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Harvard submitted a demand for class arbitration to the American Arbitration Association last week, alleging that the Russian oil company Surgutneftengaz (Surgut) has cheated the University out of at least $3.7 million through illegal accounting practices...
...arbitration claim, Harvard accused Surgut of submitting annual profit figures to shareholders as much as 79 percent lower than those it submitted in tax reports to the Russian Federation—a practice Harvard said is illegal...
...claim, Harvard argues that net profits should be calculated as total revenue minus total costs. The claim said Surgut accurately reported its net profits to the Russian Federation for taxation purposes...
Jones set off for St. Petersburg in May 1788, presented the Empress with a copy of the new U.S. Constitution, took command in the Black Sea and inflicted some hard blows on the Turkish fleet. He proposed going to the source by leading a Russian fleet into the Mediterranean, where it could interrupt Ottoman shipping between Constantinople and Egypt. For all this activity on the "infidel" side, Jones was rewarded by having a price put on his head by the ruler of Algiers. Meanwhile, however, he fell from favor at Empress Catherine's court and began to lose his health...
Krauthammer may claim that Reagan won the cold war, but in 1990, two years after the Gipper left office, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Russian reformer who presided so masterfully over the Soviet Union's demise. MORT PAULSON Silver Spring...