YELTSIN REIMPOSES SOVIET-ERA RESTRICTIONS ON KREMLIN EMPLOYEES.

Boris Yeltsin’s office has introduced new security standardsfor employees working within the Kremlin that will force themto refrain from foreign travel for five years, report about anyrelatives living in foreign countries, and consent to eavesdroppingof their telephonic conversations, Moskovskiye novosti (no.54) reported. Indeed, the weekly said that the new restrictionswere so similar to those of the communist era that Yeltsin canprobably use Soviet-created questionnaires instead of printingnew ones.

Chernomyrdin Reorganizes Oil Companies.