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President Clinton cozied up to Boris Yeltsin during the Russian President's state visit today, giving him a bear hug and a pledge of a half-billion dollars in financing and insurance for private investments in the former Soviet Union. More agreements on aid and nuclear disarmament will probably follow tomorrow. The only likely point of conflict in this two-day love fest: Russia's arms sales to Iran...
...miserable job during the last two years of his tenure. But apparently retirement, at least financially, was even worse. His pension: $1.65 a week. That pittance has been boosted to the comparative bonanza of $409. The source of the generosity was Gorby's old rival, Russian President Boris Yeltsin. A rumored explanation: Russians believe Yeltsin is looking ahead to his own days on the dole...
Simultaneous translations were used in each session. All major parties of the lower house of the parliament, the 450-member State Duma, were represented, including Russia's Choice, which supports President Boris Yeltsin...
Declaring that "today is the last day of the past," Russian President Boris Yeltsin presided over a Berlin ceremony ending 49 years of Soviet military presence in Germany. The last 1,800 troops -- down from 338,000 in 1990 -- will leave this month. Ordered by Major General Matvei Burlakov, commander of the Russian forces in Germany, "to take everything with them," the soldiers stripped their military installations of window frames, toilet fixtures, doorknobs and wiring. After all, Burlakov said, even a cement pole "can be traded in Russia for five pigs...
...help prevent that, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent intelligence coordinator Bernd Schmidbauer to Moscow on Saturday to talk with President Boris Yeltsin about ways to tighten controls over nuclear stocks. "We have to tell our Russian friends," said Kohl, "you must guarantee that these possibilities for theft are reduced as much as possible...