These include, but are not limited to: moody outbursts, paranoia, hidden financial transactions, increasing extremism, emotional abandonment and complaints of feeling victimized.

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The following August the fall of the Kiriyenko cabinet, and with this the abandonment of its effort to stave off financial crisis with western help, was thought to signal the end of Mr Yeltsin's role as an active head of state.

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The real deregulation was in the abandonment of capital controls and that allowed The City to thrive again as the international financial centre it has always been.

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Those women who are unable to find husbands settle for becoming second or third wives in the hope of finding financial protection and respectability, even though neither they nor their children have any legal rights in case of abandonment.

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