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World Service,18 Mar 2014,28 mins

After Putin's Crimea Speech

World Business Report

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What do sanctions and alienation from the West mean for Russian businesses and the country's economy? Also we hear from Paolo Scaroni, the CEO of Italian oil giant ENI, who is exploiting oil in the Black Sea and now, following the Crimean referendum and annexation, no longer knows which country his wells are in. And why it might be time to stop judging children's books by their cover.

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