WOMEN’S PARTY TO BE SET UP IN RUSSIA.

A political party representing women’s interests is to be set up in Russia. At a meeting in Moscow yesterday, Tatyana Roschina, head of an organization called Women for Russia’s Future, was elected to head a working group that will organize the founding conference of the new party. To be called the Russian Party for the Protection of Women (RPZZh), it will campaign for legislation ensuring better living standards for women with young families, single mothers, children and elderly people. (Russian agencies, August 5)

LEBED’S AIDE IN TRANSDNIESTER SUES SERGEEV AFTER COLLECTING FROM GRACHEV.