One potential investor, according to the Wall Street Journal, is Russian investor and former Spyker shareholder Vladimir Antonov.

FORBES: Saab Is Running Out of Money And Could Collapse

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the Russian government was preparing to make such a delivery.

WSJ: U.S.: Russia Withheld Intel on Boston Bomb Suspect

In 1994 I was working as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Moscow when a story turned up in the Russian press, saying that North Korea was running lumber camps in remote areas of Russia.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: North Korea, evil as usual

The comments come a day after a U.S. official told The Wall Street Journal that the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 at the request of the Russian government but found no suspicious information and closed the matter.

WSJ: Russia Distances Itself From Chechen Brothers

In a trenchant op.ed. for the Wall Street Journal, the eminent scholar David Satter further illuminates Russia's condition, revealing how "the Russian regime has worked systematically to eliminate all independent sources of power, " by, for example, adopting legislation that effectively gives the state control of NGOs - heretofore the sole outposts of Russian civil society.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Russia's emerging autocracy