1.  Disseminating for the purpose of undermining or weakening the Soviet regime slanderous fabrications which defame the Soviet state and social system.

2.  The overcentralized Soviet state was in the process of being converted into a genuine union based on the self-determination and voluntary association of peoples.

3.  Rutskoi was seen as a champion of Russian minorities in former Soviet states.

4.  Now they have asked the Government of the newly independent former Soviet state to intervene.

5.  Although ethnic Russians dominated the Soviet state, many aspects of Russian culture were suppressed and Russians had to rule in the name of multinational socialism.

6.  And along the Asian rim of the vanished Soviet state, Russian forces are assisting autocratic regimes to resist fundamentalist guerrilla movements that have a rear-guard sanctuary in Afghanistan.

7.  And former Soviet states like Ukraine, which also inherited Soviet defense plants, compete for orders Russia covets.

8.  And the Russian minister for relations with former Soviet states, Leonid Drachevsky, said he agreed.

9.  And while the new Russia is more open than the totalitarian Soviet state was, secrecy is still regarded as a sovereign right of the government.

10.  Army strategists who once conducted war games against the Soviet Union will soon be waging their mock wars in former Soviet states like Georgia, Armenia and Azerbiajan.