U.S. AID TO RUSSIA WILL END BY 2001.

Janice Ballantine, the Moscow director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, told a conference in Novgorod on September 12 that the U.S. will phase out all its aid programs to Russia by the year 2001. USAID spent $1.5 billion in Russia between 1992 and 1996. The U.S. Congress generally looks unfavorably on aid programs which do not have a defined termination date. (Itar-Tass, September 12)

Human Rights Hot Line Opens in Moscow.