From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"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

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