| Baltic Council |
Meeting of the three Baltic leaders,
originating in the inter-war period when the three countries were independent.
Resurrected in the spring of Glasnost. |
| CCM |
Confederation of Caucasian Mountain
Peoples. Grouping of 16 ethnic groups formed in '92 to defend common rights
and fight for independence from Russia. Reject federation treaty. |
| CECC |
Central European Co-operation Council.
Regional economic grouping, launched April '92 |
| Charter '77 |
Human Rights group set up in Czechoslovakia
to "assist the government in the implementation of human rights" conditions
set out in the Helsinki Final Act. Prominent signatories (initially 240,
later 1883) include Havel, Dienstbier, Jiøí Hajek, Dana Nìmcová .. Only
signed by three Slovaks. Dissolved 04.11.92. |
| Civic Union |
Centrist grouping in the Russian
parliament. The only effective opposition group. Courted by Yeltsin 11/92.
Vladislavlev, Rutskoi and Volsky. Travkin. |
| Democratic League of Kosovo |
Ethnic Albanian party. Organised
underground elections in May '92. |
| Democratic Russia |
Coalition of reformers supporting
Yeltsin. Formed after he left the CPSU. Began to fragment in 1992. Called
on by Yeltsin to form a party which he could head. Became the Parliamentary
Reform Coalition (11-12/92). |
| DEPOS |
Democratic Movement of Serbia. Co-operates
with DS (Serbian Democratic party) |
| GOSSNAB |
Soviet state supply distribution
organisation. |
| HDZ |
Croatian Democratic Union. Won independence
for Croatia. Led by Tudjman. |
| HINA |
Government News Agency of
Croatia. |
| HOS |
Croatian extremist militia. |
| HVO |
Main Croatian forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
| HZDS |
Movement for a Democratic Slovakia.
Led by Meèiar. |
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Moslem National Democratic Party
led by Izetbegoviæ |
| JNA |
Yugoslav Federal Army |
| Kulyabi |
Rebel group from south of
Tajikistan, lead by Kendjayev. Supporters of Nabiyev. |
| National Salvation Front |
Russia Formed in October 1992, whose
aim was the overthrow of Yelstin's presidency. A coalition of nationalists
and hard-line communists. Led by Ilya Konstantinov. Army generals, two
fringe presidential candidates and popular TV presenter Alexander Nevzorov. |
| Pamiyat |
Founded 1990, very anti-semitic
group in SU. 19 points of 22 point programme are anti-semitic, encouraging
physical attacks against Jews and attacks on their holy sites - synagogues
and cemeteries. 'Rebirth' are really Trotskyists, nationalist chauvininsts
who want to see a Czar on the throne. |
| Rukh |
Ukrainian Nationalist movement.
Turned into party 12/92 |
| SPWP |
Russian Communist Worker's Party
Small party. Led by Roy Medvedev. Attended November congress of democrtic
left groups (1000 present). |
| Russian Party of Communists |
Offshoot of the CPSU's "Marxist
Platform". Held what it called the 29th Congress of the CPSU after Supreme
Court overruled Yeltsin's banning of local parties. "communists have emerged
from the courts unbroken and undefeated." (12/92) |
| Sajudis |
Nationalist movement in Lithuania
leading to and after de facto independence (UDI). Not a political party;
a coalition of ideas. Supported/endorsed individual candidates from a number
of parties. Defeated 12/92 by reform communists. |
| SDA |
Muslim party in Bosnia. |
| SPO |
Serbian Renewal Movement / Opposition
movement in Serbia, led by Vuk Draškoviæ. (SPO) |
| Soyuz |
Extreme right-wing group in the
Congress of Peoples' Deputies. |
| SRJ |
Official title of the rump Yugoslav
state. |
| SRNA |
Bosnian Serb News Agency. |
| Tigers |
"Arkan" Raznatoviæ's ruthless
Serb militia. Active in Croatia, then Bosnia. Responsible for the expulsion
of ethnic groups from Zvornik, Srebrenica, Bratunac and Grobnica. They
are accused of massacres in Brèko where 3 000 civilians were killed. Later
active again in Krajina in '93. |
| Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs |
Headed by Arkady Volsky; a strong
lobby group for cheap loans to industry and the complex. Strongly associated
with the Civic Union. |
| Union of Officers |
Nationalist group claiming to have
more than 10 000 members (10/92) and not altogether loyal to the government. |
| Visegrad |
Trilateral (now 4-way) grouping
of central-east European states, set up to liberalise trade and co-ordinate
economies. Developed into a framework of bilateral agreements after the
collapse of the common Czechoslovak state. |
| White Eagles |
Vojislav Šešelj's paramilitary group
responsible for horrors in Brèko et. al. |
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