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Russia to Grab Pension Money, Temporarily
Submitted by Bradley Keyes on Thu, 2013-10-10 23:00
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told ministers Thursday that the government needs to check that the money Russians channel to private pension funds is safe. To do this, it will seize 244 billion rubles ($7.6 billion) from non-state pension funds and put them into the state pension fund.
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