All of that, plus, citrus orchards, mineral wealth, natural gas, oil (not that gas and oil are scarce in Russia, its more about control) and also, controling the East bank at the mouth of the Danube.
13 posted on 11/30/2004 12:03:39 PM PST by GOP_1900AD
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