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Other notable users of U.S. shell companies: Viktor Bout, the notorious Russian arms trafficker; the Sinaloa drug-trafficking cartel; and Semion Mogilevich, the "brainy don" of Russian mafia dons, recently named on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. "Each of these examples involves the relatively rare instance in which law enforcement identified the perpetrator misusing the U.S. shell companies," senior Justice Department official, Jennifer Shasky, told a Senate panel recently. Added a senior Treasury official before the same hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee: "Years of research and law-enforcement investigations have conclusively demonstrated...
...husband? Konstantin Kagalovsky, who in the early '90s was Russia?s representative to ?- guess what? - the IMF. It gets better. The other suspended executive, Lucy Edwards, is married to a shady businessman named Peter Berlin, who authorities have linked, through his company Benex Worldwide, to reputed Russian mobster/arms dealer Semion Mogilevitch. All this makes the Bank of New York look either complicit or stupid - and the IMF look just plain stupid, at least in the eyes of its congressional critics, who have been carping about profligate lending since the Asian crisis began. But TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl points...
...chestnut horse, Marshal Semion Timoshenko, great organizer of Russia's World War II armies, trotted into Moscow's Red Square last week. He had not been seen in a big Moscow ceremony since the great parade celebrating the October revolution, four years ago. Last week he was back to lead the parade for the 35th anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power and to lecture the massed troops on foreign "warmongers...
...based on Odessa; Caucasian army, based on Tiflis; Turkestan army, based on Tashkent and Frunze; Far Eastern army, based on Chita and Vladivostok. The armies are commanded as follows: Northern, Marshal Klimenti E. Voroshilov; Western, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky; Southern, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov; Caucasian, Marshal Ivan Bagramian; Turkestan, Marshal Semion K. Timoshenko; Far Eastern, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Eight hundred thousand men in this army of 1,800,000 are "mobile," in that they are replaced from time to time by new conscripts. But 1,000,000 men stay in the army throughout their lives, as professional soldiers...
...Tall, slender Semion K. Tsarapkin heads the Foreign Commissariat's Section of American Affairs, was formerly its chief Far Eastern expert...