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...fact, the institutions of power were already showing cracks. Olexandr Skibinetsky, a general in Ukraine's Security Service, told demonstrators that he shared their "well-founded doubts" about the election. Lieut. General Mikhail Kutsin, the military commander for western Ukraine, said his men would not "act against their own people." In other parts of the country, cities and towns created strike committees and announced campaigns of civil disobedience...
...year ago, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a billionaire who built Yukos into an energy powerhouse, was arrested and put on trial for alleged fraud and tax evasion, charges he says were trumped up. Since then, Yukos has been hit with a $24 billion bill for back taxes, and the government announced in November that it will auction off the company's most valuable subsidiary, Yugansk Oil & Gas, on Dec. 19 to pay the tax bill - a move Yukos ceo Steven Theede lambasted as "government-organized theft to settle a political score." The Kremlin set the starting price for the auction...
...near $10 per bbl., the Russian economy was sliding into crisis, and BP found its stake wasn't big enough to influence Sidanco's management. BP also ended up at loggerheads with other Russian shareholders at Sidanco, members of the private Alfa investment group headed by billionaire Mikhail Fridman. But Sidanco got back on its feet, and despite the earlier disputes, BP agreed to team up with Alfa to do the much bigger TNK deal. To help mitigate the political risk, BP took pains to keep the Russian government informed, and the final agreement was signed during a state visit...
...Russian economy was sliding into crisis, and BP found its stake wasn't big enough to influence management of the company, called Sidanco. BP also ended up at loggerheads with other Russian shareholders at Sidanco, members of the private Alfa investment group headed by billionaire Mikhail Fridman. But Sidanco got back on its feet, and despite the earlier disputes, BP agreed to team up with Alfa to do the much bigger TNK deal. To help mitigate the political risk, BP took pains to keep the Russian government informed, and the final agreement was signed during a state visit by Putin...
...MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV, the Russian general who created the world's most widely distributed firearm, during a celebration of his 85th birthday...