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...Russians may also be helping Iraq outside the diplomatic arena. Retired Colonel Victor Baranets, who served as press secretary to former Russian Defense Minister Igor Rodionov, believes Russia has "secretly supplied Iraq with several billion dollars worth of weapons and spare parts" since sanctions have been in place. He also thinks Moscow bought Baghdad's agreement to allow the U.N. inspectors to return to work two weeks ago with pledges of more supplies and full-scale military cooperation after sanctions are lifted...
MOSCOW: Railing at rampant military corruption, Boris Yeltsin primed himself for a political comeback, firing Defense Minister Igor Rodionov and the country's top military commander for failing to cut costs and slash Russia's overmanned armed forces. "I am not just unsatisfied. I am outraged," Yeltsin lectured the Defense Council in a nationally televised dressing down. Acknowledging that he has been somewhat "removed" from running the country recently (a state of affairs popularly linked to everything from alcoholism to senility), Yeltsin told the defense chiefs that he is now back in charge, a thinly veiled threat in a country...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A report that malfunctioning control systems have switched some missiles into "combat mode" on several occasions is raising new worries about the safety of Russia's rapidly deteriorating nuclear arsenal. According to the Washington Times, a CIA report says Russian Defense Minister Igor Rodionov warned Russian government officials in February and March that the country's nuclear control equipment will soon collapse without much-needed funding for repairs and upgrades. While the study rates the risk of an accidental nuclear attack as low under "normal circumstances," even one accidental launch could prove deadly. Although Russian missile technically...
...country's security and military structures. And they were clearly unnerved last week when Lebed denounced the Defense Ministry's intention to reduce the size of the airborne forces, including some of Russia's last remaining elite troops. Lebed, a former airborne officer, railed against Defense Minister Igor Rodionov's planned cuts. They were "criminal," he said, thus bringing into the open a monthlong rift with his one-time protege in the Defense Ministry. A senior airborne officer also spoke out against the cuts. He was removed last week at the same time as Lebed. The officer, a high-ranking...
...power make him popular with the electorate. Now that Lebed is out, he can portray himself as the last honest man in the Yeltsin administration, a result which is probably a calculated risk on the Kremlin's part. After a series of confrontations with former ally Defense Minister Igor Rodionov, and Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov which sent charges of contract murder, treason, corruption spying and coup plotting (which no one seems to believe) flying through the press, Yeltsin seems to have decided that Lebed was better off out of his government. He may come to regret it. If Yeltsin...