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For most expats in Moscow, Wednesday was the last working day before settling down or jetting off for Christmas and also a good time to have a drink and look back on the year that was.

RT went to the John Donne pub in the Russian capital to find out that the financial crisis, Obama’s arrival in the White House and swine flu were the main topics that worried the foreigners in the Russian capital in 2009.

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