The real cash income of Russians in the first 4 months of this year decreased by 27.3 percent compared to the first quarter of the 98th year, the State Statistics Committee said today. The average salary of one employee amounted to 1370 rubles in Russia in April. The real salary - taking into account inflation - in April decreased by 38 and a half percent compared to the same month of the previous year.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin today departed on a short -term vacation in Sochi, ”said Presidential press secretary Dmitry Yakushkin. Yakushkin noted that at the end of the next week a meeting of Boris Yeltsin with the president of South Korea Kim De Jun, who arrives in Moscow on an official visit, is planned. US President Bill Clinton said the conditions under which NATO will stop bombing Yugoslavia remain unchanged.

On May 24, a conference with the participation of the largest Pushkinists around the world will open at the St. Petersburg Institute of World Literature . Upon completion of work in St. Petersburg in the Pushkin House and Museum of Anna Akhmatova, 50 philologists will go to Odessa, and then to Tbilisi. The celebration of the anniversary of Pushkin will continue in Moscow-from 4th to 6th June. The Pushkin house will present new publications.

Economic theses of Sergey Stepashin. 130 million dollars - for a telephone company operating in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. How do prices regulate in Belarus? Electronic toys in the form of pets. Is there a market for the novelty of Sonya? Overview of publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist".

Andrey Sharogradsky, Cologne: On Sunday, Boris Yeltsin completed one of the most important stages of his political career. The Cologne Summit of "Eight" was the last meeting of this kind with his participation. The next summit - 2000 will take place in Japan in July, possibly on the very days when the new head of the Russian state will be sworn.

Irina Lagunina , Prague: Irina Lagunina represents a person of the Day of Radio Liberty. This is the Supreme Commissioner of the UN for refugees, the Japanese diplomat Sadako Ogat, who today made a brilliant speech at the International Conference on Humanitarian Problems in Oslo. According to Sadako Ogata, refugees are the main problem of the twentieth century.

Semyon Mirsky, Paris: Kosovo Liberation Army descends from the mountains. A special correspondent of the Paris newspaper Liberacion Fabrice Tassel gives brief and energetic sketches of the Kosovo situation today. “Now there is a series of Serbs to be afraid,” his Albanian translator tells the French journalist with a smile. Then he adds without a smile. “But we will not kill children and old people, as the Serbs did.” The fighters of the Kosovo army are no longer hiding.

From Ufa, the spouses of the spouses of Enver and Ferzan write to us: “ Our granddaughter of Safargalina Zara, after a fair competition, was sent to America to study in the second grade for one year. Competition, sending, residence and study - everything was organized by Americans. Everything was done quickly, clearly, honestly, at their expense. In America, the airport, our girl was met by her temporary foster parents “Charlene and Jim Shank.

Vladimir Dubinsky , Washington: Despite the increased activity around Kosovo, the United States emphasizes that they do not expect the differences between NATO and Belgrade will be settled in the near future. “We are far from any agreement,” the Reuters news agency quoted today not named after a senior White House employee.

Vladimir Dolin, Moscow: At the Council of the Duma, the agenda was discussed for the coming week. About the main chairman of the State Duma Gennady Seleznev: Gennady Seleznev: The main thing for us to consider that government block of laws that is introduced, and I think that we will consider most of them. Vladimir Dolin: There is reason to believe that the discussion of these bills will be held in a business environment.

In April, the cost of living in Russia amounted to 884 rubles , which is 2 times larger compared to April last year. - reported in the State Committee for Statistics. At the same time, the average monthly salary in Russia amounted to 1370 rubles. In March, the fuel industry (3 and a half thousand rubles), the spheres of finance and insurance (three thousand 350 rubles) and non -ferrous metallurgy (three thousand one hundred rubles) had the highest earnings (3 and a half thousand rubles).

Aya Kuga , Belgrade: In Belgrade, the authorities banned a rally of protest of Kosovo Serbs under the pretext that public assemblies are not allowed in connection with the military situation. Three organizers of the rally were delivered to the police department. Within an hour, special forces of order politely and quietly, but stubbornly, were pushed into the surrounding streets of the rally participants, who were about two hundred.

Natalya Golitsyna, London: The Radio Liberty correspondent in London Natalya Golitsyna is talking with the assistant commander of the peacekeeping forces in Kosovo, General Michael Jackson by the British lieutenant colonel Nick Plisset. Nick Plisset: If we talk about the British sector in Kosovo, then here we, in fact, already have experience in disarmament of individual groups that threaten the population with weapons. And they have already developed a clear tactic in this regard.

Andrey Sharry, Prague: One of the NATO generals called the Kosovo Liberation Army, heading the armed resistance of the Kosovo Albanians to the Belgrade regime, "the most cunning Joker of the entire Balkan card deck." After the cards of Slobodan Milosevich, figuratively speaking, turned out to be beaten, they remembered this one with a blast of definition: despite all the statements of the field commanders regarding the discipline and responsibility of the partisans, their hastily trained,

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