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To: goldsheet who wrote (57677)	8/29/2000 8:31:34 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116779

So, around how much of a reduction / disruption in supply would this cause? Is Russia on the Verge of Collapse? NewsMax.com Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2000 Snarled in a controversy over the cause of the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk, its threadbare military establishment with its physically deteriorating nuclear-powered ships and weapons threatening to create further disasters, and its political leadership stumbling from crisis to crisis, Russia shows all the signs of a nation tottering on the brink of a complete collapse. Further speculation that Russia is on a collision course with disintegration was strengthened by the release of a shocking new study by a prestigious foreign research group, which asks "How Great are the Risks for a Socioeconomic Collapse in Russia? An Inventory of Russian Problem Areas" and presents a dismal picture of life in the former Soviet Union. If the report’s gloomy possibilities become realities, Russia could face a future of mass famine, nationwide power blackouts, out-of-control unemployment, more Chernobyl-type disasters, breakup of the nation into small independent provinces and possible civil war between them, mass migrations into neighboring countries and total financial collapse.(cont) newsmax.com