Iceland has hit the news in Australia, Skarpi, and the view from down here confirms at your country is in a particularly difficult position. The Sydney Morning Herald said today that Russia will grant Iceland's central bank a loan of four billion euros (5.4 billion US dollars), and that the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority will take control of the country's second largest bank, Landsbanki. being a small country you are especially vulnerable,

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