FOREIGN MINISTRY BLOCKS RUSSIAN CITIZENSHIP APPLICANTS.

Russian consular officials in the former Soviet republics have put a variety of obstacles in the way of ethnic Russians who want to claim Russian citizenship, Ogonek (no. 23) reported. The weekly said that part of the reason for this was a desire by such officials to enrich themselves by selling places in line to eager applicants.

Luzhkov Sues Chubais for Comments on Moscow City Government.