A RETURN TO SOVIET-ERA INFORMATION CONTROL?

For the first time since the end of the Soviet Union, the Moscow weather service will not be allowed to release its estimates on the harvest, Interfax reported June 1. That information is proprietary, the Service claimed. Officers at the Federal Security Service said they were not behind the move, but would work to prevent the release of such classified information. Meanwhile, presidential aide Sergei Filatov told Moskovsky komsomolets June 1 that he could give “no guarantees” that many in Russia were not subject to wiretapping.

Yeltsin Takes Control Of Control Administration.