"Независимое военное обозрение", англ. дайджест, номер 001 (001) от ноября 1999 г. (содержание электронной версии)
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Russia’s most unsecrete weapon
Or what the Independent Military Review is all about
By Vitaly Tretyakov
For many years the Nezavisimaya Gazeta—the first independent Russian daily that was brought to life by the collapse of Communism (Nezavisimaya is Russian for “independent”)—has been at the forefront ...
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Russia is increasing its arms sales
Russian State Company Rosvoorouzhenie’s portfolio could reach $10.5 Billion
by the end of the year
By Vladimir Mukhin
By ensuring the sale of aims, Russian govemment is addressing several issues.
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Military doctrine is work in progress, still
The Russian army has
a blueprint, but nothing
is set in marble yet, says Colonel General Valery Manilov, first deputy chief of staff of the Russian Armed Forces,
in a conversation with Vladimir Georgiyev of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta
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Rocket test caps a string of warnings to the U. S. over missile shield
ABM defense was first invented by Baron Munchausen during the siege of Gibraltar.
Technology is faster today, but the slower human factor remains
By Dmitri Alexandrov
Russia tested Nov. 2 a short-range interceptor rocket for the Moscow ...
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New missile gets a leg on Scuds
Iskander-E’s guidance system is a combination of inertial with radar area guidance
By Sergei Sokut
The Iskander-E missile system, developed at the Kolomna Engineering Design Bureau, became the main sensation of the MAX-99 aerospace constructors fair in Zhukovsky. Possible ...
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New electoral catechism, unabridged and updated
Or the Russian voter’s manual in the form of some of the most frequently asked questions—and very rarely given answers
By Vitaly Tretyakov
First things first. Is President Boris Yeltsin fit to govern? He is, in the way he has been governing for past several ...
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A Pentagon that thinks
By Vadim Solovyev
Russian military circles see the Pentagon research center in Monterey located between Los Angeles and San Francisco as a spy organization. The better was the invitation from the US Embassy in Moscow to send a correspondent at the Nezavisimaya Military Review study ...
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Pervez Musharraf, the resentful general
The early stages of Gen. Musharraf’s coup in Pakistan
were impeccably planned, but that appears to be as far as it went
By Alexei Tamilin
For foreign observers, the most striking feature of last month’s military coup in Pakistan has been the absence of internal protest ...
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Barter economy, Slavic style
The Russian air force received two of the 11 strategic bombers it bought from Ukraine in a move to bolster its nuclear strike capability.
A supersonic Tu-160 Blackjack bomber flew to the Engels air base near Saratov, 520 miles southeast of Moscow, where it was met by air force ...
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The bigger bully
Sukhoi-30 fighter jets can be upgraded on the cheap—and quickly, Alexei Fedorov, head of the Irkutsk Aircraft Manufacturing Amalgamation, tells Sergei Sokut of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta. Multifunctional and capable of attacking several aerial targets,
they will rival anything Western firms ...
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MiG’s seven cardinal sins
The jury is out on whether the new MiG belongs to the elite company
of Generation-X fighter jets
By Igor Korotchenko
Ever since the MiG designer bureau on Jan. 12, 1999, demonstrated its latest plane, the scandal around the program of development of a multifunctional front fighter ...
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No piece of cake
Short of kerosene and back wages, Russian pilots are still said to be better than NATO airmen
By Valery Nozhin
Lipetsk, a regional center in Western Russia which was founded in 1703 as an ironworking center by Peter the Great and now has a population of half a million, is more than a footnote ...
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Money matters
Ten old helicopter gunships can be upgraded for the price of building two new ones, says Colonel General Vitaly Pavlov, commander of the Russian army’s air force, in a conversation with Ilya Kedrov of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Q. Has air power been used any differently during the latest armed ...
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U.S. fighter jets challenge Russian bombers over Iceland
By Sergei Sokut
Military history will probably record that one of the most dramatic and instructive episodes of last June’s West-99 maneuvers happened in the Volga region and involved the 37th Air Army of the Supreme Command of the Russian Army...
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Chaos in the Caucasus and elsewhere
Western oil interests in the Caspian, rather than Islam, may be fuelling the jihad on Russia’s southern rim
By Leonid Ivashov
Bombs in Moscow, trouble in the southern republic of Dagestan, a spate of kidnappings and an armed rebellion in the Central Asian republics of ...
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Clash of civilizations
Or is it? The jury is out on whether the fighting in the Caucasus is evidence of confrontation
between Islam and Christianity, or of some mischief-making by dark forces in Moscow
By Igor Rotar
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Berezovsky probe terminated
The Russian prosecutor’s office on Nov. 6 terminated a high-profile corruption probe against oil-to-media magnate Boris Berezovsky after months of investigation and just weeks after accusing him of diverting $600 million from the national airline, Aeroflot, to a pair of Swiss ...
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Tycoon’s TV branches out to Europe
Where CNN led, BBC World Service television followed. Now a new Russian channel largely controlled by Boris Berezovsky, the oil and media tycoon, seems anxious to catch up.
ORT International has started broadcasting this month, bringing Russian-language news, documentaries ...
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Russia’s left gets wrong marching orders
By dismembering the National Patriotic Bloc
the Communists have lost the chance to unite the protest vote
By Alexei Podberezkin
Moscow has more top-of-the-line Mercedes than Monaco, which is pretty good news for the Swiss franc, but hardly for anything or anyone ...
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Birds of different feather
When Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the reformist Yabloko, struck a deal with Sergei Stepashin, former premier and policeman,the idea was to round up extra votes in December’s elections. Stepashin’s plans, however, may be grander than serving Yavlinsky as an electoral vehicle
By ...
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Inside Russia
A fair cop—on paper
Moscow’s authorities are considering an ingenious method of clamping down on speeding.
Following an experiment in Ukraine, a cardboard police car and silhouette of a policeman holding a radar gun may be placed by roadsides to trick drivers into slowing down.
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Risky business
Reforming Russia’s banks is a gigantic—and some fear, hopeless—task
By Anton Sychev
More than a year after Russia’s financial meltdown, people are still trying to understand what went wrong. There is another question that is being asked: what now?
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The midwives of Russian capitalism
Intermediaries are the economy’s black hole
By Igor Nikolayev
The federal government said last month it expects its 1999 budget revenue to rise to 11.9 percent of the gross domestic product, as compared to 9.8 percent for 1998. In 1996 and 1997 the federal budget revenue ...
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Caspian pipeline deal believed close
An agreement to build a multibillion-dollar pipeline to export oil from the Caspian Sea region to Western markets through Turkey is likely to be signed in Istanbul later this month, a senior U.S. official said earlier this month.
John Wolf, President Clinton’s special ...
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Playing a weak hand with skill
Its economy may be in shambles, but Russia must remain a major player in the world affairs,
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov says in a conversation with Dmitri Kosyrev of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Q. You and your ministry—sometimes the very idea of Russian involvement in the world ...
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Corruption in Russia and future U.S. Policy
document
By Thomas Graham
What we have witnessed since the breakup of the Soviet Union and the demise of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the fragmentation of the state. Much power has flowed out of Moscow into the regions. The central governmental ...
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Tolerating intolerance corrodes American democracy
By Vladislav Dunayev
These days Americans do not want to be enlightened. They are only ready to accept information only if it is brought to them within seconds—if it is not, “TV viewers will simply switch to another channel,” says Ms Fitzpatrick, president ...
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Stage set for another Russiagate?
The Republicans are moving
to accuse Albert Gore of causing damage to U.S. security
By Andrei Vaganov
Bill Richardson, head of the U.S. Department of Power Engineering, visited Russia in October, signing an agreement on cooperation in controlling and ensuring safety of ...
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(C) "Независимое военное обозрение", англ. дайджест, номер 001 (001) от ноября 1999 г.