…BUT NO FUNDING FOR RUSSIAN NAVAL PERSONNEL.

Naval officials said July 13 that the federal government owes sailors serving at the Leningrad naval base in St. Petersburg some 250 billion rubles in back pay and benefits. They also said that no federal money has arrived for the conduct of a July 28 parade that is part of ceremonies marking the 300th anniversary of the Russian navy, and that the base lacks the money even to ship graduates of the local naval academy to their assignments in the Far East. (Interfax, July 13)

Yeltsin Appoints Chubais Chief-of-Staff.