While the other seven leaders from North America, Europe and Japan fret about the digital divide, and the poor health and bad debts of the world's hard-up nations (see article), Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, by his own admission, knows he is struggling to avoid his country's relegation from the big-power table to the ranks of the third world.

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But recently, table hockey's veteran ranks have been recruiting younger players, and many of the new breed are now facing off in the sport's growing tournament circuit.

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Bernstein Research ranks Sanofi as the biggest company in emerging markets, with 14% of sales coming from these regions (see table below).

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