Thursday, June 20, 2002 State Duma Passes Bill for Investing PensionsBy Torrey Clark Staff Writer The State Duma on Wednesday passed a pension bill in the crucial second reading that sets out the instruments into which a portion of pensions can be invested.The current pay-as-you-go pension system -- already under strain -- is a potential time bomb because the working population is shrinking as the retirement-age population swells. The government hopes to avert a disaster by moving partially to an investment-based system, which could also inject billions of rubles into the capital markets. The bill needs to pass a third...