Month/Page
New route speeds construction plans at Vlad airport	Jan/p. 2
Magadan airport served by another Russian airline	Jan/p. 2
Swedish satellite next commercial launch
                                for Svobodnyi	Feb/p. 2
Aircraft leasing company study approved for RFE	Mar/p. 2
Almazy Rossii-Sakha contracts to buy AN-38 aircrafts	Mar/p. 2
Moscow airline suspends schedule to Sakhalin Island	Mar/p. 2
Transaero gains rights to new Taiwan air routes	Apr/p. 2
Avialinii Sakha builds up fleet			Apr/p. 2
Airlines add summer service to Sakhalin		May/p. 2
Reeve Aleutian flies in crew changes
                          for Sakhalin project	May/p. 2
Federal support for RFE airport upgrades		Jun/p. 2
New permission to fly over N. Korea			Jun/ p. 2

							Month/Page
Two Khabarovsk banks merge				Jan/p. 2
Feasibility study for Sakhalin			Jan/p. 2
Changes at Primorye banks				Jan/p. 3
Moscow-Kamchatka bank connection			Jan/p. 3
Market shifts due to the Asian financial crisis	Jan/p. 5
RFE bank failures					Mar/p. 4
Two banks establish correspondent relationship	Mar/p. 6
Important changes in  Japanese financing for Russia	Apr/p. 2
Banking consolidation continues			Apr/p. 3
Tax police investigate Kamchatrybbank		Apr/p. 3
Local branch of Central Bank in Primorskii Krai	Apr/p. 3
Options for transferring money expanding		Apr/p. 3
USAID loan portfolio guarantee program for RFE	May/p. 2
RFE banks in list of largest Russian banks		May/p. 3
Creating a securities market: The case of Sakha	May/p. 8
Foreign investment in Primorskii Krai		May/p. 12
Far Eastern Bank to get foreign shareholders	Jun/p. 2
Canadian export corporation to work with Oneximbank	Jun/p. 2

							Month/Page
Big RFE highway construction contract awarded	May/p. 5
Canadian Construction:  A changing of the guard?	May/p. 5

							Month/Page
Magadan fires Alaskan coal with TDA help		Jan/p. 11
Kamchatka puts out equipment and service bids	Feb/p. 14
Heat initiative extended to RFE			Apr/p. 11
Power inverter systems sell in Primorskii Krai	May/p. 11
RFE banks continue buying generators		Jun/p. 3
Project selection process for power plant		Jun/p. 3

							Month/Page
New fund for protection in Tumen River Region	Jun/p. 11
Further study of tiger,  leopard populations	Jun/p. 11
Nuclear waste and the environment			Jun/p. 11

							Month/Page
Canadian town sues Russian vessel owner		Jan/p. 3
Russo-American fish seminar			Jan/p. 4
Commission looks into new fisheries regulation	Jan/p. 6
Norwegian navigation systems			Jan/p. 6
Proposal for Koryak fish plant			Jan/p. 6
Sakhalin fishing association looks
                          at near-shore vessels	Feb/p. 2
Richardson International emerges from reorganization	Feb/p. 2
VBTRF ceases operations - 
                         transfers assets to Super	Feb/p. 3
New fishing year begins					Feb/p. 4
RFE fishing snapshot, early 1998			Mar/p. 6
JEXIM finances development of Primorye fishing fleet	Mar/p. 6
Who will protect fish stocks?			Mar/p. 6
Japanese view on new fishing agreement with Russia	Apr/p. 4
Russian view on new fishing agreement with Japan	Apr/p. 5
Diminishing pollock resources spur fish sonar sales	Apr/p. 5
Sea of Okhotsk fishing activities			Apr/p. 5
Sakhalin and Kuriles:  Resource protection		Apr/p. 6
The "Olympic system" reappears in the RFE		May/p. 4
Pollock Season closed until fall			May/p. 4
VBTRF vessels seized				May/p. 5
Dalmoreprodukt boats under arrest in Korea		Jun/p. 4
Sakhalin shrimp ban on, then off			Jun/p. 4

							Month/Page
RFE tea imports					Jan/p. 11
Program brings feed corn to Khabarovsk		Mar/p. 12
Coca-Cola doubles investment in RFE			Apr/p. 11
Daiwa Fund invests in milk and meat			Apr/p. 12
Lapland reindeer specialists in Sakha		Apr/p. 12

							Month/Page
Japan-Russian agreements end			Jan/p. 6
Rimbunan Hijau wins Sukpai tender			Jan/p. 6
Returning Sakhalinlesprom share to govt. ownership	Jan/p. 10
Why Russian timber flooded Japanese market in 1997	Feb/p. 5
Small Sakhalin ports continue to ship timber	Feb/p. 6
Anaylsis: New structure for Russian timber exports	Mar/p. 5
Local opinion on Malaysian logging in
                            Khabarovskii Krai	Jun/p. 4
Recent report on Siziman Bay logging operation	Jun/p. 4
Liquidation for Svetlaya joint venture		Jun/p. 4

							Month/Page
Arian Resources completes private placement		Jan/p. 10
Trouble for Ametistovoye Developer			Jan/p. 10
BHP Minerals submits tender in Kamchatka project	Feb/p. 6 
KWG announces intent to keep Kamchatka project	Feb/p. 12
Echo Bay takes measures to approve cash flows	Feb/p. 12
Magadanskaya Oblast begins "experiment"		Feb/p. 12
Kinross Gold merges with Amax Gold			Mar/p. 10
Khabarovskii Krai’s Tas-Yurah Mining Company	Mar/p. 10 
Buryatzoloto output exceeds expectations		Mar/p. 10
Mining machines airfreighted			Apr/p. 5
Canadians hold license to Khabarovskii sites	Apr/p. 6
Analysis:  Russian Gold Market Emerging		May/p. 6
Bema Gold arranges finance for new aquisition	May/p. 7
Magadan’s Natalka deposit and Matrosova mine	May/p. 7
Western Pinnacle and Geometall agree to combine	Jun/p. 5
Analysis: A new investor for Mnogovershinnoye?	Jun/p. 5
Dukatskoye mine announces plans			Jun/p. 6

							Month/page
JEXIM approves loan to Sakhalin Energy		Jan/p. 10
Khabarovsk oil refinery installs new European furnace	Jan/p. 10
Halliburton Energy Services on Sakhalin		Jan/p. 10
Sakhalin-2 contracts rig from SMNG			Feb/p. 14
Sakhalin Energy loan signed			Mar/p. 11
Moliqpaq upgrades underway				Mar/p. 11
What the local administration wants for Sakh-2 . . .	Mar/p. 11
Sakha Republic purchases mini-refineries		Mar/p. 11
Mobil/Texaco take partner but won’t drill this summer	Apr/p. 11
Companies ready Sakhalin-5 bid			Apr/p. 11
Offshore Magadan and Sakhalin seismic work status	Apr/p. 11
Power for Sakhalin-2 housing project		May/p. 5
What is Sakhalin-4, where is Sakhalin-5?		May/p. 5
Sakhalin-2 services contract decided		May/p. 10
Yakutgazprom to return to Gazprom?			May/p. 10
U.S. fuel for Kamchatka				May/p. 10
ABN AMRO and bank credits for SMNG			May/p. 10
Molikpaq progress report				May/p. 11
Pipeline plans					Jun/p. 6
New alliance for Sakhalin oilfields			Jun/p. 6

							Month/Page
China transit cargo initiative for Primorye ports	Jan/p. 3
Lynden Air Freight opens on Sakhalin		Feb/p. 3
Temporary new head for Nakhodka FEZ			Feb/p. 3
Port of Korsakov builds traffic			Feb/p. 6
Kholmsk to be shore supply base for Sakhalin-2	Mar/p. 2
Kintetsu World Express looks anew at Trans-Siberian	Mar/p. 3 
Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii cargo link	Mar/p. 3
Sea-Land names Global Inroads as RFE agent		Mar/p. 3
Russia-Taiwan port pact				Apr/p. 3
Vladivostok office opens for Det Norske Veritas	Apr/p. 4
New trade corridor gains interest			Apr/p. 4
Panalpina opens Alaska office for
                              Sakhalin air freight	May/p. 4
New Japan-Sakhalin Ferry launched			May/p. 4