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...face government meddling, primarily in the form of a highly unpredictable tax-enforcement policy. The most battered victim is Yukos, the former Russian oil giant that is in its death throes after being hit with multibillion-dollar back-tax claims that its erstwhile owners say were part of a Kremlin campaign against them. A Moscow court last month sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Yukos chief executive and a major shareholder, to nine years in jail on charges of tax evasion and fraud...
...largest insurer. His mission: make clear to President Ferdinand Marcos that foreign investors were uneasy with the unstable government; he should step down or conduct fair elections. (Marcos didn't listen and ultimately fled in disgrace.) In the early 1990s Greenberg met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin and won approval for an AIG investment there...
...sure I’d made a mistake. Earlier that morning, on my way to school, I had dropped my college acceptance card in the mailbox after an agonizing month of weighing decisions. Did I prefer the Bay State to the Garden state? Was I better suited to the Kremlin on the Charles to the Ivy Country Club? Did I look better in crimson, or orange? Trusting the advice of various friends, teachers, and parents of friends—my own sat on opposite sides of the fence—I signed up to join the 369th graduating class...
...giant Yukos, who became the country's wealthiest oligarch as state industries were privatized after the collapse of the Soviet Union; on charges including tax evasion and fraud; in Moscow. The conviction ended a long trial that critics claimed was part of a politically motivated campaign by the Kremlin to deter the billionaire from financing opposition to Vladimir Putin and discourage independent business. Khodorkovsky, whose now-dwindled fortune was once estimated at $15 billion, was sentenced to nine years in prison, which will remove him from the scene well past Russia's 2008 national election...
Harvard in particular came under fire, and its reputation for a liberal-leaning faculty earned it the moniker “the Kremlin on the Charles...