Yuri Y. Chaika, Russia's prosecutor general, said in August that Ms. Politkovskaya's killing had been ordered from abroad with the aim of destabilizing Russia.
Mr. Chaika added that the killing had been ordered from abroad, although he refused to identify the man suspected of being the mastermind or disclose his whereabouts, and provided no evidence to support the claim.
The authorities have arrested several other men in the case and have said they believe that the crime was ordered from abroad, a contention Ms. Politkovskaya's friends have said is meant to divert attention from people in Russia who ordered her killing.
But a return to the drachma would mean supplies and equipment ordered from abroad would get more expensive for Greek researchers, he admits.
Construction of the ships was delayed as many domestic factories were overloaded with orders and some components had to be ordered from abroad.
Swedish investors escaped the tax by placing orders abroad.
The reality is that securing export orders abroad, attracting foreign investment and promoting British higher education, are integral to the Government's – any government's – economic growth strategy.
Last Monday, in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, the President admitted that the example of Libya weighed at least as heavily as that of Iraq against any impulse to use force to impose order abroad.
Italy's continuing ability to win orders abroad is in spite of the many drags on Italian firms' competitiveness, from the thick tax wedge between what they pay for labour and what workers receive to borrowing costs estimated at 250 basis points higher on one- to five-year loans than those German rivals face.Hence the drive by many companies to expand not just exports but activities abroad.
At a time when voters are anxious about violent extremism, but still queasy about using American troops overseas, Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are suggesting that America is sometimes better off leaving strongmen in place to help preserve order abroad, rather than ousting them to try to make their countries more democratic.
