And now China has succeeded where only Russia and the United States have gone before.
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Where natural gas is concerned, only Russia and the other 49 states would rank ahead of Texas.
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Only Russia registered inflows this year, with China, India and Brazil all registering outflows in their equity markets.
That would put Russian inflation on par with the advanced economies, only Russia would be in better shape fiscally.
It is not only Russia's two top politicians who have road privileges, but a host of other senior figures as well.
That level of production would make Texas the 3rd largest natural gas producing nation on earth, behind only Russia and the other 49 US states.
Great Britain finished 10th in the 2004 Olympic medals table, but will be looking to place behind only Russia, China and the USA on home soil.
He would build not only wealth for himself but a better life for the doctors and schoolteachers in distant provinces, still living in run-down, vermin-infested apartments and dreaming of raising their kids in solid houses, if only Russia could grow a robust mortgage industry.
Others may have hesitated to do so only because Russia is beholden to the West for economic help.
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His PT Primacomexindo is a major trading company not only in Russia but also in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Such preferences and hurdles can all be negotiated, certainly, but only after Russia has managed to give a convincing account of the overall picture.
It has said international monitors cannot operate in South Ossetia (whose independence is recognised only by Russia and Nicaragua) without permission of authorities there.
Konyukhov counters that until now, the only reason Russia's rivers have not received investment is due to the lack of a grassroots, domestic sailing culture.
However, Putin's political ambitions are not only about Russia.
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Mr. REMNICK: There is that, and also Putin has a kind of liking for Roosevelt because Roosevelt is seen - not only in Russia, but around the world - as somebody who rebuilt an entire nation following an economic Depression.
The Krasnodar region isn't the only one in Russia to be affected by powerful storms.
Currently, Esa uses an isotope called plutonium-238 for these batteries, but this is only available from Russia and America.
But he said he fully understood what his son was up to in Russia only when he received photographs and videos after his death.
Only the Duma, Russia's parliament, can reject the treaty with authority, and only the two men's boss, President Vladimir Putin, can decide when and whether to submit it to the Duma for approval in the first place.
And I pointed out last year that our trade with Russia is only about the same as our trade with Thailand -- a country with less than half the population of Russia.
"Part of the investment that Russia has made is not only what the world will see in Russia, but also they're building a winter paradise that they hope to showcase through the Olympic broadcast and attract tourism in the future, " says 2010 Vancouver champion Bill Demong, who competed at a Nordic combined skiing test event in Sochi last weekend.
This is not a deal breaker since the accord the US, France and Russia initialized Wednesday only foresees removing 80% of Iran's known supply of enriched uranium to Russia.
Sakhalin Energy has the dubious distinction of being the only big energy project in Russia not to involve a Russian firm, and the two big Sakhalin projects are the only exceptions to Gazprom's gas-export monopoly.
But these days America seems to be listening, if only to hear what Russia wants.
Last year it abruptly pulled the plug on Russia, only months after opening its first store there.
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Russia says only two of its men have been killed, and 22 wounded.
On winning the Tchaikovsky competition in 1990, Boris Berezovsky left Russia after only three years of study at the conservatory.
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