Whenever I start a new game, I get a CTD when I zoom out using the mouse scroll wheel. I always switch to military control map mode first, not sure if that has anything to do with it.
I'm playing the steam version of RUS Gold 1.01c on Windows 8.1 64bit (6.3, build 9600), AMD A-10 5800K APU, AMD Radeon HD 7660D GPU
Please find attached the log and savegame.