…AS PRIME MINISTER ENDORSES PROCUREMENT PAYMENTS.

Viktor Chernomyrdin approved an allocation schedule March 23 that is to ensure payment to defense enterprises for the provision of military hardware. A government spokesman said that it was the first time in four years that the procurement payment schedule had been approved in the first quarter of the year. (Itar-Tass, March 23)

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