CHERNOMYRDIN OUTLINES DEFENSE SPENDING PLANS.

In an address to the Russian Duma on December 6, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin said that defense production over the next four years would be concentrated in a limited number of enterprises and research centers. Chernomyrdin also said that defense spending priorities would gradually shift from maintaining personnel, which today gets the lion’s share of the military budget, to defense procurement. Chernomyrdin was presenting the government’s program for military reform from 1997-2000. (Itar-Tass, December 6)

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