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...very rich, perhaps he thinks he is smarter than anyone else." Whatever Khodorkovsky's motivation, the Kremlin moved fast to teach him a lesson. [an error occurred while processing this directive]In entering the political arena, Khodorkovsky broke two unwritten rules in today's Russia: businessmen can make money as 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...
...President Bush are both businessmen who became political leaders. Is there a bond you share? It's a matter of sympathos. That's a Greek word from pathos?to understand and feel together. We share a clarity in the way you say things: yes is yes, no is no. We also share an ideal that whoever is the leader must show the people the right road. We only met two years ago, but I feel I know him like I know my grammar school friends...
...believe his problems are political, not criminal. He is helping fund opposition parties in the December elections for the Duma, or lower house of parliament. This has broken an unwritten rule in Russia: oligarchs are either pro-Kremlin or rigorously apolitical. President Vladimir Putin has in the past crushed businessmen who crossed him. This time, though, he may be attacking one of the world's largest oil companies. And that could impact both the stock market and Russia's image among investors...
...Several senior NIS officials receive jail terms for taking bribes from businessmen...
...Some policemen also perform special favors for politicians and influential businessmen. Wiretapping a pol's rivals is a big moneyspinner. An assassin (TIME agreed not to publish his name) claims that cops knew he was under contract with a political party. He says he was treated like a "VVIP" whenever he visited a police station. "The police wouldn't dare touch us." He had to laugh when the police took credit, four-and-a-half years ago, for one of his own kills. "He was a hit man, too, sent down from Lahore by a rival political party...