Dear Collegues, I am an economist at the Institute for Economic Research Halle, Germany engaged, beside other issues, in research on shaddow economy. Iam interested in interdependenscies beteween and the characteristics criminal activities and organized criminal groups within a shaddow economic sector, esp. in Russia, Ukraine and the CIS ( Iam originally from Ukraine, so special greetings to Alexey and Yevgenij). I am planning to set off a research project on the tiopic mentioned above. Everybody who is engaged into related reserch is welcome to join the discussion in order to set of the joint reserch project. Bogdan Gorokhovskij, Research Associate Middle and Eastern Europe Department Institute for Economic Research Halle Kleine Märkerstraße 8 06108 Halle (Saale) e-mail: [log in to unmask] www.iwh-halle.de Phone: ++49-345-7753839 Cell.:++49-179-6752480 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp