YES regarding any direct dealings they may have had with Russia but NO in the sense that one of the new and highly qualified directors we picked up in that deal was formerly Canada's Ambassador to Russia. I doubt he has lost all of the connections that he had during his tenure.
Russia has and wants more gold. Kinross is a gold company and wants more gold and one of our new directors is a Kinross guy. So Kinross will have first hand information on how Sage is developing.
I think this is a win-win situation provided Sage can continue to come up with more gold. Personally, I think they can and will and perhaps already have. For that we will have to wait a little [a tad] longer in order to see what the 2009 drill efforts have thusfar yielded.

Best wishes,

Jerry