"My message is: 'You have to get back to playing your serious role as a leader, playing a liberatory role for the rest of the world'," Pillay, 85, told Reuters in The Hague, ​where she is currently a judge at the United Nations' highest legal body, the International Court of Justice.

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[–] 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm mostly dead and still learning something new everyday

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    They were also prolific oligarchs (That's what we call rich people from that part of the world) in the late Russian empire. For instance they all but had a monopoly on oil in the country through their company Branobel. They sold their part in that company in 1920 (Yes)

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