"The gold price has gone up so high, so what you normally get for 100 pounds earlier, you don't get that much for the same amount, they get a better thing for the same price when it comes to diamond,".
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This may be especially true, considering that thepricehasgoneup a lot, which should make demand go down.
And Strezhevoy's neftyaniki are deeply resentful that - unlike in the Yukos days, they say - the oil pricehasgoneup and up, but their wages have remained static.