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...Palestinian rights in Boston, Jubran was detained by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (BICE) and held without bail for 17days. The BICE told Jubran’s lawyer that he would be held “indefinitely” and did not provide reasons for his arrest or detention or the charges that were brought against...
...Andrew Meier: Politics and economics are insperable in Russia, because they combine to create power. Khodorkovsky, shortly before his arrest, had moved to merge his company Yukos with another energy company, Sibneft, which would have made it the fourth-largest privately-held oil producer in the world, with one-fifth of the reserves of Kuwait. And Khodorkovsky had for months been courting Exxon Mobil and Chevron-Texaco to buy up to 40 percent of the shares in the new company for billions of dollars. For the now ascendant siloviki faction around Putin - men from the "power ministries" such...
...combination of his business deals and his political ambitions prompted the siloviki to press for action against Khodorkovsky. The Russian state is too weak to accept what those in power see as a challenge of this type. And then, despite open calls for his arrest, Khodorkovsky played chicken, refusing to follow the example of other oligarchs such as Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky and leave the country...
...What the arrest of Khodorkovsky ultimately points to, however, is the weakness of Putin's rule: Until now, he's been brilliant at negotating between different factions, playing them off against one another. But this marks a watershed, where he's taken the most dramatic action possible against the leading oligarch...
...unknown, but he won it on the basis of his tough military campaign in Chechnya. And an attack on the oligarchs will play out even better in the hinterland than going to war in Chechnya. Ordinary Russians shed no tears for the oligarchs, although in some quarters Khodorkovsky's arrest could turn him into a martyr. But unlike in the West, in Russia he's not seen as an icon of the new breed of businessman. For common Russians he's an icon of all the sins of the last ten years. That's to the extent that anyone...