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ADVANCE FOR TUESDAY PMS, JUNE 23--A Russian tourist sips hot mineral water from a ceramic mug as others fills bottles from a tapped spring, background, in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, April 28, 1998. Russian investors have snapped up most of the town's main hotels and spas, spending tens of million of dollars on the choicest Czech real estate outside Prague, a two-hour drive east. The idyllic resort setting masks an undercurrent of tension between the Russians and local Czechs. (AP Photo/David Brauchli)