange activities. The drug business is actively developing in Russ...
FBIS3-23986_2
Seminar on Criminology Held 1990-1993 Crime Figures, Pessimistic Prognosis for Future
been a steady decrease in recorded abuse of position, economic operations, and other crimes in the economic sphere: 150,972 in 1991, 141,271 in 1991, and 127,085 in 1992. Increasingly crimes remain unsolved. As compared to 1989 the number increased by 37 percent in 1990, by 74 percent in 1991, and by 101 percent in 199...
FBIS3-23989_4
Turmoil at PRAVDA Editorial Office Viewed
vote threw out the editor in chief, whom they themselves had elected to that post three months before. Aleksandr Ilin was elected acting editor-in-chief; he had already been named to that post by Minister Shumeyko after the October events. Eighty-seven (of a staff of 216 persons) spoke against confidence in Linnik and ...
FBIS3-23996_0
CIS Kurdistan Liberation Front Representative Interviewed
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Interview with Jamal Kadyr, by Vladimir Mikhaylov; date and place not given: "What the Kurds Are Fighting For"] [Text] As if conspiratorially, the news media, the public of the majority of democratic countries, and international organizations are silent about the genocide against the...
FBIS3-23996_2
CIS Kurdistan Liberation Front Representative Interviewed
deliver new attacks on our brothers--184,000 persons died, and new hundreds of thousands became refugees. Washington is playing a double game here: In order to keep Baghdad in check it is ostensibly supporting the Kurds, but as soon as they begin to gain strength, it washes its hands of them, affording the Iraqi Army a...
FBIS3-23998_1
Reactions to Russian-Georgian Treaty Commentary Eyes Committee Findings
for Moscow the right of primarily military presence on designated territory, and c) it would postpone distribution of rewards for loyalty to some indefinitely remote future. 3. The ultimate objective would be a state of affairs under which the content of item 2 is perceived by public opinion as incredible generosity on...
FBIS3-24007_5
Urban Voter Mood Surveyed
in each. Such voters account for less than one half of the urban population in the Southern and Eastern Regions--47 and 48 percent, respectively. During the last elections, the percentage of voters who turned out to vote was not much greater (or not greater at all) than the percentage of respondents who responded in th...
FBIS3-24014_5
Youth Conflict Potential Gauged
of solving them Young people do not accept but rather condemn violent, extremist forms of protest; they prefer lawful and moderate means [Table 3]. We may predict that the chief kind of struggle will take the form of economic strikes. A greater tendency to use lawful forms of social protest was shown by young people in...
FBIS3-24014_7
Youth Conflict Potential Gauged
element of a civilized mechanism of resolving conflicts in developed democratic countries is a multi-party system, where parties serve as intermediaries between the public and the state authorities and express the interests of various social groups and strata. The parties are the basic mechanism for institutionalizing ...
FBIS3-24016_1
Crimea Deputy Favors Expanded Economic Rights
promises. I feel confident that Crimeans voted not so much for the person or his position as in opposition to the official course. As far as the "president-speaker" line is concerned, it is impossible to push through a convenient figure in our parliament. If Kiev wants to affect the state of affairs in Crimea, it is ne...
FBIS3-24033_1
Ukraine Seen as Moving Under Russia's Influence
again insisted upon Ukraine's becoming a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. But what then about the promises of security guarantees? Is anybody in a hurry to accord them to Ukraine? All the more so when it would involve making uniquivocal moves in international policy? It was important for Ukraine to be mad...
FBIS3-24037_4
Justice Minister on Legal System Reforms
in the work of international symposiums and conferences on legal issues. On more than one occasion we received invitations from various international organizations for us to study judicial systems functioning in different countries. Recently personnel from our ministry visited Germany, Italy, and Switzerland where they...
FBIS3-24050_0
Aleksey Kiva Views Amnesty, Possible Consequences
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Aleksey Kiva under rubric "At the Crossroads of Opinions": "Amnesty: Pros and Cons"] [Text] I tend to associate our stormy political life simultaneously with American roller-coasters and Russian swashbuckling horseback races. Here, as a rule, there are both sudden sharp, n...
FBIS3-24050_1
Aleksey Kiva Views Amnesty, Possible Consequences
subsequent "exposure" of the ex-procurator. First, what actually happened? The Duma passed a decree in full conformity with the Constitution, though one could, of course, argue where amnesty ends and pardon begins and what, actually, are the prerogatives of the Duma and the President. But such a debate would surely be ...
FBIS3-24051_1
Sobchak on Politics, Reform, Zhirinovskiy
time we held elections in an environment of a multiparty system, by party lists (other than elections in single-seat districts). Now about the results. In order for the results to be different, we should have avoided mistakes--the government, the president, and the political parties. But it was clear from the very begi...
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Chelyabinsk 1993 Socioeconomic Figures Reported
in industry--R143.2 billion (56.4 percent). Indebtedness on loans that were received amounted to R31.2 billion, of which 86.8 percent was in industry. As a result of the lack of money in the working accounts there continues to be growth of defaulted indebtedness on funds granted for consumption. As of 1 January 1994 th...
FBIS3-24066_1
Nomenklatura Threatens Nakhodka Free Economic Zone Status Businessmen State Complaints
essence, all this is the result of opposition of the two primary political forces in the city. One of them is represented by the managers of most of the city's major enterprises, who have made their careers within the command-administrative system and who are trying to hold on to their positions at any cost. The other ...
FBIS3-24074_8
White Book Issued on Moscow Environmental Conditions
6.9 1988 13.1 12.0 +1.1 5.3 5.5 1989 11.8 12.4 -0.6 3.9 4.0 1990 10.5 12.8 -2.3 2.2 2.3 1991 9.2 12.9 -3.7 0.7 0.6 Attention: Counterfeit! [by A. I. Leontyev] Not only money but even Karavayev therapeutic balms are being counterfeited. Almost 3 years ago the Public Fund To Promote Research and Initiatives of Citizens o...
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News From St Petersburg Poll on Voting Intentions Shows Differences From December
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by R. Mogilevskiy, general director of the Sociological Scientific Research Center Joint-Stock Company, under the rubric "Social Monitoring": "A Choice for Centuries?"] [Text] Three-quarters of Petersburg voters would vote today the same way they did on 12 December. On the ot...
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News From St Petersburg Poll on Voting Intentions Shows Differences From December
choice. The only questionable variable is the outcome of the referendum, which required a 50 percent plus one electoral turnout. The elections are an accomplished fact, however, and now Russian voters may watch their doing. It appears that their observations do not add to their joy. In any case, in Petersburg only 9 pe...
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News From St Petersburg Deputy Candidate on Use of Local TV
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Sergey Popov, senior instructor of the Technical University, candidate for City Assembly deputy: "You Fail, Gentlemen!"] [Text] The mayoralty could not find anything better to do than to read on the radio to the entire city the data on each candidate to the City Assembly. ...
FBIS3-24088_0
Kazan Admin Chief Reports to City Soviet
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Speech by Kamil Iskhakov, chief of the administration of the city of Kazan, at the 17th session of the City Soviet of People's Deputies] [Text] On the Socioeconomic Situation of Kazan Esteemed people's deputies! The relative stability in the Republic of Tatarstan and its capital has ...
FBIS3-24094_0
Kozyrev Outlines Tenets of `Common European Partnership'
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Andrey Kozyrev, Russian Federation Minister of Foreign Affairs: "Common European Partnership; Today It Is the Key Concept in Russian Foreign Policy"] [Text] It has long ago become clear that, under current conditions, aggressive nationalism, the doctrines of Brezhnev and t...
FBIS3-24094_5
Kozyrev Outlines Tenets of `Common European Partnership'
for North Atlantic Cooperation (CNAC)--into an independent structure of military-political cooperation, but one which is closely tied to the CSCE. The goal is to coordinate the efforts of NATO, the EC [European Community], the Council of Europe, the West European countries and the WEU [Western European Union], and the ...
FBIS3-24097_5
1993 Foreign Trade Performance Reviewed
is planning to fully withdraw from this sphere of activities in 1995. All indications are that this will occasion major changes in the structure of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations itself. As far as changes directly in the area of export and import operations are concerned, the determination to discontinue gr...
FBIS3-24120_3
Ambassador Abashidze on Europe's Interest in Georgia
into a major mechanism of Western-Eastern military and political integration. There is already some talk of giving NACC the right to perform certain operative functions, in particular peace-keeping operations. I don't think we have yet fully realized the importance of Georgia's participation in NACC; it marks a first s...
FBIS3-24126_2
Conversion of Foreign Currency Credits into Tubles To Boost Economy
same time, one should emphasize the exceptional profitability, and this means also the exceptional scale, of the forthcoming operations, which does not simply lead to enriching individual commercial structures, but has a major influence on the entire development of Russian society. The spare capital of the world econom...
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National Socioeconomic Statistics for 1993
(28 percent less). The number of passengers carried by general-use transport fell 5 percent compared with 1992. A proportion of passenger traffic was switched to relatively cheaper rail transport, where passenger numbers increased by 7 percent. Road passenger traffic fell by 6 percent, inland water passenger traffic fe...
FBIS3-24144_4
`Omnipotence' of Corruption in Power Structure Deplored
and the state's monopolistic power over ownership," he is, of course, right. No less important, however -- particularly under the present Russian conditions -- is the way the state parts with its property. A unique process -- even the Chinese phenomenon bears only a distant resemblance -- is taking place in Russia righ...
FBIS3-24145_5
MVD Assesses Fight Against Crime 1993-94
given to the prevention of violent crimes associated with drunkenness, gross behavior, moral squalor, personal animosity among some people, senseless and savage fights, and bodily harm and murder for domestic reasons. Last year, and with a view to improving the situation in everyday life, control was established over 4...
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MVD Assesses Fight Against Crime 1993-94
requirements as regards results from the work to solve crimes. A package of measures has been elaborated and is being implemented to expose persons engaged in racketeering or committing contract murders, burglaries, robberies with violence, hijackings of motor vehicles, and thefts of cultural treasures. We still have t...
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MVD Assesses Fight Against Crime 1993-94
relaibility of protection remains quite stable. On average, there is success in preventing 96 percent of attempted thefts from protected facilities. As a result of this, thefts of property worth many billions of rubles have been prevented. The protection of facilities for the storage of weapons, narcotics, precious met...
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MVD Assesses Fight Against Crime 1993-94
deaths on the roads reached 37,120, while 192,800 Russians were maimed or injured. The deterioration of the quality of Russian roads made a significant contribution to the high incidence of road accidents. The standards elaborated by the MVD, jointly with the Russian Ministry of Transport, for the building and maintena...
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Russian Coal Industry Jan-Aug 93 Performance Viewed 1.2. The Processing and Output of Clean Coal, Large and Medium-Sized Grades and Briquets
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Report compiled by V.N. Sukhov, canadidate of economic sciences and deputy chief of the Strategic Research and Information Support Administration of the "Rosugol" Company: "Brief Summary of the Russian Coal Industry's Work from January to August 1993"] [Text] 1. Coal Production 1.1. ...
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Russo-Estonian `Endless' Conflict Over Pechora Region Discussed
Pechora and many found themselves in a difficult situation. A solution was swiftly suggested "from the other side": in accordance with Estonian law residents of the republic born prior to 1940 (within the old borders that included Pechora Region) as well as their descendants are Estonian citizens and eligible to receiv...
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Voters Seen Making Uninformed Choices
Ten percent of those polled intended to vote in future elections for a party that does not exist in political nature, or, as many as for the Socialist and Communist Parties. A strange triumvirate of political forces appeared in the imagination of the people, which consisted of two existing parties and one mythical part...
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Possible Left Victory Seen Positive
discontent. In this case, he has one last hope: The parliament of the new term will cancel the previously announced presidential elections. At present, when the election campaign is merely beginning to "get in gear," the editorial office is receiving a multitude of letters and calls from the localities concerning all k...
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Nuclear Power Moratorium Seen To Inflict Blow on Energy Sector
and electricity production dropped. In the frozen units not only was an enormous amount of capital and past labor paralyzed, but every day they required considerable expenditures to maintain and guard them. Ukraine's sick economy had a shortfall of billions of dollars. All these streamlets of wastefulness and irrespons...
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Chief Details Work of Financial Guard
on. What benefit could a socialist enterprise gain from evading taxes, for example? [Skvirenko] None. [Bivol] Of course! Let us compare present-day income and the former bonuses and, most importantly, let us consider where they come from and where they used to come from. Both come... from profits. So hiding profit did ...
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Chief Details Work of Financial Guard
grown stronger and defined itself. We have more than 100 operational employees and we are fairly well equipped; every territorial administration has a minimum of two official cars with radio communications, as is proper. We are trying to conduct our tests not simply efficiently but promptly, the moment the transaction ...
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Increase in Accidental Death, Suicide Rates Noted
Language: Lithuanian Article Type:CSO [Article by Ana Trescina: "Trauma and Economic Loss: The Medical Profession is Again Sounding the Alarm, this time over Needless Deaths"] [Text] Many inhabitants of Lithuania die from accidents, poisoning, and trauma. The first and second places in these sad statistics are held by ...
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Smolensk 1993 Socioeconomic Figures Reported
These figures for 1992 were 13.1-fold and 19.8-fold, respectively. In this regard, during the first half-year of 1993, food product prices rose at a galloping rate, while this was the case for nonfood products in the third quarter. Then in the fourth quarter an alternation was seen: in October in favor of food products...
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Smolensk 1993 Socioeconomic Figures Reported
the textile industry (73.1 percent). A drop was noted in the production of electric power--by 4 percent, major electrical machinery--by 31 percent, light bulbs--by 13 percent, automation tools and devices and their spare parts--by 41 percent, computer equipment--by 39 percent, and mineral fertilizers--by 20 percent. Pr...
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Smolensk Internal Affairs Chief on 1993 Crime Statistics
possibility of earning an honest living. Left to their own devices, having lost their moral guidelines and faith in justice, raised not on respect for the traditions of the older generations and all-human moral principles, but on worship of far from the best examples of Western life, young people often embark upon the ...
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Railways Official on New Tariffs
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by German Orlovskiy: "The Debt Predicament"] [Text] The Russian Federation Committee on Pricing Policy has established effective 10 March 1994 the maximum index of tariff increases for freight shipments in intra- and interstate transportation in the amount of 1.20 of the tari...