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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 9 and keenly followed how these steps were received at the enterprises. More often than not, the subject concerned adopted resolutions. But occasionally, as in the 17 January issue (`` Tri dnya--na dorabotku proekta'' [Three Days--to Finish Working on the Draft]), about those who were only preparing. 42. I consider IZVESTIYA's position with respect to the author of the program--the USSR Council of Ministers--respectful in every way. The government asked for enough time to reach a turning point in the unfavorable trends--and the newspaper finds it impossible to place a stick in the spokes; on the contrary, it has taken upon its shoulders the burden of common concerns. (This is the impression one gets, at least from the articles published in January and February.) 43. In the aforementioned IZVESTIYA issue of 21 January, L. Abalkin wrote: '...Public opinion has not yet grasped the design of this (governmental--L.Ts.) program, nor even the practical steps for implementing it. Nor has it grasped the connection between the planned measures and the evaluation of the current situation in the economy.' This observation, incidentally, amounts to criticism of us, as journalists. 44. How are the newspapermen conducting themselves in this situation? 45. It is time to return to the fact with which this review began--to the new protest of the AUCCTU, and this time in protest of the plans for auction and commercial trade. You read the news dispatches--and you get the feeling that indignation is growing. But just what is in fact happening? The best color TV's, convenient dual-compartment refrigerators, 'vidiki'' [possibly--VCR's] and Volgas--an ordinary mortal cannot buy any of these things at the state prices, and at auctions there simply are no reasonable prices. The gossnab organizations are sending surplus valuable material goods there from the enterprises. It's not enough that trade is also introducing commercial stores--and is sending to them a flow of scarce imported goods. Well, how can one help grabbing someone by the shirt here: 'Just what did we fight for?' And how can one not stand up together with the trade unions in defense of the interests of the hapless pensioners, students, young people, and large families! 46. On that very day, 18 February, IZVESTIYA published a front page dispatch by V. Romanyuk: 'Incident at the Goods Market: Why the Trade Unions Are Protesting Again.' 47. In a restrained, even rather laconic manner, we are asked to 'Try to look at this situation without emotion. First of all...' And, having cooled off, you begin to ponder. If we affirm that the
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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.