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...should give the bells back as long as they give us replacement bells,” agreed Michelle T. Sonia ’06. “Russia??s older than Lowell...Their traditions go back longer than ours...
Vladimir Lenskiy, the New York bureau chief for one of Russia??s largest television networks, the state-run Channel One, said that the Russian public appreciates having its culture spread across the world...
...Khodorkovsky’s turn to face the Kremlin’s fickle wrath. The list of media moguls and industry titans that Russian President Vladimir Putin has tried to arrest continues to grow. This time it looks like Putin is after the brass ring—Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia??s richest man and owner of OAO Yukos, the fourth largest oil company in the world. As in earlier arrests, the Russian government claims that the oil tycoon violated regulations during the fast-and-loose privatization of Russian industry in the 1990s. And, as in earlier arrests...
...Kremlin persecution of Russia??s powerful oligarchs has become routine: An obscenely rich Russian criticizes the president, often on his own TV station; Putin sends ski-masked officers from the Federal Security Service—the successor organization to the KGB—to confiscate assets and arrest the upstart; and the oligarch either escapes abroad—usually to London—or languishes in prison until he accedes to the president’s demands. Khodorkovsky hasn’t gotten past the languishing-in-prison stage, and, unlike his predecessors, it looks as though...
Khodorkovsky’s likely imprisonment is not just a tragic prospect for Russia??s wealthiest individual. Russia will lose its most trusted entrepreneur, which will make foreign investors more cautious. It has taken years for the Russian economy to buck the perception of dysfunctional cronyism; the latest ham-fisted attack on the most prominent Russian industrialist—and its seizure of 44 percent of Yukos—only makes the business climate more unpredictable and unattractive. Indeed, capital has once again started to flee from the country, and it now looks as though an anticipated merger...