OK, I surrender!! I admit that MirCorp IS providing a subsidy to Energia to help support the ISS program. DWA At 04:06 PM 10/17/2000 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: >How does private capital invented in MirCorp help finance Russia's >participation in ISS without it being a subsidy? By definition, that *is* a >subsidy: money provided by one party which lowers or eliminates the money >provided by another.