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...investors say that may be an unduly bleak view. Nine years ago, two Swedish businessmen, Johan Boden and Carl Sturen, invested about $5 million to start up a company in the farming town of Kakhovka aimed at making use of Ukraine's rich agriculture, including its tomatoes. Their firm, Chumak, named after Cossack salt merchants, is now a leading national brand, making a range of more than 30 types of ketchup, pickled vegetables, spaghetti sauce and other condiments for the Ukrainian and Russian markets. Sales last year grew by more than 50% to $60 million, and the firm is held...
...church nowadays the way they formerly paid their Communist Party dues -- as a kind of insurance, just in case. Belief in miracles remains strong in a nation once fervently dedicated to the scientific method. How else to explain the extraordinary following of psychic healers like Anatoli Kashpirovsky and Alan Chumak, who held audiences spellbound with their televised seances a few years ago? Even sophisticated Muscovites rushed to buy supposedly energized issues of newspapers and placed jars of water by their TV screens to absorb the healing rays of these video shamans...
Another superstar is Alan Chumak, psychic-in-residence of 120 Minutes, the Soviet equivalent of the Today show. Chumak can transmit his curative powers to heal the sick not only through live TV but even on videotape. Viewers can place glasses of water or jars of cold cream next to their sets to absorb his telepathic healing charges. Chumak has promised to solve the country's chronic food problems by energizing seeds, compelling them to produce larger crops. When Chumak was yanked off the air by skeptical superiors, a popular outcry brought him back. A Siberian fan in Bratsk wrote...
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