RUSSIA CUTS OIL EXPORT DUTIES.

Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin has signed a resolution cutting oil export duties from ECU 20 to ECU 10 as of April 1, together with a simultaneous recalculation of basic excise duty rates and an increase in charges for pipeline transportation of oil, Deputy Economics Minister Sergei Vasilyev said on March 21. (Interfax Petroleum Information Agency, March 21)

Yeltsin Takes Control of Election Campaign.