Here is an article from the German Spiegel Magazine where Russia makes large tracts of land available to Germans for development. It is "deja vu" of 1780 - for the same reason - but with a more modern approach. Read http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,808377-2,00.html Note to Lavrentiy, perhpas we should forward this to their lists? Old German villages involved are: Michaelstal, Olgenfeld and Ruhetal