Chewing the Fat on Greasing Business Relations with Salo

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This month I hope you'll excuse my absence. I'm on vacation. But considering our Black Sea theme this issue, I thought I'd otter to repeat a missive I did on Ukrainian culture in our September, 2009 issue. Enjoy! If you didn't think the fight for Arctic oil riches was getting serious: a close relative of Ukraine's president Viktor Yushenko has told a journalist that Ukrainians discovered Alaska. His proof? One of the Aleutian Islands is called Poltava (a city in Ukraine where Peter the Great defeated the invading Swedes in 1709.)