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Vladimir Putin tries hard to convince the world that Russian business has changed since the wild '90s, when it was synonymous with dodgy privatization and contract killings. These days he wants to depict the Russian corporate world as dynamic, modern - and predictable. That image shattered last week when the Kremlin went head to head with Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the 40-year-old proprietor of the oil giant Yukos and the richest man in Russia. The markets dropped abruptly, and polite discourse was infused with language reminiscent of The Godfather. The operation against Khodorkovsky, pundits and Yukos supporters...
...Orient Express: Across Russia with Kim Jong Il (2002) By: Konstantin Pulikovsky, a Russian-government official who rode with Kim on a 2001 rail journey to Moscow (Kim is afraid of flying) Dirt: Pulikovsky said Kim's luxurious private train was stocked with fresh lobsters, roast donkey and comely female conductors
...Shchekoch would have taken no satisfaction in being proved right. Chechen attacks inside Russia are nothing new. In September 1999, over 300 people were killed in a series of apartment block bombings, which were blamed on the Chechens. And last October, 129 hostages and 41 Chechen terrorists died after Russian special forces stormed a theater that the Chechens had occupied. But the two most recent bombings are different, because the people behind the attacks represent a younger generation of Chechens who, like the Palestinians before them, have known nothing but war - and who have become radicalized as a result...
...letters will also be sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, says McDowell...
...Okhotin sees his case in very simple moral terms, despite the complexity of the Russian government’s investigation and prosecution...