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This is a Central Intelligence Agency JPRS Report (JPRS-UPA-90-053) dated 1 May 1990. It contains a translation of an article by Lev Tsvetkov, chief specialist in the USSR Council of Ministers Information Department, from the Moscow journal ZHURNALIST. Tsvetkov criticizes one-sided Soviet press coverage of price increases and trade union protests. He urges journalists to cover the move to market relations within the context of the government's economic recovery program. It mentions a UFO only in passing.
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# Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1990 Document 6 of 8 Page 1 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Status: [STAT] Document Date: 01 May 90 Category: [CAT] Report Type: JPRS Report Report Date: Report Number: JPRS-UPA-90-053 UDC Number: Author(s): USSR SOVMIN Information Department Chief Specialist Lev Tsvetkov: ''On the Market--Not in the Bazaar Fashion''] Headline: Council of Ministers Official Urges Improved Economics Reporting Source Line: 90US1115A Moscow ZHURNALIST in Russian No 5, May 90 pp 30-33 Subslug: [Article by USSR SOVMIN Information Department Chief Specialist Lev Tsvetkov: ''On the Market--Not in the Bazaar Fashion''] FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Article by USSR SOVMIN Information Department Chief Specialist Lev Tsvetkov: "'On the Market--Not in the Bazaar Fashion'"] 2. [Text] How to enter market relations without breaking your neck? This question is increasingly troubling the readers, but they do not find clear-cut answers in the press. Why? ## 3. THE FACT 4. On 18 February newspapers published a TASS report-- the AUCCTU had sent the government a protest in connection with plans to develop auction and commercial trade in consumer goods in the country: 'For millions of people, and especially persons with fixed income (pensioners, students, young families and families with many children), many goods will become practically inaccessible in connection with their sale through commercial stores, wherein the prices will exceed retail prices two-to-fivefold. Extremely hard-to-get goods will be accessible to mainly sharp dealers in the 'shadow' economy, but not to the ordinary laborer.' 5. Thus, the fact. But we all have known since our university days, that one must proceed from the fact to the phenomenon, and from the particular to the general. Those who have already been working in the press know, however, that it is not always that easy to see the phenomenon through the fact--especially a newly-arrived phenomenon. ## 6. THE PHENOMENON 7. The phenomenon is already revealed in the headlines: ''The Market
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 10 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.