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...finally rise up to challenge the unrivaled dominance of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. After all, they thought, he is technically the commander in chief of the country and he has cultivated the image of a reformer intent on bringing true democracy to Russia. But in the wake of rampant fraud allegations in local elections, Medvedev yet again disappointed the hopeful...
...against Putin? Were they preparing to face off for the presidency in 2012? In the weeks that followed, nearly every public intellectual responded to the piece, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and oil mogul Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had been stripped of his assets and imprisoned under Putin for fraud. Most of them were skeptical. "It is absolutely clear that one leader cannot modernize the country alone, even the strongest leader, if he has no support base of his own," Khodorkovsky wrote from his prison cell in a piece published in the daily Vedomosti newspaper on Oct. 21. (See pictures...
Last year, the Picower Foundation e-mailed the Harvard medical grant recipients days after the Madoff fraud went public and alerted them that the foundation had “ceased all grant-making, effective immediately...
...Accused of orchestrating voter fraud in his brother's favor near Kandahar during the presidential election. Opponents suggested Karzai shut down polling places and stuffed ballot boxes in areas where opposition to Hamid Karzai was heavy...
...During the '70s, he earned extra money by selling fraudulent medical diagnoses. In 1985, Karadzic was sentenced to three years in prison for unrelated charges of fraud and embezzlement of public property - on which he built a house for his family - for his work with construction executive Momcilo Krajisnik. Received time served for the 11 months he was in prison prior to the conviction and did not have to return...