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MOSENERGO HEADQUARTERS Moscow 1996 REVENUES $2.677 billion STOCK CLOSE 9/8/97 $1.60 P/E RATIO...
...MOSCOW: Nobody said slowing down the arms race would be easy, not even in the aftermath of the Cold War. While President Clinton still faces a tough battle to get Senate approval for the nuclear test-ban treaty he signed a year ago ? and touted at the U.N. on Monday ? Al Gore is having better luck. He and his friend of four years, the Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, signed an historic deal Tuesday halting the production of weapons-grade plutonium ? the next step, say negotiators, toward a less nuclear world...
...MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin has two choices when a bill curbing religious freedom lands on his desk, and neither of them are good. To veto the bill passed Friday by the Duma ? and effectively make Russian Orthodoxy the dominant religion ? would anger the powerful church and a large section of the Russian public who support the bill as a defense of Russian culture. But to pass the measure would draw huge protest from Western churches such as the Mormons, whose large missionary programs in the country would be outlawed...
...July Yeltsin vetoed an earlier version of the bill, which ostensibly curbs foreign cults but actually restricts any faith that arrived in Russia after the communist era. But he'll sign this time, according to TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier ? even though it is exactly the same bill as before. ?Yeltsin will probably say to the West, ?Listen, guys, I did my best, this is as good as it?s going to get.? There is strong support for the bill, and he can?t afford to be seen to be too pro-Western...
...MOSCOW: The Russian Space Agency may want to consider buying extra collision insurance for the long-suffering Mir. The station was nearly creamed Tuesday by a 350-pound U.S. satellite traveling along a similar orbit...