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...A one-time associate of Boris Nemtsov, the opposition leader and Putin critic who was assassinated in 2015 outside the Kremlin, the former deputy in the Duma or legislative assembly was largely unknown until...
...As the FT’s Courtney Weaver and Anastasia Stognei wrote, this virtually unknown former member of the Duma, Russia’s rubber-stamp legislature, “shot from obscurity to become a release valve for Russians inside...
...From his seat in the Duma, he pioneered a xenophobic pugilism which was increasingly appropriated by the Kremlin....
...Ribadeau-Dumas, a former chief of staff to France’s prime minister, most recently served as deputy chief of French reinsurer Scor....
...The Kremlin’s messaging ahead of Sunday’s elections for the Duma, the lower house of parliament, has been in much the same vein....
...“The absolute majority of Germans share his position, they just don’t want to say it out loud,” says Gavrilov, the Duma MP. But Ukrainian officials were furious....
...State propagandists dismiss him as unknown or detested outside liberal Moscow circles....
...The opening exhibition demonstrates the range and depth of their buying: Jeff Koons, Marlene Dumas, Ai Weiwei, Wade Guyton, Keith Haring and many more, as well as a large group of works by Hank Willis Thomas...
...He adds: “The amount of refinancing required is obviously unknown, but this should be front and centre for public officials looking at prudential intervention if ultimately required....
...With the geographic expansion to parts hitherto unknown, with the unearthing of classical sculpture and ancient texts preserved through Arabic editions, European singularity was left behind, at least for...
...Bram Stoker wasn’t the first to write about vampires — they appear, fangs bared, in the work of Byron, Dumas, in penny-dreadfuls and Wuthering Heights....
...“If classic democratic elections are a game by known rules with an unknown outcome, in Russia it’s the other way round,” says Boris Makarenko, chairman of the Centre for Political Technologies, a think-tank...
...We have Julie Mehretu, Gerhard Richter, Marlene Dumas....
...Charles Dumas, chief economist, TS Lombard We expect wage inflation to reach 3 per cent by end-2018, a mild acceleration in nominal terms, rather more in real terms....
...Charles Dumas, Chief Economist, TS Lombard About 1.5 per cent, vs. US and EA both 2-2.5 per cent....
...Trump is still very much an unknown quantity....
...Martin Ellison, professor of economics, University of Oxford It’s all about uncertainty going into 2017, full of even more unknown unknowns than was 2016 which was a bumper year for economic uncertainty...
...With the economy in a kind of limbo due to the opaque future ushered in by our unknown future relationship with the EU, I expect inflation to do nothing more dramatic than it has done for most of the last...
...Charles Dumas, chief economist, TS Lombard Very little until Brexit is negotiated, which will not be during 2017....
...Charles Dumas, chief economist, TS Lombard More optimistic than 12 months ago Better north/south balance, less low-income immigration making incomes more unequal Jan Eeckhout, professor of economics,...
...There are so many unknowns it is hard to gauge the extent of the fallout....
...Charles Dumas, Director, Lombard Street Research Easily....
...A key unknown for the UK economy is productivity: should a meaningful recovery not materialise, the sustainability of earnings growth and household spending could be threatened....
...He specifically condemned the actions of Crimea’s local authorities that are preparing the plebiscite, the Russian Black Sea fleet and “provocations by unknown armed people”....
...Her 2005 collaboration with husband Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story , also topped bestseller lists....
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