The World - News from Aug. 1, 1988

The number of murders and assaults in Moscow has increased this year, but the number of all violent crimes in the city has decreased, according to Lt. Gen. P. S. Bogdanov, chief of Moscow’s Administration of Internal Affairs. He said in an interview in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that the city’s juvenile crime rate has also increased. Bogdanov did not give the actual number of crimes registered, but Radio Moscow reported in March that 9,000 murders were committed in the Soviet Union in 1987.