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ACCORDING TO YURI Trushin, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Rosselkhozbank (Russian Agricultural Bank or RAB), the banks mission statement is a simple one: "Were the gene fund for Russia." As mission statements go thats a pretty dramatic one.
Its a measure of the political importance of the banks role in reviving rural Russia home to 25% of the countrys 140 million population that RAB was created barely three months after president Vladimir Putin came to power at the start of 2000.
Its an even greater measure that having been created with just $11 million of seed capital from the government, the bank has now...