ANOTHER MOSCOW PAPER SUSPENDS PUBLICATION.

The daily Kuranty suspended publication June 5, only a week after Nezavisimaya gazeta did the same. Both papers faced mounting debts and mounting costs: paper prices shot up 70 percent during the last week of May alone. The difficulties of these two independent papers also reflect the Russian government’s decisions to promote the state sector in publishing over the private sector.

New “Internal Rules” Regulate Elite Privileges.