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Russia’s terrain is officially a state secret, Moscow’s Vedomosti reported this week. Western oil companies that have purchased development rights in Russia have been complaining that their drillers have been denied access to topographical maps. Officials explain that national security laws bar foreigners from looking at high-resolution maps of Russia. But the FSB, the secret police agency that succeeded the KGB, says it has a solution: Oil companies that operate in Russia, an agency official said, should simply “replace all foreign executives with Russian citizens.”
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