Word: alexei
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...former top aide to President Boris Yeltsin, now director of the Institute of Modernization, a Moscow-based think tank. Many oil magnates, officials and analysts believe a Rosneft takeover is the real motive for destroying Yukos. "Sechin's role in this is an open secret," says Duma deputy Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general and Yukos executive. Profits and tax revenues from the oil industry fund over half of Russia's federal budget. Yukos accounts for 20% of Russia's oil production, Rosneft for 4.5%. But Sergei Oganesyan, head of the Federal Energy Agency and Rosneft's deputy board chairman...
...temporarily, which would surely push prices higher. Nor does the Kremlin appear to have any qualms about roiling the world's oil markets as the battle with Yukos drags on. "The people who are masterminding the assault on Yukos simply do not take such economic factors into account," says Alexei Kondaurov, a former top Yukos executive. A Moscow court last Friday overruled the Kremlin's seizure of Yukos' core production unit. The government's strategy is to "play a cat-and-mouse game with the company" to drive down its market value and hope to buy its oil assets...
Those arriving at the Brattle Street theater expecting a spot of Dostoevskian drama will be disappointed to learn that the performers’ formidable moustaches are practically the only things linking the men on stage to their Russian namesakes Dmitri, Alexei, Ivan and Pavel. And only three of the entertainers have facial hair...
...SERGEY MAXIMISHIN for TIME PART OF THE GANG: Alexei, at right, in St. Petersburg's Arts Square along with two other Schultz88 members, is awaiting trial on charges of violent assault...
...Since 2001, Alexei says, Schultz88 and other neo-Nazi groups have organized themselves into cells, modeled on al-Qaeda, which come together for an attack and then disperse. Schultz88 is one of an estimated 50 neo-Nazi groups in Russia, 17 of them based in St. Petersburg. "Direct action [by Schultz88] has sent several hundred [people] to hospital," he says, lounging on a bench in St. Petersburg's lovely Arts Square, with two Schultz88 members sitting by his side. Members of the various neo-Nazi groups keep in touch "through the Internet and by other means, both domestically and abroad...