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| | JRL #6119 - Investment Abroad, Felgenhauer/ Risky PR Game, Albats/ Women, Berezovsky, Gurvich/ Reforms, Vaknin/ Agriculture, Klebnik ov/ Khodorkovsky, Tayler/ Theatre, Borodin, Voshchanov/ After Winter, Oil |
 | | Then suddenly, last Friday, a smiling and relaxed President Vladimir Putin announced at a press conference in Kazakhstan during a summit of leaders of former Soviet republics that the planned U.S. troop deployment in Georgia was "no tragedy." The anti-Georgian and anti-U.S. din subsided abruptly. |
 | | Borodin, who was close to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and is still secretary-general of the nebulous union state between Russia and ex-Soviet neighbour Belarus, was told of the ruling by the Geneva prosecutor but had not yet decided whether to accept it, defence lawyer Vincent Solari said. |
 | | Khodorkovsky is an unassuming man. The oldest of his four children is in a Swiss boarding school; otherwise Khodorkovsky seems to avoid the nouveau riche trappings of other Russian oligarchs. |
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