It's exactly what President Putin would have wanted, just on the whole breaking down the stereotypes of Russia ... it has done immeasurable good.

Jon Tibbs

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There will be economic impact studies and surveys that will be done that will show that business investment will pick up on the back of this, international companies that were afraid of investing in Russia or have pulled out, or were going to pull out, will change their minds and think: 'It's nowhere as near as bad as we thought'.

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