Word: russias
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...Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia this week signed a deal to pump oil to the West through a pipeline that will bypass both Russia and Iran. Where is that oil drilled...
...Russia balked, walked and then signed - but kept on bombing the Chechens anyway. In a somewhat confusing sequence of events at a European security summit in Istanbul Thursday, President Boris Yeltsin tore into Western critics of Moscow's military campaign in Chechnya and walked out of a discussion with European leaders on the crisis, after which his foreign minister Igor Ivanov proceeded to sign documents that conceded to some Western concerns. The Charter for European Security upholds the principle that conflicts within one signatory state are the legitimate concern of all, which means Moscow signed away its argument that...
...course, signing lofty undertakings isn't the same as acting on them, and even as Ivanov was putting pen to paper Thursday, Russia continued its heavy bombing and shelling of Chechen villages, in which 170 people were killed, according to Agence France Presse. Decisions on the Chechnya operation are in the hands of the military and President Yeltsin, and neither is likely to set much store by new European security agreements. If Western Europe is given any role in Chechnya, it looks more likely to be in caring for the hundreds of thousands of refugees created by Russia's ongoing...
...Moscow tension. President Boris Yeltsin arrived in Istanbul Wednesday spoiling for a fight when he meets President Clinton at Thursday's summit meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Amid rising Western alarm over Moscow?s military campaign in Chechnya, Clinton plans to warn Yeltsin that Russia's policy of flattening the breakaway region in order to strike at terrorists is a "dead end," and that external mediation is required. But Yeltsin no longer regards Clinton a policy adviser in good standing, and he?s made abundantly clear that Moscow regards Chechnya as an entirely domestic matter...
...hard to fight an enemy that doesn't fight back. If Russia moves to seize their capital, Grozny, Chechen fighters are likely to simply retreat into the hills rather than fight to the end. That pattern was established Friday, when Russian troops advanced into Chechnya's second city, Gudermes, only to find its Chechen defenders already gone. "Chechen sources say most of their fighters are retreating into the mountains and drawing Russia into the cities as winter sets in," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "They see it as a trap, because winter will hamper the Russian attack helicopters...