RUSSIA: CHECHNYA WAR COULD LEAD TO RUSSIAN ECONOMIC RUIN

Eng/Russian/Natsot Russia’s former finance minister has warned that the cost of funding the Russian war effort in Chechnya could leave the country in economic ruin. Boris Fyodorov said he supports bringing the Chechens to heel, though he rejects President Yeltsin’s hard-line military methods. He warned that the conflict would have a serious affect on domestic inflation and on foreign investment. Analysts believe that Chechnya is an economic time-bomb which will destroy Russia’s efforts at mone