Word: lefortovo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Putin is unleashing his wrath on the oligarchs who picked up much of the power that the Communist Party dropped a decade ago. Boris Berezovsky, the billionaire business tycoon, is in self-imposed exile, while his close associate Nikolai Glushkov, former vice president of Aeroflot, is being interrogated in Lefortovo prison. Media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky was arrested in Spain on demands from Moscow. The Spanish government's decision on his extradition to Russia is pending...
...media event may be intended to send a clear message that the Yeltsin-era bonhomie between the erstwhile enemies is over. An American private citizen, identified by ABC News as retired Navy captain Edmond Pope, was arrested Thursday on charges of espionage, and is awaiting trial in the notorious Lefortovo prison. A Russian associate was arrested along with him, in a swoop on what Moscow's Federal Security Service (FSB) says was a spying operation on an advanced Russian submarine program. Pope reportedly works for the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University, which has contracts with the Office...