On May 11, 2007, at 2:58 PM, tfast wrote:
> More seriously the question of Russian economic development might be
> usefully posed in terms of whether or not Putin has in mind a
> staples based
> strategy fro economic development. The Canadian model would be more
> instructive than any of the Asian, SEA NICs.
Wouldn't that require moving Russia so that it had a 3000-mile unguarded border with the U.S.?
Doug