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Oil Profits Help Russia Pay Off Soviet-Era Debt

MOSCOW, Aug. 21 Eight years after it defaulted on more than $40 billion in debt and slid into financial chaos, Russia transferred $23.7 billion to the Paris Club of creditors Monday, wiping out the last of its Soviet-era debts and underlining the extent to which oil and gas revenue has transformed...
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By Peter Finn

 
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