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Alexander Lebedev is telling the story of how he met his girlfriend, Elena Perminova, who is 22 and heavily pregnant. We are sitting in the dining room of Lebedev's house in the ultra-exclusive enclave of Rublyovka, just west of Moscow, early this year. The house includes an underground pool with a cherub-laden fresco on the ceiling, Italian marble floors and a huge ovoid window onto a grand staircase that, Lebedev says, is typical of classical Italian architecture. Outside, there are four or five guards milling around in the driveway. Former President Boris Yeltsin once lived beyond...
...wrote to Lebedev, he says. At the time - this was about five years ago - Lebedev was still a deputy in the Duma and lobbying for a witness-protection program. He says that no one in the Duma leadership supported him, but that he met with Perminova's father - and Elena - and that eventually they started seeing each other. "We've been together since she was 19 or 20," he says. Perminova is a model and an economics student at Moscow State University. Throughout our two-hour breakfast, she alternately serves as waitress - doling out espressos, porridge, and pastries stuffed with...
...temporary replacement for former Law School Dean Elena Kagan, who stepped down after being confirmed as U.S. Solicitor General, Jackson took an unusually active role in shaping the Law School during his brief three month deanship. Kagan departed in March without making any budgetary announcements to the Law School community, and due to the tight budget approval timeline, the decision fell to Jackson to move forward with involuntary workforce cuts...
Solicitor General ELENA KAGAN, defending the Obama Administration's position that the U.S. Supreme Court should not review the Pentagon's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy governing openly gay soldiers in the military...
Speaking to the opposition website Kasparov.ru, Elena Dudukina of the Voronezh human-rights protection group Voronezh-Chernozemye said Shchednov was asked to give the police a $95 bribe to avoid arrest. When he refused, he was detained overnight and, according to Dudukina, beaten while in custody; Voronezh police say an investigation into the allegation is under way. A trial was scheduled for June 15, with Shchednov charged with "uncensored swearing in a public place." But the artist never showed up in court, so the hearing has been postponed. (See pictures of the fashions of Russian Czars...