From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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>> Don't know about Alaska, but Siberia is generally very poor and very
>> underdeveloped area.
>
> I thought there were oilfields there?

Yes. Fat lot of good it does the locals. The money flows steadily out of
there. Maybe some corporate managers visiting the oil fields have laptops,
but I don't think the actual workers get much more than a sack of (frozen)
potatoes.


Antti Kurenniemi

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