51.   He noted that none of this would matter much if the Russian economy was improving.

52.   He is working on a plan to help the Russian economy and hoping that the United States and other nations will give more financial aid.

53.   He spoke, however, about the Russian economy, not the American one.

54.   He said the collapsing Russian economy compounds the uncertainty about future profits of American companies.

55.   How could they know the Russian economy would tank?

56.   Huge privatization programs have been completed, the inflation rate is decelerating and economists are beginning to ask whether the Russian economy has bottomed.

57.   If Boris Yeltsin was once committed to reforming the Russian economy, he has given it up.

58.   If he is to attain it, he will have to attack the corruption that pervades the Russian economy from top to bottom.

59.   If the Russian economy survives, these investments will turn out to be good.

60.   If you want to know what is happening in the Russian economy, it helps to think about bread.