He played horrible American music from the 70s, mixed with a few Italian songs and Russian ones.

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And, at the end, the choices that mattered were Russian ones.

ECONOMIST: The cold war

Indeed, many aviation experts believe AVIC is having problems developing an indigenous engine for the J-11B with the same thrust and durability as the original Russian ones.

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And I'm told that it's much easier to extract coal from Colombian or Russian mines than Scottish ones, where there can be nearly 30 tonnes of discard for every tonne of coal.

BBC: Red ink and black stuff

Put bluntly, Russian businesses, or at least the big ones, will at best have much higher tax bills and lower profits in future.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

She was in close contact with Yegor Gaidar and the other young reformers who saved the Russian economy from total meltdown and laid the foundations, albeit shaky ones, for a market economy.

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