Putin said that in order to keep investors interested, the government will approve amendments on corporate governance that only focused on state companies rather than private ones.

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For starters, its president, Vladimir Putin, signed an order this year that banned certain public protest.

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Mr Putin's first response was to order exporters to turn all their hard-currency receipts into roubles.

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In order not to jeopardise Mr Putin's visit, Poland has to swallow hard when its history is traduced.

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Putin only needed to jail one oligarch (Khodorkovsky) in order to intimidate all the rest.

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In an interview with Russian press, Mr Putin said that Russia-China co-operation would produce "a more just world order".

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