RUSSIAN PUBLIC TV CHIEF RESIGNS.

Sergei Blagovolin, director-general of Russian Public Television (ORT), is resigning to become president of an investment bank. Blagovolin has been in the post since March 1995. (Ekho Moskvy, September 16) Blagovolin is said to have clashed repeatedly with ORT’s main financial backer, Boris Berezovsky.

Director of a Moscow Market Murdered.