Instruct: Given a premise, retrieve a hypothesis that is entailed by the premise.
Query: By buying local companies, Philip Morris and its subsidiary inherit informal trade contacts cultivated under Soviet rule that may help to smooth any future moves east.
The subsidiary acquired trade contracts. 
The trade secrets would have gone to China if they were not seized. 
Phillip Morris bought over  50 companies in the us
Philip Morris continues to have strong gains in Central America.
the company uses relationships that were formed in the 1980s
A bargain may have existed between one party and the government.
The likelihood probabilities can be influenced through the realignment of trade relationships.
the founder of Phillips TV and its subsidiary inherit trade contacts
The foreign country will be helpful.
Russia can be a partner on certain matters.
A british aristocrat was seemingly friendly with an Empress of Russia due to family ties between one another.
The subsidiary acquired trade contracts through company acquisitions. 
It is possible for some Russians to be politicians.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Putin were good friends
The industrial espionage case involving GM and VW has a Russian connection.
We do have something remotely like that in this situation.
The stolen trade secrets were taken by chinese.
The troops could have been gotten out of there in the past
There was an industrial espionage case.
It is entirely possible that a company may have a direct stock purchase plan.
The QPPV of a medicinal company has a staff to assist them.
Neighboring companies in a different office park have received letters.
the company uses relationships that were formed in the 1980s
the founder of Phillips TV and its subsidiary inherit trade contacts
Philip Morris ruled as a Soviet in order to inherit local companies