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...solve the complex challenges a buoyant but flawed Russia poses. And it's worth remembering that today's Russia is a very different beast from the old Soviet Union, with its aggressive military posture and proselytizing ideology. That's why every G-8 leader, from the time Mikhail Gorbachev first inched down the path of perestroika, has concluded that the wisest course is to help Russia help itself: persuading its leaders that their interest lies in following international norms, while helping them build the domestic institutions and the network of international economic and political ties that such an alignment requires...
...Western rules; a veteran European banker has joined the board, and the firm uses U.S. accounting standards. Rosneft's [an error occurred while processing this directive] goal, Bogdanchikov promises investors, is "to set a new standard of corporate governance in Russian oil and gas." Try telling that to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oligarch currently serving a jail sentence in Siberia. The Kremlin broke up his oil company, Yukos, in 2004 with a combination of criminal fraud charges against executives and massive back-tax claims that far exceeded the firm's revenue. Yukos' main oil-production unit was auctioned...
...Whenever I see the weapon I invented to defend my motherland in the hands of these bin Ladens, I ask myself the same question: How did it get into their hands?" MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV, Russian inventor of the AK-47, on the rifle's transformation into the weapon of choice for terrorists worldwide...
...DISMISSED. Vladimir Ustinov, 53, Russia's long-serving chief prosecutor, by the upper house of parliament at the request of President Vladimir Putin; in Moscow. The Federation Council voted unanimously, bar two abstentions, to remove the man who led the prosecution of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The Kremlin has offered little explanation, saying only that it was part of a personnel reshuffle. Ustinov's is the latest in a spate of dismissals of high-level security and law-enforcement officials...
...final, to which students were allowed to bring in their class notes and textbook, reused four of the questions from an exam administered in 2004, which was posted on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ online archive of previous exams. The course head, Professor of Physics Mikhail D. Lukin, said that he was unaware of the availability of the 2004 exam online. “I never gave anyone a permission to publicize an old exam from two years ago,” he wrote yesterday. According to a student in the course, Elizabeth R. Shope...