»»Russia Announced Plans To Privatize 557 State-Run Enterprises in 2008
557 government corporations and 573 federal state unitary enterprises will be privatized in Russia in 2008. That, according to the draft program for privatizing federal property.

The involved sectors are: fuel-energy, energy-building, construction, lumber, civil aviation, healthcare, chemical, petrochemical, polygraphic industry, geology, fishery, poultry farming, crop growing, cattle breeding, medical industry, and machine-building.
The privatization will also concern enterprises of automobile transport, road facilities, oil-gas and fuel sectors, sea and river transport. (source)
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