Though West Europeans have been cultivating Mr Rossel, he is not yet quite one of them.
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In the past, Moscow tried to keep people like Mr Rossel in their place.
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One neighbour is blocking free trade, and Mr Rossel can do little about it.
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Mr Rossel courts foreign investors enthusiastically, but shows little understanding of the obstacles that face them.
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Western countries are beginning to agree, and even to deal directly giving technical help, say, or aid with Mr Rossel, and his counterparts elsewhere.
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Sverdlovsk may be the centre of Mr Rossel's universe, but these days it looks like the middle of nowhere for foreign investors.
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The push for decentralisation in Russia, which Mr Rossel exemplifies, is startling.
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Mr Primakov has invited the eight most important governors, heads of economic associations such as Mr Rossel, to join his government as super-ministers.
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Mr Rossel is having trouble, for example, getting members of the Urals Economic Association to stick to the idea of a single market.
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Back home, however, Mr Rossel is doing a fair job of shepherding his people through the current troubles, and particularly the oncoming winter.
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All the same, Mr Rossel remains that rare bird in Russia a powerful, reasonably effective politician who takes voters seriously, and is driven by them rather than nostalgia, egotism or self-enrichment.
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Mr Rossel and his fellow supergovernors are a rising class, but the new arrangement that gives them increasing clout in the centre is not backed by unfettered power over their fiefs at home.
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He is also at loggerheads with municipal government, in the form of the mayor of Yekaterinburg, who has his own ideas about local economic development not to mention his eyes on the election for Mr Rossel's job next year.
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