Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, and Larry Summers (the three smugly depicted in that 1999 Time cover of the "committee to Save the world"), and Tim Geithner.

Apart from Archangel on the White Sea, closed by ice for most of the year, the country had no access to the world's shipping lanes.

Although the number of monks in most monasteries has declined over the decades, Mount Athos has enjoyed a revival in the last 25 years.