1.   He protected less profitable state farms by writing off their debts.

2.   It is harder to defeat the chronic low productivity of the state farms, and the frailties of the distribution chain.

3.   The state farms were semi-military in character.

4.   While supporting state-owned industry and state farms, it declared that it would move slowly towards a market economy.

5.   In February state farm workers, teachers and transport workers staged strikes, and May saw a wave of strikes mainly in the transport and mining industries.

6.   The privatization process for state farms, land and housing had not yet been regulated.

7.   A former director of a state farm, he speaks of his admiration for Hitler and Stalin.

8.   But most state farm bureau sites, which are rarely linked to each other, are dedicated to member services and education programs.

9.   Everyone in a position of authority, from the Kremlin leadership to the state farm directors, got special benefits.

10.   Her company, Vlastilina, took in millions of dollars from officials, celebrities, criminal gangs and state farms before she ran for her life.