A small positive note...

Whither Russia? What's Putin up to? Who knows...This seems like a positive sign:

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin signed a bill on one-window concept for registering businesses into law on Dec. 23 in a move expected to ease the often time-, energy- and money-consuming bureaucratic gridlock faced by entrepreneurs while registering businesses in the country....

A splendid idea, but probably very difficult to implement, since the "one-window" will be passing information on to various bureaucracies with incompatable data systems.

It would certainly be difficult to do here. Good luck, Ivan.

Posted by John Weidner at December 27, 2003 3:11 PM