Russia declared an end Thursday to its 10-year anti-terror "operation" in the autonomous republic of Chechnya.
Long before the small group of men gained control of a $1.3 trillion economy, they could be found gathered at a lakeshore deep in the forest, trying to relax amid the upheaval of the new Russia. Lake Komsomolskoye, named after the youth wing of the Communist Party, lies about 60 miles north of St. Petersburg, just one of 700 lakes on the isthmus connecting Russia and Finland. There the group, many of whom helped run Russia's second-largest city, would retreat for weekends among the tall, lakeside cedars in a private compound of dachas, or country houses. Vladimir Putin, then head of external relations for the St. Petersburg mayor, was a member of the group. So was Vladimir Yakunin, who had revived a bank started by the Communist Party, and Igor Sechin, then Putin's chief of staff. The group called itself ozero, meaning "the lake," and one of its frequent guests was a bright young lawyer named Dmitry Medvedev who worked in the St. Petersburg government. One prime topic of their
Boris Yeltsin lasted 30 minutes; he did well. Most people struggle to get past 20 -- and the recommended dose is a trifling 15.
His party's overwhelming election victory may have been foreordained, but that doesn't negate the success Putin has had in convincing his constituents that it's morning in Russia
President Vladimir Putin's party claimed a sweeping mandate in Russia's parliamentary elections Sunday, winning nearly two-thirds of the vote in a contest that could let Putin wield power beyond the upcoming end of his presidential term.
Russia's constitution requires him to leave the presidency next March, so Putin has his eye on the premiership
Emperor Nicholas and his family were executed in 1918. But with newly discovered remains, they're making headlines again in Russia
Surely no group of consultants, assigned the task of designing an emblematic soccer manager for our ravenous media age, could have produced a marriage as perfect as the real-life soap opera that is Jos� Mourinho.
Unlike almost everyone else in the CNN "Eye on Russia" team, I had never been to Russia before.
Russia's first democratic president, Boris Yeltsin, was buried Wednesday following a funeral service in central Moscow.
Russia declared an end Thursday to its 10-year anti-terror "operation" in the autonomous republic of Chechnya.
Long before the small group of men gained control of a $1.3 trillion economy, they could be found gathered at a lakeshore deep in the forest, trying to relax amid the upheaval of the new Russia. Lake Komsomolskoye, named after the youth wing of the Communist Party, lies about 60 miles north of St. Petersburg, just one of 700 lakes on the isthmus connecting Russia and Finland. There the group, many of whom helped run Russia's second-largest city, would retreat for weekends among the tall, lakeside cedars in a private compound of dachas, or country houses. Vladimir Putin, then head of external relations for the St. Petersburg mayor, was a member of the group. So was Vladimir Yakunin, who had revived a bank started by the Communist Party, and Igor Sechin, then Putin's chief of staff. The group called itself ozero, meaning "the lake," and one of its frequent guests was a bright young lawyer named Dmitry Medvedev who worked in the St. Petersburg government. One prime topic of their
Boris Yeltsin lasted 30 minutes; he did well. Most people struggle to get past 20 -- and the recommended dose is a trifling 15.
His party's overwhelming election victory may have been foreordained, but that doesn't negate the success Putin has had in convincing his constituents that it's morning in Russia
President Vladimir Putin's party claimed a sweeping mandate in Russia's parliamentary elections Sunday, winning nearly two-thirds of the vote in a contest that could let Putin wield power beyond the upcoming end of his presidential term.
Russia's constitution requires him to leave the presidency next March, so Putin has his eye on the premiership
Emperor Nicholas and his family were executed in 1918. But with newly discovered remains, they're making headlines again in Russia
Surely no group of consultants, assigned the task of designing an emblematic soccer manager for our ravenous media age, could have produced a marriage as perfect as the real-life soap opera that is Jos� Mourinho.
Unlike almost everyone else in the CNN "Eye on Russia" team, I had never been to Russia before.
Russia's first democratic president, Boris Yeltsin, was buried Wednesday following a funeral service in central Moscow.
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76, a Kremlin spokesman confirmed today. Yeltsin had rarely been seen in public since resigning from office on December 31, 1999. He became the first democratically elected president of Russia in 1991.
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76, the Kremlin said on Monday.
British detectives investigating the death of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko are now pursuing inquiries in both London and Moscow. CNN's The Briefing Room has compiled a guide to who's who in the spy scandal.
World number three Nikolay Davydenko will be hoping to snap a five-game losing streak to Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina when he opens for Russia in the Davis Cup final in Moscow on Friday.
In Bolivia a few days ago, they were celebrating the inauguration of Evo Morales, the country's first Indian president.
Russian Security Services paid $10 million for information leading to the death of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, a representative for Russia's FSB intelligence agency said Tuesday.
Chechen separatists have vowed to press on with their fight for independence after the killing of guerrilla leader Aslan Maskhadov.
Aslan Maskhadov, a rebel leader and former president of Chechnya, maintained terrorist attacks perpetrated by Chechens were "unavoidable" because of Russia's policies.
Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov -- who had a $10 million bounty on his head -- has been killed by Russian troops, according to Russian news agencies.
French Open champion Anastasia Myskina came to the rescue of home favorites Russia as they won the deciding doubles to clinch the Fed Cup crown by three rubbers to two against France in Moscow.
Aslan Maskhadov, a rebel leader and former president of Chechnya, has said there is "no justification" for the seizure of the school in Beslan.
The following are profiles of Russia's so-called oligarchs, a group of businessmen who made their fortune following the fall of the Soviet Union.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed U.N. envoy Sergey Lavrov to the post of foreign minister in a Cabinet reshuffle.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has named European Union envoy Mikhail Fradkov as his candidate for prime minister, Interfax news agency says.
President Vladimir Putin is keeping Russia guessing about his choice for prime minister after firing his government weeks before the country's presidential election.
President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Russia's prime minister and his Cabinet just two weeks ahead of the country's presidential election.
A Russian presidential candidate who disappeared for five days says he was kidnapped and drugged by captors who lured him to the Ukranian capital Kiev.
Three years ago, at the annual conference of the high and mighty in the Swiss resort town of Davos, the so-called oligarchs of Russia gathered for what would be their last bash. For a time they pre...
Eighty-three years after the Communist era began, Russia paid $400 million to some 300,000 French holders of pre-revolution Russian bonds. Hoping for stability in the years leading up to 1917, Euro...
Forget about switching your broker or your gym. Why not usher in a new millennium with a far more radical change--a new identity? According to a slew of somewhat bizarre websites, the idea is shock...
Snapshot No. 1: 1981. It's a bright, plump, new Christmas cactus! Hey, bud. How you doing? About...eight inches high? Plain white plastic pot. Lots of juicy new leaves. When the holiday season come...
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When former President George Bush visited Moscow in June, Russian President Boris Yeltsin welcomed him as an old friend of Russia's young democracy. In general, though, Bush is remembered for suppo...
Why were most of the 1990s so bullish and euphoric a time? The answer, in no small part, is because we stopped having to worry about Russia. The collapse of the Soviet Union lifted a huge fear that...
When financier George Soros declared Aug. 13 that Russia's economy is in a "terminal phase" and suggested Moscow devalue the ruble, all hell broke loose: The Russian stock exchange dropped 15% as B...
It's midnight in Moscow. At the entrance to the Up & Down Club, a black-bereted ex-paratrooper is exercising "face control," the two-way radio in his fist as firm a deterrent to trespass as any Kal...
"When I first went looking for money to invest in Russia, people threw me out of their offices," Boris Jordan says. "They don't do that anymore."
The Americas led the way. Riding an economic rebound, Latin American funds grabbed eight of the top 10 slots on our winners list for the first half of the year. Still, the numero uno fund was $18.1...
Ever since the Berlin Wall came down, people have been talking about the possibility of making big money in Eastern Europe. Now at least some investors are. A little-known mutual fund, Vontobel Eas...
Until last year, Inkombank did business out of a crumbling former science institute on the outskirts of Moscow. Now its offices, in a lavishly renovated pre-Revolutionary mansion a stone's throw fr...
Lured by spectacular gains in markets such as Russia (up 105% in the first eight months of this year), Hungary (86%), Poland (77%) and the Czech Republic (26%), several new mutual funds have sprung...
Say what you will about Miss Manners, she is definitely not a fool.
You could be making pizza. You could be sorting mail. You could be arranging a deal between Spielberg and Yeltsin. At this moment, suddenly, time is money. The clock is ticking. Somebody's waiting ...
With election day quickly approaching, Russia's first wide-open presidential race is barreling toward an uncertain end. A few months back President Boris Yeltsin looked out of it, his support an ab...
If Russia were a stock, most Westerners would be shorting it viciously now. Judging from the barrage of bad-news headlines, the country is spiraling into chaos--its businesses plagued by mobsters w...
Weighing just a few grams, the plutonium intercepted in mid-August by German police is far less than the nine pounds experts say are needed to construct a nuclear weapon. But no one knows how much ...
Your April Money Monitor report, "Fully 95% of Merchants Flunk Our Credit-Card Test," brought back some personal memories. I'm not surprised that your reporters were able to use each other's cards ...
Did shock therapy fail in Russia? Not according to some U.S. and European economists. They say that the drastic, market-oriented policy can hardly be considered a flop since it has been pursued onl...
THE HUMAN SPIRIT knows few bounds, and no place proves that right now more than Russia. Western investment keeps rising, almost in step with the growing chaos. Foreign managers and advisers have ha...
''You shouldn't mix up the long-term business opportunities with the occasional shootouts. These things will happen.'' So says Percy Barnevik, CEO of ABB Asea Brown Boveri, in the bloody aftermath ...
With defense expenditures shrinking faster than an un-Sanforized shirt, armsmakers around the globe are eager to export. U.S. companies, which offer the highest-tech weapons, excellent service, and...
EUROPE is starting 1993 in a sour mood. The march toward economic and political unity has begun to look more like a parade of stragglers. With recession deepening and widening, big layoffs seem imm...
Of all the foreign policy challenges likely to force their way onto President Clinton's brimming plate, none will be more critical than how to ensure the survival of Boris Yeltsin and the reforms h...
Yegor Gaidar, 36, doesn't get enough respect. At least not in Russia, where he is first deputy prime minister to Boris Yeltsin. As the author of Yeltsin's economic reforms, Gaidar has helped get fo...
After three months of free-market shock therapy, the Russian government estimates that 90% of its 145 million people now live below the official poverty line. The average wage of 875 rubles per mon...
LIKE Christopher Columbus, Mikhail Gorbachev set out for one place but reached another and never quite knew where he was when he got there. What he did do, however, was change the world. The goals ...
Even as the Bush Administration announced a $1.5 billion free-food-aid program for the Soviet Union, President Mikhail Gorbachev was publicly snubbed by the Russian republic. It's withholding tithe...
Once again, the Soviet Union is threatening Europe, not with arms this time but with the specter of a potentially devastating economic implosion. In the nightmare scenario, Europeans could spend hu...
START BY ASKING a question often ignored by Western analysts: What do the Soviets really want? ''The main measures that need to be taken to stop a collapse all lie on our side,'' says Grigori Yavli...
BORIS YELTSIN never actually said the words across the top of this page, at least not within earshot of this writer. But he might as well have. Everything the Russian President and his new partner,...
SELLING/COVER STORY 46 HOW SAM WALTON DOES IT Having built a multibillion-dollar fortune, America's most successful merchant can now do what he likes. That's why he's out there every day barnstormi...
Allied bombing in World War II couldn't destroy Konigsberg when it was part of Germany, and neither could 46 years of urban planning by the Soviets, who got hold of the city in 1945 and renamed it ...
IN HIS 5 1/2 YEARS as Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze was almost as well known around the world as Mikhail Gorbachev. Last December he shocked West and East alike by abruptly resigning...
LIGHTWEIGHT,'' was the way a senior Bush Administration official described him last year. ''Demagogue,'' charged another. Throughout much of the West's long love affair with Mikhail Gorbachev, U.S....
MANAGING/COVER STORY 36 THE NEW EXECUTIVE UNEMPLOYED Cost cutting, downsizing, restructuring -- it all boils down to shrinking payrolls, and it has reached the executive ranks with a vengeance. Eve...
THE NEW ENTENTE between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. is probably in better shape than many people think. The trouble is that the Soviet economy is in even worse shape than they think. Mikhail Gorbache...
Without question, one certain loser has emerged from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's Baltic crisis: a renewed Union Treaty. Gorbachev's ambitious plan to reunite his increasingly fractious emp...
THE SOVIET ECONOMY and chaos,'' growled an irate Muscovite as he slammed back a shot of black-market vodka, chasing it with a piece of bread his wife had spent 20 minutes in line that morning to bu...
MEET the Soviet Lee Iacocca. Fifteen months ago Artem Tarasov, a self- proclaimed ''ruble millionaire,'' seemed headed for bankruptcy -- or worse. The Ministry of Finance had confiscated the assets...
''It is 70 years since the unforgettable days of October 1917, those legendary days that started the count of the new epoch of social progress, of the real history of humankind.'' Thus, breathlessl...
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