ARTICLE: "Starr to Invest In Real Estate Inside Russia," by Liam Pleven, Wall Street Journal, 26 March 2007, p. C3.

A group set up by Hank Greenberg is diving in. He'll focus on prime office space, hotels and residential housing.

A Starr spokesman says the company is "comfortable' about the political situation there.

Compare that to yesterday's post on Chavez and you begin to see why Russia is Core and Venezuela is Gap.