1.   And why do we let the World Bank shower money on Russian enterprises?

2.   Any Russian enterprise that shows the promise of success becomes an immediate target for the two great rival parasites, the regulatory bureaucracy and organized crime.

3.   By most accounts, it was one of the few Russian enterprises where product quality did not plummet after the Communist takeover.

4.   Commercial banks in Europe, Japan and, to a lesser degree, in the United States hold billions in bad loans to troubled Asian companies and Russian enterprises.

5.   Estimating Russian economic activity has never been easy because Russian enterprises chronically downplay their production to minimize taxes.

6.   In effect, the officials are being accused of taking money to deliberately underestimate the production of Russian enterprises and, thus, to help minimize their tax obligations.

7.   It can do so by cooperating with Russian enterprises in manufacturing new types of weaponry, as well as in upgrading previously exported items.

8.   Last month, Yeltsin denied reports that Russian enterprises had sold classified technology to Iran.

9.   Loans-for-shares basically allowed Russian state enterprises to sell themselves via financing their own purchases by private entities.

10.   On a recent motorcycle ride through Siberia, I saw Chinese workers operating Russian enterprises in Khabarovsk and Blagoveshchensk with the benefit of Japanese capital and management.