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    His decision to serve as prime minister alongside Medvedev could give him the chance to make up for lost time. "These problems have worsened over the course of many years. Now when they're very serious, they're getting noticed" said Nikolay Petrov, a former Kremlin adviser and an analyst with the Carnegie Moscow Center, a Moscow think tank affiliated with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Full Article at Chicago Tribune
    These problems have worsened over the course of many years. Now when they're very serious, they're getting noticed
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 21 months ago
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The forgotten cities of eastern Russia
  1. Without a sustainable economy in the country's eastern half
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 21 months ago
  2. People die like flies here ... Everything here is on the decline.
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 21 months ago
  3. I see Russia becoming a junior partner to China.
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 21 months ago
  4. It's very important that [Russia remains] stable. It affects America greatly.
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 21 months ago
  5. The price for not doing anything about this for years will be huge.
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 21 months ago
  6. Their infrastructure will be hard to maintain—they've had a significant loss of population; they're shrinking at a time when their oil reserves are growing
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 21 months ago

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