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...allocated just $6 billion to cover $18 billion in scrapped benefits, and starting in February, some medical benefits and utility and housing subsidies for pensioners, veterans and the disabled will go, too. At the same time, prices are skyrocketing. Rafail Islamgazin, a retired army colonel, wrote to the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda about how the law affects him: "I received some $250 [worth of] benefits, but my monetary compensation is now $31 while my utility bills have increased by 150%. The state must really hate its defenders to taunt them like this." The cutbacks triggered protests all across Russia...
...recent survey taken by the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Muscovites rank "the presence of too many Caucasians" as the number one problem that Moscow faces today...
...recent survey taken by the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Muscovites rank "the presence of too many Caucasians" as the number one problem that Moscow faces today...
...Shevardnadze's resumed role will be far from what it was before. He will have to devote much of his time to resolving disputes with the republics rather than globe-trotting. Shevardnadze was hardly upbeat. "There is no reason for congratulations," he told the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. "The time has come when the fate is being decided not just of our country, but of peace on our planet...
...most intriguing accounts came from Pavel Voshchanov, press & secretary to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In a series in the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, he quoted extensively from confidential party memorandums revealing that in 1988, eager to acquire foreign currency, the Communists had set up an "invisible party economy" that permitted them to hide money in overseas joint ventures and launder it through a network of domestic and foreign commercial banks. According to another story in the paper, since last December alone, the party has sold 280 billion rubles for $12 billion in U.S. currency, which was then funneled through party-controlled...