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Diplomats should think hard about why their policy of aiding and trading with the regime went so wrong, write Phil Miller and Matt Kennard.
When inflation is taken into account, it represents a pay cut, Phil Miller reports. Meanwhile, Russia is 70 times the size and has more than twice as many inhabitants.