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...output, and one of the country's most valuable companies. Last year, it became a powerful symbol of the nation's crony capitalism. In a privatization widely decried as rigged, Kryvorizhstal was sold last June by the state to Viktor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of then-President Leonid Kuchma, and coal-and-steel magnate Rinat Akhmetov, for $800 million, less than half the amount offered by outside firms. The case stirred public outrage and quickly became a rallying point during Ukraine's orange revolution. Viktor Yushchenko, the former opposition leader who was elected President in December after street protests...
Outside Pyongyang and a few big cities where the élite still live on government rations, the majority of North Koreans in urban centers get almost everything from officially sanctioned markets. "This is exactly what was happening in the Soviet Union in 1989," before it collapsed, says Leonid Petrov, a North Korea expert at the Academy of Korean Studies south of Seoul. "Nobody believes in the old socialist ideology anymore--they believe in money...
...communist-era Yugoslavia? Travel back to the '60s in the luxurious Blue Train, the favored vehicle of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the WW II partisan leader and big boss man of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last used in its original capacity...
...money laundering, first raised suspicions about her business dealings. When Yushchenko himself was Prime Minister in 1999, he made Tymoshenko his deputy. She forced reluctant businesses to pay cash for energy supplies but when she tried to take on the country's coal industry in Jan. 2001, President Leonid Kuchma fired her. She subsequently spent 42 days in jail on charges of bribery, money laundering, corruption and abuse of power, all of which were eventually thrown out of court. Indeed, no evidence of any of these crimes was ever produced. "So either it just wasn't true...
...communist-era Yugoslavia? Travel back to the '60s in the luxurious Blue Train, the favored vehicle of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the WW II partisan leader and big boss man of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last used in its original capacity...