MOSCOW CONTINUES TO EQUIVOCATE IN SHEREMET SCANDAL.

President Boris Yeltsin’s chief spokesman, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, yesterday contradicted the president by stating that the question of freeing Russian ORT correspondent Pavel Sheremet from a Belarusan jail is a proper matter for Russian-Belarusan discussions and will "not [be] removed from the agenda until Sheremet is released." Moreover, the matter "should be resolved in the interest of preserving the Russia-Belarus Union," he said. Yeltsin, however, has stated twice over the past two weeks that the matter is "removed from the [bilateral] a

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