As for Jacques, he's having a bit on the side with a sinister little Russian Vladimir, I think his name is.
So, sometime in 1992 or 3 we went and opened a little Russian company so as to be able to pay people.
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With Izzy, the French sheen became a little more Russian in its sound.
Two big mistakes were to choose a name that meant little to Russian drinkers, and to skimp on the advertising needed to establish the new label in the crucial markets of Moscow and St Petersburg.
Unless managers look after shareholders' money, there is little chance of Russian companies being able to raise capital and use it properly and thus little chance of any change in Russia's fortunes.
Analysts said that while Russian companies would bear the brunt of the tax, overall it would have little impact on the Russian economy.
With little fanfare, the Russian IT industry is quickly turning into a globally competitive sector.
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So far, there is little sign that the Russian state is up to it.
Despite 13 years of independence, Ukraine to many Russians is still little more than a Russian province.
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Anything else is little better than playing Russian roulette.
In this context, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev's little noted speech to the United Nations on 28 September -- in which he enunciated a Russian policy reminiscent of the odious Brezhnev doctrine -- is particularly troublesome.
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Even if democracy survives Mr Yeltsin, there is little sense of shared values in Russian society.
Hence, there is little doubt that MTS complies with Russian law which requires that encrypted messages be decoded.
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But the people who run Russian finance have shown little enthusiasm for using the powers they already have.
Russian history was of little help, since most of it involved empire-building abroad and totalitarianism at home, on both of which Russia was supposed to have turned its back.
The Kremlin said Russian security services gathered little information on Mr. Tsarnaev, but officials in the province of Dagestan said they tracked him during a six-month trip there in 2012.
He's been struck by the little wooden houses that dot a Russian Orthodox cemetery in Fairbanks, Alaska, the photographs on tombstones in Key West, Florida, and the inscriptions he's come across during his travels.
The interview comes a little more than a month after Russian troops invaded Georgia in support of separatist governments in two Georgian territories -- a step that led to widespread condemnation from the West and a tit-for-tat freeze in Russia-NATO ties.
Russian businesses are looking a little more hopeful, at least on paper.
So long as it could book a quarter of its reserves and a fifth of its oil output via the Russian venture, BP cared little about slower growth.
While I was in Little League his ship the Randolph was hunting Russian submarines.
However, Hoover appointed me to do research in its magnificent collections of Russian and Soviet archives, knowing little or nothing about my economic views.
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Vitaly Korotich is former editor of Ogonyok, or Little Flame, magazine, which helped revolutionize Russian journalism in the 1980s by printing articles about the grim realities of everyday existence under communism.
The Dagestani economy is 80% subsidised by the Russian government, but there is little to show for it apart from a few seaside villas and lavish weddings for the rich at which guests may sport gold-plated revolvers bulging in their jeans.
Most television and radio stations broadcast news both in Russian and Kazakh, but they have little money to do much else.
My first time here I took a tour of Red Square with three other people and a Russian guide named Olenka, which means little Olga.
Frequented by Russian holidaymakers, the peninsula has had little influence from the West and is better known for its war history than for the long strips of pebble beach propping the rocky Crimean Mountains.
If Israel had not empowered the Quartet generally and the US specifically to determine whether the PA and Israel are behaving properly, a European or Russian decision to recognize Hamas would have little impact.
The little station, in the middle of a vast Russian nowhere, quickly became the site of a protomedia frenzy when telegraph wires flashed news of Tolstoy's illness, and Sofya came to see her beloved husband for the last time.
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But little of that growth has spilled over into the real Russian economy.
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