FOR RUSSIAN READERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1944, Page 5

FOR RUSSIAN READERS

"Britanski-Russki" relations should see marked improvement with the recent establishment of "Britanskaya Chronica," a Russian language newspaper printed bi-monthly in London and flown to Moscow for distribution, states a message in the "Christian Science Monitor."

The paper was started by the British Ministry of Information upon learning that the Russians had been asking for a more serious paper to meet their national proclivity for reading solid, factual articles, and is designed to provide them with a deeper insight into the complexities of English life. The first copies contained Mr. Churchill's address to Congress of this year, a Montgomery Order of the Day, a long article by Sir William Beveridge about his plan for social security, and many articles reprinted from the British Press.

Nearly two years ago the Press Attache's office in the British Embassy sponsored a news-sheet in Kuibyshev called "Britanski Soyuznik," or "The British Ally," in which stories and photographs from London were published fortnightly. Its beginnings were not easy, as headquarters, supplies, and personnel were not readily available, but the Soviet authorities did their utmost to help the little paper get into its stride. Now printed in Moscow, "Britanski Soyuznik" enjoys wide circulation among farmers, sailors, soldiers, schools, and libraries from distant Siberian coasts to the western front.