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...that the Kremlin would otherwise seize their assets and they would get nothing at all for them. Berezovsky had already been forced to surrender his media enterprises in Russia and fled the country for Britain in 2001. Berezovsky claims that Abramovich also promised to intercede on behalf of Nikolai Glushkov, a former associate of Berezovsky's who had been arrested on fraud charges and was seriously ill. (Read: "Boris Yeltsin: Not Your Average Statesman...
...style of repression may now be returning. Russian President Vladimir Putin is unleashing his wrath on the oligarchs who picked up much of the power that the Communist Party dropped a decade ago. Boris Berezovsky, the billionaire business tycoon, is in self-imposed exile, while his close associate Nikolai Glushkov, former vice president of Aeroflot, is being interrogated in Lefortovo prison. Media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky was arrested in Spain on demands from Moscow. The Spanish government's decision on his extradition to Russia is pending...
Officially, as the Russians and their East European satellites see it, inflation is a disease unique to capitalism. "With the exception of the war years," triumphs Nikolai Glushkov, chairman of the Soviet State Committee on Prices, "there has never been any inflation in the U.S.S.R., nor does any exist today." Now let us all laugh, comrades. The East bloc, like the West, is suffering a severe dose of rapidly rising consumer prices. It is not called inflation but "an adjustment in the state pricing structure." Inflation by any other name stinks as badly...
...state-controlled press downplayed these boosts and stressed news of simultaneous price cuts. Many were on goods that few people want, like black-and-white TV sets. State Price Chairman Nikolai Glushkov, who, like other party bosses, can shop in special low-price stores, insisted with a straight face that gasoline was raised by popular demand. Russian drivers, he said, complained that they were paying too little compared with the rest of the world...
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