ABSTRACT
Europe, 1993, no. 70, pp. 1-9, and 1995, no. 126, p. 8; FT, 8 April 1993, p. 6). There is, for example, oil, natural gas, coal (25 per cent of Soviet production in 1991), gold, nickel, copper, lead and zinc. It inherited about 20 per cent of the Soviet Union’s arable land, and grain, meat and wool are important. (In 1991 agriculture accounted for 37 per cent of national income.) There is a relatively diversified industrial base compared with the other Asiatic republics.
