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...figure in official statistics. The Kaliningrad native moved to Moscow in 1989 after a dispute with management at the factory where he worked. He slept on the streets and at railway stations, and lived for a while in a tent city that was pitched outside the walls of the Kremlin for six months in 1990. "It's so hard to live these days. I am an invalid, and I have almost no means of survival," says Pronin, whose hollow-cheeked face and legs twisted by an accident he refuses to discuss make him look far older than his 47 years...
That, at least, is what the new leaders in the Kremlin have promised -- and tens of thousands of Russians who are sliding toward the lower depths desperately want to believe them. But government forecasts of improved living standards by the end of the year may be far too optimistic. It will take more than a few months for the country's unprepared populace to come to terms with the economics of capitalism, and the government lacks the funds needed to ease the transition. The sad fact is that for years to come Moscow, like thriving capitals in the West...
...Kremlin is still scrambling to snatch Western secrets...
...Belgian spy ring was blown by a top Russian diplomat in Brussels who has been singing like a canary to the CIA since defecting to the West last year; he spilled details of an elaborate and expanding Russian network based in the Belgian capital. The case demonstrates the Kremlin's hunger for foreign military and industrial secrets despite the end of the cold war. "They would feel absolutely naked without an espionage service," says a senior British diplomat. "Their innate suspicion of foreigners demands...
...allegiance to C.I.S.espionage agencies. Earlier this year, a German employee of the U.S. mission in Berlin and two former Stasi officers were arrested for belonging to a spy ring that targeted U.S. Air Force personnel in Europe. Significantly, one of the ex- Stasi men was already working on the Kremlin's behalf, according to federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl. In Britain senior officials say at least 50 Russian spies are active in London alone; the government is considering the expulsion of a number of Russian diplomats...