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FBIS4-38275_0 | Report Says 17 Wounds Found on Lawyer's Body | BFN [Text] Cairo, June 28 (AFP) - Doctors found 17 wounds on the body of a lawyer who died in police custody here, the bar association said Tuesday [28 June]. 'Abd-al-'Aziz Muhammad, the association's head in Cairo, told reporters that national bar association chief Ahmad al-Khawajah was informed of the medical report'... |
FBIS4-38279_2 | Political Islam Review: AL-SHA'B 24 Jun | with Iran and healing the rift between the two major regional powers. Haykal reportedly told a Cairo seminar on Iranian-Arab relations that the Egyptian leadership is largely to blame for the bad relations between Cairo and Tehran. He said no one has produced a bit of evidence that Iran supports terrorist acts in Egypt... |
FBIS4-38279_6 | Political Islam Review: AL-SHA'B 24 Jun | short-term and long-term solutions. Regarding the role of the United States and the traditional Arab governments in the Islamic revival, Husayn says those parties tried to use the Islamic movements in the past, when the pan-Arab movement was the source of revolutionary anger. "Now however, the revolutionary awakening c... |
FBIS4-38285_2 | Hamas Political Bureau Member on Elections | and Fatah. We challenge them to first hold a Palestinian referendum on the agreement itself to find out what the people think first." He said that Fatah would be risking its history and future when it comes inside [the territories] and participates in the elections. Asked about the existence of a trend in Hamas that su... |
FBIS4-38355_0 | Ambassador Says U.S. Has Pledged `Considerable' Aid | BFN [Text] Ukraine has become the fourth country following Israel, Egypt, and Russia, which will receive considerable U.S. financial aid in the near future. Oleh Bilorus, Ukraine's ambassador to the United States of America declared this at a meeting with journalists. He pointed out that the Ukrainian Embassy in the Un... |
FBIS4-38364_6 | U.S. Senate Hearings on Organized Crime Described | of criminal actions against Americans in Russia, and Gen. Yegorov reported a high clear-up rate for such crimes. However, senators intimated unambiguously to the MVD's authorized representative that they consider the actions of the Russian militia in investigating crimes against American citizens to be extremely slow. ... |
FBIS4-38414_0 | Russia's Choice Presents Social Plan | BFN [Aleksey Kirpichnikov report under the "Difficulty": "Subsistence Wage To Match Consumer Basket"] [Text] Aleksandr Osovtsov, deputy chairman of the State Duma Labor and Social Support Committee, and committee member Valentin Lednev, both associated with "Russia's Choice," spoke at a news conference about the factio... |
FBIS4-38489_1 | Yeltsin's Chief of Staff Discusses Leadership | a weapon in political infighting, but by no means an attribute of presidential power. The desire of any government to know how society will react to proposed actions by the authorities is understandable and explicable. A lot of civilized methods for gathering information at the stage of the formation of a plan or any s... |
FBIS4-38489_2 | Yeltsin's Chief of Staff Discusses Leadership | more immoral. Because when a person is schooled in this system of "idle" intercourse, in this lifeless pattern of work with him, then the authorities increasingly lose moral substance in his eyes. And that is terrible, because we could obtain a situation whereby there will be no faith in official documents. People will... |
FBIS4-38569_1 | Deputy Minister on Plans Regarding GATT Membership | deputy minister of external economic relations, who was a member of the Ukrainian Government delegation, kindly agreed to fill the information vacuum regarding this event. [Osyka] What happened in Marrakech, is, in fact, the legalization of a new global legal order in trade, tariffs, customs, investment, and other sect... |
FBIS4-38597_0 | Commission Estimates Damage From Black Sea Fleet Pollution | BFN [Text] Kiev--Valeriy Sirenko, deputy head of the main ecological inspectorate at Ukraine's Environmental Protection Ministry, told a UNIAN correspondent on 31 May that the joint commission of the Environmental Protection Ministry, the Defense Ministry, the State Oil and Gas Committee, the State Housing Services Com... |
FBIS4-38603_2 | Duma Committeeman, U.S. Senator Interviewed | military operation since World War II was in the Gulf War. He says that other so-called peacekeeping operations have resulted in great losses and says that intervention should only be accompanied by military action. Nunn says he does not agree that there have been no successful peacekeeping operations. He cites Cambodi... |
FBIS4-38604_0 | Nunn on Cooperation in Nuclear Nonproliferation | BFN [By ITAR-TASS diplomatic correspondent Arseniy Mironov] [Text] Moscow, 31 May -- "Russia, the United States, and the other nuclear powers must recognize that it is in their common interests to fight the proliferation of nuclear weapons," Sam Nunn, chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, said at a news... |
FBIS4-38609_0 | Congress Cuts U.S. Aid to CIS; Russia's Share Reduced | BFN [Aleksandr Shalnev report: "U.S. Aid to the CIS To Be Reduced"] [Text] The U.S. Congress House of Representatives has appropriated $875 million for programs to assist reforms in Russia and other countries of the former Union in the 1995 fiscal year, which begins 1 October of this year. This is $25 million less than... |
FBIS4-38627_0 | Soskovets, Cuban Ambassador Discuss Economic Relations | BFN [By ITAR-TASS string correspondent Yuriy Mikhailov] [Text] Moscow May 27 TASS -- Russian First Vice-Premier Oleg Soskovets received Cuban Ambassador to Russia Rogelio Montenegro today. During the meeting, they discussed Russian-Cuban trade and economic relations, in particular, the implementation of the agreement o... |
FBIS4-38628_0 | Havana Radio Reports Meeting | BFN [From the "Morning Information Review" newscast] [Text] Oleg Soskovets, first deputy chairman of the Russian Government, received in Moscow Cuban Ambassador Rogelio Montenegro, with whom he discussed aspects of economic commercial relations, including the fulfillment of the agreement on supplying fuel to the island... |
FBIS4-38629_0 | Cuban Consul on Trade Cooperation Issues | BFN [Text] A news conference took place on Tuesday 31 May in the Consulate General of the Republic of Cuba in St. Petersburg. A reportage by our correspondent Vladimir Izotov has the details. [Izotov] (Felix Leon Carabello), consul general of the Republic of Cuba in St. Petersburg, did not conceal the fact that the mai... |
FBIS4-38632_0 | Paper Weighs Results of Chernomyrdin PRC Visit | BFN [Vladimir Skosyrev report: "Viktor Chernomyrdin, Like Bill Clinton, Understands That Money Is More Important Than Human Rights. Russian Premier's Visit to Beijing Crowned With Series of Agreements"] [Text] Beijing -- Viktor Chernomyrdin's visit to Beijing has been crowned with the signing of a series of agreements ... |
FBIS4-38632_1 | Paper Weighs Results of Chernomyrdin PRC Visit | That Money Is More Important Than Human Rights. Russian Premier's Visit to Beijing Crowned With Series of Agreements"] [Text] Beijing -- Viktor Chernomyrdin's visit to Beijing has been crowned with the signing of a series of agreements which are designed to ease the development of trade and economic cooperation as well... |
FBIS4-38680_3 | ITAR-TASS Carries Press Review for 2 Jun | of legislative power bodies in the centre and at the local level to introduce new types of taxes. A decrease in the number of taxes, in his view, should automatically lead to an easing of the tax burden. ROSSIYSKAYA GAZETA carries an article reporting that Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy, a great Russian scientist, the founder... |
FBIS4-38701_0 | EU Pact Supported After `Some Hesitation' | BFN [Yuriy Kovalenko report: "Paris Displays Gallantry, Russia Does Not Resist"] [Text] Paris -- The European Union [EU] has begun the creation of a mechanism designed to consolidate the continent's security. The new mechanism is aimed first and foremost at resolving the problems of nationalism, interethnic conflicts, ... |
FBIS4-38714_1 | Commentary Views Chernomyrdin Visit to China | Russia and China signed during the Russian delegation's visit will strengthen and continue the equal and mutually beneficial cooperation achieved over the last few years in economics, trade, science and technology, and other fields. Setting their sights on the future [words indistinct] the two countries have decided to... |
FBIS4-38760_1 | Akayev on Relations With EU, China | One Kyrgyz in four is European, German, Russian, or another Slav. Finally, our country has always been open to the outside world (except during the Soviet era: editor's note). The Silk Road passed through our land, which allowed us to assimilate traditions of both the West and the East, and allowed us to quickly adapt ... |
FBIS4-38771_0 | Turkish President Speaks Against UN-Imposed Embargo on Iraq | BFN [Text] Kiev, Ukraine, June 1 (A.A.) -- President Suleyman Demirel on Wednesday said that Turkey strongly regrets conditional U.S. aid to Turkey. "We do not consider this a friendly gesture," he told reporters in the Ukraine where he is on an official visit. The U.S. House of Representatives, which approved on Wedne... |
FBIS4-38819_0 | ITAR-TASS Carries Press Review for 3 Jun | BFN ["Press Review" -- ITAR-TASS headline] [Text] Moscow June 3 TASS -- ROSSIYSKIYE VESTI, referring to reliable sources, report an intention of the Russian government to raise the minimum wage index by 40 percent from July 1. Minimum wage will thus grow from 14,620 to 20,500 roubles. The same indexation coefficient wi... |
FBIS4-38857_0 | Number of Strikes Rise Tenfold From 1993 | BFN [Unattributed RIA report in the "In Brief" column: "The Number of Strikes in Russia Is Growing Fast"] [Text] The number of strikes in Russia in the first quarter has increased 10.3 times compared to the same time last year. They occurred at 288 enterprises, whereas in all of 1993, 264 concerns were affected. This w... |
FBIS4-38894_1 | Minister on Crisis in Education, Need for Reform | establishment of a common educational space within the framework of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly. It is an open secret that economic problems have badly affected the preschool educational system. It is here that formation of new citizens begins. However, hundreds of nurseries are closed down, about 60 percent of... |
FBIS4-38909_0 | Keeping Troops in Estonia `Disadvantageous' to Russia | BFN [Text] Tallinn, June 02, BNS -- Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar said in an address in the parliament today that Moscow reaps no benefits from keeping 2,500 military in Estonia, on the contrary, this is seriously disadvantageous to Russia. "It seems that meetings at the political top level are needed to make this ... |
FBIS4-39038_1 | Chinese Opting for `Right To Material Prosperity' | had it not proved possible to put down the troublemakers on Tienanmen Square, China would have suffered Russia's fate. "I realized that the speeches on Tienanmen Square were the fruit of student fervor and not of mature analysis," I was told by a young entrepreneur who five years ago was working as a reporter and was d... |
FBIS4-39137_1 | Kebich Outlines Post-Election Economic Policies | of the three Slav states; -- The building of an independent Belarusian state through economic expansion and the restoration of broken ties; -- Market relations through economic reform with producers rather than brokers at the center; -- Merciless fight against crime and corruption; -- The spread of Christian morality a... |
FBIS4-39186_0 | Report on Electricity Production Issued | BFN [Text] The Kuat power generation company has issued a progress report for May. In comparison with the previous months of the current year, electricity production fell to 846 million kWh. Nevertheless, it is more than for the same period last year. Owing to fuel shortages the electricity plants are running into hard... |
FBIS4-39213_0 | Redesignation of Military Antenna Viewed | BFN [Vladimir Nevelskiy report: "No Need to Beware of Space Communications"] [Text] St. Petersburg -- A hitherto top-secret installation 20 kilometers from Ventspils and owned by the Russian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) opened its doors Monday to Latvian parliamentarians, the scientific public... |
FBIS4-39230_1 | FCS Personnel Officer Interviewed | and we have also been relieved of a number of functions belonging to internal affairs organs, and there have been considerable cuts in managerial structures. But in connection with growing international exchange, there is more work in ensuring economic security and preventing terrorism, sabotage, smuggling operations, ... |
FBIS4-39241_1 | Atomic Energy Minister Interviewed | it is becoming clear to the majority that in a changing world Russia can be preserved only as a state with progressive technologies, with a powerful industry and modern weapons. The majority of high technologies have been developed and continue to be developed at the scientific centers of the Ministry of Atomic Energy ... |
FBIS4-39241_6 | Atomic Energy Minister Interviewed | devices are even simpler. As for North Korea, I doubt that it could create nuclear warheads in the very near future. Its scientific potential is not high and its technologies are far from progressive. Perhaps there is the accumulation of certain quantities of uranium. [Khokhlov] Bought from us? [Mikhaylov] Including so... |
FBIS4-39271_4 | Landyk Views Government Economic Policy | selling, the state will also benefit from this. If there is stagnation, then there will be no value-added tax, sales tax, or excise duty. [Yeremenko] Such a situation prevailed in the Zaporizhzhya production association Zaporizhzhya Automobile Plant. The prices of automobiles far exceeded K100 million. Mainly due to th... |
FBIS4-39344_0 | CIS Industrial Information Network Set Up | BFN [Report by RIA NOVOSTI correspondent Vladimir Bibikov specially for ROSSIYSKIYE VESTI: "Electronic `Threads' To Link CIS Enterprises"] [Text] An interstate electronic system of information cooperation among industrial enterprises has been ratified within the CIS. This decision was reached at a routine conference of... |
FBIS4-39365_2 | Ambassador Comments on Ties With Russia | decline in both countries. The fall in the standard of living of the bulk of the population has not yet been halted. Many major enterprises that were created to meet all-Union needs, particularly in the military-industrial complex, have been left without orders. And this means tens of thousands of workers and specialis... |
FBIS4-39393_1 | Yeltsin, Federal Assembly At Odds Over Ambassadors | a stumbling block: Does it mean that, for example, committees can block a particular nomination proposed by the head of state, or is it merely the case that the president will acquaint himself with the opinion of the committee members but will make the final decision exclusively at his own discretion? Behind-the-scenes... |
FBIS4-39419_0 | Grachev: Strapped Army at `Minimum Level' | BFN [Interview with Russian Federation Defense Minister Army General Pavel Grachev by military observer Viktor Badurkin; date and place not given: "The Army: Duty and Debts"] [Text] [Badurkin] Pavel Sergeyevich, the events of recent weeks -- the Black Sea conflict, the "games" with NATO, the spring draft, and the parli... |
FBIS4-39453_0 | Rybkin Meets Iranian, Cuban Ambassadors | BFN [Text] Moscow, 7 Jun (ITAR-TASS) -- Russia today, perhaps as never before, needs interaction between its economy and the economies of neighboring states. It has sufficient resources at its disposal to move swiftly out of economic crisis, and this is the aim of its parliamentarians' daily work. State Duma Chairman I... |
FBIS4-39541_0 | Atayev, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Discuss Ties | BFN [Text] Tehran, 9 June IRNA -- The Iranian deputy foreign minister for communication, Morteza Sarmadi, met the Turkmen foreign minister, Khalykberdy Atayev, in Ashgabat Wednesday [8 June] and discussed with him matters of mutual interest. Conveying Foreign Minister 'Ali Akbar Velayati's message to his Turkmen counte... |
FBIS4-39597_5 | Glazyev Says Government Wrong | to renew the fleet of airplanes, and the program for the development of civil aircraft is being underfunded), privileges on the import of goods for the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg (although usually the organizing parties try to use international rivalry to stimulate internal demand), and also privileges for the ex... |
FBIS4-39603_0 | Air Defense Commander Comments | BFN [Report by Aleksandr Ivanov incorporating interview with Colonel General of Aviation Viktor Prudnikov, commander in chief of the Russian Air Defense Forces: "Russia's Skies Are Not a Passageway. Air Defense Forces Forced American Plane To Land" -- date, place of interview not given] [Text] There have been increasin... |
FBIS4-39617_1 | Baturin on Chinese, DPRK `Espionage' Against Russia | "Russia Has Become a Proving Ground for `Exotic Intelligence Services'"] [Text] The Russian authorities are concerned about the espionage activity being conducted against us by Asian countries, in particular China and North Korea. Yuriy Baturin, national security adviser to the Russian president, told foreign journalis... |
FBIS4-39752_0 | Government Discusses Fall in Industrial Output | BFN [Report by correspondent Chernyshova, with recorded comments by O. Soskovets, first deputy chairman of the Russian Council of Ministers, from the 9 June government session; from the "Novosti" newscast] [Excerpts] [Chernyshova] Russian enterprises' output between January and May this year was depressingly low. Produ... |
FBIS4-39764_0 | Arms Sales on World Market May Reach $30 Billion | BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Sergey Ostanin] [Text] Moscow June 10 TASS -- Russia is developing new regions of the world market of arms. Brazil and Malaysia began to import Russian arms. Russia signed agreements with them in early June. The Russian military-industrial complex is able to restore its prestige of a rel... |
FBIS4-39836_0 | Border Checkpoint Talks Begin With Romania | BFN [Text] Chisinau BASAPRESS, 9/6/1994 -- The negotiations between the Moldovan and Romanian Ministries of Foreign Affairs on changing the status of the [border crossing] points of Cahul-Oancea, Sculeni-Sculeni Giurgiulesti, and Costesti-Stanca began today in Galati, Romania. The Moldovan delegation, headed by Deputy ... |
FBIS4-39922_0 | State of Iranian-Saudi Relations Viewed | BFN [Ravil Mustafin article: "Persian Gulf: New Exacerbation of Iranian-Saudi Relations"] [Excerpts] It has become a bad tradition that relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, those two leading forces in the region today, become exacerbated with the onset of the season of pilgrimage to the places in Mecca and Medina w... |
FBIS4-39955_0 | Briefing Lists States Supporting Country's Stance on Crimea | BFN [Unattributed report: "Solidarity as Political Support"] [Text] External political departments of Argentina, Denmark, Israel, China, and Japan have recently made official statements in support of Ukraine with regard to resolving the conflict situation in the Crimea. This became known at a briefing at Ukraine's Mini... |
FBIS4-39964_0 | Gaydar Party Seen Likely To Become Major Political Force | BFN [Yevgeniy Yanayev report: "Criticism Could Be Heard Even at the Founding Congress"] [Text] The founding congress of the party being organized by Yegor Gaydar, scheduled for 12 June, is attracting considerable attention. First, because this organization is associated with the president. Second, the congress can be s... |
FBIS4-39981_1 | Soskovets Pessimistic on Economy | January to May went 25 period [as received] deeper from the same period last year. The reduction in production was the deepest in the processing industry and consumer goods production. Soskovets said the slump in production was no longer due to the severance of former economic ties but to demand constraints and structu... |
FBIS4-40077_1 | Karadzic Warns of Continuing War | actual situation in the field, without respect for the historical factors and especially the vital interests of the Serb people. Under the plan of the contact group which consists of representatives of the United States, Russia, and the European Union, the territory of the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia- Herzegovin... |
FBIS4-40087_2 | Early Arms Deals With Argentina Impossible | expand this market by including other South American countries, primarily Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, which possess large armed forces. In this Russian representatives place special emphasis on Argentina, mindful of the fact that during the Malvinas [Falklands] war of 1982 it lost a considerable proportion of its com... |
FBIS4-40116_8 | Presidential Candidate Explains Platform | [koly] I become president, I will try to see to it that more powers are transferred to lower structures, where they must exist in order to protect the interests of the people and of the individual. Today, leaders of farms, departments, and even ministers come to power and not to the management of an industry or of the ... |
FBIS4-40122_0 | Vice Prime Minister Explains Economic Policy | BFN [Interview with Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Vasyl Ivanovych Yevtukhov by Anatoliy Kraslyanskyy; place and date not given: "Reform -- Not at the Price of Ruining Our Own Economy" [Text] Our conversation with Vice Prime Minister Vasyl Yevtukhov started with the following question: As is known, there repeatedly soun... |
FBIS4-40123_5 | Environment Minister Surveys Nuclear Industry | percent of heat and power stations. This fact and the necessity to use the closed water circulation systems require creation of big cooling water reservoirs near NPPs which change ecologic balance there. An example of this is location of the Zaporizhya NPP close to a heat and power station which enhanced the negative e... |
FBIS4-40216_0 | Border Traffic Negotiations Held With Romania | BFN [Text] Chisinau BASAPRESS 10/6/1994 -- Yesterday, a new round of negotiations between the Moldovan and Romanian Ministries of Foreign Affairs on facilitating the traffic of passengers and goods was held in Galati [Romania], states a communique issued today by the two ministries. According to the communique, "the de... |
FBIS4-40260_1 | Text of Presidential Edict on Organized Crime | financial and economic activity and property and financial status not only of the individual in question but also his relatives or other persons residing with him in the previous five years and also in respect of physical and legal persons or public associations whose property, resources, or name may have been exploite... |
FBIS4-40363_1 | Foreign Intelligence Deputy Interviewed | of threats remains extremely wide. Monitoring and assessing these threats is a central and key task of intelligence. At the present time Russia's interests, and primarily its security, are threatened by the appearance of "trouble spots" close to its borders. For the first time since World War II attempts are being made... |
FBIS4-40377_0 | Production Shows 6.5% Decline in May | BFN [Report by A. Yevgenyev: "Different Poles of Reform"] [Text] To judge by operational information from the State Committee for Statistics May has been a record month in terms of the decline in industrial production. In terms of physical volume it declined 6.5 percent compared with April and 28 percent compared with ... |
FBIS4-40394_0 | Hryb, Cuban Delegation Discuss Cooperation | BFN [Text] Belarusian Supreme Soviet Chairman Myacheslaw Hryb has received an official governmental delegation from the Republic of Cuba, led by Council of Ministers Vice President Lionel Soto Prieto. In the course of talks, Myacheslaw Hryb pointed out that Belarus is interested in consolidating and expanding economic ... |
FBIS4-40449_3 | ITAR-TASS Carries Press Review for 17 Jun | year's growth of the number of breakdowns connected with discharges of toxic and radioactive substances into the atmosphere. There were 1,180 emergency situations in Russia last year, with 10,133 people affected and 1,224 of them killed. The newspaper runs excerpts from this year's May governemnt resolution "On the pro... |
FBIS4-40452_2 | Misgivings Voiced at Anti-Crime Edict | we call law-enforcement organs. Henceforth, under a law-enforcement official's directive it will be possible to violate a commercial secret, a secret regarding deposits, and the privileged nature of banking and financial documents -- that is, everything which forms the basis of business. But is there confidence that th... |
FBIS4-40462_2 | Economist Predicts Increased Inflation | Russia, Mr. Pavlenko pointed out that, despite the psychological shock the government experienced at the absolute figures for the production decline in January, the crisis reflects what is now a definite pattern -- a decrease at the start of the year, some recovery of production in May through June, another decline in ... |
FBIS4-40514_9 | Parliament Chairman Outlines Economic Policy | and capital construction, including housing construction. Taking account of world competition and social orientation of consumer goods -- I emphasize consumer goods -- and food, agriculture, regardless of its forms of ownership, is heading for specialization and greater industrialization by way of developing the sphere... |
FBIS4-40593_0 | Expulsion of DPRK Embassy Staff Refuted | BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Olga Semyonova] [Text] Moscow June 18 TASS -- "The North Korean [DPRK] Embassy in Moscow does not have to worry: None of its staffers have been `recently' expelled from Russia or will be expelled in the near future. The stir about diplomat-spies was caused by misinterpretation," head of ... |
FBIS4-40646_2 | Official Views Defense Conversion, U.S. Aid | supposed to live by his means and spend money wisely. I am wondering, however, where are the limits beyond which a drop in production is inadmissible? After all, we are putting at risk our national defense potential. [Tushinskiy] Of course, one should not live beyond his means. However, the fact is that more than half ... |
FBIS4-40683_0 | Presidential Decree Increases Welfare Benefits | BFN [From the "Business SNARK" file] [Text] Baku [Dateline as received]--Geydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, signed on June 15 a Decree on "Strengthening the social protection of the population and stabilization of the financial situation in the economy". According to this decree, the rate of the minimal wage is in... |
FBIS4-40694_0 | National Independence Movement Changes Name, Status | BFN [Text] Riga, Jun 18, BNS -- The Latvian National Independence Movement's (LNIM) delegates of the movement's 7th congress decided Saturday to change the movement's status, stating that LNIM is Latvia's National Conservative party now. As many as 223 of the congress delegates voted for this decision, 12 voted against... |
FBIS4-40835_0 | International Experts To Help Utilize Liquid Nuclear Waste | BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Yevgeniy Lents] [Text] Vladivostok June 21 TASS -- The world community's attention is focussed on problems of utilising liquid radioactive waste in the Russian Far East. An international commission, consisting of leading Japanese and British experts, arrived in the capital Primorye today... |
FBIS4-40879_6 | National Bank Head Surveys Economic Situation | in exports -- the supply of Russian rubles has decreased. This, overall, triggered the devaluation of the Belarusian ruble. The increase in the supply of Belarusian rubles -- due to increased credit allotments by the Belarusian National Bank forced under constant pressure from the government -- considerably decreased t... |
FBIS4-40880_12 | Paznyak's Economic Program Outlined | not develop agricultural production that is efficient and competitive, we could even lose our domestic market due to high production costs. Our businesses will have the opportunity to become market structures, voluntary associations of owners in the form of partnerships, stock partnerships, unions, associations, etc. E... |
FBIS4-40952_0 | Columnist Views Zhirinovskiy Immunity Case | BFN [Report by Leonid Nikitinskiy: "Zhirinovskiy's `No-Lose' Case"] [Text] On 15 June the State Duma chairman's office received an official submission from the general prosecutor requesting that Vladimir Zhirinovskiy's immunity as deputy be lifted in connection with the institution of criminal proceedings against him. ... |
FBIS4-40979_0 | Intelligence Service `Closely Monitoring' Nuclear Issue | BFN [By ITAR-TASS diplomatic correspondent Vladimir Solntsev] [Text] Moscow, 21 Jun -- The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation is closely monitoring the situation regarding the nuclear problem on the Korean peninsula and this monitoring is being done, among other things, in collaboration with represe... |
FBIS4-40987_0 | Foreign Ministry on Duration of Iraqi Sanctions | BFN [From the "Diplomatic Panorama" feature: correspondents Igor Porshnev, Vitaliy Trubetskoy and others] [Text] Russia's Foreign Ministry believes that if Iraq formally declared respect for Kuwait's sovereignty and recognized the demarcated frontier, the chances of lifting the international sanctions against Baghdad w... |
FBIS4-40992_1 | `International Community' Caused Bosnia War | the war? [Karadzic] I do consider that the international community is largely to blame for the unleashing of this war. And if that community or, more precisely, the United States decides that it is time to end it, then a solution acceptable to the Serb side will not fail to emerge. If, however, they decide that it is n... |
FBIS4-41008_1 | Deputies Tour S. America To Promote Economic Ties | organize strategic collaboration with Russia. The Brazilian president, for example, noted that "this is needed to prevent the creation of a unipolar world." The Brazilians let it be clearly known that it is time for Russia to "stake its claims" in Latin America. Unless it lays a long-term basis for Russian-Latin Americ... |
FBIS4-41061_1 | Grachev Explains Deployment | estimates, it will take three to five days to occupy the bridges and carry out engineering operations. The first to be moved up will be two battalions from the 145th Motorized Rifle Division (Batumi) and one parachute regiment from the 345th Airborne Troops (Gudauta). As soon as these three battalions "take control of ... |
FBIS4-41083_10 | Reporter Describes Situation in Abkhazia | of plundered multistory apartment blocks. As a matter of fact, no matter how cynical and bitter this may sound, you somehow -- unfortunately -- quickly get used to this in the course of official travel to the "hot spots." You are no longer amazed -- no matter how painful the sight might be -- by the half-dead old men a... |
FBIS4-41201_0 | First Underground Nuclear Power Station Planned | BFN [Text] Russia's first underground atomic installation is to be assembled in Apatity [Kola peninsula]. Power engineers from the Moscow research institute for power engineering, the Russian research and design institute for power engineering technologies, and the mining institute of the Kola research centre of the Ru... |
FBIS4-41303_0 | Spokesman Optimistic About Russian-EC Cooperation | BFN [By ITAR-TASS diplomatic correspondent Yuriy Koslov] [Text] Moscow, 23 Jun -- Grigoriy Karasin, head of the Press and Information Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, described the Russian president's visits to Corfu and Brussels as Russia's and the EC's contribution toward preventing the division of the Eur... |
FBIS4-41314_0 | Prime Minister Chernomyrdin Continues U.S. Visit Further on Talks, Relations | BFN [Report by Pavel Shinkarenko: "Partnership Requires Repeal of Jackson-Vanik Amendment"] [Text] The Russian prime minister, who took part in the work of the Russian-U.S. intergovernment commission for economic and technical cooperation which ended yesterday, has used his stay in Washington to lend new impetus to Rus... |
FBIS4-41314_1 | Prime Minister Chernomyrdin Continues U.S. Visit Further on Talks, Relations | the work of the Russian-U.S. intergovernment commission for economic and technical cooperation which ended yesterday, has used his stay in Washington to lend new impetus to Russian-U.S. relations, primarily in the economic field. The partnership relations which are taking shape between Moscow and Washington have had a ... |
FBIS4-41334_0 | Agreement Reached With Japan on Nuclear Waste Plant | BFN [Text] Vladivostok, Russia, June 23 KYODO -- Russia and Japan inked an agreement Thursday [23 June] to build a disposal plant for liquid nuclear waste near Vladivostok in the Russian far east, Japanese officials said. Both sides agreed to put up the construction of the plant for international bidding. The facility,... |
FBIS4-41351_2 | Interviewed on Elections | find the resources to do it and to move forward. There is also the political situation. We need to overcome the differences in the existing views of our economic and political development. This is a must. We must be united in our need to develop, to overcome the obstacles and to move forward. Regrettably, however, ever... |
FBIS4-41399_1 | Human Rights Center Chief Interviewed | past. "That is what it was like then" is a typical empty refrain of the workers of the former KGB. A mass of evidence of crimes by the authorities has been accumulated. I believe that a decision should be made to repeal the statute of limitations with regard to the communist regime's crimes against the individual. Can ... |
FBIS4-41438_0 | Yeltsin Signs European Union Agreement | BFN [By ITAR-TASS special correspondents Yuriy Sizov, Vladimir Malyshev, and Yuriy Malinin] [Text] Kerkira (Corfu), 24 Jun -- A full-scale document comprising over 80 pages and translated into the 12 [as received] languages of the EU [European Union] member-countries has not yet been circulated in the press center in K... |
FBIS4-41451_0 | Further on Yeltsin Attending EU Meeting in Corfu Yeltsin Outlines Benefits | BFN [Text] Russian President Boris Yeltsin has signed an agreement on partnership and cooperation between Russia and the EU on the Greek island of Corfu. Our special correspondent Ilya Kapelevich reports: The agreement defines the conditions and stages for the development of economic cooperation between Russia and grea... |
FBIS4-41462_0 | Exports of CBW Components To Be Controlled | BFN [Russian President's Directive No. 298-RP, dated 14 June 1994, "On Control of the Export from the Russian Federation of Causative Agents of Disease (Pathogens) affecting Human Beings, Fauna, and Flora, Their Genetic Mutations, and Fragments of Genetic Material and Equipment Which May Be Used in the Creation of Bact... |
FBIS4-41462_3 | Exports of CBW Components To Be Controlled | by the USSR when it signed this document? [Syutkin] The president has signed an edict confirming the Russian Federation's succession in law with regard to the Convention's obligations. This means that the development and implementation of biological programs in breach of the convention are prohibited on Russian territo... |
FBIS4-41484_0 | Soskovets, Cuban Official Discuss Trade Partnership | BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Gennadiy Yezhov] [Text] Moscow, 24 Jun (TASS) -- Cuba could become the strategic base launching Russian high technology onto Latin American markets. This was Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets's proposal to Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Lionel Soto [title as received], with whom he had a... |
FBIS4-41514_6 | Hryb Discusses Russia, Economy, `Partnership' | catastrophe. Thus, almost half of our society is maintained by the state budget. These circumstances force us to carefully consider all contingencies before making any changes. [Graczyk] Do you not fear that the price for this caution may be, in the long run, the state's independence? [Hryb] People will always judge th... |
FBIS4-41515_0 | Minister for Chernobyl Affairs Views Effects of Disaster | BFN [Interview with Ivan Khenik, Belarus minister of Chernobyl affairs, by Gerd Rosenkranz; place and date not given: "Chernobyl Avoided in the Election Campaign"] [Text] [Rosenkranz] What role does the Chernobyl disaster play in your country's presidential elections? [Khenik] Fortunately, none of the candidates has ma... |
FBIS4-41541_4 | Provisions of Anticrime Edict Assessed | question of whether the implementation of the emergency measures is legal and necessary. Every one whose guilt is not proven in the manner prescribed by law is entitled to receive on demand a report on the nature of the information pertaining to him. It is possible to appeal to the court against a refusal to provide su... |
FBIS4-41566_0 | Central Bank Head: Litas Stability `Must Be Preserved' | BFN [Text] Vilnius, Jun 27, BNS -- Lithuania's national currency the litas became quite strong during the year that passed since its introduction, and such stability must be preserved, say the present and previous leaders of the Lithuanian central bank. The litas was introduced June 25, 1993 when the central bank was h... |
FBIS4-41625_0 | Kravchuk Promises Help for Crimea's Drought-Stricken Areas | BFN [Report by ITAR-TASS special correspondent Viktor Demidenko] [Text] Dzhankoi (the Republic of Crimea) 24 June TASS -- Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk does not regard his tours of the country as a campaign for once again being elected to the country's top most post. He considers them as visits by the head of sta... |
FBIS4-41658_3 | Chubays Argues Military Expenditure `Excessive' | 60 percent. Incidentally, we say today that 1994 is marked by decline. I can assure you that nearly 50 percent of this decline can be accounted for directly by the cuts in government spending on the purchase of equipment and military hardware. That is the most that one could have done in that respect. That this process... |
FBIS4-41669_0 | Efforts Needed To End `Unevenness' in U.S. Ties | BFN [Article by Anatoliy Shapovalov: "Reading Between the Lines. Postscript to V. Chernomyrdin's Visit"] [Text] There is an extremely fine line between politics and economics because the former, as is known, follows from the latter. It is not enough to assess the visit solely on the meetings with B. Clinton and other l... |
FBIS4-41669_1 | Efforts Needed To End `Unevenness' in U.S. Ties | whether the guests would be so bold as to speak again about the allocation of aid, on which the limit, even the verbal limit -- this was not concealed in Washington -- has already been reached. Instead, advice was offered about "living according to our means" and about cooperation in the spheres of space exploration, n... |
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