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...first time these and similar accusations have been made against Putin's government, which has vehemently denied any suggestion that anything but the official version was what really occurred. Almost from the time the tragedy took place, advocates for the victims of Beslan have argued that the Kremlin's first priority was wiping out the terrorists regardless of collateral damage, and that it deliberately frustrated the talks and started the assault...
...Gazeta's investigative reporter, who did brilliant work on unraveling Beslan. "[It] was headed by the FSB [the heir to the KGB] from Moscow that had been preparing an assault right from the outset. Having the hostages released through negotiations did not meet their agenda, as set by the Kremlin...
...wanted to stroke him like a cat, and it came out in this gesture." --VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, on why he stopped to kiss a little boy's stomach while walking through the Kremlin...
...uses U.S. accounting standards. Rosneft's [an error occurred while processing this directive] goal, Bogdanchikov promises investors, is "to set a new standard of corporate governance in Russian oil and gas." Try telling that to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oligarch currently serving a jail sentence in Siberia. The Kremlin broke up his oil company, Yukos, in 2004 with a combination of criminal fraud charges against executives and massive back-tax claims that far exceeded the firm's revenue. Yukos' main oil-production unit was auctioned off to a single low bidder that turned out to be a front company...
...misgivings have grown as the Kremlin has reasserted control over Russia's energy resources. The rise of Rosneft is typical. Founded in 1993, Rosneft was for years an insignificant holding company overseeing a jumble of small oil fields. Since getting hold of the Yukos assets, which it nominally acquired from an unknown finance company whose address was a café in the city of Tver, it has become the nation's third largest oil company, producing 1.5 million bbl. per day. While president Bogdanchikov is an oil-industry expert, the chairman of the board is Igor Sechin, Putin's deputy...