	soviet  deficit with west soars in the soviet  deficit with the west almost quadrupled last year reaching billion roubles compared with mln in official figures showed statistics published by the monthly journal foreign  showed soviet  turnover for fell to billion roubles from billion the previous year a drop of pct moscow s  surplus with east bloc countries continued to grow in western analysts attributed the deficit rise with the west to the world oil price slump which hit moscow s main export and cut hard currency earnings needed for purchases in the west reuter 
