RUSSIAN REGIONS "HUNGER" FOR MOSCOW PUBLICATIONS.

Readers in the northern Russian port city of Arkhangelsk areable to purchase at local kiosks only four Moscow papers–Izvestiya,Komsomolskaya pravda, Argumenty i fakty, and Rossiiskayagazeta–Russian television reported August 19. As a result,the local press tries to fill in the gaps in national and internationalcoverage, but it lacks both the resources and space to do so,the station said.

Kaliningrad Wants to Go Ahead with Oil Exploration.