RUSSIAN TELEVISION TO CARRY ADVERTISING AGAIN.

Moscow’sORT network will again carry advertising, it announced in a broadcastAugust 3. The station had dropped such advertising earlier in1995 because of both official pressure and massive corruptionassociated with the lucrative business. ORT has created a specialcompany to handle the advertising in order to ensure that corruptionwill be held to a minimum. Meanwhile, Obshchaya gazeta (no.31) reported that Ostankino and other broadcasters are in increasingfinancial difficulty and will be forced to cut back broadcastingand to centralize the production of programming inside a singlestate company.

Committee to Re-Elect the President Created.