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- From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: East European news
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.012711.12901@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704
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- RUSSIA
- Atar-TASS correspondents have learned that Russian security agents
- have detained an American citizen in the northern Russian city of
- Murmansk, where he was taking diskettes with secret information f
- from a Russian citizen. The information concerns research in the
- Arctic Ocean.
-
- The incident is likely to be further complicated by the fact that
- the American citizen's visa was no longer valid at the time of his
- detention. (R. Moscow 8/18)
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-
- According to the results of a survey, carried out by the Russian
- Sociological Institute, only 25% of the Muscovites who backed Boris
- Yeltsin in his fight against the military coup in Aug 1991 say they
- are satisfied with the policies of the authorities.
-
- The survey results, broadcast on state television, indicate that
- out of the 62% of the people who defended the Russian parliament in
- Moscow a year ago, only 40% would back the government if a similar
- situation occurred today, and that the coup leaders would double
- their support. (Spanish Radio 8/18)
-
-
- HUNGARY
- The Hungarian police cannot cope with the influx of criminal
- groups from the former Soviet Union, a local newspaper reports. It
- says that the groups consist of soldiers and officers who deserted
- during the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country, as well as
- arriving criminals.
-
- According to the paper, they specialize in the theft and sale of
- stolen cars, and the organization of illegal night clubs, with
- Russian and Ukrainian girls.
-
- The paper is appalled by the brutal norms of behavior of the gangs
- and their bloody clashes. (R. Moscow 8/18)
-