Well I know Iaroslavl on the volga is not as far out as alma alty. But almost exactly a year ago I had quite nice telnet connect from their to chicago for four hours one evening. You are able to do what you are doing in part because you are using infrastructure from communications links that western oil companies paid you to build to various siberian oil fields. true? (I visited your offices in Moscow in April of 1992.) The New Yorker wrote these guys up in December 1991. ******************************************************************** Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscript.: Individ-ascii $85 The COOK Report on Internet Non Profit. $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 Internet: cook@cookreport.com Corporate. Site Lic $650 http://www.netaxs.com/~cook <- Subscription Info & COOK Report Index ********************************************************************