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By John Helmer in Moscow The soft-spoken general is wearing civilian clothes — a trim double-breasted suit, with a paisley tie discreetly knotted at a pressed white collar. It is not the uniform of the old nomenklatura, nor of the new entrepreneur. The silver flecks in his thick hair convey photogenic authority. The high cheek-bones, […]

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By John Helmer in Moscow The Russian Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Kozyrev, will visit six Arab states of the Persian Gulf next month, in a move to obtain economic support in return for Russia’s political re-alignment in the Middle East. Mr Kozyrev will substitute for Mr Pyotr Aven, the Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, whose […]