| Politics and Business, Songs and Dances
Only Krasnodar Territory Governor Alexander Tkachev took it upon himself to present the situation from the regions' point of view, as he saw it.
I heard you. We'll talk about it later, the president concluded that conversation. Their talk later will probably not be very pleasant for Tkachev.
In conclusion, the president spoke about a topic that has taken a lot of his attention recently, that is, rising food prices. We've begun investing hundreds of billions of rubles in the agricultural complex! he fumed. There have been historical high harvests in some regions. And prices are going up! Then he added mildly that he wasn't sure everything necessary is being done in the ministries and agencies.
Then the president told the governors about an old lady who came up to him at the fair (obviously one of the ladies who sang and danced for him) and asked him to raise her pension.
Nick Leeson; Eat your heart out
The fraud is an extraordinary echo of the rogue trader, Nick Leeson, who caused the collapse of Barings Bank in 1995, says BBC business correspondent Nils Blythe. But the losses uncovered by Barings bosses totalled just 860m - about a quarter of the amount lost by Societe Generale. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7206270.stm .
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