RUSSIAN INFLATION OUTSTRIPS RUSSIAN INCOMES.

This yearinflation has risen nearly twice as fast as incomes and that hasled to the pauperization of much of Russian society, an economicsministry official told Moscow’s Echo radio June 28. Nikolai Lazutinsaid that 10 percent of the population now eats so poorly thatit is beginning to affect the country’s future gene pool.

But Tax Collections Improve.