MORE PAPERS CLOSING IN THE PROVINCES.

1500 local Russian papers have closed since the beginning of 1995, Duma media committee chairman Mikhail Poltoranin said on Russian television June 20. Poltoranin added that even in media-rich Moscow there is now only one copy of a paper for every 16 city residents. And he noted that the Russian government printing agency recently had suggested closing all rayon (district) papers because of their mounting debt to printers.

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