From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:20:06 +0200, Antti Kurenniemi
 wrote:

> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:41cbeb6d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Don't know about Alaska, but Siberia is generally very poor and very
>>> underdeveloped area. I don't think anyone knows how many people live
>>> there, or where exactly are the towns and so on. It's a huge area that
>>> is
>>> sort of forgotten (on purpose) by the Russian government. I doubt most
>>> of
>>> Siberia (apart from some mining colonies) has even telephones, let
>>> alone
>>> computers.
>>>
>>
>> Not entirely true....
>>
>> The Center for New Informational technology, one of the SU & then
>> Russia's
>> biggest IT places is in NovoSibirsk.
>
> I don't think NovoSibirsk is in Siberia - isn't it quite far south, near
> Kazakhstan? (map check) yeppers, it is. Though, the "border" of what
> siberia
> and what isn't, isn't exactly a clear one.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

The Ural mountains define the boundary.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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