EIGHTY PERCENT OF RUSSIANS FACE FALLING STANDARD OF LIVING.

Although the wealthiest Russians are now making more money thanat any time in their lives, 80 percent of the Russian people nowface a declining standard of living, Samara’s Moya gazetareported June 8. The paper said that the top 10 percent of thepopulation now received one-third of all personal income. Evenif these figures are not entirely accurate, reporting of thiskind will further exacerbate social tensions in Russian citiespossibly to the point of an explosion as happened earlier thismonth in Bryansk.

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