BORDER TROOPS SURVIVING ON CHARITY.

Enterprise leaders in the Far Eastern city of Nakhodka have reportedly informed Russian Security Council secretary Aleksandr Lebed and Federal Border Service chief Andrei Nikolai that border forces units in the area have received no funding for food since January. The local leaders say that border forces soldiers and cadets are being fed mainly through donations of food, and warn that some could face starvation if Moscow does not resolve the funding problem. (Interfax, July 23)

Estonian-German Explosives Joint Venture.