Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Italy have reportedly suspended further loan disbursements to the Soviet Union because of the unacceptable level of risk involved in any further business with Moscow center.
Its latest deal, completed in March, was the acquisition of the White Square Office Center in central Moscow, home to Microsoft Corp.
If, however, we continue down the present road of permitting Moscow to use Western financial assistance, including debt relief, as a kind of club to bludgeon independent, democratic-minded republics into submitting to the discredited policies of a new Moscow center we will have misjudged, at a critical juncture in history, the merits of decentralization and the abiding dangers of recentralization.
The Center regrets that, as the cause of freedom in Lithuania has been steadily undermined by Moscow, the belief seems to persist among the small cadre of decision-makers in the Bush Administration that a "linkage-free" policy toward the Soviet Union can be successfully pursued.
"I think what he did was a revolution in terms of Russia's foreign policy, " says Dmitri Trenin of the Moscow Carnegie Center.
Meantime, slow-but-steady transit improvements to the area and policy changes under the new mayor made Moscow City one of the few new developments allowed to continue in the city center, say industry experts.
It will also help ensure that the debate about U.S. and Western security policy is informed by the true state of play in the former USSR, and not simply seductive rhetoric from a reconfigured Moscow center or wishful thinking in Washington and allied capitals.
This, in turn, provided Moscow center with substantial flexibility in the diversion of borrowed funds to finance communist party activities at home and abroad, as well as foreign operations inimical to vital Western security interests.
In a paper released on the eve of the Helsinki summit, entitled Scorecard for Moscow's "Double Game" in Iraq, the Center notes that Soviet behavior in the course of the Iraq crisis has been on balance more cynical than helpful, its cooperation more troublesome than "superb, " as President Bush described it last week.
Secretary Baker's erosion of the milestones Moscow center was expected to achieve in order to qualify for U.S. and allied taxpayer-underwritten aid is occurring at the same moment that the serious shortfall in the Soviet transformation is becoming more apparent.
Indeed, there is evidence that such Soviet institutions have played an integral part in Moscow center's funding of client states hostile to the United States, Western technology theft, espionage and other subversive activities around the globe.
In its Scorecard, the Center expressed concern that the effect of a Bush Administration invitation to Moscow to send troops to Saudi Arabia would be greatly to enhance Soviet influence in the region while reducing U.S. military options.
It has been represented by Gorbachev as a charter for a new Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics, one which would strip Moscow center of its dominant position and vest new autonomy in the governments of fifteen republics.
The Moscow city government lowered the maximum allowable height of buildings in the historic center of the city from 100 to 75 meters, although buildings which are already under construction will not be lowered.
His company, Logovaz, became the center of his economic interests, but also a political nexus that he set up in a Moscow palace known as the Logovaz mansion.
Assessing the legality of the Bush Administration's decision to extend billions in taxpayer-underwritten credit guarantees to an obviously uncreditworthy sovereign borrower -- like Moscow center -- when the Farm Act of 1990 explicitly prohibits such transactions.
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