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...world's foreign exchange and almost half the total volume of international equities are traded in London, more even than New York, its only remaining rival as the world's financial capital. Hedge funds piled into Mayfair on the heels of private-equity players. Any self-respecting Russian oligarch has a Knightsbridge mansion, sends his kids to élite private schools and has listed his company on the London Stock Exchange. Affluent Chinese, Indians, Middle Easterners and many others are not far behind...
RockNRolla Written and directed by Guy Ritchie; rated R; out now As Anglo meanies battling Russian toughs over a real estate deal, Gerard Butler is the star, Tom Wilkinson has the star turn, and Mark Strong steals the show. Fans of early Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Snatch) won't find a lot new in Mr. Madonna's latest dredging of the London underworld, but it has the same high quotient of rude...
RUSSIA PULLS OUT Russian troops dismantled their checkpoints and camps in Georgia, preparing to withdraw from buffer zones near the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. A deal brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and monitored by E.U. peacekeepers set an Oct. 10 deadline for Russia to return the zones to Georgia. Despite a bomb in South Ossetia's capital that threatened to disrupt the withdrawal, Russian forces continued as planned...
With tales of Putin's machismo flooding Russian media, the former KGB agent, TIME Person of the Year and - to be fair - judo black belt is a few steps away from becoming a post-Soviet Chuck Norris: all he lacks is a beard and a website. "Who needs bodyguards when you're this good at self-defense?" asks this Russia Today reporter, which is a quite ridiculous thing to say since the ability to flip people isn't at all going to stop an assassin's bullet. The real question begged by these clips from Let's Learn Judo with...
First, it was shirtless pics of a ripped Vladimir Putin fishing peacefully. Then, stories emerged of Putin reportedly saving a Russian film crew from certain death by shooting a vicious tiger with a tranquilizer dart. And now this - a judo training video in which Putin flips a guy every which way but loose. If it wasn't official before, it is now: Vladimir Putin is unstoppable...