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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... |
FBIS4-21982_4 | 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... |
FBIS4-22230_11 | 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.... |
FBIS4-22285_10 | 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... |
FBIS4-22377_7 | 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... |
FBIS4-22401_0 | 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... |
FBIS4-22449_4 | 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 ... |
FBIS4-22451_5 | 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... |
FBIS4-22457_6 | 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... |
FBIS4-22457_7 | 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... |
FBIS4-22468_12 | 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... |
FBIS4-22473_2 | 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... |
FBIS4-22487_0 | `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... |
FBIS4-22489_2 | 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 ... |
FBIS4-22504_6 | 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... |
FBIS4-22508_3 | 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... |
FBIS4-22514_0 | 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... |
FBIS4-22523_0 | 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... |
FBIS4-22524_5 | 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... |
FBIS4-22524_15 | 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 ... |
FBIS4-22526_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... |
FBIS4-22536_9 | 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... |
FBIS4-22537_5 | 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... |
FBIS4-22542_0 | 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... |
FBIS4-22551_1 | 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... |
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