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(Moscow) Boris Yeltsin is looking for a few good ideas, some raisons d'être -- big ones that might give a new national vision to the future of Russia. The Russian president has issued a call to his compatriots to dream up a "unifying sense of national purpose," something perhaps similar to the Great American Dream (you know, opportunity, democracy and chickens in pots). The top idea over the next year could win nearly $2,000 in Russian rubles. Keep your submissions to seven pages or less, please. You can try getting a fax to Yeltsin through the Russian Government Administration office at 7-095-206-2431.
(Itar-Tass) Russian foreign minister Evgeny Primakov says Moscow will oppose three negative trends in the Western world directed at his country: 1) The tendency to paint the "winners and losers" in the "Cold War" in terms of "black and white." 2) The attempt by capitalist dominators to create a "unipolar world," rather than moving towards a more "multipolar model." 3) The new Russia is entering the world economy viewed simply as a "raw materials appendage." Primakov says these trends need to be countered by Russian foreign policy.
Washington) Billionaire high financier George Soros says the world community has missed an historic opportunity to create a free and open society in the former Soviet Union. In 1989 Soros proposed a multibillion dollar aid program for Russia and the other republics along the lines of the World War II Marshall Plan. The failure to accept that plan "is where we went wrong," Soros says. He however plans to continue the work of his foundation in Russia promoting freedom "as long as we are tolerated."
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8th October 1999, 00:02
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