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May 7, 2012

Putin Walking Oil-Price Tightrope

Rose & Arkhipov, Bloomberg Businessweek


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Vladimir Putin returns to the pinnacle of Russian politics today still relying on oil prices to underpin his regime as he tries to stamp out domestic dissent and reassert his country’s influence abroad. . .

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