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This is what Russia looks like today

Posted on August 8, 2010 by

A little better, which you wouldn’t be able to tell by the smoke still choking Moscow. via Pozhar.Yandex.ru

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This is what Russia looks like right now

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

via Yandex.ru

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What do you give the world leader who has everything?

Posted on June 22, 2010 by

President Dmitry Medvedev arrives in California today for the first leg of a three-day tour that will focus heavily on “innovation,” a byword for trying to diversify its economy away from extraction of oil and the like. (Today, Russia is … Continue reading →

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Crashing Russia's all-cash culture

Posted on October 27, 2009 by

Check out my latest piece for Fortune about Russia’s cash culture and the e-money economy that has sprung up to service the payments that slip past the big banks. via Fortune

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