RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT FAILS TO FUND HOUSING FOR BALTIC FLEET OFFICERS.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 67

Despite repeated promises, the Russian government has notprovided the funding necessary for the construction of 17,000apartments for Baltic Fleet officers displaced by the independenceof the Baltic states, Krasnaya zvezda reported August 2.Indeed, cutbacks in funding have been so severe that housing projectslaunched in Kaliningrad have now been suspended, the militarypaper said.