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...DIED. ANDRIAN NIKOLAYEV, 74, Russian cosmonaut whose 1962 space flight set an endurance record; in Cheboksary, Chuvash Autonomous Republic. Nikolayev circled the earth 64 times in 96 hours in his record-breaking flight, during which he also became the first man in orbit to appear live on television. In 1963 he married Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, reportedly to help the Soviets study the effects of space travel on human reproduction. The couple bore two children, but divorced...
...KILLED. PAUL KLEBNIKOV, 41, editor of Forbes Russia magazine; by multiple gunshot wounds; in Moscow. A former senior editor with Forbes in the U.S., Klebnikov was the author of a 2000 biography of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky called Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia. Klebnikov was gunned down outside his office and died en route to hospital...
...terrible burden is finally lifted, along with a large round trophy. MARIA SHARAPOVA, a blond, Russian-born tennis prodigy with a modeling contract, has had to expend much valuable energy denying that she's the new Anna Kournikova, an adjectivally similar countrywoman who won hearts but no titles. "Anna isn't in the picture anymore," Sharapova recently announced. "It's Maria time now." True and true. With Kournikova absent and fighting retirement, the less flamboyant, more focused Sharapova, 17, trounced Serena Williams, 6-1, 6-4, Saturday to become Wimbledon's third youngest women's champion ever and the first...
...assets and cash of one of the country's largest and most profitable corporations. "We are not going to destroy the company's operational activities," said Andrei Belyakov, head of the Justice Ministry's bailiff service. "At least, we are not intending to." But many analysts say that Russian authorities are out to do just that. One senior U.S. diplomat in Moscow told TIME that there are "increasing signs that the destruction of the company is the endgame." When the smoke clears, the Yukos name may survive, but little else of the company's management, structure and independence is likely...
...indeed pay tax well below the statutory rate of 24%, notes Paul Collison, an oil analyst with Brunswick UBS brokers, just like many Western oil companies do in other parts of the world. The practice is not necessarily illegal, and many of the tax-reduction schemes used by Russian oil companies were devised by the same specialists who work for major Western corporations. Other Russian oil firms, like Sibneft, paid even lower rates without incurring the Kremlin's wrath. The root of the crisis lies in personal rivalry. Early in Putin's first presidential term, the oligarchs and the Kremlin...