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...Belarusian refineries, it would be happy to take Moscow's place. The Kazakhs also said they would be willing to buy a stake in Belarus' Naftan refinery, which Russia's largest oil companies have coveted. "The demands of Belarusian refineries will be filled by Kazakh oil," said Anatoly Smirnov, Kazakhstan's ambassador to Belarus, adding that the two nations' Presidents have already discussed the idea and "no one has refused...
...European leaders struggle to restore economic confidence, independent thinking can look perilously close to dissidence. Latvia, an E.U. member since 2004, recently employed tactics reminiscent of its Soviet era when security police arrested Dmitry Smirnov, an economics professor who questioned the stability of the country's banks and currency. Merkel is hardly vulnerable to a similar fate, but if Germany continues to challenge prevailing economic orthodoxies, Lancaster House may not be the last party to which she's not invited...
...judge read the verdict in the Moscow courtroom last week, the defendant erupted. "I'm ready to die for Russia," yelled Konstantin Smirnov- Ostashvili, 54, leader of a faction of Pamyat, the ultra-right, Russian nationalist movement. "It's all a lie!" Unfazed, the judge sentenced Smirnov-Ostashvili to two years of hard labor for shouting anti-Semitic threats at a meeting of liberal writers last January...
...remarkable that he had come to trial at all. Though a videotape made at the January session clearly showed the Pamyat leader shouting his diatribe against Jews through a megaphone, it was not until July -- and after pressure from liberal intellectuals -- that Smirnov-Ostashvili was charged with "inciting ethnic hatred" under a little-used article in the Russian Federation criminal code...
...long after, agreement between Gorbachev and Jakes was reached on the plan for a Politburo purge. But October came and went with nothing done. In mid-November, hard-line ideology chief Jan Fojtik traveled on short notice to Moscow, where he met with Georgi Smirnov, chief of the Moscow Institute of Marxism-Leninism. Smirnov said that a document condemning the 1968 invasion had been approved by the Soviet Politburo, and he warned that with the Malta summit approaching, the document would soon be published...