You had to go to Russia for nine months, and I was still busy with Cirque du Soleil.
Well, I should go to Russia because, as John said, anybody can come see you when you're doing well.
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Turkmenistan produces roughly 70 billion cubic metres of natural gas each year and about two-thirds of its exports go to Russia's Gazprom gas monopoly.
Talks between the two countries have stalled during the past year over the United States' plan to move ahead on tests of its proposed missile defence system which go against Russia's wishes.
Would Russia go along with a strategy that would need the credible threat of sanctions to back it up?
Another project which Mr Putin is determined should go ahead is Russia's South Stream gas pipeline, across the Black Sea and into the heart of the European Union.
Or world markets, oil futures and Arab and Iranian crowds might go crazy and Russia be presented with a whole new set of openings to win back old friends.
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It says it then aims to manufacture the device in Asia so that it can go on sale in Russia "in the summer", and in Europe and North America before the end of 2013.
"The biggest challenge so far was finding out just how to go about getting bikes into Russia, all the paperwork I might need such as passports, visas and insurance, " he said.
Mr Putin's decision to pull out of the World Trade Organisation entry negotiations, saying that Russia is prepared to go in only as part of a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, illustrates that point.
Like it or not, IOCs still have lucrative (some would say larger) unconventional oil and gas plays they can go for in North America, Russia, East Africa, Australasia and even distinctly conventional MENA and Caspian regions.
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The poor cannot go to Canada, France, or Russia to flee taxes.
Russia is one of the biggest go-to spots for infringed U.S. content.
Lisa Dobriskey, who won 1500m bronze at the Worlds in Berlin, will hope to see off the challenge of Russia's Anna Alminova and go at least one better while Jenny Meadows, 800m silver medallist a year ago, is coming back into form just in time after calf and Achilles problems.
Both will go on sale in May, with Europe and Russia the first regions to be offered the devices.
Russia also stressed that UN weapons inspectors should go to Iraq and look for hard evidence on the ground.
So, again, Russia accepts the fact that that needs to go forward.
As with other crises the key is often never let a crisis go to waste, and it seems to me that Russia is thinking about why it suffered so much.
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But France and Russia have a list of oil contracts waiting to go ahead once sanctions are lifted, and both countries are among Iraq's biggest creditors.
Successful existing Russian brands such as Kaspersky Lab and Nitol Solar suggest that the spirit of entrepreneurialism exists in Russia and that Russian brands have the potential to go global.
Despite the pending lifting of the grain export ban, scheduled to go into effect on July 1, the Central Bank of Russia does not expect domestic food prices to rise in response to more of Russian agribusiness shipping grains abroad instead of serving the local market.
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The first Russia-listed exchange-traded fund is supposed to go live this month.
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The USA, silver medallists in 2002, must beat Russia or draw in their final group match on Tuesday to go through.
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