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First there was Gusinsky; then came Berezovsky; now it’s Khodorkovsky’s turn to face the Kremlin??s fickle wrath. The list of media moguls and industry titans that Russian President Vladimir Putin has tried to arrest continues to grow. This time it looks like Putin is after the brass ring—Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s richest man and owner of OAO Yukos, the fourth largest oil company in the world. As in earlier arrests, the Russian government claims that the oil tycoon violated regulations during the fast-and-loose privatization...
...monastery’s pink stucco tower, Father Roman Ugrinko, the senior bell ringer, points out the Moscow sites that have become familiar to him during his three years at Danilov—the Zil auto factory, the bend of the Moscow river, the sparkle of the Kremlin??s gold onion domes in the distance and the imposing Soviet-style cardboard box buildings that elbow the skyline...
During the Cold War, Soviet apparatchiks commonly referred to those Western journalists who naively accepted the Kremlin??s misinformation as “useful idiots.” The phrase could easily be used to characterize people such as Stone, who willfully enable a totalitarian government to subjugate its people and escape even the mildest of rebukes from the international community. Perhaps someday when Castro is gone and Cuba’s Communist archives are made available to the public, his sympathizers in the West will at last recognize the abject folly of their delusion. For the time...