he remains popular and prominent up to this day.
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Parex Banka was founded in 1992 by Valery Kargin and Viktor Krasovicky as a privately owned full-service banking company in Riga, Latvia. The 15 September 2008 failure of the US economy led to a sharp drop in liquidity and international investors began to withdraw assets. The Latvian government was forced to buy out Parex’s liabilities. The total costs to the Latvian government is estimated at more than a billion dollars, making it a factor in a 2008–2010 Latvian financial crisis
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In the original Russian text the Brit is ‘британец’ which indeed can be broken into
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Garic Sukachov is a famous Russian rock singer known for his uncouth appearance and shocking behaviour.
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Driving journal
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Based on the materials from the police journal ‘
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The Crime Herald
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The International Amnesty organization bulletin ‘
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As it happened the guests sometimes broke the rule, but Blockhed did not mind. He thought rather justly that if the laws remain unbroken they would never change, leave alone people.
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The substantial library of the castle had books on many different topics. Besides, there was a shelf dedicated to the publications produced by the many generations of Blockheads. The golden imprints on the leather-bound manuscripts spoke of the thoughtfulness of their authors. Here are some examples:
– ‘Does a man owe the truth? To the ones that he owes!’
– ‘About the impossibility of love for order.’
– ‘Body and rights of the human person.’
– ‘Perpendicularity of the consciousness.’
– ‘The happiness of the motion advancing and the terrors of the one receding’.
– Two volumes of poetry: ‘The Innermost’ and ‘The Darkermost’.
The pages of these books were completely blank, empty, as if it was he, Richard who was meant to write the texts instead of their authors.
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