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...interpreted the remarks as "legitimizing what had been piling up in the mass psyche," says Olga Starovoitova of the Institute of Sociology in St. Petersburg. Belyayev now frets that Putin is not a tough enough leader, and the country is disintegrating under the influx of nonwhite immigrants. Unless the Kremlin formally recognizes the neo-Nazis and shares political power, he says, the movement will be forced "to launch our version of Sinn Fein to keep talking to the government and our version of the I.R.A. to practice terror." Belyayev sees himself as a defender of Russian interests, participating in politics...
...been caused by a more banal business dispute. There is no guarantee that the real story will ever be known. Many observers suspect the investigation will be used, as one U.S. diplomat remarks, "to settle a few old scores." But a lot more hangs on the case than the Kremlin may realize. The continuing crackdown on the Russian media is viewed in the West as a signal that Russia is returning to its authoritarian roots. In a press conference after Klebnikov's death, his brother Peter said: "As long as resolving disputes or removing someone who stands...
...KILLED. PAUL KLEBNIKOV, 41, editor of Forbes Russia magazine; by multiple gunshot wounds; in Moscow. A former senior editor with Forbes in the U.S., Klebnikov was the author of a 2000 biography of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky called Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia. Klebnikov was gunned down outside his office and died en route to hospital...
...Moscow told TIME that there are "increasing signs that the destruction of the company is the endgame." When the smoke clears, the Yukos name may survive, but little else of the company's management, structure and independence is likely to remain. One widely held belief is that the Kremlin will take the 60% share package currently owned by the company's former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a small group of close associates - one of them, Platon Lebedev, like Khodorkovsky, is on trial for fraud and other charges. Yukos might in effect be nationalized, with the government holding a controlling stake...
...other parts of the world. The practice is not necessarily illegal, and many of the tax-reduction schemes used by Russian oil companies were devised by the same specialists who work for major Western corporations. Other Russian oil firms, like Sibneft, paid even lower rates without incurring the Kremlin's wrath. The root of the crisis lies in personal rivalry. Early in Putin's first presidential term, the oligarchs and the Kremlin made an informal agreement: if the oligarchs stayed out of politics, the Kremlin would not revisit the dubious privatization deals that brought them their billions. Khodorkovsky chafed under...