BALTIC RUSSIANS HELP ORGANIZE NEW LINKS WITH MOSCOW.

Russians from Estonia and Latvia are in Moscow to help organize a constituent congress of a new Council of Compatriots to protect ethnic Russians living outside the Russian Federation, BNS reported June 9. This body, backed by the Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, will join two other groups of the same type: Yeltsin’s International Union of Compatriots and an independent Congress of Compatriots under Dmitri Rogozhin.

Belarusian President Adopts Populist Line.