MOSCOW, YAROSLAVL FACE OFF OVER CONTROL OF FACTORY.

Inthe first of a new round of center-periphery clashes which Kommersant-Dailysuggested on August 24 would follow Eduard Rossel’s gubernatorialvictory in Sverdlovsk, officials in Yaroslavl have refused torecognize a Moscow court decision on the bankruptcy of a localfirm. Instead, the regional authorities have put special OMONtroops around the firm in order to keep it open and under theircontrol.

Yeltsin Approves Law Protecting Semipalatinsk Veterans.