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Russian crisis makes East European companies fret over 1998 redux

Wed, Dec 24, 2014 - 5:50 AM

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SHEDDING communism and embracing the European Union was supposed to shield the former eastern bloc from Russia's economic pains. A quarter of a century later, there are companies that remain vulnerable.

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