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|**BISNISHome PageSearchBISNISEmbassyReportsCountryReportsIndustryReportsCustomsCornerPublicationsSourcesof FinanceFinanceLinkLeadsand EventsExchangeRatesState ExportsOtherSources** |  | March 1999Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) --  IPAnet/PrivatizationLink, an Internet-based
information service operated by MIGA, an arm of the World Bank, has helped develop websites for NIS
privatization agencies. New sites aimed at promoting foreign investment and offering new business opportunities in
NIS countries include: 
          Georgia www.casebycase.org.ge 
          Uzbekistan www.gov.uz/SPC/index.html 
          Moldova www.moldse.com/privatization/index.htm 
          Ukraine www.ukrmassp.kiev.ua. 
     Other privatization agency websites are available at: www.privatizationlink.com/doc/web/priv.htm.European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) -- EBRD
     has introduced a new glossary aimed at advancing  mutual understanding between the
     Russian-speaking and international business communities. The two-volume Project
     Finance Glossary, published in February 1999, should be useful to banks, law firms,
     potential investors, enterpreneurs, translators and interpreters, and academics. Volume
     1 is English-Russian, and volume 2 is Russian-English. Each volume costs �50; the
     set is �90. The glossary was compiled by the bank's in-house reviser/interpreter,
     Vladimir Faekov, in consultation with bankers and lawyers both within and outside
     the EBRD. It is available from the EBRD Publications Desk at tel: +44 (171) 338-7553; fax: +44 (171) 338-6102; E-mail: [email protected].This report is provided courtesy of the Business Information Service for the
     Newly Independent States (BISNIS)