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...CHARGED. PLATON LEBEDEV, 43, billionaire associate of Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky; with fraud; in Moscow. Authorities are investigating Lebedev for the privatization of a fertilizer plant in 1994. The day after Lebedev's arrest, Khodorkovsky, chairman of oil giant Yukos, was questioned by state prosecutors. Khodorkovsky has angered the Kremlin with his plans to fund opposition parties in this winter's parliamentary elections...
...Roman Abramovich (worth $5.7 billion, according to Forbes), who bought himself the ultimate bauble, a sports team: London's Chelsea Football Club. Not so good for Mikhail Khodorkovsky ($8 billion) of the giant Yukos group, who was questioned by state prosecutors investigating corruption. And downright terrible for Platon Lebedev ($1 billion), head of Khodorkovsky's finance arm Menatep, who was arrested on fraud charges in connection with the privatization of a fertilizer plant in 1994. Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man, was questioned in connection with the Lebedev case, but many believe his problems are political, not criminal. He is helping...
...poet and an engineering professor, Ozernoy was born in Moscow on May 19, 1939. He received degrees in both physics and astronomy at Moscow University. And at Moscow’s prestigious Lebedev Physics Institute, where he later worked, he acquired a doctorate in physics and mathematics...
Ozernoy’s groundbreaking work at Lebedev studying quasars, black holes and other astrological phenomena led Harvard to invite him to be a visiting professor...
Despite the official atheism of his native land, the professor from the Soviet Union's P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute said he attributed an active role to a divine figure...