A housing development had recently sprouted next door, and an auction of its possessions, accumulated over two centuries, had left it virtually empty.
Holiday flights from Russia and Britain to its top winter sun resort will not resume until 2016, leaving it virtually empty for what should be peak season, and overall tourist revenues are expected to fall by at least 10% this year.
Over all, employment fell by a seasonally adjusted 19,000 jobs, leaving it virtually unchanged since January.
The campaign to liberate Raqqa from ISIS has left it virtually uninhabitable.
It would have a theoretical right to request a full American withdrawal, which would leave it virtually defenseless.
Just one problem: How can President Bush hope to improve the effectiveness of government after his administration has racked up a trillion-dollar deficit that has impoverished the public realm, leaving it virtually incapable of effecting meaningful change?
Over all, employment fell by a seasonally adjusted 19,000 jobs, leaving it virtually unchanged since January, after having grown by an average of about 250,000 jobs a month in the late 1990's.
The latest charge against Yukos-Sibneft is that it owes 98 billion rubles ($3.3 billion) in unpaid taxes for 2000 a sum which, Yukos-Sibneft says, would have left it virtually without profits.Many Russian firms were sold to their current owners under shady privatisations in the 1990s that left plenty of skeletons that prosecutors could choose to pull out of their closets.
The destruction and division of Berlin left it with virtually no industry.
Around the same time, Total began selling its network of a few hundred gas stations in the U.S., leaving it with virtually no business interests here.
