Minister of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation To President of the Russian Federation B N Yeltsin 07 30 1993 No 011654 Esteemed Boris Nikolaevich I am informing you that as a result of the failure to implement paragraph 3 of your Directive No 88-rps from 28 February 1992 as of August 1 the Russian Federal Nuclear Centers VNIIEF – Arzamas-16 – and VNIITF – Chelyabinsk-70 – accumulated debt of 9 5 billion rubles tk what’s relationship of this phrase with previous one salaries for July have not been paid To normalize the financial situation at the Nuclear Centers it is necessary to urgently disburse resources from the budget during the first days of August to cover the debt of 9 5 billion rubles and to disburse 6 billion rubles every month from budget resources to pay salaries at the rate of 10 times the minimum wage tk relationship of next phrase to previous and indexation inflation adjustment of material expenses The steps undertaken by the Minatom of Russia in order to sign a contract with the U S Department of Energy to sell highly enriched uranium and to receive 240 million dollars for it tk as soon as already in 1993 and thus the opportunity for independent resolution of the issue of additional financing for the Nuclear Centers are being blocked by the actions of the Finance Ministry of Russia regarding the above-mentioned contracts I am asking for your instructions on the issues presented above V N Mikhailov Source National Security Archive Nunn-Lugar Collection obtained from the State Archive of the Russian Federation GARF Translated by Svetlana Savranskaya for the National Security Archive