RUSSIAN MILITARY PROMISED MORE MONEY IN 1998.

The Russian armed forces will receive 94 trillion rubles in 1998, Economics Minister Yakov Urinson announced on June 20. He compared this figure with the military budget of 64 trillion in 1996 and 83 trillion this year. The armed forces are hardly likely to find Urinson’s pledge reassuring, however. The original 1997 budget allocated 104 trillion rubles to the armed forces — an amount military leaders said would only get them through nine months of the year. (Russian agencies, June 20)

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