NO GLASNOST FOR DUMA DEBATES ON MILITARY DRAFT.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 13

Duma members have been unableto secure the necessary support to publish their recent “secret” debates onthe military draft, Moskovsky komsomolets reported May 14. The paper saidthat the small group of deputies who wanted to take this step were opposed bya larger number of those who had voted for the government’s bill, whicheliminated most deferments and extended the term of service, and hence fearedthe consequences. Meanwhile, Russia’s constitutional Court said it wouldrule on the legality of Yeltsin’s order to invade Chechnya if the orderitself were to be declassified, Moscow radio said May 15.

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