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U.S. SENATOR GORDON SMITH (R-OR) CHAIRMAN HOLDS HEARING ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN AMERICA
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS HOLDS HEARING ON THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS
IN RUSSIA
SEPTEMBER 15, 1998
SPEAKERS: U.S. SENATOR GORDON H. SMITH (R-OR), CHAIRMAN
U.S. SENATOR RICHARD G. LUGAR (R-IN)
U.S. SENATOR JOHN ASHCROFT (R-MO)
U.S. SENATOR CHARLES HAGEL (R-NE)
U.S. SENATOR CRAIG THOMAS (R-WY)
U.S. SENATOR JESSE A. HELMS (R-NC)
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U.S. RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AND ECONOMIC CRISIS:LEE H. HAMILTON
Congressional Testimony
; 00-00-0000 Statement of the Hon. Lee H. Hamilton Before the Committee on International Relations The United States and Russia: Russia in Crisis September 17, 1998 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to welcome each of our distinguished witnesses and thank them for appearing today. In particular,
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Russia's deep freeze.(northern Russians suffering most in economic crisis)
U.S. News & World Report
; PALATKA, RUSSIA--This is a strange and terrible winter in northern Russia, with strange and terrible tales to match. Inmates in a prison in the Kolyma region were marched through the snow and locked in the basement of a hotel, the only place for miles around that still had heat. An entire village
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Facing onset of winter, many Russians lack heat Economic crisis leaves many energy-rich regions with little fuel
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ... months of brutal winter begins. Russian weather forecasters have predicted the harshest winter in 30 years. This discouraging news came amid last month's report that Russia's grain harvest was nearly half the levels of 1997 and the worst in 45 years. Moreover ...
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Russia's Bloody Harvest: Disasters; Economic Crisis, Communist Legacy Spawn Spiraling Accident Rate
The Washington Post
; ... the West would make banner headlines are reported almost in passing here - a summer's sound bite - and quickly fade from the news. The agonizing harvest of accidents in Russia, many of them involving large numbers of deaths and injuries, is the physical legacy ...
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RUSSIAN ECONOMIC CRISIS:SPENCER BACHUS
Congressional Testimony
; 00-00-0000 Opening Statement of Chairman Spencer Bachus Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigations Committee on Banking and Financial Services U.S. House of Representatives September 10, 1998 Good morning. The Clinton Administration has asked Congress to appropriate an additional $18
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Russian elite still believes every cloud has a fur lining; No one knows if Russia's super rich, who are renowned for their extravagant ways, will survive the economic crisis.
The Birmingham Post (England)
; With its posh new Moscow boutique, the elite Italian fashion house Fendi is betting that the fundamental law of high fashion will prove stronger than Russia's economic downturn. A woman always wants to look beautiful, said Alla Verber, commercial director for Trading House Moscow, which is working
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Economic crisis imperils Yeltsin, Russia's future: Plays into hand of radicals as it terrorizes citizens.(World)(Briefing/Europe)(News Analysis)
The Washington Times
; The economic crisis in Russia has destroyed the remaining political credibility of President Boris Yeltsin and the prospects of a smooth succession to any chosen heir when his term of office ends in two years, Russian and U.S. experts say. This is not merely a financial crisis, it is a systemic
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Economic crisis strains the health of those in Russia High cost, low supply of medicines lead people to ignore serious ailments
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ... year, the patients are not coming, and many who do say they cannot pay for medicines not to mention surgery. This is very bad news," Grilyarevski said. The 3-week-old Russian economic meltdown is already taking its toll on the country's health and health care ...
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Rule 1: don't panic, rule 2: panic first. (economic crisis of 1997-98)(Cover Story)
Esquire
; They said the Asian markets wouldn't crash. They crashed. They said the crisis wouldn't spread. It spread. They said the catastrophe wouldn't affect us. Get ready. Not long ago, at a very private briefing about the state of the United States economy attended by senior government officials from as
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Yes, Markets Go Down.(Russia's economic crisis affects U.S. stock exchange)
Newsweek
; ... Stocks were priced for perfection, as they say on Wall Street. Russia's financial collapse, ominous rumblings in Japan and nasty news emanating from Latin America fall far short of perfection. So the U.S. market tanked. The Dow and the S&P 500 are still up ...
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