ARTICLE: "Russian Wealth Fund Rattles West," by Gregory L. White, Bob Davis and Marcus Walker, Wall Street Journal, 7 May 2008, p. A1.

The fund (National Wealth Fund) starts at about $30b this year, but is projected to stand at more like a quarter trillion by 2012.

Bad quote from Evan Bayh, saying the Russians show a tendency to invest for policies unrelated to economics. Truth is, the Russians are a business masquerading as a government.

The question is, do the Russians learn more from financial connectivity with West or do we teach/tame them more by forcing them to invest mostly in undemocratic Gap states?