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...rise of Rosneft is typical. Founded in 1993, Rosneft was for years an insignificant holding company overseeing a jumble of small oil fields. Since getting hold of the Yukos assets, which it nominally acquired from an unknown finance company whose address was a café in the city of Tver, it has become the nation's third largest oil company, producing 1.5 million bbl. per day. While president Bogdanchikov is an oil-industry expert, the chairman of the board is Igor Sechin, Putin's deputy chief of staff. Gazprom, the state company that controls almost 90% of Russian gas production...
...Siberian forests, microphone in hand, bantering, pledging, urging. Wooing the youth vote in Ufa two weeks ago, his cheeks glowing, Yeltsin danced at a free rock concert, bellowing to thousands of Generation Xers, "Vote! Vote, or you'll damn well lose it all." At a state farm near Tver last week he promised workers, as he has everywhere, that he would pay their back salaries. "I'll give you the money, now that you have cornered me," he vowed. "But will you support...
Duke of Kent, 26, gay blade in the Royal Scots Greys: a son, tenth in line to the British throne: in Tver, England. Title: Earl of St. Andrews...
...Russian verb zhdat, to wait or to expect, it is a good name for a man who was to ride quietly up the party escalator until he could expect (or at least hope for) succession to the biggest political job on earth. His father was a school inspector in Tver (now Kalinin), about 100 miles northwest of Moscow. Zhdanov had a better education (including German and French) than any present member of the Politburo. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1915 when he was 19, and had an undistinguished career as an organizer until, after years of fidelity to Stalin...
...comes, the Orthodox clergy promptly pressed their advantage under the new Constitution by opening a public campaign demanding that divine service be resumed in all church structures in Georgia which have not yet actually been destroyed. The Orthodox bishops, priests and delegates of Orthodox believers from the vicinity of Tver, Yaroslavl and Ivanovo-Voznesensk dared and succeeded in holding without molestation from the Secret Police an assembly to decide the electoral policies of the Church. It became a question whether religious groups should attempt to nominate for election to the Supreme Soviet priests, bishops, or even His Holiness the Metropolitan...