At a time of economic austerity and, in some cases, recession in the West, prospects for mobilizing large-scale, taxpayer-underwritten "new money" flows for Russia (and other Commonwealth of Independent States, or CIS, nations) from the United States and other Western nations will be exceedingly difficult.
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