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Christophe de Margerie's last act as chief executive officer of Total left no room for doubt about his feelings towardVladimir Putin's Russia.

In a Moscow speech hours before the plane crash that took his life two days ago, de Margerie said US and European Union sanctions on the country were "unfair and unproductive," and that he opposed efforts to render it "isolated from the major global economic and political process." 

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