Mr. Gore and Mr. Chernomyrdin direct the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, which meets every six months to discuss technical, scientific and business cooperation.

The Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, which now involves six Cabinet members, has become a way to get the Administration's views through to Moscow and establish a relationship with the man who could someday be President.

The Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission meets every six months and incorporates Cabinet-level committees on scientific, technological and economic issues.

The Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, with its hundreds of junketeering bureaucrats, treated the corruption as a mere bump on the road to a market economy.

The mechanism was a panel that became known as the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission.

The early years of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission yielded undeniable benefits, along with controversy.

Chernomyrdin was the co-chairman of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, a biannual meeting that addressed much and solved little, aside from keeping Russia's decrepit Mir space station in orbit.

He was also an important figure in the First Russian Specialized Depository, The Harvard Institute for International Development, and the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission.

They sent the material to Vice President Al Gore, co-chairman of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, in which much of the government-to-government business between the countries was handled.

Gore was deeply involved in Russian policy through the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, which dealt with economic issues.