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USA: RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY LEBED'S DISMISSAL
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The Clinton administration says Russian President Boris Yeltsin's firing of his maverick security chief Alexander Lebed will not affect relations with the U-S.
The White House presented a united front insisting that...
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FINLAND: PRESIDENT CLINTON & YELTSIN END HELSINKI SUMMIT UPDATE
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In an unusual public airing of their rift, President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin ended summit talks Friday deeply divided over NATO expansion.
But both leaders did agree to a new round of arms-reduction...
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USA: STATE DEPARTMENT PRESS CONFERENCE ON RUSSIAN PRESIDENT YELTSIN
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The United States welcomed on Tuesday the developments in the Kremlin, where Russian President Boris Yeltsin appeared to be fully back in control.
Following through on promises to shake up a government that's been unable to...
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White House and ex US amb to Moscow on Yeltsin's death
Washington DC - 23 April 2007
1. White House spokesperson Dana Perino walking into briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dana Perino, White House spokeswoman
"Let me start off today with a statement by the president that will be released...
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BELGIUM: NATO DEFENCE MINISTERS MEETING PRESS CONFERENCE
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U-S Secretary of Defence William Cohen reacted on Wednesday with caution to Yeltsin's offers to cut nuclear warheads and conventional troops.
Attending NATO talks in Brussels, Cohen said the Russians needed to give more...
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Russia - Duma rejects START II disarmament treaty
Washington's hopes that the Russian Duma (lower house of parliament) would ratify the START II disarmament treaty were set back on Thursday (30/04) when Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov said his faction would not even discuss it....
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USA: NEW YORK: RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS SECRETARY OF STATE
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U-S Secretary of State Warren Christopher has met Russia's Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov in New York in what turned out to be a mini-summit on anti-missile defence systems.
Christopher announced the "milestone"...
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USA - Chernomyrdin visits the Whitehouse
Visiting Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and US Vice President Al Gore arranged the March 20-21 meeting for the two presidents to discuss US-Russia relations which have been strained over the push to enlarge the North Atlantic...
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USA: WASHINGTON: ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI
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The White House hands-off approach to the Chechen crisis has come under fire from all sides.
Former national security adviser to the then U-S President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, called the administration response...
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Russia-Igor Ignatiev Condolences For Rabin Death
T/I 11:14:48 Tape 1
Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued a statement Sunday (5/11)
expressing his shock and regret at the "violent" murder of Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Igor Ignatiev, a spokesman for
Yeltsin, said the...
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USA: STATE DEPARTMENT PRIMAKOV PRESS BRIEFING
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The United States government reacted calmly to the news that Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov had been sacked and was confident it would not affect Russia's role in seeking an end to the Kosovo conflict.
But their was...
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Russia/Moscow - Kozyrev Humanitarian Flights Tuzla
Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev on Tuesday (3/1) was
given an assurance by Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic that
humanitarian flights would be allowed to land at the Muslim
controlled Tuzla airport, currently under siege by...