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Thе Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.

Sheikh Zaki Yamani, former Saudi Arabian oil minister

I wanna be a Russian insider trader

Buy dollar
Sell Yukos
Arrest Chodorkovsky
Sell dollar
Buy Yukos
Release Chodorkovsky
[repeat]

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Vladimir Putin has appealed for calm after Russia's stock indices plummeted more than 12 per cent on Monday following doubts over the country's commitment to legal certainty after the weekend arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, head of Yukos