While Boris Yeltsin announces the dissolution of the Soviet Union and then begins to try to put Humpty together again by agreeing an alliance between the Russian Federation and the Ukraine, business, such as it is, goes on as usual, and US Sprint Communications Co yesterday announced that its Sprint Networks USSR has extended its packetswitched network with a data centre in St Petersburg – Leningrad for the die-hards enabling users to bypass the ramshackle national network; service is planned to Perm, Samara, Novosibirsk and Khabarask next month, with a total of 10 cities to have network nodes by the year-end.
