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Russia Atomic Ministry delays Y2K fix until 2000 - Story Posted June 19, 1998 at 10:05 MOSCOW (AP) _ Russia's Atomic Energy Ministry will wait until 2000 to fix problems associated with the Millennium Bug, a spokesman said Friday. ``We don't have any problems yet,'' spokesman Vladislav Petrov told The Associated Press. ``We'll deal with the problem in the year 2000.''
Year 2000 computer glitch low on list of Russian priorities - Story Posted September 15, 1998 at 03:36 By Nick Wadhams Still, for a country with so many sensitive computer systems, Russia has no systematic plan of attack. The commission's checklist, for example, primarily helps government agencies understand how vulnerable they are. It doesn't tell them what to do about it. Russian businesses also seem to be moving slowly. In a survey of 50 Russian companies by the international consulting firm Coopers and Lybrand, only a third said they were even aware of the problem.

U.S. to quell Russia Y2K fears - U.S. to quell Russia Y2K fears
By Reuters Special to CNET News.com June 5, 1998, 11:45 a.m. PT

Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre cited a need to calm Russian nuclear forces in particular if the bug caused their computers to crash, as many systems may fail worldwide. He told the Senate Armed Services Committee that cash-strapped Russian forces were relying more and more on nuclear weapons "as a safeguard for their national security." "And their early warning system is fragile
He said Asian countries and nations of the old Soviet bloc were lagging the most in rewriting old computer code to cope with the date switch.
Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minihan of the Air Force, head of the ultra-secretive National Security Agency, told the panel that the Y2K problem would complicate an already-constant cyberthreat to the U.S. information infrastructure.

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Russia Today - Rod Pounsett writes a weekly column for Russia Today.

Russian Nuclear Power Ministry - Spokesman Vladislav Petrov
The State Telecommunications Committee -
Deputy Defense Secretary John Harme announced that the U.S. has plans to share early warning information with Russia to avoid a nightmare scenario "where everybody is all of a sudden uncertain and the screens go blank."
Center for Security Policy in Washington - Frank Gaffney
Group of Eight's Y2K crisis experts

The Global Dimensions of the Millennium Bug

Government - US Govt To Swap Y2K Info With Russian Military

Political News from Wired News Russia Brushes Off Y2K Scare 12:25pm 12.Aug.98.PDT The dawn of the third millennium will not trigger World War III, says Russia's defense minister, who takes exception to the United States' suggestions that Moscow's vast and underfunded nuclear arsenal could be launched into action when the Y2K bug bites.

Russia Reform Monitor, No. 497 (American Foreign Policy Council)

Nuclear fears on millennium bug in Russia - (Sunday Times UK April 12 1998, WORLD. Nuclear fears on millennium bug in Russia by Matthew Campbell, Washington. Even if the Russian government heeds the warnings, it may not have enough computer experts to go round. Russia has 29 civilian nuclear reactors, 11 of which are models similar to the one that exploded at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, releasing 200 times as much radioactivity as the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Other former Soviet bloc countries have 36 more reactors. Western experts believe many are already unsafe.

Y2K will cost Russia government $500 million CBR No 40: VENDOR AND CHANNEL NEWS Y2K will cost Russia government $500 million Last week the deputy chairman of the State Communications and Computerisation Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Volokitin declared that according to preliminary estimates fixing the Year 2000 problem in information systems used by government organisations will require about $500 million. Most urgent, he said, were systems used in the Defence Ministry and fuel-energy and transport sectors.