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FBIS4-21976_3
Hamas and Israel Trade Rhetoric Hamas Official on Israel Threats, Jordan Stand
substantiate these fears by citing the history of Jordan's relationship with PLO factions. Are these fears likely to materialize with regard to the Hamas Movement? Abu-Marzuq: We believe that the security and stability of any Arab country, particularly Jordan, plays a role in supporting Palestinian rights. On the other...
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Brotherhood Spokesman on Ties With, Curbing Extremism
the outside world, including the United States and Iran. Also, your contacts with the Zionist movement are not ruled out. Al-Hudaybi: We have no connection with any of those. We have no relations with Iran, except when we are invited to attend a conference there. We have no relations with the United States, because nob...
FBIS4-22021_3
PKK Milieu in Copenhagen Described
Faruk Logoglu, Turkey's ambassador, responded by condemning criminal behavior and urging the Kurdistan Committee to go to the police with any evidence it has of the embassy's involvement. So far no evidence has been forthcoming and there is a similar lack of evidence on the international level that the PKK's adversarie...
FBIS4-22022_1
Media Coverage of Right-Wing Activity 9-15 April
abuse names." Rudolf was fired by the Max-Planck Institute when they found out that he had abused their name, and now the Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating him for incitement. In Tuebingen, the (Grabert) Publishing Company is located, which prints right-wing extremist material. A few months ago "Lectures on C...
FBIS4-22022_8
Media Coverage of Right-Wing Activity 9-15 April
to blame himself," police say. Addressees of the letters, which were all posted in Nuremberg and also use the term "deportation law," were members of the Jewish community, Yugoslavs, Turks, Syrians, Libyans, and Vietnamese. Some of them have filed a complaint against unknown perpetrators. A police spokesman said that t...
FBIS4-22027_1
Stasi Role in Lockerbie Bombing Examined
colleagues from the State Protection Office, investigators from the Wiesbaden Federal Office of Criminal Investigations Office (BKA), and prosecutors from Frankfurt and Berlin are trying to solve the most mysterious crime story of recent years: the story of the timer. The timer, which is not even worth 400 German marks...
FBIS4-22034_0
Reasons Behind PKK's Diminished Activity Explained
BFN [Article by Sinan Yilmaz: "PKK Lies in Ambush"] [Text] Among all the commotion over the local elections, the coalition and the stability package, the problem of Turkey's Kurds and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been forgotten. Certain Army and government officials, declaring that the PKK has been rendered i...
FBIS4-22038_0
Mentese Reports al-Asad Assurances on Arrest of PKK Members
BFN [Text] Ankara, April 14 (A.A.) -- Interior Minister Nahit Mentese on Thursday said that Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad assured him that if necessary PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terrorists near the border would be arrested. He was speaking to reporters in the plane on his way back from Syria where he met with a...
FBIS4-22039_0
Cross-Border Operation Against PKK In Northern Iraq
BFN [Excerpt] Turkish ground and air force units and Kurdish peshmergas affiliated with Democratic Party of Kurdistan leader Mas'ud Barzani have launched a major operation against the Kurdish Workers Party [PKK] militants in northern Iraq. Some 40,000 troops and 3,000 commandos affiliated with the commando brigade on H...
FBIS4-22040_0
Kurdish Rebel Leader Says Ready for Peaceful Settlement
BFN [Excerpt] Istanbul, April 15 (AFP) - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, who heads the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighting the Turkish government, said Friday he was ready to end a 10-year war against Ankara if favourable conditions for a peaceful solution were set up. He made the offer in an interview in the ...
FBIS4-22044_0
Security Forces Capture `Terrorist' Camps in North Iraq
BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Excerpt] The cross-border operations launched by the security forces south of Hakkari's Cukurca District on 12 April against terrorists trying to infiltrate into Turkey are continuing. The Shivi, Mezi and Keryaderi camps used by the terrorists as bases in Northern Iraq have been ...
FBIS4-22057_0
Political Violence Statistics for January - February 94
CSO [DESCO Special Report No 34: "Political Violence in Peru Today," issued by Peru's Center for Development Studies and Promotion (DESCO)] [Text] January 1994's statistics on political violence were similar to those of November 1993. There were 34 incidents and 40 killings, more or less the same level as the early yea...
FBIS4-22057_1
Political Violence Statistics for January - February 94
a tie for fourth and last place between the principal committee (Ayacucho) and the southern region with two incidents (6 percent) each. Two incursions took place in the south, in Orurillo district, and there was a targeted killing and a guerrilla incursion in the principal region. With regard to the number of victims, ...
FBIS4-22118_0
Article Views Recent PKK Activities in Germany
BFN [Joerg Bischof article: "Like a Fish in Water"] [Text] In mid-February this year it happened again: Five noncommissioned officer cadets died and 26 soldiers of the Turkish Army were injured, some of them seriously, when a bomb exploded at the railroad station of the Istanbul suburb of Tuzla. It was hidden in a tras...
FBIS4-22128_0
Interior Minister on Operations Against PKK Since January
BFN [Announcer-read report] [Text] Interior Minister Nahit Mentese has declared that during operations conducted against the terrorist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] organization since the beginning of 1994, 1,037 terrorists were killed, 871 of whom were killed in the state of emergency region. During the same period...
FBIS4-22129_0
Illegal Islamic Group Said Behind 10 April Incidents
BFN [Excerpts] Ankara, MILLIYET -- It has been reported that the fundamentalist illegal organization called the Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front [Islami Buyuk Dogu Akincilar-Cephesi] [IGER-F] was responsible for staging demonstrations in several big cities, especially in Ankara and Istanbul, and stoning the U.S. Emb...
FBIS4-22131_0
Explosives Thrown at Seven Istanbul Banks, Cause No Injuries
BFN [Text] Istanbul, April 25 (A.A.) -- Unidentified men hurled Molotov cocktails at seven bank offices in various districts of Istanbul on Sunday, causing material damage. The Haznedar, Fatih, Sofular, Maslak, and Gaziosmanpasa branches of Yapi ve Kredi Bank, the Tarabya branch of Akbank, and the Cennet Mahallesi bran...
FBIS4-22132_0
Major Operation Against PKK in Turkey, Iraq Reported
BFN [Text] Diyarbakir/Ankara -- Turkish commandos, supported by warplanes and military helicopters, have expanded their operation in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq and will remain in the region for a major part of the summer, official sources said on Monday. They said approximately 5,000 troops had already entered Ir...
FBIS4-22133_0
Paper Reports Kurdish Tribes Join Forces Against PKK
BFN [Text] The renowned Jirki, Gevdan, Mamguran, Giravi, and Goran tribes in Sirnak and Hakkari Provinces have joined their forces against the Kurdish Workers Party [PKK]. The tribes, which have thousands of armed men, assembled in Beytussebap District to demonstrate against the PKK at 1030 yesterday. Some 5,000 demons...
FBIS4-22137_0
Possible PKK Camps in Armenia Investigated
BFN [Editorial Report] Ankara Show Television in Turkish at 1920 GMT on 18 April carries a report on rumors that the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] is settling in Armenia because the Turkish security forces operations succeeded in forcing the PKK to pullout of northern Iraq. The footage begins with "32d Day" correspo...
FBIS4-22146_4
Import of Arms and Military Technologies into India
on a list of products authorized for import into the country under an open general license. This import practice extends to the software sector and other technical documentation in the field of information science. Duties on imports of computer programs have decreased 60 percent, but at the same time the maximum propor...
FBIS4-22151_9
Military Aspects of Space Programs of West European
fixed stations are equipped with antennas 12.2 and 12.8 meters in diameter, respectively. The radiating power of the transmitting equipment is 20 kW. The T-3 and T-4 transportable stations are located in a standard containing which can be transported on C-130 Hercules aircraft. The antenna is 6.4 meters in diameter, an...
FBIS4-22156_0
Prospects for Defense Sales in Asia
CSO [Article by Candidate of Historical Sciences Nikolay Yevsenkin under the rubric "At the Crossroads of Trade": "`Eldorado' in Asia"] [Text] The nations of Southeast Asia, the Pacific Rim, are called the new "Golden Eldorado" today. Traveling businessmen of all the world's military companies of any significance are f...
FBIS4-22160_5
Military Producers Face Uphill Battles
out new contacts, to convince people of the superiority of our goods, to search for mutually acceptable options, and ultimately to win over potential partners -- indeed, can we survive without this? There are enough experts in the Russian Federation with a highly developed knowledge of such sensitive matters -- includi...
FBIS4-22177_7
Admiral Kasatonov on Black Sea Fleet Problem
Russia from financing the Black Sea Fleet thus trying to break the Black Sea Fleet sailors; then -- having realized that it is unable to maintain the Fleet -- it completely stopped financing it in September 1993. Moreover, it has imposed on a fleet subordinated to the Ukrainian president customs duties and a land tax. ...
FBIS4-22186_4
Military, Economic Utility of SS-25
rather than in the "far seas" or "way up in the sky." It can also be asserted that fundamentally missiles of the SS-25 type cannot possess a high degree of safety while on the move. At least their safety is always less than that of naval and air delivery systems of nuclear warheads, not to mention stationary missiles i...
FBIS4-22206_7
Fuel, Material-Technical Problems Constrain Flight Training Limited Flying Impedes Pilot Skill Level
at their former place of service. And those who had no apartments to begin with have sent their families to live with their parents. They themselves live in barracks. Recently, still another problem was added to all the problems that the regiment already has: Complete disarray in providing the regiment with financial s...
FBIS4-22207_2
Flight Safety Examined in Light of Training Constraints
flight incidents -- at least, there were no catastrophes. There is no point in discussing at length how they managed this. The most important thing, after all, is to hope that disasters continue to pass by the aviators this year as well. Relying on God alone is hardly enough; concrete steps need to be taken to ensure f...
FBIS4-22209_0
Statute On Export Of Military-Related Goods, Resources
CSO [Presidential directive, government decree, and statute on export controls for military-related goods and resources] [Text] Russian Federation Presidential Directive "On Controlling Exports From the Russian Federation of Certain Types of Raw and Other Materials, Equipment, Technologies, and Scientific-Technical Inf...
FBIS4-22214_3
Sakhalin Notes Increase in Drug Abuse
of tricks to prove that our actions were illegal. [Demakov] Although literally everyone, including that defense attorney, knows that this is a real criminal.... [Tepsurkayev] Of course. That is why we receive offers of help from representatives of the former Russian Federation Ministry of Security, the heads of the Int...
FBIS4-22225_2
Churchman on Connection Between Religion, Politics
know my activity of that period. I came to Bondarchuk, at the time the Metropolitan Ioann (UAPTs). I of course had the desire to see that the Orthodox Church in Ukraine became independent. At Bondarchuk's they convinced me that the episcopal ordinations of his organization were canonical (I appealed to Metropolitan And...
FBIS4-22228_6
Official Discusses Regional Autonomy Move
such contradictions are there in the Cabinet of Ministers documents that regulate the implementation of the edict? [Lazarenko] Many, unfortunately. In addition to cutting up the list of enterprises to suit itself, the Cabinet of Ministers has also drafted a decree on the procedure for managing enterprises, institutions...
FBIS4-22230_7
Meshkov Details Views on Crimea
the result that was obtained by these centers upon their analysis of the situation in Russia on the eve of the 12 December elections as not coinciding with reality--in catastrophic fashion. [Moroz] It seems to me you are gravely mistaken in your evaluation of Zhirinovskiy. Which I greatly regret. [Meshkov] Is he more d...
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Meshkov Details Views on Crimea
acceptable means of payment, since our main flow of tourists--people who spend money in Crimea--are citizens of Russia. To provide them normal services, if you will, is one of the most important tasks of our oblast economy. And we will accomplish this task. [Moroz] But there is no border between Crimea and Ukraine. It ...
FBIS4-22232_4
Regional Economic Restructuring Proposed
necessary to speed up not only the privatization of housing, but, first and foremost, the privatization of enterprises that provide housing and municipal services. The regional mechanism of economic change requires the necessary levers to foster the development and growth of business enterprise, and, above all, small a...
FBIS4-22233_10
Morozov Attacks Trilateral Agreement
or social-market oriented) cannot be discerned, at any rate in Ukraine. That is why self-reliance is another goal of this compromise program. On 10 February 1994, The Washington Times published an article entitled "Talbott foresees no change in focus," in which it quotes the deputy secretary of state: "If... reform in ...
FBIS4-22235_0
Country's Drug Trade Examined
CSO [Article by Margarita Kornysheva under the rubric "Crime and the Law": "Until the Chicken Has Its Head Cut Off"] [Text] Here is some information about the drug trade obtained from confidential sources. First, not only do well-established systems for the delivery and distribution of narcotic substances operate in Es...
FBIS4-22241_1
Russia's Need for `United and Stable' Ukraine Argued
in 1991, the positions of many political forces changed only slightly. Those who in 1992 resentfully said to Ukrainians, "You will be sorry," are maliciously grinning, and they are saying, "The eyes saw what they were buying...." Others who have still not resigned themselves to the breakup of the USSR await with hope t...
FBIS4-22242_1
ZAVTRA on `Who Comes After Yeltsin'
CIA "Kremlinologists," believe that new presidential elections most likely will take place much earlier. The reason is increasingly intensifying problems related to B. Yeltsin's health. In the assessment of American and German physicians, the current master of the Kremlin suffers from pathological changes in the brain ...
FBIS4-22257_1
News From St Petersburg Inflation in City Noted
does not reflect in any way the trend in inflationary processes, as a basis for their conclusions regarding the government's course, effectiveness of reforms, political situation, etc. For instance, they associate the aforementioned "record" 9.9 percent with the fact that Chernomyrdin allegedly has become an even great...
FBIS4-22257_2
News From St Petersburg Inflation in City Noted
of municipal services (sixfold, due to a 18.9-fold increase in water usage rates), consumer services, transportation, etc. This means that these price changes did not take place for the reasons commentators now describe with hope and elation; they happened for other reasons, and not without some doing on the part of th...
FBIS4-22260_0
News From St Petersburg Election Commission on Results
CSO [Unattributed report: "Elections: Who Made It to the Second Round?"] [Text] At a press conference in the Mariinskiy Palace yesterday, City Electoral Commission Chairman V.I. Fomichev announced the preliminary results of the elections to the St. Petersburg City Assembly. Of the 3.8 million eligible voters in the cit...
FBIS4-22265_8
NATO, Not CSCE, Called Basis for European Security
EC and WEU. Nor was solution made any easier by the establishment in June 1993 of priorities in decision-making on the use of force by the international community to maintain peace in Europe, which implied that these matters must first be settled at the level of the UN Security Council or the CSCE, after which appropri...
FBIS4-22266_4
Bosnian Envoy to Moscow Views Prospects for Ties With
the bodies of two Russian mercenaries out of Bosnia. There was another curious incident, where a Muscovite came to our representation and asked me to help him....enlist in the Serbian Army. I advised him to go to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Embassy, with a comment to the effect that he had made a slight error in...
FBIS4-22267_0
Limits on Oil Via Turkish Straits Eyed
CSO [Article by Aydyn Mekhtiyev under the rubric "Geopolitics": "Ankara Wants To Restrict the Passage of Tankers Through Its Straits. Moscow Will Most Likely Not Support This Action"] [Text] An accident involving a supertanker carrying fuel that occurred in the Turkish Strait of Bosphorus last Sunday has made topical t...
FBIS4-22268_15
Turkey's Demirel Views Russo-Turkish Relations, Regional
and Azerbaijan were here. We talked very openly with them. [Gagua] What is your view of the criticism being expressed by Western countries in regard to the violations of human rights in the south-eastern regions of Turkey? [Demirel] Human rights constitute one of the cornerstones of the new European and world order. We...
FBIS4-22268_16
Turkey's Demirel Views Russo-Turkish Relations, Regional
to civil courts. Moreover, the courts are actively involved in the cases of the bureaucrats and officials who have committed human rights violations, and they will hand them a court sentence if their guilt is proved. The situation with human rights in Turkey must be assessed in the context of the terrorism that the cou...
FBIS4-22272_1
Weapons Deliveries Proposed To Clear Foreign Debt
to pay off the Russian state debt to a number of Asian states. In the opinion of KOMMERSANT-DAILY commentator Sergey Tsekhmistrenko, in the event of a positive resolution of this question, the producers, practically speaking, will be deprived of the opportunity to exert any kind of influence on weapons export. Producti...
FBIS4-22279_1
1993, 1994 Export Quotas Compared
Last year's results are explained not by the fact that the quotas allocated were too high, but by the fact that there was a change in the price relations on the Russian and world markets. Domestic prices increased, outstripping the relatively smooth reduction in the currency exchange rate of the ruble. However, world p...
FBIS4-22280_1
Impact of New Import Tariffs Described
liquor alcoholic 2 EKYu per 1 liter beverages 870323190 Automobiles with engine 46% capacity over 1,800 cubic cm, but no more than 3,000 cubic cm, new 870323900 Automobiles with engine 40/, but no less than capacity of over 1,800 800 EKYu per unit cubic cm, but no more than 3,000 cubic cm, 2 years old or older 87032410...
FBIS4-22283_13
Statute on Customs Procedure for Re-Imports
and numbering each successively). In other cases this section will be left blank. Section 31, "Shipment Locations and Description of Goods": In the event of a change in the state of the re-imported goods while they were outside the Russian Federation, a reference to the addendum to the CFD will be made in this section....
FBIS4-22285_0
Role of KGB Documents in U.S.-Vietnam MIA Issue
CSO [Article by Anatoliy Sokolov: "The Perverse Fate of the `Russian Document'"] [Text] What else will the archives of the CPSU Central Committee reveal and to what extent can they be believed? U.S. President Bill Clinton has finally lifted the embargo on trade with Vietnam that has been in existence for three decades....
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Role of KGB Documents in U.S.-Vietnam MIA Issue
more as the result of a generalization of certain information obtained by Soviet Special Services from various sources. Intelligence gleans and gives form to information through closed channels without presenting it for public judgment. And if there are mistakes--and they also occur--nobody but the consumer knows about...
FBIS4-22288_5
RAS Africa Institute Director on Cooperation With Islamic
from Russia, as well as raising the level of anti-Russian sentiments. But whereas nationalism in the newly independent states assumes orientation towards the West, Islam looks to the East, or to be more precise in the strictly geographic sense, to the South. During the first two years or so of independence, the former ...
FBIS4-22293_12
Events Leading To Banning of Opposition Viewed
spiritual health of the new state we are building. They will show enthusiasm in nourishing with purity and faith the emptiness in the hearts of our nation which has undergone a century of slavery. As for "Islamic fundamentalism," that is something to think about. In general, religious radicalism is foreign to the natur...
FBIS4-22294_2
Health Minister Reports on Birth, Death Statistics
that constitutes the basic essence of the program. We carried out a preventive study of 5.1 million women. On the basis of the survey results they were grouped into three different groups. The first group includes healthy women who are capable of giving birth to healthy children -- as many as they want. The second cons...
FBIS4-22295_2
Uzbek Role in Aral Sea Cleanup Discussed
the directions in which the five states have worked together on the contiguous territories. Thus, a year ago, Uzbekistan Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control Service posts noted significant discharges of harmful substances from the Osh cotton combine. We offered our neighbors effective technology from the Tashken...
FBIS4-22295_3
Uzbek Role in Aral Sea Cleanup Discussed
efforts toward reducing industry's negative influences. [Shulepina] A large problem is stopping runoffs into rivers and collector and drainage canals. "Relatively clean"--this is how their quality is described. Meanwhile, they contain pesticides, mineral salts, and drainage from livestock-raising complexes, which end u...
FBIS4-22296_18
Chernomyrdin Views Current Priority Issues
to shift the responsibility onto someone else. But the Duma will know, too, what to ask from us. [Starkov] I get the feeling from everything you say lately that you seem to argue constantly with an invisible opponent. I also feel something between the lines here. Please explain what is happening. [Chernomyrdin] I am di...
FBIS4-22318_1
Newspaper Continues Investigation of Ilyumzhinov
of the Analytical Center of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. We are publishing the note in abridged form, and an exact copy of B.N. Yeltsin's endorsement on the first page of the document. To President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin Analytical Note The socioeconomic and political s...
FBIS4-22322_17
Economic Reforms in Present Form Scored
nothing. We have had no other reforms, and we could not have had them. Neither under Gorbachev and Pavlov nor under Yeltsin and Gaydar. But there is also another viewpoint. Larisa Piyasheva, for example, states that immediately after the August putsch--two and a half years ago--it would have been possible to conduct an...
FBIS4-22325_1
Population's Material, Financial Status Deteriorating
postsocialist society that is unfamiliar to the broad masses; --second, the nationwide level, oppressed by the nightmare of the collapse of the homeland, unbridled inflation, and the growing squall of poverty and unemployment. According to the estimate of Andres Ostlund from the Stockholm School of Economics, who until...
FBIS4-22326_0
Civilian Production More Affected by Slump Than Defense
Enterprises 944E0634A Moscow SEGODNYA in Russian 25 Mar 94 p 2 944E0634A Moscow SEGODNYA Russian CSO [Article by Sergey Rybak: "The Defense Industry Product Is 69 Percent Peaceful: But One-Third of the Personnel of the Military-Industrial Complex `Still Works for War'"] [Text] According to figures of the State Committe...
FBIS4-22328_10
Survey Shows Industrial Production Decline in 1993
slackened off. Unfortunately, these changes hardly signal a sudden change in the economy's dynamics. Rather, the present sales problems connected with the search for solvent buyers is having an effect here. It is regrettable that the problems in the production area are still being moved to one of the last places: In No...
FBIS4-22330_13
DELOVOY MIR Economic Statistics, 12 March
services consumer goods rental 72.1 17.7 10.2 services transportation services 60.3 27.5 12.2 Incidence of Contagious Diseases Among the Population The difficult epidemiologic situation in the Russian Federation continued in January 1994. As compared to January 1993, there has been an increase in the incidence of a num...
FBIS4-22348_0
Electric Power Sector Verges on `Instability'
CSO [Article by Igor Ivantsov, ITAR-TASS, special for ROSSIYSKAYA GAZETA, under the rubric "Electric Power Sector": "On the Verge of Instability"] [Text] The stable operation of the Russian electric power sector has long become a customary and even mandatory feature of everyday life and the regular functioning of the e...
FBIS4-22353_0
More Details on Novokuznetsk Airbus Crash
CSO [Report by KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA special correspondent Oleg Karmaza: "The Funeral March Was Accompanied by the Whine of Jets"] [Text] Novokuznetsk-Mezhdurechensk--The story of the air disaster in Russia's sky is still incomplete: the "black boxes" found in the taiga were sent to France for analysis... Aircraft have ...
FBIS4-22353_2
More Details on Novokuznetsk Airbus Crash
even make a rough guess now about what happened on board the Airbus. A sudden explosion? A fire? According to the driver of a log truck not far away, an engine was on fire and a dense black plume of smoke trailed after it. However, specialists investigating the crash were skeptical about the driver's story: the witness...
FBIS4-22355_1
Importance of Nuclear Icebreakers Examined
feel these days? -- I asked Kuchiyev. -- Did the decades spent on nuclear-powered ships, in constant proximity to nuclear reactors, have any effect on your health? [Kuchiyev] I gave up being a captain on the bridge on the insistence of physicians, because of ischemic heart disease. Did I receive an overdose of radiatio...
FBIS4-22361_0
Kurdish Factor Seen as Argument Against Oil Export Through
Turkey 944K0991C Yerevan AZATAMART in Russian 30 Mar 94 p 5 944K0991C Yerevan AZATAMART Russian CSO [Unattributed article: "Echo of Batman Explosion Heard on the Bosphorus"] [Text] The rivalry seen with respect to routes for exporting the main wealth of Azerbaijan and Central Asia--oil and gas--to the West has acquired...
FBIS4-22377_5
Internal Affairs Ministry Conference Examines Azerbaijan's
serious and dangerous disease, to which a person subjects himself voluntarily. But drug addiction is also a crime, for narcotic substances are not freely available for sale, and the acquisition, use, storage and transmission to other persons comprise all the elements of a crime. The very worst thing is that the ranks o...
FBIS4-22377_6
Internal Affairs Ministry Conference Examines Azerbaijan's
other people into his "circle." The experience of our narcological service shows that a drug addict either turns to crime, or suffers withdrawal symptoms, or takes an excessive dose. The costs of narcotics are continually increasing, and that means their use is growing and expanding as well. The drug business is a very...
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Internal Affairs Ministry Conference Examines Azerbaijan's
his first needle until the day he becomes an addict, and during all this time he is not in a vacuum or in isolation. Frequently this takes place in the eyes of his parents, teachers or fellow-workers. Hospital treatment of drug addicts is also one of the problems facing the republic health care system. I must report wi...
FBIS4-22398_0
Chinese Cooperation in Energy Sector Under Discussion
CSO [IATs-NOYAN TAPAN report: "Will Armenian Side Respond to Chinese Initiative?"] [Text] Contacts are currently underway between the Republic of Armenia Ministry of Energy and Fuel and representatives of the People's Republic of China [PRC] on the matters related to development of the power generation industry in Arme...
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Armenia's Kurdish Community Ready for Compromise
CSO [Artem Yerkanyan report: "Kurds Ready for Compromise"] [Text] A news conference organized yesterday by the Kurdish Professionals of Armenia Council, the Kurdistan Committee, and the newspapers RYATAZA and BOTAN was devoted to the events of the current stage of the national liberation movement of the Kurdish people ...
FBIS4-22416_2
Declining Birth Rates Linked To Market Economy
an ever-widening gap between the income of most of the population and the prices of vital goods, which has an especially painful grip on low-income families, unemployed and under-employed persons, and the elderly and handicapped. What can a married couple offer to their children if the take-home pay of the head of the ...
FBIS4-22439_4
Japanese Offer To Help Maritime Kray Waste Processing
expert appraisal. This report was followed by a note of clarification sent to the same address. It discussed the real possibility, within three or four months (under the condition that proper financing is available), of creating a domestic experimental industrial installation based on sorption technology with a capacit...
FBIS4-22446_3
Report, Comment on Nizhniy Novgorod Mayoral Election
were seemingly innumerable okrugs, rayons and cities where the numerous candidates for deputies' seats were not able to get even 25 percent of voters to turn out on their first attempt. As you will recall, that kind of "massive" turnout is now sufficient to constitute a legal election. Last Sunday elections were held i...
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Vladivostok Talks Said To Show U.S.-Russian `Equality'
serious tests." One of those tests--at any rate, one visible to the naked eye--is the series of disclosures that began with the Aldrich Ames affair. The cooling in relations between Moscow and Washington that both are dismissing at the official level was manifested primarily in the reciprocal disclosures of intelligenc...
FBIS4-22450_2
U.S. Policy on Ukraine Said Directed Against Russia
the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a nuclear-free state." It appears that Washington is pursuing several goals at once in its more active "Ukrainian" policy. First of all, it wants the complete elimination of Ukraine's nuclear arsenal, with the whole process under its own close supervision, because the state of...
FBIS4-22450_6
U.S. Policy on Ukraine Said Directed Against Russia
economy. There is no question that the agreement signed at the American-Ukrainian summit on the protection of foreign capital investments in Ukraine will have a positive effect on the development of trade and economic relations between the two countries. Besides this, Kiev probably will get the promised credits of 1.5 ...
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Role of Open Sources in U.S. Intelligence
we were able, thanks to the increased quality of information about Soviet society, to evaluate anew the work of former citizens of the USSR and the East European countries, on whom we had depended earlier in obtaining information at first hand, but whose personal partiality was sometimes reflected in the reliability of...
FBIS4-22453_6
Results of IMF Delegation Visit Assessed
governments of recipient countries use methods that recall the economic policy of communist parties. In particular, all kinds of state support for inefficient productions (especially those that are state-owned) which leads to growth of the expenditure part of the budget and the lack of a clear anti-inflation policy are...
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President Explains Caspian Oil Company
the fact that, having adopted all world experience of work under approximate conditions, we are making of paramount importance the resolution of ecological problems. Our future efforts must not cause the least damage to the existing natural balance of this region. After all, very valuable species of fish have their hab...
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President Explains Caspian Oil Company
the composition of the Volga water and the water from the Ural (Zhayk) River. Global changes in the composition of the sea water because of technogenic human influences, the construction of a multitude of dams on the Volga, the use of various chemicals in agriculture, coastal operations, and so forth, are occurring eve...
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Liberalism's Failure Discussed
are not right." First, the opinion of the people who in the course of the elections voiced dissatisfaction with the results of reforms cannot be ignored. The real weight of radical democrats in our society cannot be ignored, either. Second, as reforms are being carried out, we cannot forget about the people. With all t...
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Unique Aspects of Recent Elections Viewed
course. Nonetheless, the ability to organize the campaigning was, I believe, determining in the election. It was frequently undertaken in talentless manner, with the old methodological baggage. The cliche that the Russian Communist Workers Party defends the interests of the working people and supports a change of polit...
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`Chara-Holding' Banking Corporation President on Bank's
Activity 944E0657A Moscow IZVESTIYA in Russian 1 Apr 94 p 6 944E0657A Moscow IZVESTIYA Russian CSO [Interview with Vladimir Igorevich Rachuk, president of the Chara-Holding Corporation, conducted by unnamed interviewer; place and date not given] [Text] It would seem that there is no longer any financial niche for the a...
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Izdat-Bank President on Bank's Role
to withdraw a portion of his investment at any time. [Levina] It is said about banks that they are the circulatory system of the economy. Our economy is gravely ill. Are the banks not at least somewhat to blame for this? [Korovkin] Banks constitute the only genuine market element of our economy. And for some reason it ...
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Issues of Russian Capitalists, Hired Labor Addressed
am head is not called the `consolidation' party without reason. Its membership includes both entrepreneurs and workers. No one interferes with the other because the main idea of the party is to consider the interests of all levels of society." [Kuzina] "To consider the interests" -- this is not at all an altruistic con...
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Federal Communications Directorate Accused of Monopoly for
A monopoly is retained only on one type of service--the delivery of printed publications. Because of its unprofitability, no one wants to engage in this and bear the losses. We have repeatedly made proposals to the editorial offices and publishing houses regarding the creation of their own delivery services, but they a...
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Meeting on Nonpayments to Energy Sector Held
CSO [Article by Gennadiy Shilin: "The Nonpayments Crisis. Nerves of Energy Sector Workers Like Taut Wires"] [Text] "Close to critical" is what the president of the RAO [Russian Joint-Stock Company] YeES Rossii, Anatoliy Dyakov, called the condition of the Russian energy sector last Saturday when speaking at a conferenc...
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Yakutia-Sakha Republic to Develop Diamond-Cutting Plants
CSO [Article by Aleksandr Ivanovich Im, Moscow representative of the "Tuymaada Diamond" Joint-Stock Company: "The `Tuymaada Diamond' AK [Joint-Stock Company]: A Pioneer in the Russian Diamond Market"] [Text] It is still too soon to assess the significance of the appearance in the Russian diamond industry of a large new...
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Air Traffic Control Chairman Interviewed
service "afloat." And besides all this, there are the lives of millions of persons for whom the controllers bear responsibility. So you be the judge--whether 6.8 percent is a large or a small amount. And I have only raised the edge of the curtain we work behind. Add here the support for especially important flights, us...
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Air Traffic Control Chairman Interviewed
such and such a point..." And that is all. But where is the guarantee that someone else, perhaps even more experienced, will not make the same mistake?! The aviation world has abandoned searches for a guilty party--there are numerous other services for this. The aviation world looks for the reasons for errors and ways ...
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Importance of Nuclear Icebreakers Examined
feel these days? -- I asked Kuchiyev. -- Did the decades spent on nuclear-powered ships, in constant proximity to nuclear reactors, have any effect on your health? [Kuchiyev] I gave up being a captain on the bridge on the insistence of physicians, because of ischemic heart disease. Did I receive an overdose of radiatio...
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National Economic Priorities Examined
and long-distance digital telephone exchange will be built in Kutaisi and Batumi, accommodating 30,000 numbers. Austria's Teletra Company is going to build two stations for modern satellite communications. There are other innovations as well. [Ebanoidze] The "salvation" program calls for using the results of scientific...
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Patsatsia Charts Economic Reform Course
previous year, stood at 25 to 26 percent and equalled the 1963 level. In this period, there was a substantial decline in amounts of fuel and products of industry, metallurgy, machine building, and light, food, and timber and woodworking industries. The republic's economy has been negatively impacted by lagging energy i...
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Health Consequences of Mariopol's Environmental
Contamination Viewed 944K1024A Kiev ZELENYY SVIT in Ukrainian No 4, Mar 94 p 3 944K1024A Kiev ZELENYY SVIT Ukrainian CSO [Article by O. Kharlamenko, head of the Mariopol PZU (Green Party of Ukraine) Club, and L. Olshevskyy, member of the ZELENYY SVIT UEA (Ukrainian Ecodefencinform Agency): "Why Are There So Few Happy F...
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Government Officials on Measures to Insure National Economic Vice Premier Demyanov Interviewed
would turn down an apartment in Moscow. Subsequently he was elected chairman of the Zaporozhye Oblast Executive Committee. Without connections, without bribes, using only his own head and through his determination he managed in one of the largest industrial oblasts of Ukraine. Later he worked for a year as representati...