European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Assignment inside Moscow the Down end out of Moscow Are no longer kept from Public View. Continued from Page 1 in the top Middle class. Today he a a beggar in the streets with an income that can buy Only a few kilograms of  Tatiana Andre Skaya knits shawls at night. By Day she s a nurse in Orenburg in the ural mountains. Once a month she makes the three hour flight to Moscow staying with her sister. The shawls she and her Mother make earn her 10,000 rubles a month at the big Moscow Flea Market. As a nurse she makes 500 rubles a month. T tie armenian restaurant is cd most empty. A waiter tells the new arrivals Quot All tables Are reserved. So if you want to eat you la have to pay More. Quot thirty dollars per person Quot he whispers adding Quot but we can negotiate Quot next door a restaurant frequented by muscovites serves Good beef in a Gravy and Plum sauce smoked Salmon and a half of a boiled egg with caviar and hot Rolls for 85 rubles $1.25 each. No waiting. The russian women stand in line wearing shiny fur Coats that would Cost thousands of dollars in America. They wait alongside ragged peasant women to buy a Carton of milk or a loaf of bread. A pack of Marlboro cigarettes Cost 120 rubles. In the same store Winston go for 45 rubles. Off red Square is a glitzy perfume shop that accepts Only Western currency. Russians done to bother going inside. They Don t need to. Just outside the doors russian women do a brisk business Selling cosmetics for rubles soviet military spending May have been drastically slashed but two photographers from red Star the official military credits editor George Manes Art direction Susan Harris Sharon Kilday Tarrant production Gunter Schroeder any sidewalk can become an Impromptu Market Here women offer to Trade or sell new Itema. Newspaper cover a Street demonstration with $6,000 Worth of japanese camera equipment around their necks. Moscow survived Napoleon s 39-Day occupation in 1812 when two thirds of the City was burned. Near red Square an angry old woman wonders aloud if the capital City will survive Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Quot they Are criminals and fascists Quot she shouts into the wind. Quot they deceived our people they betrayed the party that elected them. This is Moscow and this is terrible. Everything is expensive in the stores. I do not see any Way  with democratization came the salvation army which has been operating a soup Kitchen since last november. Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday March 25, 1992