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...Moscow's leadership these days. The Soviet economy continues to sputter; ethnic tensions are flaring; independence movements are gaining force; Communist regimes are collapsing all over; and the Soviet population is increasingly disgruntled. Surprisingly, some of the fullest, frankest reporting of these events has come from none other than TASS, the official Soviet news agency and long an uncritical government mouthpiece. In a report from Lithuania last month, for example, TASS cited a description of that republic's "1940 joining of the Soviet Union as a 'violation by outside force' of the sovereignty of the Lithuanian State...
...this be the same TASS that has been known chiefly for its dull, turgid reporting and its habit of tucking important news into the last paragraph? The captive wire service that was run by and for the Soviet government, peddling propaganda before facts? It is indeed, but something remarkable has happened to the 1,300 reporters, editors and photographers who are currently working in 113 countries for TASS. After Gorbachev took over in 1985 and launched the era of glasnost, the news agency faced a new challenge: to enhance its credibility by reporting more aggressively, more thoroughly and more accurately...
...According to the Soviet news agency TASS, additional Soviet troops were sent across the Lithuanian border to "ensure the rights" of ethnic Russians and Poles, who make up almost 20% of the republic's residents. Some 30,000 troops were already stationed in Lithuania...
...After somewhat of an enlivening in the firsttwo years of perestroika, the economy began todecline, interethnic feuds reached bloodshed,people began to experience fear, and in someplaces there is practically dual power," Ligachevsaid in remarks reported by Tass...
...Just as Armenians fled from Azerbaijani pogroms the week before, some 15,000 dependents of the military and KGB divisions stationed in the republic were evacuated. "We could hear shooting in the city," Nadezhda Appakov, an officer's wife, told TASS. "We feared for our children most of all, because those militants stop at nothing." The newspaper Trud reported that a pogrom had begun against the remaining 85,000 ethnic Russians in the republic, but Popular Front officials offered assurances that the Russians would not be attacked by Azerbaijani nationalists. Moscow agreed to hold off on further evacuations...