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The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) is an event where Russia pretends to be a normal country and fails - and every year the contrast between the effort to attract investors and the reality becomes more and more stark. A delegation from the Taliban arrived at the event this week, although officially the group is stil…
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