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FBIS3-55410_2 | Import Duties Seen as Counterproductive | income from this type of tax depends not only on the rate of the tax itself but also on how easy it is to collect. Furthermore, importers seek and often find a possibility of completely avoiding or significantly reducing payments. The idea of re-grading, as old as the whole command system itself, is in operation here: ... |
FBIS3-55413_1 | Commentary Views Clinton Visit, U.S. Attitude | advancement of reforms in Russia. The reforms were in the centre of attention during the parliamentary elections in Russia last month. The pros and cons of the reforms became evident then. The election results influenced the domestic political scene in Russia and to a certain extent international relations too. A somew... |
FBIS3-55420_4 | Nuclear Control Said `Technically Possible' | with some articles of the Lisbon Protocol under which our president's signature appears; yes, the document itself, from the point of view of politicians, contains rather naive points regarding security guarantees for Ukraine. However, it is pointless to assert either the wisdom or worthlessness of that document, procee... |
FBIS3-55497_11 | Kozyrev Views Prospects of NATO Expansion | of security for all European states. In Europe, "first and second-class security," "gray areas," and "special spheres of influence" are just as unacceptable as "isolated regions" and a "cordon sanitaire." -- The treaty-based foundation of European security, as it has emerged, must be preserved. This also concerns the t... |
FBIS3-55501_1 | U.S. Senators Comment on Talks on ABM Treaty | head of the Committee on Armed Services in the U.S. Congress, explained that the point at issue is not the revision of the fundamentals of that unlimited document aimed at continually reminding people of the nuclear threat, but the clearing up and fixing of basic differences between the ABM system within the framework ... |
FBIS3-55514_0 | Plight of Servicemen Detained by Moldova for Theft Viewed | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN ["Own information" report: "Beware of the Car"] [Text] The trial in Chisinau of Russian military personnel accused of stealing a car long ago acquired the hallmarks of a political trial -- in the same category as those which give grounds for maxims like "Politics is a dirty business!"... |
FBIS3-55515_3 | Importance of World Arms Market Stressed | in very complex aerobatics figures and eliciting the admiration of onlookers and specialists and the envy of foreign colleagues. "Selfless work by airmen with excellent hardware." This is not my assessment -- this was what the foreign press wrote about our airmen. Among the conversion output of defense enterprises spec... |
FBIS3-55570_17 | Military Doctrine Politically `Dubious' | confrontation between the three such trends which we previously dubbed "factors of purposeful change," "risk factors," and "new world order factors." Not one of these trends is favorable for Russia, coincides with its long-term economic, political, or military interests, or promises us anything new in the future other ... |
FBIS3-55629_3 | State of Ex-USSR Missile Warning System Examined | the radar field by including stations in the polar region, Latvia, and Ukraine. A plan was then developed for total, continuous OTH coverage in the missile-vulnerable western, southwestern, southern, and northeastern sectors. At the same time work was also under way on a fundamentally new phased-array OTH radar station... |
FBIS3-55660_3 | Kostikov Outlines `Clean Russia' Principles | a stable democracy such an expensive "pleasure" is permitted only once every several years. It is we, concerned with repelling the ideologists and leaders of the communo-fascists, who are prepared to go to the barricades or meetings at the first call to defend our fragile democracy. In old Europe meetings and demonstra... |
FBIS3-55663_0 | Statistics Committee Presents Economic Report for 1993 | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Russia's economic performance in 1993 has proved much less impressive than the government's economic forecast made at the end of 1992. The gross domestic product diminished by 12 percent, and, compared to 1991, by 29 percent. Experts of the independent research center Macroecon... |
FBIS3-55665_5 | Potential Role of Free Economic Zones Viewed | The FEZ's will be divided into two types: export production zones (production type) and unbonded zones (warehousing type). Incidentally, the latter have now been given the go-ahead with the publication of the Russian Federation Customs Code, and the drafts are now being worked out. International practice indicates the ... |
FBIS3-55715_0 | Sigua Condemns Shevardnadze's `Double Game' | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Interview with former Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua by Eteri Kakabadze; place and date not given: "Tengiz Sigua: `Gamsakhurdia Had a Choice; the Opposition Did Not'"] [Excerpt] [passage omitted] [Kakabadze]Could you tell us how and by whom was the decision taken to bring Shevardnadze b... |
FBIS3-55722_3 | Addresses State Duma | associations represented in the Federal Assembly becomes an everyday obligation of the government. Second -- what it is that the government should renounce --- impatience, which in striving for quick results has frequently led us, and still leads us today, to mere outward effects, but far from always equally effective ... |
FBIS3-55733_1 | Deputies Look Ahead to Work of Duma | Voters refused to follow the word "democrats" out of inertia, thus demanding that they be shown respect: If you want their support you have to give them money and responsibility. Give them the chance to see what they get for their taxes: Here is where they are going, and this is the sort of return I am getting. Therefo... |
FBIS3-55733_5 | Deputies Look Ahead to Work of Duma | of certain bloc leaders. Hence, it seems to me, a deputy should have the right to change faction at least once. I am for the democrats coordinating their actions in parliament. Everything should be discussed and agreed between ourselves beforehand; we should find common ground on which to stand in negotiations with the... |
FBIS3-55741_6 | Yeltsin Gives Opening Address to Federation Council | sidelines of the reforms, and it is perhaps this that is the reason for many difficulties and failures. It is our common task to align the market and culture to the greatest possible degree. Unless we do so, the market will not become civilized; unless we do so, the market will not emerge from crisis, there will be no ... |
FBIS3-55751_1 | Reasons for Clinton Refusal To Visit Kiev Assessed | officials that Washington is not merely unhappy with Kiev's behavior, but is annoyed and does not consider it necessary to conceal its annoyance. What is this unusual situation all about? [passage omitted] The world community's concern is understandable. Following the breakup of the USSR, 130 SS-19 ICBM's, each with si... |
FBIS3-55754_1 | Validity of Kiev Disarmament Accord in Doubt Official: Final Draft Not Yet Complete | in Moscow between the U.S., Russian, and Ukrainian presidents -- as hastily reported by Ostankino Television -- and on a bilateral meeting between the Ukrainian and U.S. presidents, Yuriy Serheyev, chief of Foreign Ministry Information Department, in particular said: [Begin Serheyev recording] As of today, I cannot say... |
FBIS3-55821_1 | Visit Seen as Support for Yeltsin | practical recommendations. THE TIMES believes that it is pointless for the West to be soft on Russia and try to "placate" Yeltsin since "Russia is no longer a superpower or an equal partner, and Yeltsin," THE TIMES claims, "is a caricature rather than a politician." Therefore, it says, Clinton, who is well known for wa... |
FBIS3-55828_0 | U.S. Grants Russia Subsidies in Power Industry | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Own Information report: "Americans Are Sponsoring Our Power Industry"] [Text] The governments of the United States and the Russian Federation have reached agreement on the provision to Russia of a nonreturnable subsidy of $125 million for the implementation of a program for the impor... |
FBIS3-55939_3 | Commentary Says Apparatus Needs Curbing | other politicians' power and powers. The power of a department (or branch of power) is limited by other departments' power and powers. Therefore, a politician's or department leader's power passes to his apparatus without a change in the total amount of power. An unjustified increase in the apparatus' size leads to con... |
FBIS3-55942_0 | Airline Unions Ask Yeltsin To Fire Chief | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Andrey Nikolayev report under the "Trade Unions" rubric: "Pilots and Air Controllers Demand Resignation of Air Transport Department Director"] [Text] Participants in the trade union conference of air crews of the Vnukovo Airlines company have passed an appeal to Boris Yeltsin and Vik... |
FBIS3-55953_0 | Research, Crew Changes Under Way at Mir Complex | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By unidentified ITAR-TASS correspondent] [Text] Flight Control centre January 12 TASS -- Five Russian cosmonauts -- Vasiliy Tsibliyev, Aleksandr Serebrov, Viktor Afanasyev, Yuriy Usachev, and Valeriy Polyakov -- are working for the third day running on board the "Mir" orbital complex... |
FBIS3-55993_2 | Program Examines Visit | same has we have been doing. We have always talked quite tough, it must be said. [end recording] [Video shows Yeltsin inspecting troops] Both Boris Yeltsin and the leaders of Western countries have displayed resilience in the situation that has arisen. The Russian president has raised his eyebrows. Everything is under ... |
FBIS3-56004_1 | Commentary Views Summit | that concrete ways of tuning the relationship between these countries, and also the perfecting of the cooperation mechanism and joint actions on the international arena will be worked out. It is difficult to conclude that the bilateral relationship between Russia and America are developing smoothly, without hitches. Na... |
FBIS3-56006_1 | Clinton Visit, Partnership Issues Viewed | risky political decisions based on the intuition of leaders and the degree of their trust in each other. These relations to all appearances have indeed reached a stage which can be called, as the documents which have been prepared call it, a mature strategic partnership. Some people may say that this is also an attempt... |
FBIS3-56011_5 | Kozyrev Advocates `Partnership' With NATO | nature of regional organizations and institutions as a guarantee of their appropriate adaptation to the current European realities. Russia has no right to dictate who should and who should not join NATO, but we have the right to count on the fact that the North Atlantic Alliance will take into account the particulariti... |
FBIS3-56014_0 | NATO Council Exposes `Internal Discord' on Yugoslavia | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Sergey Sidorov report: "Where `Humanitarian' Bombings Will Lead"] [Text] NATO countries' heads of state and government would be better off leaving the topic of the war in the former Yugoslavia, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina in particular, well alone. Once again the North Atlantic all... |
FBIS3-56020_1 | Foreign Ministry Spokesman Briefs on Various Issues Comments on U.S.-Russian Documents | all the Russias, in St. Daniil's Monastery. In the evening there will be a cocktail party for Russian public and business circles. This will be followed by an unofficial and private dinner given by Boris Yeltsin. On 14 January, the second working day of the visit, following the wreath-laying ceremony at the Unknown Sol... |
FBIS3-56045_0 | `Financial Bottleneck' Blamed for Decline in Private Farms | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Valeriy Konovalov report: "Growth of Private Farming Stops"] [Text] An alarming trend has recently been noted in Russia's private farming movement: The growth in number of private farms has come to a halt and a noticeable exodus of private farmers has begun in a number of regions. Th... |
FBIS3-56134_3 | Bank Chairman on Monetary Unification Advantages | through inflationary mark-ups [inflatsionnaya dobavka] added to retail prices for goods and services. [Koribut] In our country, reforms in the credit and financial sphere are, as a rule, accompanied by unexpected losses for one and undeserved benefits for the others. Will the National Bank undertake any measures intend... |
FBIS3-56144_2 | Supreme Council Commission Discusses Draft Constitution | balance, precisely a balance, precisely more extensive rights to the regions, proceeding from the policy of decentralization. And what's more, all this should be done so as to preserve the state's integrity. "Third, it would be expedient to forecast the passing of the prepared documents and the draft constitution, both... |
FBIS3-56186_4 | Differential Regional Economic Reform Urged | out of house and home. And there will consequently be grounds for separatism. A single-channel taxation system does not suit us, experts believe, and it leads toward confederation. The German option is the most acceptable: The center sets a single value-added tax and a single moderate rate of tax on profits payable to ... |
FBIS3-56188_10 | Further on 1994 Prospects | tonnes, respectively. Production will be 63 and 48 percent of total capacity, respectively. As the economy stabilizes, the demand for metal products will increase, which will require a larger volume of production. For a long time the fixed capital replacement rate in metallurgy has been 0.9-1.2 percent, which is three ... |
FBIS3-56188_16 | Further on 1994 Prospects | certain types of machines and equipment -- primarily output for consumers such as agriculture, construction, freight and passenger transport, and the population (passenger cars). On the whole, the decline in output volumes at machine building complex enterprises is expected to be of the order of 5-7 percent as opposed ... |
FBIS3-56243_0 | IMF Wants Monetary Policy To Get `Back on Track' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Vilnius, Jan 13, BNS -- The representative of the International Monetary Fund in Lithuania, Peter Cornelius, said the fund is seriously concerned about the present rate of inflation in Lithuania. The problem will reportedly be the central issue at talks between the Lithuanian G... |
FBIS3-56269_1 | Reaction to Clinton Visit Mixed Further Mamedov Comments | came to the end of a period when bilateral ties focused, due to circumstances connected with the initial stage of Russian reforms, on rendering aid to Russia in the humanitarian and other spheres". "We witness now a switch to macroeconomic partnership, assistance in structural changes of the Russian economy, in restruc... |
FBIS3-56272_1 | Reaction to Clinton Visit Mixed Yeltsin Said Satisfied | and a free economic system to help towards the advancement of all countries. Clinton said the two sides, meeting in full strength, would discuss concrete economic reforms that would help the Russian people reap real benefits from the ongoing transformations. "Russia will continue reforms and there is no question of the... |
FBIS3-56286_0 | Joint Statements Issued, Declaration Signed `Text' of Moscow Declaration | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Text of the Russian-U.S. Moscow Declaration"] [Text] [no dateline as received] The President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin and the President of the United States, William J. Clinton, having met together in Moscow from January 12- 15, 1994, reaffirmed the fundamental import... |
FBIS3-56286_2 | Joint Statements Issued, Declaration Signed `Text' of Moscow Declaration | of openness and mutual trust in Russian-U.S. relations and to create favorable conditions for the comprehensive development of political, commercial, humanitarian and people-to-people contacts between the two countries. In this connection, a mutual interest in enlarging consular presence on each other's territory was e... |
FBIS3-56287_0 | Joint Statements Issued, Declaration Signed `Text' of Memorandum on Export Controls | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Memorandum of Intent Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Area of Export Control The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation, reaffirming their d... |
FBIS3-56288_0 | Joint Statements Issued, Declaration Signed Arms Sales Controls, Policy | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Joint Statement on Issues of Export Controls and Policy in the Area of Transfers of Conventional Weapons and Dual-Use Technologies The secretary of state of the United States of America and the minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation underscored the staunch commit... |
FBIS3-56303_0 | Article Warns Against `Illusions' in Trade With U.S. | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Article by Dr. of Economic Sciences Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Porokhovskiy, deputy director of Russian Academy of Sciences United States and Canada Institute, under "Russia-United States: Dialogue About Partnership" rubric: "In Conditions of Sharp Competition"] [Text] Two laws have bee... |
FBIS3-56303_3 | Article Warns Against `Illusions' in Trade With U.S. | also ahead of their competitors in terms of the number of offices in Russia. These are the "pioneers" of U.S. business, who might develop business at any moment but are refraining at present, waiting to see how events develop in Russia in the future. If we look at Russian reality from this viewpoint, we should acknowle... |
FBIS3-56309_4 | Proposes Partnership With West, NATO | with the leading representatives of the seven most industrially advanced nations (G-7) toward multilateral cooperation, that is, to the fulfillment of these promises. Partnership on Behalf of a United Europe In designing the new European architecture, it is important to take into consideration the following criteria: A... |
FBIS3-56338_2 | German Papers Cited on Zhirinovskiy Backers | with another entrepreneur -- Edwin Neuwirth, a man with a very curious biography. At 16 he voluntarily joined the SS and to this day remains a member of "Fellowship No. 4," which brings together former SS men. In 1950 he obtained Austrian citizenship and started to trade in lumber; he traveled to Russia and Yugoslavia.... |
FBIS3-56373_2 | `Chief Result' Noted | President Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine, who had arrived in Moscow by air expressly for this purpose, described this as a historic moment. Ukraine in actual fact agreed to become a non-nuclear country. In exchange for that, Kiev received guarantees of security and compensation for getting rid of nuclear arms in the form o... |
FBIS3-56375_1 | `Mature Strategic Global Partnership' With U.S. | improvement in Russian-U.S. relations in Eurasia and the world as a whole." The two countries' cooperation in strengthening strategic stability and security is also given new substance. "A milestone that it proved possible to overcome in Moscow was the adoption of a decision leading to the elimination of nuclear weapon... |
FBIS3-56394_0 | Trade Minister Says U.S. Still Discriminates Against Russia | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [From the "Radio Slavyanka" program of the Russian Defense Ministry] [Text] Despite significant progress in Russian-U.S. trade and economic relations, they are not yet free from the legacy of the Cold War, Oleg Davydov, Russia's minister for foreign economic relations, told Itar-Tass ... |
FBIS3-56467_1 | Commentary Views Gaydar Departure | the appearance of a certain freedom of consumer choice, privatization -- all this is directly linked to Gaydar and his team. As are also, however, the fall in the living standards of a significant number of people, the shutdown of production units, and the other serious problems connected with attempts to cure chronic,... |
FBIS3-56470_1 | Resignation Seen as Logical | the start, Yegor Gaydar claimed starring roles in the cabinet. After the election defeat Viktor Chernomyrdin demoted Gaydar to the "second" first vice premier. The formal sharing of the status of first deputy with Soskovets, who can be defined as the cabinet's industry leader, effectively deprived the ex-premier of the... |
FBIS3-56542_2 | Yeltsin Gives Statement at News Conference With Clinton | present time it is not humanitarian aid that we need but full-blooded cooperation, taking into account the transitional nature of the young market economy of Russia. Specifically I find that, together with the Tokyo package and with Clinton's package in Vancouver, that the most tangible support for Russia would be for ... |
FBIS3-56544_1 | Question-Answer Session | in supporting reforms by helping with the conversion of military enterprises, and so on. We are not asking for direct social aid, because the people of the United States themselves need such social support. It would be simply frivolous to help with unemployment in Russia without guaranteeing employment in their own cou... |
FBIS3-56544_9 | Question-Answer Session | this will affect [word indistinct] the citizen of Russia. The point is that there is always a gap between the time when a decision is made and the time when people can actually feel the effect of this decision on their lives. This is exactly what I was trying to explain during my walkabout yesterday while shaking hands... |
FBIS3-56544_10 | Question-Answer Session | of this fact? [Yeltsin] I do not think we have that sort of Parliament. This Parliament is wiser, more intellectual, and more experienced. I believe that the upper chamber will, generally speaking, pursue the line taken by the president and the Government, while the State Duma will gradually reach that position and rea... |
FBIS3-56544_11 | Question-Answer Session | I think these are two separate things, because you have to respect the democratic process and in every democratic process no one is satisfied with the outcome of all elections, I can tell you that. In that sense, I do not think they present a threat to the democratic process. Now I think what is happening here is that ... |
FBIS3-56634_0 | People's Front Men Arrested; Newspapers Banned | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Report by Aleksandr Sokolov under the "Azerbaijan" rubric: "Mass Arrests of People's Front Activists Begin. Opposition Newspapers Suspended"] [Text] According to the People's Front of Azerbaijan (PFA)'s press service, local Internal Affairs Ministry officers in the Nakhichevan Autono... |
FBIS3-56689_0 | Military Expert Views Dismantling Ukrainian Missiles | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Vladimir Gondusov] [Text] Moscow January 18 TASS -- "We are able to remove all nuclear warheads stationed on the Ukrainian territory to Russia within a year for subsequent dismantling them at enterprises at which they were produced," Colonel-General Yevgeni... |
FBIS3-56707_0 | Cuban Navy Chief Concludes Visit to Russia | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Russian Navy Press Center report under the "News" rubric: "Made a Tour of Russia"] [Text] Rear Admiral Pedro M. Betancourt, vice minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and commander of the Revolutionary Navy of the Republic of Cuba, has paid an official visit to the Russian Feder... |
FBIS3-56752_0 | Gaydar Resignation Creates Money Market `Panic' | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Ivan Zhagel article: "Money Market Responds to Chief Monetarist's Departure With Panic"] [Excerpt] [passage omitted] It is obvious that the personnel changes in the government are the reason for the current panic in the money market. What has had most effect here is the voluntary res... |
FBIS3-56930_0 | Paper Views Aspin Resignation, Inman Withdrawal | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Article by Mikhail Pogorelyy: "Clinton's Double Loss"] [Text] Les Aspin's term as U.S. defense secretary was to have expired today. Not a term laid down by U.S. legislation for the President's team, but the month for which the President asked the Pentagon chief to continue carrying o... |
FBIS3-56951_3 | Deputy Minister Interviewed on Ties to Koreas | has been signed. This has increased the possibility of learning the history, culture, and traditions of each other's country. Relations between scientific and educational organizations of the two countries have been promoted comprehensively, and contacts between the two countries' scientific academic organizations. Sci... |
FBIS3-56965_2 | Press Review for 22 Jan | times." Pointing to the relative stabilisation of the Russian currency market, IZVESTIYA writes that the hope for the stabilisation of the exchange rate is based on the dramatic reduction of the demand for hard currency at the latest auction. "It stood at 67,100,000 dollars, while since the beginning of the year it had... |
FBIS3-56996_3 | Parliament Official on Trilateral Nuclear Accord | after its parameters are specified. [Ostapenko] I am sorry to interrupt you. You have just read the item that has to do with all sides without exception. But nothing is said here about the Supreme Council resolution on the ratification of START I with reservations. It clearly stipulates that 36 percent of launcher vehi... |
FBIS3-57112_6 | First Week of State Duma's Work Reviewed | of publicity. And maybe there is some basis to the rumor that a "second key" has been fitted to the electronic ballot system, and that during a secret ballot (which by its very nature is impossible to verify) it brings about the required result.... It is exasperating to talk about this, but falsehood, deceit, and the d... |
FBIS3-57274_2 | Investigator Details `Genocide' in Abkhazia | indeed take place on the territory of Abkhazia. Moreover, several issues of the newspaper would probably not suffice to simply list the biographical details of those persons who were killed by the Abkhazian separatists and their hirelings. Those who were slaughtered did not participate in military operations. You canno... |
FBIS3-57274_4 | Investigator Details `Genocide' in Abkhazia | Georgian families residing in Abkhazia shared the same fate as Nugzar Varlamis dze [son of Varlam] Jimsheleishvili, former Abkhazian Cabinet of Ministers engineer. His father, Varlam Noes [son of Noe] Jimsheleishvili was taken prisoner, his home was ransacked, and his mother Babutsa Pipia and mother-in-law Mzia Kalandi... |
FBIS3-57281_1 | Minimum Salaries, Grants, Benefits Increased | for people having the status of unemployed persons, refugees, and forcibly displaced persons are to be raised by 150 percent. 2. To fix the amount of family allowance as follows: a) maternity allowance paid as a lump sum -- 100 (one hundred) thousand coupons; b) minimum wage: -- 50 percent -- for the care of children u... |
FBIS3-57296_1 | Duma Committee Urges `More Realistic' Balkans Policy | Yugoslavia does not conform in all respects with Russia's interests in the Balkan region. Sergey Lavrov, Russian Federation deputy minister of foreign affairs, made the same point when addressing deputies. He emphasized that Russia does not support the idea of air strikes against Bosnian Serb positions, as proposed by ... |
FBIS3-57306_1 | Ambassador Speaks at CE Ministers' Committee | development of mechanisms intended to ensure compliance in this area. First, let me stress the importance of the newly-established office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, who will enjoy the status of a UN Undersecretary General, a post whose creation was adopted by consensus of the 184 UN member states. Howeve... |
FBIS3-57321_2 | Political, Economic Results of Accord Viewed | Friday [14 January] about Moscow's pledges of fair play in negotiating the $2-billion indebtness with Kiev have not borne out entirely. Looming ahead is the perspective of endless blanket-pulling and difficult inter-governmental talks. According to a dark vision by government officials, instead of the entire debt, Russ... |
FBIS3-57362_0 | Lukin Views Duma's Influence on Foreign Policy | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Vladimir Lukin has been elected the head of the State Duma Committee for International Affairs. He was a former Russian ambassador to the United States. How can the State Duma influence the formulation of Russian foreign policy? More from our parliamentary correspondent, who in... |
FBIS3-57367_0 | Kravchuk Introduces Constitution to Supreme Council | Language: Ukrainian Article Type:BFN [Speech by President Leonid Kravchuk to the Supreme Council in Kiev -- live] [Text] Esteemed People's Deputies: In his introduction, chairman of the Supreme Council, Ivan Stepanovich Plyushch, gave some brief information about the order, procedure, and the passage of this document [... |
FBIS3-57429_3 | Gaydar Grants Interview 24 Jan | with a part of the new bourgeoisie that is interested in receiving handouts from them represents the factor that is capable of paralyzing through and through any potential for development, simultaneously exacerbating constantly the most acute social problems, inequality, and dissatisfaction", he said. Asked about the c... |
FBIS3-57433_0 | Extension of 1993 Draft `Forced Measure' | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Oleg Falichev report: "The Fall `93 Draft Was Very Difficult. What Will Its Extension Be Like?"] [Text] There is hardly any sense in discussing again in detail the difficult situation among the troops due to the shortage of personnel. Much has already been written about officers doin... |
FBIS3-57451_1 | Agrarian Party Economic Program Outlined | trade, financial stabilization.... Essentially it is the "Houston Report" that has determined the Russian Government's activity in the last two years. This program's implementation is leading to the destruction of Russia's scientific and technical potential, the bankrupting of the processing industry, the collapse of a... |
FBIS3-57514_3 | Merit of `Mild' Market Reform Questioned | people do not know what a market economy is." Four years ago, in the same interview with the KYODO News Agency, the leading Japanese economist also did not spare Petrakov and Abalkin, whose "moderate plan" for market transformations was ultimately approved by Gorbachev: Hisao Kanamori concluded that this program also d... |
FBIS3-57606_1 | Kozyrev Continues Official Visit to PRC Addresses Diplomacy Institute | will remain multi-polar. The danger of major military conflicts is now lesser than ever since the end of the Second World War. "However, Kozyrev continued, there are quite significant sources of tension, not only inherited from the `Cold War', but also engendered by new problems. They include the problem of access to t... |
FBIS3-57645_0 | Doubts on Yazov Evidence Blow to SCSE Case | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Valeriy Rudnev report: "The SCSE Case: Flawed Evidence of the Prosecutor's Office Is Excluded From Judicial Process"] [Text] The continuing judicial process in the Russian Supreme Court in the SCSE (State Committee for the State of Emergency) case begins increasingly to resemble the ... |
FBIS3-57651_2 | Air Force Commander Views `Difficult' Year | military-transport pilots transported over 10,000 [as published] people and over 11,000 tonnes of national economic freight. We delivered technological equipment to the Surgut oil men, metal working machines to the Norilsk mining and metallurgical combine, and humanitarian freight from Germany. Residents of various par... |
FBIS3-57718_0 | Expert Views Economic Relations With United States | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Vladimir Radkevich, chairman of the State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations, by Larisa Grigorovich; place and date not given: "Belarus-United States: Partnership Across the Ocean"] [Text] [Radkevich] A package of documents was submitted for adoption by the U.S. ... |
FBIS3-57751_0 | International Economic Forum Held in Davos Yeltsin Aide Comments | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondents Nikita Yermakov and Konstantin Pribytkov] [Text] Davos (Switzerland), 30 Jan -- All the talk about a change in the reform course in Russia is premature, and in the West it is also too emotional, Dmitriy Ryurikov, the Russian Federation president's adviser ... |
FBIS3-57765_0 | Mock Lists Foreign Policy Priorities | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Mock Indicates Priorities"] [Text] Austria's membership in the European Union (EU), Vienna's commitment on human rights issues, and attempts at defusing the crisis in the Balkans are the priorities of Austrian foreign policy at the turn of 1993/94, Foreign Minist... |
FBIS3-57769_0 | Turkish Embassy Seeks Ban on PKK Activity After Clashes | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Brussels, Jan 2 (AA) -- Turkish Embassy in Belgium on Sunday [2 January] warned Belgian Foreign Ministry on incidents that happened in Brussels last night. Embassy under secretary Ali Koprulu evaluating the incidents said Turkish citizens should be calm against provocations. Ko... |
FBIS3-57770_0 | Daily Outlines 1993 Arms Exports | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Report by George Timmerman: "Belgian-Walloon Arms Exports: `Business As Usual' -- Trade to Gulf States Continues"] [Text] Brussels, 29 Dec -- In a few weeks Foreign Trade Minister Robert Urbain [PS: French-speaking wing of the Socialist Party] will have to present his report on the Bel... |
FBIS3-57782_0 | Editorial Views Clinton's `Astonishing Comeback' | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Editorial by Kurt Kister: "Clinton's Astonishing Comeback"] [Text] On 20 January 1993, Bill Clinton swore his oath of office. One month afterwards, renowned commentators declared the administration to be a premature birth without any marked prospects for survival. Already, during the ... |
FBIS3-57784_2 | Civilian Air Control To Monitor Eastern Airspace | Hersfeld to Laage. A total of 45 planes will be deployed in Laage for the control of the air space. There are plans -- but no decision has been made -- to station a transport unit in Holzdorf south of Jueterborg that is to be removed from Wuensdorf near Hanover. The Bundeswehr has helicopter airports in Cottbus and Bas... |
FBIS3-57795_0 | Minister Sarcozy on Health Insurance, Social VAT | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report on interview with Budget Minister Nicolas Sarkozy; place and date not given: "Government: Mr. Sarkozy Mentions Possibility of a `Social VAT'"] [Text] Budget Minister Nicolas Sarkozy explains in an interview published by PARIS MATCH (dated 6 January) that the two pr... |
FBIS3-57805_0 | Turkoman Leader Calls For Hammer Force Protection | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] The Turkoman Unity Party in Iraq [TUPI] has claimed that 2.5 million Turkomans have been abandoned to live at the mercy of the sense of fairness of Saddam's administration and of the Kurdish government in northern Iraq, and they called on Hammer Force to protect the Turkoman pe... |
FBIS3-57807_19 | Part 2 of Interview | press statements under the name of Kani Yilmaz as the ERNK [National Liberation Front of Kurdistan] representative (recorded with permission from the republic prosecutors office), information has been obtained that the newspaper is completely affiliated to the PKK. Under a decision taken by the State Security Court, a ... |
FBIS3-57823_0 | Tobback Reacts to Turkish-Kurdish Communities Clashes | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article by Gerald Papy: "Not Spontaneous"] [Text] On Sunday [2 January], Louis Tobback, Belgian interior minister, agreed to share his thoughts with us following the violent events of the previous day. He largely refutes the idea that the Turkish reaction to the meeting of the Kurds i... |
FBIS3-57824_0 | Turkish Envoy: Tobback `Misinformed' | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Interview with Yildirim Keskin, Turkish ambassador to Belgium, by correspondent Jean-Pierre Jacquemin on 3 January; place not given -- recorded] [Excerpt] [Passage omitted] There were many contacts between both capitals [Brussels and Ankara] today. Jean-Pierre Jacquemin has just inter... |
FBIS3-57825_0 | Claes: PKK Supporters To Be Deported | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over still of Foreign Minister Cetin] [Text] Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin spoke with Belgian Foreign Minister Willy Claes on the telephone and expressed his regret over the incidents in Brussels. Claes pointed out that the Belgian Government and the municipalit... |
FBIS3-57826_0 | Ankara Reportedly Supports Gray Wolves | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article by Alain Lallemand: "Turkish Extreme Right, Ankara's Objective Ally"] [Text] Who are these Gray Wolves in Belgium which Interior Minister Louis Tobback is accusing of leading the anti-Kurd demonstrations of recent days? Their official name is "Turk-islam Federasyonu" or "Belci... |
FBIS3-57834_5 | SPD Manager Verheugen Views 1994 Elections | landtag elections only a select group of people would sit together. [Verheugen] And what was the result? After the Hamburg Burgess election the bizarre situation arose that the Greens, who won more than 10 percent of the vote, were not represented at all. It was then that I said that I would not do that again. However,... |
FBIS3-57836_2 | Tietmeyer Views Inflation, Interest Rate Policy | but decisions are now required in the area of the companies themselves, collective wage settlements, labor cost, and the area of public finances, which essentially influence the framework conditions. [Blohm] The word "social cuts" is the keyword in 1993. You said that monetary policy cannot be the repair shop of public... |
FBIS3-57839_4 | Social Benefits Targeted for Cuts | can migrate quickly to countries that are more competitive, and there are many countries that do not pay wages for a 13th month." The problem is obviously not so much the tradition of a one month's Christmas bonus--which is, moreover, already reduced by tax adjustments and by year-end household expenses--as it is the c... |
FBIS3-57841_1 | Defense Minister Warns of Danger From Russia | Swedish defense and security is often dominated by domestic considerations. The day-to-day debate's ups and downs for views on everything from neutrality policy to tanks seem to have a greater effect on the views of many who take part in the debate than developments in the rest of the world. What is currently fashionab... |
FBIS3-57846_0 | Foreign Ministry Blames Brussels For Incidents | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report] [Text] Turkey has formally asked the Belgian government for information on the truth of the statements issued by the Belgian interior minister and reflected in the press as though the Turkish citizens are to blame for the incidents in Brussels. Turkey announced... |
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