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...deal for the stability it promises. "We are happy that there is a chance for peace now," said Mohammed Tariq, 36, a thickly bearded cafeteria worker who blamed the Taliban for spreading fear and the army for alienating the population by inflicting a heavy toll in civilian casualties. "We hope that it doesn't fail." Like many locals, he was antagonized by the Taliban's violent methods but supports the call for Shari'a law. "The real issue was the courts," he says. "It took too long to get justice. People are fed up with this system. It's also...
...Giovanna Bertazzoni, head of Impressionist and modern art for Christie's London, is hoping that Monday's record results will give a boost to future sales, after several auctions have taken place with extremely limited supply. "This was a special case," she said of the Paris auction. "But we hope that this will help us unearth more masterpieces, to convince others that this is a good time to sell. We see tonight that people very much still want to invest in art." Nevertheless, the same logic - and the shaky world financial system - may yet convince collectors to hold...
...development gives some hope to the tens of thousands of Yukos shareholders who saw their investments evaporate after Moscow expropriated and then nationalized the company, effectively handing the government of Vladimir Putin, then President and now Prime Minister, virtual monopolistic control of Russia's vital energy industry. It gives the once politically ambitious Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev at least some good news in the face of the Russian government's continuing campaign against them. Later this month, the two men, who are already serving multiyear prison terms, will face fresh charges of embezzlement and grand theft...
...According to Ponomaryov, there are some basic reasons Russians do not like their own courts: "We have this inherited Soviet mentality, where judges can't conceive that in a case where the government is involved, the government could lose." Corruption is another major reason for disillusionment. "Khodorkovsky never had hope, because he was fighting against the government," says Ponomaryov. "We protested, we had meetings, but whatever we did, it didn't matter, because Putin had his own interests...
...happened, it would be more than a loss," says Karina Moskalenko, a human-rights lawyer who has worked with Khodorkovsky. "It would be a disaster for all the individuals who have been cheated by our judicial system. For them the European Court of Human Rights is their last possible hope...