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...state. Prior to 2002, when he came to head Gazpromexport, Medvedev had never been involved with natural gas. Born in the far eastern island of Sakhalin to the family of a Soviet air force officer, he left the island in his teens. In 1978, upon graduation from the fabled Phystech, Moscow's Institute of Physics and Technology--Russia's answer to M.I.T.--Medvedev, who majored in automated control systems, got a job with the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), a top Soviet think tank. Eleven years and a Ph.D. in economics later, Medvedev found himself in Vienna...
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