COVER STORY
7 FROM LABS TO MARKETS
Russia's scientists are finding the peth to high-tech
profits strewn witn risks. Not knowing business, many
fall prey to rough Western capitalists, or even rougher
Russian mafiosi. And most are still ignoring the
lucrative market in their own backyard.
SURVEY
35 HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY
The shift to free market forces has hit health care
hard in the Visegrad countries. Budgetary constraints,
the absence of capital, slow privatisation and the lack
of significant foreign investment has made a bad
situation worse.
POLITICS & ECONOMICS
11 Month in Review
13 Threat to Kuchma's reforms
14 What next, Mr Meclar?
15 Bulgaria's new PM
15 Euroscope: Italy vs Slovenia
18 A look at Vladimir Dlouhy
BUSINESS
25 Month in Review
27 Ikarus bus troubles
28 Liquidating Kontrax
29 Moldova's wine business
30 Sub-contracting
33 Polish lobby groups
34 Regional airlines
FINANCE
45 Month in Review
47 Money transfers improve
48 Hungary: repo rate battles
49 Concorde Securities
50 Tokobank leads the way
50 The Polish Development Bank
51 Stock Watch
LAWS & TAXES
53 Czech cartel busters
54 Fixing Russian company debt?
54 Residency rules
55 Briefs
FEATURES
4 LETTERS
56 EXTRA
Moldavian monasteries
Koprivshitsa
Gyorgy Kurtag, composer
Balkan nightpots
Croquet, Czech style
Synopsis
60 MARKET-PLACE
64 STATISTICS
Facts & Figures
Country Indicators
66 CITY FOCUS
Plzen
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