SKOKOV TO LAUNCH NEW ELECTORAL GROUP.

Nationalist Yuri Skokov will convene a special congress June 16 to establish a Union of Russia’s Peoples, Segodnya reported June 14. The paper said that Skokov’s Congress of Russian Communities will form the core of this new body. Among its leaders is now retired Lt. Gen. Aleksandr Lebed.

Moscow’s Organized Crime Is Mostly Russian.