BUT WILL MOSCOW HAVE TO BUY MORE FOREIGN GRAIN

? To date,Russian farmers have planted only 25 million hectares (out of a total of 70million hectares normally sowed) because of severe fuel shortages,Podmoskovskie izvestiya reported May 24. Unless the situation is reversed,Moscow will have to purchase more grain abroad–likely to be more expensivebecause of worldwide declines in production–or force Russian consumers totighten their belts again this winter.

Moscow Mayor Under Fire.