MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Vasily Zubkov.)
The Soviet Union was once one of the world's leading shipbuilders that produced a million tons DWT each year. Its collapse has left 65 shipyards and docks, 100 specialized instrument factories and engineering plants, scores of research centers and institutes, and a workforce of 200,000 - a huge but still severely underemployed sector - without state support and with really little work to do
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