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When Vladimir Putin became president he told the oligarchs to stay out of politics, but in 2003 Khodorkovsky started challenging that, pushing back against the increasing authoritarianism and - according to some ministers of the time - buying influence in the Duma.
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We need to start challenging that nasty old double standard because it prevents us from speaking up for ourselves.
Which means a whole lot of people can henceforth start challenging that Guinness World Record for speedy textin' using Swype.
Kiva started challenging the perception that microloans for small business entrepreneurs are best used only in the least developed countries.
The Nassau county executive, Thomas Suozzi, has been so outraged about Medicaid bills that he started challenging legislators in the last election.
It's time that we started challenging each other and ourselves to be accountable to what we believe and what we espouse.
Will political leaders start challenging the orthodoxy that says the private economy is always better than government, free trade is always better than fair trade, education alone can get us out of our problems, and the market is free when it actually isn't?
One way or another, growing numbers of British, American and European students may soon begin to follow in the footsteps of their Chilean counterparts, and start challenging an educational system that offers most of them little more than a precarious chance to pay off a lifetime of debt.
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