NOT JUST BOEING’S BANK….

The IMF is not Russia’s only eager lender. Dow Jones reports that when Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin visits Washington this week for talks with Vice President Al Gore, they will discuss ways to engage the United States Export-Import Bank in financing an Aeroflot purchase–not of Boeings, but of the Ilushin 96M/T, an aircraft not yet in production.