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...again Friday by almost 4%. Putin was careful to stress that he was expressing his own feelings and the courts were, of course, independent. The market, however, clearly feels that the President gets what he wants. Despite this brief burst of optimism, Yukos may still be doomed. Its founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a top shareholder, Platon Lebedev, are on trial for fraud and tax evasion. Yukos has been hit with a demand for $3.4 billion in back taxes. The stock surge won't alter the trial's outcome. One Khodorkovsky attorney, Robert Amsterdam, predicted his client would be convicted...
...would render Moscow's nuclear missiles "impotent and obsolete." Whether or not the U.S. could build such a Star Wars shield was less important than the Soviets' knowledge that they themselves never could. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) quickly became an obsession of the Soviet leadership. Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev tried to derail it through propaganda and arms control. But Reagan steadfastly refused to give...
...Veterans Affairs. The archconservative who was skeptical of Social Security ultimately was credited with saving it. He came into office looking not to survive the cold war but to win it, building up America's defenses to confront the "evil empire" but then backing off enough to give Mikhail Gorbachev room to change course. Reagan may have been the champion of missile defense, but he also declared as his dream the complete abolition of nuclear weapons, a position that made even the moderates around him flinch...
Bush notes how Reagan's warmth and humor could reshape his positions without creating the impression of inconsistency. "He sent me off to see [Soviet President Mikhail] Gorbachev. I guess I was the first one of any authority to meet with him. I wrote out the cable of that meeting and sent it back saying this leader was different. When I got back, many people were disgusted." Nevertheless, Reagan, who had famously called the Soviet Union the "evil empire," was warming to a quiet thaw. "I don't think the President ever changed his views to 'I love communism,'" says...
YURI SCHMIDT, defense lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former CEO of Russian oil firm Yukos, ahead of Khodorkovsky's trial this week for alleged tax evasion and fraud