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The oligarchs: Shrinking pie threatens large-scale business battles

By Charles Clover

Published: April 14 2009 15:59 | Last updated: April 14 2009 15:59

In the hard-nosed world of Russian business, there is no such thing as leaving the stresses and strains of the working day back at the office.

For Russia’s oligarchs, business is personal: partners are friends, and competitors are adversaries. War is war, and this can, among other things, make social organising especially tricky.

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