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Most of what comes across our screens and papers about the ex-Soviet Union, tells about troubles and civil strife.
According to one area business person, that's a distorted view of daily life in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
"The bottom line is that we are generating too much fear in the press over here about the situation over there," said James Voigt, president of American International, an international consulting firm based in Cleveland, Wis.
Voigt is also president of Innovation Computer Corp., a manufacturer of personal computers and computer components. Innovation, which was started in 1981, was one of the first Western companies to start manufacturing computers in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc in the late 1980s.
In 1988, on a business trip to the region, Voight...