Word: skein
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Berezovsky is looking for some $3.3 billion from Abramovich. His tangled skein of allegations centers on Sibneft, an energy concern acquired at the end of 1995 by Berezovsky and Abramovich during the privatization of the Russian energy sector, and Rusal, a company formed in 2000 when Abramovich merged his metals businesses with those of Oleg Deripaska, another prominent oligarch. Stakes in Rusal were also held by Berezovsky and a Georgian businessman, Arkady (Badri) Patarkatsishvili...
...based on tribal allegiances, Islamic fundamentalism and the strategies of warlords eager to keep what has been theirs for generations. "I am not sure," McChrystal says, "there are two different people out there with the same reason for the fight." He has to untangle the various threads in this skein and then determine what action - economic development, strong government, death - works best in each case. (Read "Why the Pentagon Axed Its Afghanistan Warlord...
...European Commission on Tuesday addressed the issue head-on when it proposed reforms to the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the skein of price supports, export subsidies, and environmental payments that gobbles up 44% of the E.U.'s $187 billion annual budget...
...four years at Venice, Mueller has slimmed the festival's official slate from more than 100 films to 55. That's more movies than most cinemaddicts would attend in a year, but they're spaced over the 10-day skein so that one person could theoretically see all of them. Venice offers civility as opposed to Toronto's genial anarchy, an Adriatic breeze before the whirlwind off Lake Ontario. Held on the Lido, the glamorous resort that's a 15min. boat ride from Venice, the festival is its own serene island of sophisticated moviegoing. In Toronto, you move from...
...justice against the exigencies of realpolitik. London's request to Moscow on Tuesday to extradite Andrei Lugovoi as chief suspect in Litvinenko's murder drew a response that's increasingly familiar to Kremlin watchers: an abrupt no. There were some obvious reasons for Russian intransigence. The case is a skein of disputed plots and subplots. Lugovoi and one companion - or two, according to some versions - met Litvinenko at a London hotel on Nov. 1. Litvinenko died 22 days later from the invisible toxin apparently swallowed at that meeting. British investigators have tried to unpick the events, linking Lugovoi...