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Between Colonization and Independence

In 10 years, the Russian region of Sakha has almost managed to turn the global diamond industry upside down. But diamonds have as yet failed to transform the region’s under-developed economyby Jorunn Brandvoll Russia’s Diamond Colony: The Republic of Sakha by John Tichotsky. Gordon & Breach Science Publishing, November 2000. The Siberian republic of Sakha […]