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Glasnost has made the shortages seem even more acute. Soviet publications have lately devoted page after page to the plague of consumer shortages, documenting their intensity in editorial columns and letting readers vent their rage in letters sections. "Shortages attack us literally from all sides," complained the daily Vechernyaya Moskva. "It seems that soon it will be difficult to name an item that doesn't fall into a shortage category...
...Moscow last week, the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva published an interim look at the work of the State Spelling Commission, which is preparing a new report on language reform to be issued next year. The major drive will be against useless double letters in Russian words; thus kommunist will become komunist, appetit, apetit, and so on. Of 1,200 Russian words containing double letters, only twelve will be retained. Among them: Russia and other proper names. The soft sign following sibilants at the end of words will disappear, as did the hard sign following consonants, and 16 rules of hyphenation...
...transmitters at Leningrad and Moscow and is still at work on a coaxial cable to link them up with Kiev, and Sverdlovsk in the Urals. Russians seem to have reached the second phase in television: they are beginning to complain about it. In a recent letter to the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, carping Reader Vladimir Savochkin demanded more TV sets, more and better programs, spare parts for fans who are building their own sets...
That Dearest Man. Pressagenting a plan for the erection of eight new Moscow skyscrapers (16 to 32 stories), Vechernyaya Moskva predicted that Moscow's skyline of the future will be festive and eye-pleasing, not at all like its American counterpart-not a sway or a crack in a block. Russian architects will avoid the "errors" of U.S. builders-the Soviet skyscrapers will not yield to the wind, but will stand "unshaken and firm...
...Vechernyaya Moskva ecstatically visualized the future: "Here we are in the vestibule of a new hotel. We enter a gallery and see Moscow. How it has changed! . . . It seems that all Moscow-graceful, light, majestic and solemn, rises over the world, gleaming with the inviting light of ruby stars. Great emotion floods the heart -emotion of great pride for the Motherland, for the Soviet people, for the creative labor inspired by the genius of that greatest and dearest man, Comrade Stalin...