START II: Opinions. Publications of 1998.

• Washington Strengthens a New World Order (by Vadim Solovyov, Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye NG, N 49, December 25 - January 14, 1998, p. 1)

• The Will Is Strengthening - The Missiles Are Corroding, (by Vladimir Lapski, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, December 23, 1998, p.2)

• Russian Parliament Delays Work on START II Treaty, (by David Hoffman, The Washington Post, Wednesday, December 23, 1998; Page A16)

• The Ice Has Never Begun to Break -in Russian, (by Aleksander Goltz, Yadernaya Bezopasnost, November-December, 1999)

• External And Internal Enemy, -in Russian (by Sergei Karaganov, Moskovskiye Novosti, No 50 (967), December 20 - 27, 1998)

• To Future With Topol-M, (by Vladimir Yakovlev and Marina Eratova, Pravda, December 18, 1998)

• START-2: There Is No Sense In Bargaining (by Alexander Sadchikov, Izvestiya, December 16, 1998, p.1)

• Arms Control: Keep Your Eye on the Ball ( The Washington Post, Wednesday, December 9, 1998; Page A24)

• Accept No Russian Conditions To Start II Treaty, (by Baker Spring, Heritage Foundation, Memorandum, December 4, 1998)

• Start II: Better Late than Never (by Alexander Pikayev, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Proliferation Brief, December 3, 1998)

• Problems of START II Ratification , - in Russian (by Pyotr Romashkin, the Staff of the "Yabloko" Faction in the State Duma), December 1, 1998

• Russia Cannot Afford Soviet - Sized Nuclear Shield (by Vladimir Yermolin, Izvestiya, November 20, 1998 г. p.1)

• START-2: It Is A Pity To Dump It, But It Is Too Heavy To Carry, (by Oleg Odnokolenko, Segodnya
, November 19, 1998)

• We Keep The Balance of Strategic Nuclear Forces, (by Yu. Maslyukov, Parlamentskaya Gazeta, November 11 1998, p. 1, 2). The full text is published by Oborona i Bezopasnost bulletin, November 13, 1998.

• Failure of START II Ratification Will Hit at Russian Interests, Not at American Ones, (by Oleg Odnokolenko, Segodnya, October 27, 1998)

• Will START II be Ratified? Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces Are Reduced Themselves, - in Russian, (by Alexei Arbatov, Moscowskiye Novosti, N 42, October 25 - November 1, 1998)

• Yuri Maslyukov: We Won't Be Understood, If We Reject START II, (by Petr Karapetyan, Krasnaya Zvezda, October 20, 1998)

• START-2 Ratification Process, a summary of the press-conference held by the PIR Center on October 15, 1998.

• There Are No Hopeless Situations (by Valeri Alexeyevski, NVO-NG, N37, October 2-8, 1998, p. 4)

• On Preparation Of START II Ratification, (by Alexander Tarasov, Yadernoye Rasprostraneniye, Issue 24, September 1998, pp. 5-13)

• Once Again About START II Treaty, (by Lev Volkov, Obozrevatel-Observer, September, 1998)

• Potential for Ratification of START II Treaty by the Russian State Duma this Fall: Premises and Obstacles (by Andrew Gordiyenko, Yaderny Control, N 4, July-August, 1998, pp 5-11)

• START II Ratification Can not Wait (by Mikhail Vinogradov and Leonid Ryabikhin, NVO-NG, N 29, August 7-13, 1998, p.1)

• Tendencies of Nuclear Disarmament. Disadvantages of START-1 and START-2 Treaties. In Nuclear Arms Reduction. The Process and Problems (Ed. by A.S. Diakov, The Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT, Dolgoprudny, published in English in June, 1998).

• Defense Dossier: START II Destined for Shelf (by Pavel Felgenhauer, The Moscow Times, June 25, 1998)

• A Decade of Nuclear Cuts Stall (by Jonathan S. Landay, The Christian Science Monitor, June 22, 1998)

• START II is a Victim of Intrigues and Light-mindedness - in Russian (by Alexander Golz, Intellectual Capital, June 17-24, Volume 2, N 21).

• Strategic Offensive Arms Reduction: The View from the Ministry of Defense (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, June 16, 1998, p. 8)

• U.S.A. Stands To More Advantage From START II (by Alexei Podberyozkin, Pravda-5, June 16, 1998, p.3)

• On START II Ratification - in Russian (interview of Alexei Arbatov to the press, June 16, 1998)

• The START II Strategic Arms Treaty: the Arguments For and Against. - in Russian (Sankt-Petersburgskiye Vedomosti, No 108(1782), June 11, 1998)

• Yeltsin Foes in Legislature Delay START II Debate -- Again (by David Hoffman, The Washington Post, Thursday, June 11, 1998; Page A27)

• "Arms Control in the 21st Century" (Remarks by Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright on the 35th Anniversary of JFK's Historic Address on CTBT, June 10, 1998, The Henry L. Stimson Center)

• The Strike to Clinton Personally...(or - to Russia?) - in Russian (by Sergei Abelzev, Zavtra, No 23, June 9, 1998)

• Russian Domestic Concerns Stall START (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Proliferation Brief, June 7, 1998). See also Dim Prospects for START II

• START II is Given a Chance, (by Yuri Maslyukov, NVO-NG, N 21, June 5-18, 1998, p.1) See also, Position of Communist Experts Open the Way to the Ratification of Start-2 -in Russian (by Sergei Sokut, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, May 30, 1998, p.2)

• Missile Dispute With the President - in Russian (interview of Alexei Arbatov, by Larisa Aideenova, Vek, May 29 - June 4, 1998)

• Ratification is Death! -in Russian (by Albert Makashov, Zavtra, May 26, 1998)

• Warheads Will Not Be Counted Before this Fall, an interview with Alexei Arbatov (by Alexei Bausin, Obschaya Gazeta, May 28, 1998)

• Chemical Therapy for START II Treaty (Segodnya, May 20, 1998)

• Duma Members Fight a Nuclear War with Yeltsin (Russian Telegraph, May 20, 1998)

• START II: Ratification is Deathlike -in Russian (by Alexandr Prokhanov, Zavtra, N 20, May 19, 1998)

• Communists Seen Blocking Yeltsin on START II Ratification (by David Hoffman, The Washington Post, Tuesday, May 19, 1998; Page A22)

• Clinton Presses Yeltsin on Start II Ratification (by Richard W. Stevenson, The New York Times, May 18, 1998) See also: Clinton, Yeltsin eye further cuts in arms (by Paul Bedard, The Washington Times, May 18, 1998)

• Setting Up a Commission Is Proposed Instead of Ratifying Start-2 (by Vladimir Yermolin, Russian Telegraph, May 14, 1998 p. 2)

• However, We Handed Over Our Missiles... (by A. Ulianov, Zavtra, N 19, May 12, 1998)

• Remarks to the Annual Washington Forum of Buisness Executives for National Security by Samuel R. Berger, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Georgetown University - May 5, 1998

• After NATO Vote, Doubts on U.S.-Russia Rapport Key Relationship Strained by Other Differences as Clinton Has Focused Elsewhere (by John F. Harris, The Washington Post, Monday, May 4, 1998; Page A16)

• State Duma Analysts: START II Ratification is Expedient After Implementing Additional Conditions and Provisos -in Russian (PIR Center, April 29, 1998)

• Letter of May, 1998. Prospects for the Start-2 Ratification and Forecasts for Future Developments (By Ivan Safranchuk, PIR Center, April 27, 1998)

• On Usefulness of START 2 Discussions Once Again (by Alexei Podberyozkin and Anton Surikov, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, April 24, 1998, p.7). See also On Usefulness of START 2 Discussions - in Russian (by Vladimir Dvorkin, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, March 27, 1998)

• Will START II Be Ratified or Not? It Depends on the President (by Vladimir Orlov, Yaderny Contol , N 2, March-April 1998, p. 3)

• START 2: Ratification Process Has Apparently Been Lingered, - in Russian (by Gennady Obolensky, Krasnaya Zvezda, March 31, 1998, p.3)

• START II Comment in Russia (Disarmament Diplomacy -- Issue No 23 )

• Russia Vows to Push Arms Pact, to Pave Way for Summit, (by Steven Erlanger, The New York Times, March 12, 1998)

• Russian and English Texts of the START 2 Treaty Are Not Identical, (by Vladimir Vasiliev, NVO-NG, N 9, March 6-12, 1998, p. 4)

• Advancing the Arms Control Agenda: Pitfalls and Possibilities An ACA Panel Discussion (Arms Control Today, January-February, 1998)

• Letter of February, 1998. START-2 Ratification: To Be Discussed By the State Duma In June (by Ivan Safranchuk, PIR Center)

• The Treaty, Which Gives an Advatage to the US, (by Alexei Podberyozkin and Anton Surikov, NVO-NG, N 7, February 20-26, 1998, p.6)

• There Is No Alternative to Ratification of START 2, - in Russian (by Alexei Arbatov and Petr Romashkin, NVO-NG, N 7, February 20-26, 1998, p.6)

• Nuclear Die is Cast (by Alexandr Orlov, Slavyanski Mir, N 4, February 1998)

• A Lunch Against START 2, - in Russian (by Vyacheslav Tetyokin, Zavtra, N 4, January 27, 1998)

• Russia's Gentle Initiative, (by Yevgeni Fyodorov, Kommersant-Vlast, N 1, January 20, 1998, pp.23-26).

• Yeltsin Regrets Duma Delay on START 2 (Russia Today, January 16, 1998); Yeltsin Urges START II Ratification, (Associated Press, January 15, 1998)

• On the START 2 Treaty, - in Russian, Obozrevatel-Observer , N 1, 1998, p. 11.

Publications of 1993-1995 can be found in the Bibliography of the paper Future of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces: Discussions and Arguments (by Eugene Miasnikov, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies, Dolgoprudny, 1995)