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|**BISNISHome PageSearchBISNISEmbassyReportsCountryReportsIndustryReportsPublicationsSourcesof FinanceLeadsand EventsExchangeRatesState ExportsOtherSources** |  | May 1998European Bank for Reconstruction and Development The EBRD recently updated
its World Wide Web document "Alternative Sources of Finance for Small and Medium-Sized
Projects in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union." Found on the Bank's
website, the document contains country-by-country information on the EBRD's equity- and loan-financing programs, including investment or venture capital funds, regional funds, lending
programs involving local banks, and other assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises.  This
document is available at www.ebrd.org/new/index.htm.U.S. Department of Commerce/U.S. Commercial ServiceThe U.S. Commercial
will move to new facilities in St. Petersburg, effective May 18, 1998.  The Commercial Service
and the American Business Center/St. Petersburg will be located at 25 Nevsky 
Prospekt.  For further information on how to contact the Commercial Service and the American
Business Center/St. Petersburg, visit BISNIS Online, at
www.mac.doc.gov/bisnis/country/9803rco6.htm.World Bank The World Bank has approved a $15.9 million  credit for a "First
Cadastre," or land registration, project to promote land privatization and the development of real
estate markets in Moldova.  The project has four components: a program to finance new maps
and update existing maps; urban and rural cadastral services programs;  and an "institution and
capacity building program" to provide training and support for institutions and agencies
participating in project-related activities.  For more information, visit the World Bank website, at:
www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/extme/1740.htm.This report is provided courtesy of the Business Information Service for the Newly
Independent States (BISNIS)