RUSSIA HIDES HOMELESS IN PRE-ELECTION CLEAN-UP.

Security is being tightened up in all Russia’s major cities, with police being ordered to clear the streets of beggars and homeless people. In Moscow, some 25,000 such people are reported to have already been moved to a former children’s summer camp designated specially for the purpose. (Podmoskovnye izvestiya, June 8)

Zyuganov Denies Deal with Zhirinovsky.