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...long as they stay out of politics, and they are welcome to fund political parties as long as the parties are pro-Kremlin. Now some fear the attack on Khodorkovsky means that it's open season on oligarchs. Last week, prosecutors restarted an investigation into allegations that aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska had illegally acquired assets in a major insurance company. Deripaska denies any wrongdoing. This is a separate and complex case, but the fact that Deripaska is related by marriage to the Yeltsin family added to the mood of factionalism run amok. Two key Kremlin officials, Viktor Ivanov and Igor...
...keep the air from leaking out of my sofa-size Whoopee Cushion." The goal Edna mentions has the same working-class practicality about it: she wants to "find a way to get blood out of car upholstery." But she has a loftier, more furtive dream: to be the Oleg Cassini of the dietally-challenged. "I used to design my own clothes," she muses wistfully, "till I wandered beyond the boundary of the last McCall's pattern size...
...office of earl marshal, the duke was the country's senior nobleman. His duties included organizing the annual state opening of Parliament by the Queen. DIED. PIERRE WERNER, 88, the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg who in 1970 conceived the idea for a single European currency; in Luxembourg. SENTENCED. OLEG KALUGIN, 67, in absentia, to 15 years in a maximum security prison for passing state secrets to the U.S.; in Moscow. Kalugin was found guilty of undermining national security for disclosing state secrets in his 1994 book First Directorate, which he co-wrote with a U.S. journalist. Kalugin, who lives...
Read his gripping account, and see a photo essay of the battlefield by Russian photographer Oleg Nikishin, who was the first photographer on the scene, at time.com/perry...
...Last year there were 13 cases of searches and arrests of journalists by regional cops," says Oleg Panfilov, whose Moscow-based Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations monitors pressure on the Russian media. "In the first four months of this year there have been 15 such cases. [President Vladimir] Putin wants to mop up the entire information field [and] has sent the local political bosses a clear sign that they can beat their media into shape...