YELTSIN LASHES WEST ON TRADE.

President Boris Yeltsin, further confirming the protectionist trend in Russia, today criticized western barriers to Russian exports of textiles and complained that the Russian market was being flooded with low-quality foreign goods. "Frequent anti-dumping measures are blocking access to European and other world markets for goods of the Russian textile industry," he told a meeting of light industry workers. (Reuter, March 5)

Government Launches PR Campaign.