RUSSIAN PRESS COMMITTEE DENOUNCES REPORT ON PAPER CLOSINGS.

The free market, not a government conspiracy, is behind the closing of many of the country’s papers, the government’s press committee told Moskovskaya pravda June 9. The committee was responding to charges June 7 by Duma deputy Mikhail Poltoranin that the Russian government was killing the democratic press.

Moscow to Defend Russian Journalists Against American Piracy.