Russian President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser Andrei Belousov gestures at a meeting with major Russian firms representatives in Moscow, Russia August 24, 2018. Picture taken August 24, 2018. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva 

Russian President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser Andrei Belousov looks on at a meeting with major Russian firms representatives in Moscow, Russia August 24, 2018. Picture taken August 24, 2018. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva 

Russian President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser Andrei Belousov gestures next to head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Alexander Shokhin at a meeting with major Russian firms representatives in Moscow, Russia August 24, 2018. Picture taken August 24, 2018. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva 

Russian President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser Andrei Belousov walks at a meeting with major Russian firms representatives in Moscow, Russia August 24, 2018. Picture taken August 24, 2018. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva 

Russian President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser Andrei Belousov, head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Alexander Shokhin and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov look on after a meeting with major Russian firms representatives in Moscow, Russia August 24, 2018. Picture taken August 24, 2018. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva 

Li Keping, senior adviser and former president and chief investment officer of CIC is seen during an interview in Astana, Kazakhstan September 6, 2017. Picture taken September 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mariya Gordeyeva 

Li Keping, senior adviser and former president and chief investment officer of CIC is seen during an interview in Astana, Kazakhstan September 6, 2017. Picture taken September 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mariya Gordeyeva 

Russian President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser Andrei Belousov attends a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016 (SPIEF 2016) in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin 

Sergei Glazyev, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, attends a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016 (SPIEF 2016) in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin 

Florance Messan, a 45-year-old lawyer, poses for a photograph in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, March 3, 2016. Women have long played a dominant role in agriculture in Ivory Coast and in the sprawling markets where most Ivorians purchase their daily necessities. Now some are breaking through into the most important positions in government, administration and business - positions long held by males in this traditional society. In 2012, Niale Kaba became finance minister, the first woman to hold the post in more than half a century as an independent nation. Ivorian women today work in a range of jobs – from gas-station attendant to plastic recycler and lawyer. International Women's Day is marked on March 8. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

German Gref, CEO of Sberbank, attends the opening day of the St. Petersburg International Forum in St. Petersburg May 22, 2014. Global business leaders are thin on the ground at Russia's main investment conference in the face of government pressure to stay away because of the Ukraine crisis, but the Kremlin has advised Russian media not to make a big deal of it. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin attends the opening day of the St.Petersburg International Forum in St.Petersburg May 22, 2014. Global business leaders are thin on the ground at Russia's main investment conference in the face of government pressure to stay away because of the Ukraine crisis, but the Kremlin has advised Russian media not to make a big deal of it. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Alexey Uljukaev, Russia's Minister of Economic Development, attends the opening day of the St.Petersburg International Forum in St.Petersburg May 22, 2014. Global business leaders are thin on the ground at Russia's main investment conference in the face of government pressure to stay away because of the Ukraine crisis, but the Kremlin has advised Russian media not to make a big deal of it. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Participants attend the opening day of the St. Petersburg International Forum in St. Petersburg May 22, 2014. Global business leaders are thin on the ground at Russia's main investment conference in the face of government pressure to stay away because of the Ukraine crisis, but the Kremlin has advised Russian media not to make a big deal of it. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Alexey Uljukaev, Russia's Minister of Economic Development, attends the opening day of the St.Petersburg International Forum in St.Petersburg May 22, 2014. Global business leaders are thin on the ground at Russia's main investment conference in the face of government pressure to stay away because of the Ukraine crisis, but the Kremlin has advised Russian media not to make a big deal of it. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev attends the opening day of the St.Petersburg International Forum in St. Petersburg May 22, 2014. Global business leaders are thin on the ground at Russia's main investment conference in the face of government pressure to stay away because of the Ukraine crisis, but the Kremlin has advised Russian media not to make a big deal of it. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev attends the opening day of the St. Petersburg International Forum in St. Petersburg May 22, 2014. Russia's President Vladimir Putin tried on Thursday to warm up relations with foreign investors chilled by the crisis in Ukraine, but many senior executives snubbed him by boycotting the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Participants attend the opening day of the St.Petersburg International Forum in St.Petersburg May 22, 2014. Global business leaders are thin on the ground at Russia's main investment conference in the face of government pressure to stay away because of the Ukraine crisis, but the Kremlin has advised Russian media not to make a big deal of it. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Viktor Vekselberg (L), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Renova Group and President of the Skolkovo Foundation speaks with Eckhard Cordes, Chairman of the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, during the St.Petersburg International Forum in St.Petersburg May 22, 2014. Global business leaders are thin on the ground at Russia's main investment conference in the face of government pressure to stay away because of the Ukraine crisis, but the Kremlin has advised Russian media not to make a big deal of it. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) 

People pass by a board displaying exchange currency rates in Moscow, April 3, 2014. Targeted sanctions have been imposed on Russia by the European Union (EU), the U.S. and a handful of other jurisdictions, which are supposed to punish Russia's elite for annexing Crimea, but according to people advising companies in this field, they have also spread confusion and created awkward predicaments for some foreign investors. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the X International Investment Forum Sochi-2011 in Sochi September 16, 2011. Heads of leading sovereign wealth and private equity funds will advise a $10 billion state fund set up to attract foreign investment into Russia, Putin said on Friday. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the X International Investment Forum Sochi-2011 in Sochi September 16, 2011. Heads of leading sovereign wealth and private equity funds will advise a $10 billion state fund set up to attract foreign investment into Russia, Putin said on Friday. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the X International Investment Forum Sochi-2011 in Sochi September 16, 2011. Heads of leading sovereign wealth and private equity funds will advise a $10 billion state fund set up to attract foreign investment into Russia, Putin said on Friday. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Arkady Dvorkovich, the Kremlin's Chief Economic Adviser, participates in the Reuters Russia Investment Summit in Moscow September 14, 2011. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Arkady Dvorkovich, the Kremlin's Chief Economic Adviser, participates in the Reuters Russia Investment Summit in Moscow September 14, 2011. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Arkady Dvorkovich, the Kremlin's Chief Economic Adviser, participates in the Reuters Russia Investment Summit in Moscow September 14, 2011. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Arkady Dvorkovich, the Kremlin's Chief Economic Adviser, participates in the Reuters Russia Investment Summit in Moscow September 14, 2011. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Arkady Dvorkovich, the Kremlin's Chief Economic Adviser, participates in the Reuters Russia Investment Summit in Moscow September 14, 2011. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Arkady Dvorkovich, the Kremlin's Chief Economic Adviser, participates in the Reuters Russia Investment Summit in Moscow September 14, 2011. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Arkady Dvorkovich, the Kremlin's Chief Economic Adviser, participates in the Reuters Russia Investment Summit in Moscow September 14, 2011. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Russian presidential economic adviser Arkady Dvorkovich makes a throw during a charity basketball game in Moscow September 6, 2011. The game was organised by billionaire Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, the owner of NBA basketball team New Jersey Nets. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva (RUSSIA - Tags: SPORT BASKETBALL BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT) 

Russian presidential economic adviser Arkady Dvorkovich makes a throw during a charity basketball game in Moscow September 6, 2011. The match was organised by billionaire Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, owner of NBA basketball team New Jersey Nets. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva (RUSSIA - Tags: SPORT BASKETBALL POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS) 

A man uses an ATM machine, with a board showing currency exchange rates above him, in Minsk March 25, 2011. Belarus would be well advised to devalue its currency to tackle unsustainable external deficits resulting from excessively loose economic policy, the International Monetary Fund said. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS - Tags: BUSINESS) 

A bus passes a building where Keydata Investment Services Limited (in administration) currently holds an office in Reading, Britain, September 20, 2010. A scandal involving Keydata's millionaire founder Stewart Ford is the worst to hit Britain's personal investment industry in two decades. It has sucked investors into a bitter battle involving Ford, the FSA, Britain's Serious Fraud Office, administrators, auditors, independent financial advisers and opportunist hedge funds sniffing around the vestiges of the remaining assets and throws a spotlight on the way in which attempts to regulate financial firms can compound rather than solve the problems -- and on what responsibilities regulators have to investors they are supposed to be protecting. Picture taken September 20, 2010.REUTERS/Chris Helgren (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW BUSINESS) 

A building where Keydata Investment Services Limited (in administration) currently holds an office is seen in Reading, Britain, September 20, 2010. A scandal involving Keydata's millionaire founder Stewart Ford is the worst to hit Britain's personal investment industry in two decades. It has sucked investors into a bitter battle involving Ford, the FSA, Britain's Serious Fraud Office, administrators, auditors, independent financial advisers and opportunist hedge funds sniffing around the vestiges of the remaining assets and throws a spotlight on the way in which attempts to regulate financial firms can compound rather than solve the problems -- and on what responsibilities regulators have to investors they are supposed to be protecting. Picture taken September 20, 2010.To match Special Report DEATHBONDS/ REUTERS/Chris Helgren (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW BUSINESS) 

A couple passes a building where Keydata Investment Services Limited (in administration) formerly held offices in Reading, Britain, September 20, 2010. A scandal involving Keydata's millionaire founder Stewart Ford is the worst to hit Britain's personal investment industry in two decades. It has sucked investors into a bitter battle involving Ford, the FSA, Britain's Serious Fraud Office, administrators, auditors, independent financial advisers and opportunist hedge funds sniffing around the vestiges of the remaining assets and throws a spotlight on the way in which attempts to regulate financial firms can compound rather than solve the problems -- and on what responsibilities regulators have to investors they are supposed to be protecting. Picture taken September 20, 2010.To match Special Report DEATHBONDS/ REUTERS/Chris Helgren (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW BUSINESS) 

A building where Keydata Investment Services Limited (in administration) currently holds an office is seen in Reading, Britain, September 20, 2010. A scandal involving Keydata's millionaire founder Stewart Ford is the worst to hit Britain's personal investment industry in two decades. It has sucked investors into a bitter battle involving Ford, the FSA, Britain's Serious Fraud Office, administrators, auditors, independent financial advisers and opportunist hedge funds sniffing around the vestiges of the remaining assets and throws a spotlight on the way in which attempts to regulate financial firms can compound rather than solve the problems -- and on what responsibilities regulators have to investors they are supposed to be protecting. Picture taken September 20, 2010. To match Special Report DEATHBONDS/ REUTERS/Chris Helgren (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW BUSINESS) 

A couple stand on a balcony in a residential street in Bristol in south-west England August 12, 2010. The number of independent financial advisers (IFAs) expecting a dip in commercial property prices has quadrupled since January, stoking fears for a large withdrawal of retail capital from the market in the near-future, a survey showed. Research carried out last month on behalf of industry body Reita, showed 24 percent of 269 IFAs polled are bracing for a fall in values, up from 6 percent in January 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS) 

A woman walks along a residential street in Bristol in south-west England August 12, 2010. The number of independent financial advisers (IFAs) expecting a dip in commercial property prices has quadrupled since January, stoking fears for a large withdrawal of retail capital from the market in the near-future, a survey showed. Research carried out last month on behalf of industry body Reita, showed 24 percent of 269 IFAs polled are bracing for a fall in values, up from 6 percent in January 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Iryna Akimova, first deputy head of Ukraine's Presidential Administration, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kiev June 8, 2010. Ukraine on Tuesday prepared for a crunch visit from the International Monetary Fund which could pave the way for up to $19 billion in credit, and Akimova, its top economic adviser, said she saw a possible agreement in July. REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin (UKRAINE - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Iryna Akimova, first deputy head of Ukraine's Presidential Administration, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kiev, June 8, 2010. Ukraine on Tuesday prepared for a crunch visit from the International Monetary Fund which could pave the way for up to $19 billion in credit, and Akimova, its top economic adviser, said she saw a possible agreement in July. REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin (UKRAINE - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Iryna Akimova, first deputy head of Ukraine's Presidential Administration, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kiev June 8, 2010. Ukraine on Tuesday prepared for a crunch visit from the International Monetary Fund which could pave the way for up to $19 billion in credit, and Akimova, its top economic adviser, said she saw a possible agreement in July. REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin (UKRAINE - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT) 

Jailed former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky (R) talks to his attorney next to an unidentified woman during a court session in Moscow May 18, 2010. Khodorkovsky is on hunger strike to protest against what he says is an illegal decision to extend his detention in a Moscow prison, his spokesman said on Tuesday. Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, was arrested in 2003 after falling foul of Vladimir Putin's Kremlin, and is serving an eight-year sentence for tax evasion after a trial his supporters dismissed as a farce. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS ENERGY BUSINESS) 

Belgian lawyer Pierre Nothomb, of defence association Deminor representing Fortis shareholders, addresses a joint news conference in Brussels April 20, 2009. Nothomb and Mischael Modrikamen presented an alternative plan to the break-up of Fortis Holding, recommending an independent Fortis Bank owned by the Belgian government. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM HEADSHOT BUSINESS IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE) 

A woman working at a job fair advises a man on vacancies, in St Petersburg March 19, 2009. Millions of Russians have lost their jobs and the rouble has slumped against the dollar in the crisis, ending a 10-year boom which underpinned support for President Dmitry Medvedev and his powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk (RUSSIA BUSINESS SOCIETY POLITICS) 

Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko (L) speaks with Central Bank Chairman Volodymyr Stelmakh in Kiev December 29, 2008. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko gave the final approval for next year's budget, which ignores an IMF request for balanced finances, and backed for now the central bank chairman, his top adviser said on Monday. REUTERS/Mykola Lazarenko/Pool (UKRAINE) 

Just Group Chief Executive Jason Murray speaks at a media briefing in Melbourne June 2, 2008. Australian clothing retailer Just Group on Monday rejected a hostile A$835 million ($800 million) bid by billionaire investor Solomon Lew, citing an independent adviser as saying the offer was too low. Just called Lew's offer opportunistic given a forecast downturn in retail spending, just as latest government figures showed an unexpected dip in retail sales in April as shoppers cut back in the face of soaring living costs. REUTERS/Mick Tsikas (AUSTRALIA) 

Bert Ruerup, head of the government's panel of independent economic advisers, arrives for a panel discussion in Berlin, February 26, 2008. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY) 

Former German Labour Minister Walter Riester (L) and Economist Bert Ruerup, head of the government's panel of independent economic advisers, await the beginning of a panel discussion in Berlin, February 26, 2008. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY) 

Economist Bert Ruerup (R), head of the government's panel of independent economic advisers listens to German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt during a news conference following the presentation of a study of the financial impact of planned German healthcare reform in Berlin January, 2007. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's landmark healthcare reform suffered a new setback when a top deputy announced that parliamentary approval would be delayed two weeks amid a growing outcry over the legislation. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY) 

Economist Bert Ruerup, head of the government's panel of independent economic advisers poses for the media with German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt (R) with a study of financial impact of planned German healthcare reform in Berlin January, 2007. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's landmark healthcare reform suffered a new setback when a top deputy announced that parliamentary approval would be delayed two weeks amid a growing outcry over the legislation. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY) 

The German government's top economic adviser Bert Ruerup, is pictured during a Reuters interview in Berlin August 17, 2005. Ruerup, head of the government's panel of independent economic advisers, expects growth in Europe's largest economy to accelerate into 2006, underpinned in the longer term by reforms put in place by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, including a shake-up of the welfare system and the labour market. "We know from international experience that these kinds of structural reforms take years (to bite). That's why you can say that no matter how the election turns out, the next government will reap the fruits of this government's reforms." Picture taken August 17, 2005. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann JOH/AA 

The German government's top economic adviser Bert Ruerup, is pictured during a Reuters interview in Berlin August 17, 2005. Ruerup, head of the government's panel of independent economic advisers, expects growth in Europe's largest economy to accelerate into 2006, underpinned in the longer term by reforms put in place by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, including a shake-up of the welfare system and the labour market. "We know from international experience that these kinds of structural reforms take years (to bite). That's why you can say that no matter how the election turns out, the next government will reap the fruits of this government's reforms." Picture taken August 17, 2005. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann JOH/AA 

The German government's top economic adviser Bert Ruerup, is pictured during a Reuters interview in Berlin August 17, 2005. Ruerup, head of the government's panel of independent economic advisers, expects growth in Europe's largest economy to accelerate into 2006, underpinned in the longer term by reforms put in place by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, including a shake-up of the welfare system and the labour market. "We know from international experience that these kinds of structural reforms take years (to bite). That's why you can say that no matter how the election turns out, the next government will reap the fruits of this government's reforms." Picture taken August 17, 2005. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann JOH/AA 

The German government's top economic adviser Bert Ruerup, is pictured during a Reuters interview in Berlin August 17, 2005. Ruerup, head of the government's panel of independent economic advisers, expects growth in Europe's largest economy to accelerate into 2006, underpinned in the longer term by reforms put in place by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, including a shake-up of the welfare system and the labour market. "We know from international experience that these kinds of structural reforms take years (to bite). That's why you can say that no matter how the election turns out, the next government will reap the fruits of this government's reforms." Picture taken August 17, 2005. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann JOH/AA 

The German government's top economic adviser Bert Ruerup, is pictured during a Reuters interview in Berlin August 17, 2005. Ruerup, head of the government's panel of independent economic advisers, expects growth in Europe's largest economy to accelerate into 2006, underpinned in the longer term by reforms put in place by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, including a shake-up of the welfare system and the labour market. "We know from international experience that these kinds of structural reforms take years (to bite). That's why you can say that no matter how the election turns out, the next government will reap the fruits of this government's reforms." Picture taken August 17, 2005. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann JOH/AA 

The German government's top economic adviser Bert Ruerup, is pictured during a Reuters interview in Berlin August 17, 2005. Ruerup, head of the government's panel of independent economic advisers, expects growth in Europe's largest economy to accelerate into 2006, underpinned in the longer term by reforms put in place by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, including a shake-up of the welfare system and the labour market. "We know from international experience that these kinds of structural reforms take years (to bite). That's why you can say that no matter how the election turns out, the next government will reap the fruits of this government's reforms." Picture taken August 17, 2005. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann JOH/AA 

A Russian reads a notice on the door of the Guta-Bank main office in Moscow advising clients that the cash dispenser is not accessible due to technical reasons, July 6, 2004. The Russian banking sector showed sings of increasing instability when a top bank, Guta-Bank, said it was unable to make payments on private deposits and complete transactions. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin AS/WS 

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (R) is handed the annual economic report
by Wolfgang Wiegard (L), chairman of the government's council of independent
economic advisers in Berlin November 13, 2002, as Horst Siebert (C), another
council member looks on. Wiegard, one of the so-called five wise men,
presented the annual report, dismissing fears of imminent recession in
Europe's largest economy, forecasting positive but weak growth next year,
but adding a warning on the state of public finances. REUTERS/Alexandra
Winkler

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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (C) gestures as he talks to Wolfgang
Wiegard, chairman of the government's council of independent economic
advisers as Finance Minister Hans Eichel (R) looks on in Berlin November 13,
2002. Wiegard, one of the so-called five wise men, presented the annual
report, dismissing fears of imminent recession in Europe's largest economy,
forecasting positive but weak growth next year, but adding a warning on the
state of public finances. REUTERS/Alexandra Winkler

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