The tensions with former Soviet satellite states has saddened Soviet veterans, including Yakov Vinnichenko, who told Russia Today television he was involved in liberating concentration camps.
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Most mutual fund managers don't, says Yakov Amihud, a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.
Indeed, says Yakov Pappe of the Russian Academy of Sciences's Institute of Economic Forecasting, nationalising Yukos if it were done right would correct a mistake made during the privatisations of the 1990s.