That prospect may yet lead to a reweighting of the company's ownership structure, as well as its business, toward Asia.

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The likely result: billions of dollars flowing into Russia, as index and pension funds rush to rebalance their portfolios to conform to the reweighting.

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The reweighting of votes will be a long and expert poker-game.

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