He slogs it out in what seems like the Siberia of venture capital.
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Venture investing in Russia still looks like a trek through Siberia without a map.
It has to be remembered that social conventions did not simply fall from they sky one day like a meteorite over Siberia.
Cloherty and other intrepid VCs say that they are learning from their mistakes, but venture investing in Russia still looks like a trek through Siberia without a map.
Coincident with the Kremlin's chauvinistic grab for greater ownership of energy companies comes its curtailment of civil liberties, the crushing of dissident media groups and jailing or expelling powerful political rivals (like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, now doing time in Siberia for financial misdeeds at his oil company).
Naive as he is about finding fish, he writes well about the Russians he meets, from his friend Yuri Brodsky who has spent 25 years cataloguing the history of the first Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to Fyodorovich, a trapper, who survived the camps in Siberia and stayed on to live like a hermit in the boundless far eastern taiga.
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And for years, much of the hair that people all around the world have used has been from Mongolia, Manchuria, Siberia, sometimes northern Poland, places like that, where the hair is very coarse.
Holmes spends a lot of time in Siberia measuring freshwater rolling into the Arctic Ocean from rivers like the Ob, the Yenisei and the Lena, rivers most Americans have never heard of.
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No wonder Siberia, remote to so much of the world, looks to Chinese eyes like a convenient granary.
At the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, they try to show visitors what life was like in Soviet times, displaying many personal items which people smuggled back from prison camps in Siberia, and kept hidden until the fall of the USSR.
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