In Moscow, during the fourth annual Russia Calling conference, a forum for Russia investors put on by VTB Capital, Alexey Ulyukaev, the first deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia lamented his position in words that could have been said by Bernanke, Draghi, or Brazilian Central Banker Alexandre Tombini.

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Petersburg, including Dmitry Medvedev, simultaneously chairman of the Gazprom board and Putin's first deputy prime minister, and installed Miller, then an unknown technocrat with little direct experience in the gas industry.

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"What we saw last week was not unlike the first flight of the Kitty Hawk, " said Friedland, Ivanhoe's cofounder and deputy chairman, in a conference call the next day.

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