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...Russia's first years as a market economy, crooks and businessmen were one and the same. But Mikhail Khodorkovsky, 40, the richest man in Russia, was a self-imposed reform movement. His Yukos Oil Co. enjoys a reputation among foreign investors as perhaps the most Western-like company in Russia. It has a cluster of Americans on its board; among top management, it uses U.S. accounting standards; and it was the first Russian company to detail its precise ownership structure. Yukos has been talking with both ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco about the possible sale to one of them of as much...
...After Mikhail Gorbachev laid the final blows to Soviet Communism, who’s going to stop him from laying a few harmless smooches on the cheek of a pretty woman? Not Miranda L. Kobritz, a Divinity School student who found herself the object of the former Soviet president’s affections last month while riding an elevator with him at a hotel in New York City...
TIME.com: Why has President Vladimir Putin authorized the arrest of Russia's leading tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Are his motivations political, or economic...
...Processes are underway," as Mikhail Gorbachev used to say. Either Khodorkovsky fights by running for president, or else he cuts some form of deal and retreats quietly either into exile, or into a role less threatening to the Kremlin. I don't think the latter is likely, but I also don't see any good endgame here. Western investors, no matter what they're saying publicly, are scared out of their wits. For the Russian economy, this is the scariest moment since crash...
...CHARGED. MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY, 40, chief of the Russian oil giant Yukos and the wealthiest of the country's "oligarchs," who made quick fortunes after the Soviet Union's collapse by acquiring cheap state property; with fraud and tax evasion; by prosecutors in Moscow, after special forces surrounded his plane at an airport in Siberia. The dramatic move, part of an ongoing probe into Yukos, was seen by skeptics as a Kremlin-led effort to keep the tycoon, who has funded opposition parties, out of politics...