24-year old former service-man Salvatore Karbanaro, who served in a peacemaking corps in 1996 in Bosnya, died of leucaemia on the night of November, 6. Two Dutch service-men who served in Bosnya and in Kosovo died of the same form of cancer. In this connection Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato demanded complete publicity from NATO in the question of using uranium at Balkans. Salvatore Karbanaro is the sixth Italian soldier, who died of leucaemia after serving in that region.

 Certainly, NATO will do its best to help Italy. Next week its military leaders will gather to discuss possible ways out of the embarrassing situation. Meanwhile Italian authorities began their own investigation of the cases of 30 soldiers whose health is getting worse day by day. It was determined that 12 of them suffer from cancer.  “It’s a very delicate question!” – Amato admitted. NATO denied using uranium in Bosnya till the last week. Though it was known about Kosovo long ago…

Irina Malenko

 General Headquarters of Russian Armed Forces strongly denied the information of American newspaper “Washington Times” that Russia had began to return tactical nuclear weapons to one of missile bases in the territory of Kaliningrad region. According to the spokesman for the General Headquarters, “such information has nothing in common with the reality” and looks like a provocation. “Russia has plenty of other means to respond to farther expansion of NATO eastwards and in that way to guarantee its national security”, Ria-Novosti reports.  “At the same time, the clock at the Spasskaya Tower of Kremlin counts out the beginning of the 21 century and new millennium,” he noted. “Washington time is slower than Moscow time. It is still under the influence of Cold war myths.”