The late 1970s and early 1980s began a period of huge expansion for Armani and Galeotti.
Mr Putin listens to the FSB and, according to Mark Galeotti, listens to little else.
DeConto, Simone Galeotti, Mark Pagani, David Tracy, Kevin Schaefer, Tingjun Zhang, David Pollard and David J.
"We had no money at the time, and yet Galeotti had rented it for me, " recalls Armani.
Mr Gudkov ran afoul on the first, Mr Galeotti notes, so the authorities went after him on the second.
Armani and Galeotti bought a holiday home on the island of Pantelleria, off Sicily, and the country villa south of Milan.
But at the height of Armani's success, Galeotti was struck with leukemia.
In those years, Galeotti worked tirelessly to launch and burnish Armani's image.
Mark Galeotti, a British lecturer on Russia's armed forces, says there is evidence that Mr bin Laden, while not the instigator of the urban bombing campaign, has offered financial help to its perpetrators.
As they began to think about forming a business, Galeotti and Armani toyed with the idea of teaming up with Walter Albini, then an Italian designer who was becoming famous for his luxury women's sportswear.
Armani readily admits he wouldn't be where he is without the help of another man, Sergio Galeotti, a tall, mustachioed architectural draftsman from Italy's Tuscan coast with whom the designer became romantically involved in the mid-1960s.
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