IGNATENKO PROMISES CRACKDOWN ON WESTERN NEWS AGENCIES.

Tass chief and new Deputy Premier Vitaly Ignatenko told Obshchaya gazeta (June 8-14) that he was more worried about the activities of Western news agencies “freely operating in the Russian information market” than about the Russian media itself. “This will be one of my priorities: to legally limit their presence in the Russian market,” Ignatenko said.

Duma Concerned About Western Purchases of Russian Defense Industries.