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FBIS3-42580_2 | Qyzylorda Oblast Governor on Effects of Sovereignty on His Oblast | are revitalizing the important customs and traditions of our nation. This means that no one can slap our hands. What else do we need? We must know how to organize. We must think about efficient ways to achieve this, and we must seek practical means for raising living standards. In any case we cannot say that we have so... |
FBIS3-42592_1 | Irkutsk Air Crash Investigation Continues | Tu-154 aircraft, which belonged to the aviation company Baykal, took off at 0657 hours. It climbed to an altitude of 4,000 meters. When the liner was at a distance of 31 kilometers from the airport, the crew reported a fire in the second engine. This happened at 0702 hours. A decision was made to return. Fire extinguis... |
FBIS3-42592_6 | Irkutsk Air Crash Investigation Continues | special scientific analysis institutes in Moscow. There also are plans to ferry the engine. It is necessary to determine exactly why the fire occurred. A program has already been developed to model the flight in special computer complexes. That is, the flight of the perished aircraft will be reproduced in accordance wi... |
FBIS3-42603_0 | PKK, ASALA Plan to Attack Turkey Alleged | Language: Armenian Article Type:CSO [Text] The report prepared by Turkish security circles about relations between the PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] and Armenia--about which we wrote based on material from ZAMAN--is the subject of a front-page article in today's CUMHURIYET. The article notes that the PKK, in collabora... |
FBIS3-42620_1 | Goskomstat Data on Industry's Work for 11 Months of 1993 | of power generation declined overall by 5 percent, and at thermal electric power stations by 8 percent. In ferrous metallurgy as compared to 11 months of last year output of finished rolled metal dropped off by 7 percent, and of steel pipe by one-quarter. At the same time, certain structural changes are taking place in... |
FBIS3-42621_0 | President of Chamber of Commerce, Industry on Past Year's Activity | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Interview with Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry President S. Smirnov, by EKONOMIKA I ZHIZN correspondent B. Rachkov: "Russia Will Be Reborn Through Entrepreneurship"] [Text] On the occasion of the new year, Stanislav Alekseyevich Smirnov, president of the Russian F... |
FBIS3-42621_2 | President of Chamber of Commerce, Industry on Past Year's Activity | chamber. By March 1993, however, the presidential edict "On the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation" had put a great deal in place. It not only put a stop to anarchy in the interpretation of the federal chamber's role under market conditions, it also defined the chamber's new functions as an impo... |
FBIS3-42623_4 | Trade Committee on Market Prospects for 1994 | However, the draft decree of the Council of Ministers "On Food Deliveries for Federal Needs for 1994" provides for a significant reduction in the volumes and number of consumers of these stocks. It proposes that they be formed only in order to provide the military and categories of consumers equated with them, to reple... |
FBIS3-42624_7 | DELOVOY MIR Survey of Enterprise Directors, 11 January Degradation and Primitivization of Economic Structure Continue | is the strange (from the market standpoint) situation whereby demand for products and prices for production factors (raw materials, component parts, semifinished products, labor, transportation, information services, and so on) have an increasingly diminishing effect on the producer. The situation in the labor and inve... |
FBIS3-42624_8 | DELOVOY MIR Survey of Enterprise Directors, 11 January Degradation and Primitivization of Economic Structure Continue | 1. To get paid by the 60 50 55 purchasers of the output 2. To find new 46 54 49 distribution markets 3. To pay debts to 24 33 35 suppliers 4. To change the mix 36 32 28 of the output produced 5. To expand 13 12 22 production capacities 6. To pay bank debts 17 29 21 7. To make changes in 13 10 16 the way the enterprise ... |
FBIS3-42626_12 | Present, Future Trends in Migration Movements Viewed | to take this step. There are many refugees in the stream of emigrants because the most skilled segment of refugees (18 percent of those polled in various regions of the country) are oriented toward migrating abroad. Most emigrants (about 40 percent) are residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg and Moscow and Leningrad Ob... |
FBIS3-42628_2 | Toxic Waste From West Continues To Arrive at Ukraine's Shores | during cleaning at a warehouse where dangerous chemical reagents were stored: White phosphorus, which was being stored together with other substances, self-ignited. In early May, the bulk of the freight was moved to the compound of a military unit. Some 10-12 tonnes of rusty drums with dried-up paint and varnish, old c... |
FBIS3-42629_0 | Program Formulated To Relieve Radiation Problems in Polissya | Language: Ukrainian Article Type:CSO [Article by the Press Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine under the "Here and There" rubric: "An Ecological Program for Polissya"] [Text] A difficult ecological situation has developed in Polissya as a result of large-scale drainage pr... |
FBIS3-42630_1 | `Greens' Foresee Ecological Problems With Odessa Oil Terminal | be multiplied by 40 million. Here we are! That sounds more convincing--2,800 tonnes, all the more so because, according to calculations by Professor O.H. Mironov (the Sevastopol branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas), the self-cleaning capacity of the Black Sea comes to only 2,600 tonnes a year. There... |
FBIS3-42635_2 | Russian Ambassadors' Conference on CIS, Baltic Policy Detailed | allows for the deployment of ground and naval forces outside Russia with the consent of parliament, can serve as the legal basis for stationing Russian troops abroad. Ideas about the problems of the CIS were then expressed by the Russian ambassadors, military leaders, and officials from RF law enforcement and financial... |
FBIS3-42636_1 | `Imperial Claims' in Policy Objectives Toward FSU Denied | the North Atlantic alliance. Another former U.S. secretary of state, Zbigniew Brzezinski, has advised the creation of a new regional political group, consisting of Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, to counteract all types of "encroachments" by Moscow. Sam Nunn, the chairman of the U.S. Senate ... |
FBIS3-42643_1 | Independent Unions Support Lanovyy | for certain that the epicenter of the impending events will not be Donbass, but rather Kiev, where several large-scale enterprises will be the first to go on strike. Others will immediately follow--in all regions. In the opinion of Free Trade Unions, the "higher authorities" will better feel the impact of a strike begu... |
FBIS3-42648_5 | Filenko Outlines Party Economic Position | Private production and trade mean sufficient quantity of goods and socially acceptable prices, whereas state production and trade result either in out-of-this-world prices on down-to-earth goods or in low prices on nonexistent goods. Some 2,000 years ago, in his treatise "On Duties" Cicero wrote as though it had long b... |
FBIS3-42648_17 | Filenko Outlines Party Economic Position | was the same. To this end, it passed the old election law, making it worse. The elections will be held on a non-party basis, which means that the voters will be voting for individual deputies, not for a specific political line, politicians or policy. Existing democracies have several forms of election laws. But they al... |
FBIS3-42661_2 | U.S.-Russian Economic Relations Assessed | were restrictions on services of the federal Overseas Private Investment Corporation--OPIC. It is permitted to use preferential credit under the program "Food for Progress" and the Law "On Contributing to Reform in New Democratic Countries" has been adopted (70 restrictions established for "communist countries" have be... |
FBIS3-42663_0 | 1993 Export-Import Activity Reported | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Alexander Umansky: "Exports Grow, Imports Fall"; first paragraph MOSCOW NEWS comment] [Text] Exports of fuels increase, imports of machines and equipment fall. The distinguishing feature of Russia's foreign trade in 1993 has been the rise in exports (despite the economic r... |
FBIS3-42670_0 | World Markets React to Russian Events | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Yelena Zagorodnyaya: "Immunity to Political Events in Russia Increases: Russia in the World Markets"] [Text] The meeting of the world's leading producers of aluminum, which begins in Brussels today and where the volume of Russian exports of this metal to Europe will be dis... |
FBIS3-42672_4 | Gorbachev Weighs Prospects of NATO Expansion | and, therefore, it is not a policy. They might refer to certain pronouncements to the effect that Russia may also join NATO at some point. However, this makes no sense. If the discussion is indeed about a security system for a "Greater Europe," then let us create and perfect the relevant structures of the Conference on... |
FBIS3-42672_6 | Gorbachev Weighs Prospects of NATO Expansion | principal apologists of a radical course in Russia, is now calling on the Kremlin to use "more therapy and less shock." In turn, U.S. Vice President Al Gore proposes not following IMF recommendations literally. Well, better late then never. However, it appears that in America they have not yet fully appreciated what is... |
FBIS3-42686_1 | Regions React to Changes in Russian Cabinet | this Fedorov." Now, even compliments can be heard following the reformers who left. Irkutsk Governor Yuriy Nozhikov and Viktor Ignatenko, the head of representative authority, think that "the government aircraft still should have two wings--both directorial and macroeconomic." But Vyacheslav Novikov, a Krasnoyarsk coll... |
FBIS3-42695_3 | Economic Situation in 1992-1993, Results of Reform | a strengthening in the positions of the economy's shadow sector evading taxes and not mirrored in statistics). Serious changes have occurred in Russia's foreign trade. In 1993 the volume of export nearly doubled that of import. However, a positive balance was reached on account of the fact that there was a considerable... |
FBIS3-42696_4 | Experts Discuss Possible Changes in Economic Reforms | overdramatize Gaydar's departure and key up Shakespearean passions. The government of reformers has not coped with the task of macroeconomic regulation. As it has turned out, the Russian economy is inadequate in its responses to classical ploys. A simple example: to the compression of the money mass it reacts with a re... |
FBIS3-42726_22 | Abalkin, et al, New Plan for Economic Reform Published | the influence of the lobbying interests of individual groups, without coordination with budgetary, credit, and investment policy, separately from the dynamics of incomes). Second. The method being proposed for creating prerequisites for a normal reproduction process is objectively very complicated to implement. It will... |
FBIS3-42726_48 | Abalkin, et al, New Plan for Economic Reform Published | the dollar, and it continued to drop, exceeding the mark of R1,500 to the dollar in January 1994. The exchange rate of the ruble taking shape on the exchange became a guidepost in many respects in setting domestic prices, thereby promoting a surge in inflation, strengthening the dollar's position in the economy, and cu... |
FBIS3-42726_50 | Abalkin, et al, New Plan for Economic Reform Published | CIS countries, especially Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and Belarus, which may turn into heavy losses of markets for Russian industry, primarily its processing sectors. There is no alternative but to reintegrate the economy of the CIS countries, in our view. This is in Russia's interests, as well as th... |
FBIS3-42726_62 | Abalkin, et al, New Plan for Economic Reform Published | of Russian state property and the rights to dispose of it between the Federation and its subjects. The immediate tasks in this area should be: --direct control of state enterprises not subject to privatization; --development of the procedure for reorganizing and respecializing the enterprises being privatized and state... |
FBIS3-42726_66 | Abalkin, et al, New Plan for Economic Reform Published | which is one of the integral indicators of social processes, began to drop sharply in the early 1990's: it was 67.5 years in 1980, 69.2 in 1990, 69.0 in 1991, 67.9 in 1992, and 66.0 years in 1993. Judging by this indicator, the society appeared to have been set back 15 to 20 years, that is, to the beginning of the 1970... |
FBIS3-42726_70 | Abalkin, et al, New Plan for Economic Reform Published | The increase in inflation and poor wage protection have led to the point that the wage per employee in late 1993 (October) was only one-third of what it was in December 1991 (in comparable prices). A similar picture is typical for the dynamics of the public's per capita monetary incomes. The situation with respect to a... |
FBIS3-42726_78 | Abalkin, et al, New Plan for Economic Reform Published | system of food assistance for those categories of people who are especially vulnerable and to expand the network of free dining rooms for them. A system of multipurpose loans has to be developed for youths (16 to 25 years old) and young families: to acquire a vocation and improve skill, to obtain housing, and to provid... |
FBIS3-42730_3 | Plyushch Views Local Government Issues | adversity. I would like to repeat today what I have said repeatedly. The process now taking place in our society is a process of transformation of the administrative-command system into a democratic system, of transition to the market mode of economic development. This process develops in keeping with objective laws of... |
FBIS3-42730_20 | Plyushch Views Local Government Issues | our state, its structure, procedures for its formation, and the main principles for its operations. All of this definitely necessitated speeding up the preparation of a new election law, which was passed on 18 November 1993. However, the search for an optimal model of electoral system for our state began much earlier. ... |
FBIS3-42731_1 | Little Media Coverage of Election Campaign Seen | they likewise forget their own responsibility for the choice that is made. The fact that this bond of "responsibility" is understood and even a common cliche for a certain politically engaged portion of Ukrainians certainly does not mean that it is also obvious for all other citizens. It is one thing to elect someone w... |
FBIS3-42735_1 | Metropolitan Volodymyr on Interdenominational Conflicts | relations. However, we must labor, pray, and be concerned about our people for the Lord to unite us, for accord and peace to prevail in the territory of Ukraine. [Shevchuk] Could you tell us briefly about what your church amounts to at present? [Sabodan] We have 6,000 parishes, 5,000 clergymen, 49 monasteries and conve... |
FBIS3-42735_4 | Metropolitan Volodymyr on Interdenominational Conflicts | the council, and I see my mission as doing everything for the Holy Church that I am capable of to the full extent of my energies. [Shevchuk] Your Eminence, is it true that in the offices "on high" it was proposed to you to unite and to head the Ukrainian Orthodoxy? [Sabodan] There was such a conversation. Just break wi... |
FBIS3-42738_5 | Filenko Outlines Party Economic Position | Private production and trade mean sufficient quantity of goods and socially acceptable prices, whereas state production and trade result either in out-of-this-world prices on down-to-earth goods or in low prices on nonexistent goods. Some 2,000 years ago, in his treatise "On Duties" Cicero wrote as though it had long b... |
FBIS3-42738_17 | Filenko Outlines Party Economic Position | was the same. To this end, it passed the old election law, making it worse. The elections will be held on a non-party basis, which means that the voters will be voting for individual deputies, not for a specific political line, politicians or policy. Existing democracies have several forms of election laws. But they al... |
FBIS3-42739_0 | Nuclear Energy Official on Sector's Financial Woes | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Interview with Vasiliy Kotko, deputy chairman of the State Committee of Ukraine for the Use of Nuclear Energy, by Viktor Rassokha; place and date not given: "Nuclear Power Stations Going Around Hat in Hand. Failing To See This Today Means Bringing the Dark Ages Closer...in Houses and... |
FBIS3-42740_4 | Snegur Address on Parliamentary Elections | will help voters separate the grain from the chaff, as Ion Drutse said. No great effort is required in order to distinguish the good from the bad. Everyone does that instinctively. It is far more complicated, particularly under our conditions, to propose clearly and precisely what should be done and together with whom ... |
FBIS3-42748_1 | Botnaru Reviews Foreign Affairs Priorities | now ended up as New Year's jelly. And the fact also that the reaction of the disintegration of the former USSR--this colossus on the world map--continued, that is, serious interethnic conflicts, regional wars, and dangerous friction, but as did also a meshing between many of the states that arose on the ruins of the Un... |
FBIS3-42749_6 | Institute Director on Energy Policy Concerns | experts, he writes that "If we had an energy system with high-voltage lines in the countries of Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Turkey) we could export electric energy at advantageous prices and at the same time obtain a profit of approximately $50-70 million. [Postolatiy] In the first place, as one can see from his article,... |
FBIS3-42750_2 | Edict Sets New Minimum Wage Rates | in the amount of two to three minimum old-age retirement benefits inclusive--by 20 percent; who receive retirement benefits in the amount of three to five minimum old-age retirement benefit inclusive--by 10 percent. With a view to partially offsetting additional outlays incurred by the needy and low-income strata of th... |
FBIS3-42760_4 | Ministers Assess 1993 Political, Economic Achievements | colleagues abroad; some of these agreements are already being implemented. For example, nurses are being retrained in Denmark. The Swedes are providing a sizable amount of financial aid in implementing certain projects. Thanks to assistance from foreign countries, Lithuania's medical professionals are performing in Lit... |
FBIS3-42766_10 | Presidential Council Member Migranyan Assesses Policy Toward FSU | prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the spring of that same year. But the events that occurred in 1992 in Russia and the republics made appreciable adjustments to the understanding of Russia's place and role in the post-Soviet space. Although the objective factors noted above are st... |
FBIS3-42769_4 | Conflict Over Crimea Seen Possible | the supplies of weapons and equipment, to profit on food and medicine, to extract a triple price for transporting refugees, and so on. All of this has already happened in "hot spots." Interests can be confronted only by other interests. Indeed, it was only several years ago that no one believed that Georgia would be at... |
FBIS3-42774_8 | Members of Yeltsin's `Inner Circle' Interviewed | document by heart. He selects people he trusts for their abilities and their orderliness in work and preparing documents. As long as the person does not make a mistake. Then he starts to watch them more closely. There are many problems, and there are also problems that are new to him or that have been underestimated so... |
FBIS3-42774_16 | Members of Yeltsin's `Inner Circle' Interviewed | work, when they are not joined together with the government, then we have what we have. In the second place, America went everywhere in the automobile. What can we ride in, what are the most difficult and neglected things here? Housing and roads. We must begin to build housing and roads for everyone. These should be de... |
FBIS3-42779_0 | First Results of Dagestan `Special Order' Reviewed | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Eduard Urazayev: "Makhachkala Sums Up First Results of `Special Order': Public Discusses Political Encroachments"] [Text] The Dagestan militia summed up the first results of the special order introduced for six months in the capital starting 3 January. As is well known, th... |
FBIS3-42791_2 | `Muscovites' Standard of Living for 1994 Assessed | fair and sometimes not quite. The government and its local representatives ought to be criticized for still terrible roads (despite titanic efforts), mud and trash in the streets, occasional lapses in central heating, and leaking roofs. But I have never seen a letter in which Muscovites berate the mayor for lack of att... |
FBIS3-42798_10 | Further on Schneerson Hasidic Book Collection | even one book be returned if this is against the law? And if the law requires that the whole collection be returned to its owner, why has this not been done? Did we grace Clinton with a generous gift, or did we put him in an ambiguous position by presenting him with something that does not belong to us? America is part... |
FBIS3-42799_0 | Edict on 1 January Increase in Wages, Pensions, Stipends | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO ["Edict of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan: On Increasing the Amount of Salaries, Pensions, and Stipends Beginning 1 January 1994"] [Text] 1. To establish, beginning 1 January 1994 on the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan: the minimum wage in the amount of 30,000 sum... |
FBIS3-42802_6 | `Elektrobank' Chairman on Growing Difficulties of Commercial Banks | problems. If we exist for another year or two within the same arrangement as at present, an overwhelming number of enterprises which ensure the maintenance of the economy at a certain level will shut down because of the wear on fixed assets. Equipment has been 70-80 percent depreciated in the fuel and energy sector and... |
FBIS3-42807_0 | Labor Ministry Provides Statistics for 1993 | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Yelena Vasilkova: "But As Far As the Rest Is Concerned--Everything Is Coming Up Roses!"] [Text] Ministry of Labor Provides Results for Last Year "According to information from the Nutrition Institute, last year our schoolchildren grew thinner by a kilogram. We find this re... |
FBIS3-42810_13 | Economy's Performance in 1993 Summarized | $16.0 billion (in 1992 the positive balance was $5.4 billion). Foreign Economic Ties With Nearby Foreign Countries Foreign trade turnover with the nearby foreign countries totaled R22.5 trillion in 1993, or just 50 percent of the 1991 level. In this period there has been a drop in shipments from Russia to the CIS state... |
FBIS3-42810_22 | Economy's Performance in 1993 Summarized | million people, or 48 percent of the total population, employed in the Russian economy. The nonstate sector, in which over 40 percent of workers are now employed, is playing an ever-increasing role. In 1993 compared with 1992 the number of personnel increased in the main sectors of the social complex -- public educatio... |
FBIS3-42811_36 | Survey of Socioeconomic Situation in 1993, Prospects for 1994 | for labor in the social sphere. According to survey data, it is precisely former workers in the sphere of service, health care, education, science, and culture who comprise the most numerous group of the unemployed in Tomsk Oblast. Conventional wisdom holds that unemployment has provided a certain push toward the forma... |
FBIS3-42811_47 | Survey of Socioeconomic Situation in 1993, Prospects for 1994 | never has been attractive to most people. It is not accidental that a survey of the Russian populace conducted in November showed that 58 percent of the respondents saw the storming of the White House as a "national shame, in which both branches are at fault." It Is Not Our Power The population's confidence in the rene... |
FBIS3-42820_1 | Possible Change of Criminal Responsibility for Drug Use Pondered | office to write about how they had ended up there and how they feel in the "loony bin." Why did the newspaper need this particular crime report? The words "drug business" are used with increasing frequency in presentations by lawyers and employees of the prosecutor's offices and the militia. Some 1.5 million Russians u... |
FBIS3-42821_25 | Aliyev Addresses Party Leaders on Nagorno-Karabakh Situation | reporting this on television, some people objected: You cannot talk about the army this way. But what should we do? This is the truth, and without disclosing this truth, there is be no result. All this--the fact that an army has not been formed as yet, that there have come to be negative elements in its ranks, that ind... |
FBIS3-42822_0 | Central Bank Deputy on Hard Currency Use | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Interview with Aleksandr Khandruyev, deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia, by ARGUMENTY I FAKTY correspondent Pavel Lukyanchenko; place and date not given: "The `Artificial' Ruble"] [Text] Since the beginning of January of this year the exchange rate of the dollar has soared from 1,... |
FBIS3-42830_3 | Benefits Seen in Giving Up Crimea | fleets with job openings. 4. Nothing New Under the Sun Having shed a tear for the sad fate of the Black Sea Fleet, let's look at some appropriate precedents as English jurists are wont to do. After Salazar's death the first thing the Portuguese parliament did was get rid of their colonial burden to stop Portugal's fina... |
FBIS3-42830_5 | Benefits Seen in Giving Up Crimea | take care of dearth of water in Southern Ukraine. The health resorts will continue to thrive on people with convertible currencies, so any referendum to remove the Crimean appendix may not be such a bad idea! 7. A New Hong Kong The Russian writer Aksenov raised hopes of a horn-of-plenty with his fictional work The Isla... |
FBIS3-42837_1 | Minister of Power Engineering, Electrification on Situation in Sector | But the winter will last longer than that ... [Semenyuk] There's more! Some power stations have already run out of coal or have only one or two day's supply. Stations that produce heat in addition to electricity have first claim on coal. In short, if the coal industry will produce at the present level, then we can last... |
FBIS3-42839_1 | Reasons Against Odessa Oil Terminal Detailed Ukraine needs 40 million metric tons of oil. But this does not mean that it must have an oil transshipment complex near Odessa | this amount, "the world's bluest" [sea] will turn black, disgusting, and dead. Specialists may say that I am wrong. According to the calculations of Professor O.H. Myronov (Sevastopol's Institute of the Biology of Southern Seas), the Black Sea is supposedly capable of cleaning up 2,600 metric tons on its own. This may ... |
FBIS3-42845_7 | Liberal Convention Issues Basic Platform Principles Freedom Under the Conditions of Order--Toward an Efficient Law-Based and Democratic Society Toward an Efficient Market Economy Via a Surmounting of the Crisis, Stabilization of the Situation, and the Realization of Comprehensive Programs of Transformations | to the authorities would be created via the multiparty system, which would enable the latter to take account of the diverse interests and social expectations of different strata and groups of society. Aside from the creation of a civil society and assurance of the functioning of a multiparty system, further democratiza... |
FBIS3-42853_0 | Future Energy Needs Viewed | Language: Estonian Article Type:CSO [Staff article: "Will We Be Buying Electricity From Abroad 10 Years From Now?"] [Text] Power Plants Hopelessly Outdated The condition of Estonia's energy economy and energy production became somewhat obscured and aggravated after Estonia became independent. If most of the basic equip... |
FBIS3-42854_1 | Minister Assesses Energy Sources, Costs | formative stages, drew praise from its teachers like the World Bank, the European Bank of Development and Reconstruction, and other organizations, will make Estonia stronger in the future. The days of wasting cheap energy are over. No More Sudden Price Hikes "As is happening elsewhere, the price of energy in Estonia wi... |
FBIS3-42857_1 | Activities, Conflicts of Latvia's Security Services Detailed | three large, "strongest" groups, of which only one would include state institutions. First of all, espionage is a criminal method for gathering information and includes with it qualitative analytical and systematization work. Secondly, growing and powerful businesses are particularly concerned for their security, for a... |
FBIS3-42858_5 | Current Status of Latvian Armed Forces Detailed | become the reason for fatal accidents. Here, two border guards shot each other; there, a young guardian of the border, after firing at his comrade. went further away from the post and shot himself. The taunting of new recruits in a convoy regiment ended in tragedy: Young soldiers driven to despair by outrages in the un... |
FBIS3-42863_3 | Statistics Show Increasing Crime Rates for Cities, Rural Areas | attempts at murder, 196 (2.6 percent more) rapes, and 344 (0.6 percent fewer) deliberate bodily injuries. Last year saw a marked decline in the secret character of the coercive actions against property -- this is primarily linked with preventive detention and the confidentiality accorded to witnesses. Established cases... |
FBIS3-42867_1 | Academician Examines Historical Parallels for Civil War | surface it is apparently religious and ethnic conflicts that are driving it in Croatia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is clear to an attentive observer, however, that they are developing in the form of a full-scale civil war resembling in many respects the postrevolution events in Russia. One of the conclusions... |
FBIS3-42868_25 | Arms Issues in U.S.-Russian Relations | more precise delineation will come about within the "nuclear club" between first-class powers--which possess advanced technologies and capabilities in command and control, communications, intelligence, accurate delivery of nuclear weapons, and use of defensive systems--and second-class nuclear powers--which do not poss... |
FBIS3-42868_27 | Arms Issues in U.S.-Russian Relations | for cooperation between the United States, Russia, and other powers in the sphere of control and nonproliferation consists in whether or not nuclear weapons will be used directly or indirectly in possible conflicts between the North and the South, concerning which much is now being said. Will it be at all possible to d... |
FBIS3-42869_5 | Goskomstat Foreign Trade Data Jan-Nov 1993 | uniform way throughout 1993. A certain increase in investments during the summer period was followed by a decline beginning in October of this year as a reaction to certain political events: although the number of enterprises registered with the RASMiR [expansion not identified] in October stayed at the September level... |
FBIS3-42871_2 | Foreign Ministry Body Discusses East Europe Policy Text of Kozyrev Speech | and commercialization. And finally, aggressive nationalism, a mix of envy and arrogance in relation to the outside world stemming from the inferiority complex that society feels to a certain extent. As a result, Russian diplomacy in East Europe had to start in many respects not just from ground zero but from a negative... |
FBIS3-42872_18 | Foreign Ministry Body Discusses East Europe Policy Transcript of Discussion | world into first- and second-class countries, and the tragedy, lies, and ambiguity of our position were that the USSR's allies were in reality considered second-class countries. I must confess the church's sin as well. This imprint, this pressure of political ideals was reflected in church affairs as well. We worked on... |
FBIS3-42873_5 | Security Outlook in Northeast Asia | new closed military-political unions; and the presentation of territorial claims by a number of countries to other states. This concerns also the rather controversial Japanese encroachments on the so-called "northern territories" belonging to the Russian Federation. Undoubtedly, this list must also include the existing... |
FBIS3-42873_11 | Security Outlook in Northeast Asia | Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia--in the recent past and up to the present day. Moscow would not only like to safeguard its borders, including also its Far Eastern borders, but would also like to exclude any outside intervention in its domestic affairs. Russia is not interested in isolatin... |
FBIS3-42875_10 | Opposition Figures on Elections | newspaper has already decided everything for us, appointed and elected everyone. Although I could, of course, teach many people about organization of the business of the Duma, work with the opposition, and the patience that a speaker should possess. What would I submit to the first session of the Duma? My first wish wo... |
FBIS3-42886_19 | Power of `Traditionalist' Forces Seen Rising | These measures will help neither Russian industry nor agriculture nor the consumer. They will merely eliminate competitors, expand the field for raising prices, and create cozy conditions for the talentless leaders of the monopolies: They will not have to be concerned about reducing production costs, modernizing produc... |
FBIS3-42893_8 | Internal Affairs Minister on Crime, Police | it has been razed. In the yard of the cinema was a public outhouse made of wood boards; a woman was raped there. She ran to the theater and told them what had happened. We combed the area of the city and caught the bastard by description. [Starkov] A new amnesty is being readied. How many convicts will be released? [Ye... |
FBIS3-42898_8 | Academician on `Economic Reforms After Gaydar' | commodities, and also subsidies for their support, were continued just as long, and they have remained in agriculture and the power industry to this day. The state sector played an important role in industry, and only now, it seems, is its broader privatization maturing. I will add that the successes of the Japanese ec... |
FBIS3-42901_2 | Yasin on Measures for Revival of Economy | just reached the stage where they have basically achieved macroeconomic stabilization. They are now faced with the problem of production, and they do not know what to do with it. All countries that are in a process of transition from a communist system of economy are experiencing largely similar stages. Achieving macro... |
FBIS3-42901_4 | Yasin on Measures for Revival of Economy | earlier. In other words, we must set in motion a very delicate and precise mechanism for fine-tuning our economy. And we simply do not have the possibility of making any global changes: If we pursue any true alternative, social explosion and economic chaos are simply inevitable. [Lapshin] Nonetheless the policy being i... |
FBIS3-42906_0 | Bank Official on Inflation, Future Course of Economy | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Interview with Mikhail Belyayev, deputy chairman of the board of Kronbank, by DELOVOY MIR correspondent Marina Talskaya; place and date not given: "What the Screen of Privatization Was Concealing"] [Text] The end of last year saw a smooth reduction in the rate of growth of inflation ... |
FBIS3-42912_5 | Tatarstan Social Problems Center Surveys Economy | there will be a sharp increase in expenditures by the population on municipal services and transportation costs. It is known that these branches are surviving on state subsidies here. But it is also known that if the producer is subsidized, the branch is subject to stagnation. In other words, if society has a social ne... |
FBIS3-42913_4 | Tatarstan Land Reform Progress Viewed | There have been a good many cases in which land has been used ineffectively by peasant farms and the auxiliary farms of industrial enterprises. We analyze matters and attempt to take action. The ways to improve soil fertility and crop yields and to make effective use of land on such farms have been discussed in Almetye... |
FBIS3-42928_0 | Moscow Industrial Enterprises Contribute to Local Radioactive Hotbeds | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Sergei Shmelyov: "Radioactive Moscow"] [Text] To say that Moscow is becoming a radioactive disposal site is like saying that a heroine-mother is becoming a woman. Unfortunately, our capital is long been such a disposal site. Employees of the Radon Scientific Production Ass... |
FBIS3-42931_2 | Deputy Foreign Minister Views NATO Stance on Bosnia Air Strikes | the Security Council has invited UN member states and regional organizations to undertake "all necessary measures" to facilitate the implementation of resolutions, but has stipulated one steadfast condition: Such measures may be taken only "under the direction of the Security Council" and "in close coordination with th... |
FBIS3-42934_5 | Russian Ambassador to UNESCO Interviewed | painful issue now. [Fedotov] It is very painful, but there are also many others. Thus I suggested wording the question of the code of laws of Ivan III like this: "The 500th anniversary of the all-Russian rule-of-law statehood." [Rakhayeva] Perhaps it would be more correct to say "attempt at rule-of-law statehood"? Did ... |
FBIS3-42934_13 | Russian Ambassador to UNESCO Interviewed | I first arrived here I asked my coworkers if there were a document according to which the money of private individuals and organizations that materially support UNESCO projects was exempt from taxes. I was told that there was not; somehow nobody had ever thought of it. But, after all, any philanthropic fund stays alive... |
FBIS3-42937_1 | Status of U.S.-Russian Trade Relations | the barriers kept alive in the USA for the import into the country of high-technology goods, and antidumping legislation. As a result, the possibilities of exporting uranium products to the USA were considerably limited in the past, and an antidumping duty was imposed on ferrosilicium from Russia. Until recently there ... |
FBIS3-42937_4 | Status of U.S.-Russian Trade Relations | embargo on the export of agricultural products to the USSR, the US administration took a number of positive steps. Since 1987 the United States had been granting us subsidies for the purchase of wheat. In April 1992 the US Congress eliminated one of the key obstacles to Russian-American trade and economic relations--th... |
FBIS3-42937_5 | Status of U.S.-Russian Trade Relations | Nascent Euro-Asian Democracies and Support for Open Markets, better known as the Freedom Support Act, came into force in October 1992. It envisages the repeal of a number of legislative restrictions of the Cold War times, but does not affect Section IV of the 1974 US Trade Act (Jackson-Vanik amendment). Thanks to the V... |
FBIS3-42941_6 | Civil Aviation Administration Chief Interviewed | others. We make none of them ourselves. For that reason anyone can understand the degree to which we are under the control of others. However, common people consider it our fault when the cost of airline tickets is high. We must understand them. This is because today's prices cannot be paid by every other person. Howev... |
FBIS3-42951_7 | Political Profiles of Leaders of CIS Countries | the strong political position of the president of Ukraine has not been founded on real economic possibilities, which has led in Russian-Ukrainian relations, for example, to humiliating concessions, which President Kravchuk himself has called "kneeling." The attitude of the president of Ukraine toward the CIS is conditi... |
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