MOSCOW CITY AUTHORITIES CALL FOR TARIFF CONCESSIONS.

Fearingthat the new Russian tariffs on imported food will push up pricesfor all food 30 to 60 percent, Russian city officials pressedtheir case for some modification in the application of the tariffsat least for food destined to the country’s largest cities, Interfaxreported July 6. Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais concededthat the tariffs would lead to some rise in prices, particularlyin big cities, but scoffed at the claims of the Moscow city authorities.In a letter to Yeltsin, presidential aide Sergei Filatov tookMoscow’s side and warned that failure to modify the tariffs forMoscow could lead to social instability, Russian radio reportedJuly 6.

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