When the rule of law is non-existent and the Kremlin often acts like a gangster, it falls to business leaders to work out the rules and abide by them.

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Inside the jazz club, an eclectic mix of expats, tourists and locals many of whom were sporting 1930s attire and gangster-like hats sat around tables and along the long wooden bar.

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"Word is Yoda is first, " wrote website founder Harry Knowles in a posting that also mentioned such other Star Wars staples as bounty hunter Boba Fett and slug-like gangster Jabba the Hutt.

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