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Russian Government Reasserts Control Over Firms
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[T]he Kremlin seems to be capitalizing on the economic crisis, exploiting the opportunity to establish more control over financially weakened industries that it has long coveted, particularly those in natural resources. (New York Times [1], Monday)
We needed to double check the dateline on this one.
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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/world/europe/08kremlin.html?hp
[2] Why Socialism Failed: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=4014
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