Word: viktor
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...says it has a 92% holding. (Total denied it was interested.) A group of foreign banks warned Yukos that with Russia having frozen its assets over a $3.5 billion tax claim, the company was in danger of defaulting on a $1 billion loan. Now here comes pro-government politician Viktor Gerashchenko, dubbed by former Kremlin economics advisor Jeffrey Sachs as "the worst central banker in history" after presiding over the crash of the ruble in 1994, to announce that Yukos had invited him to be its chairman. Gerashchenko said that while certain shareholders had problems with the authorities, Yukos...
...COVER Illustration for TIME by Viktor Koen...
...wishes, his five offspring have been selling off chunks of the Forbes art collection that took a lifetime to gather. The crown jewels went last week: nine rare Faberge eggs and sundry other works in a private sale to Russian oil and aluminum tycoon Viktor Vekselberg for more than $100 million...
...Viktor and Rolf are crestfallen. The Dutch designers - fashion-set favorites who are now out to prove that they're not too quirky for mainstream success - are in London for their first-ever movie premiere, the opening of Young Adam, starring Ewan McGregor and their friend and muse Tilda Swinton. Part of Leicester Square is cordoned off and Swinton, whose short red hair and long black chiffon Viktor & Rolf dress make her look like a fiery upside-down exclamation point, is signing autographs and posing. Viktor and Rolf trail behind her. It's all so nearly perfect, and yet ? "There...
Will the man accused of being one of Eastern Europe's most successful scamsters ever have his day in court? Czech prosecutors asked a Prague court to issue an international warrant for the arrest of Viktor Kozeny, 40, who lives in the Bahamas and has already been indicted in the U.S. for grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office accused him of pocketing $182 million from a group of American investors in an Azerbaijani privatization scheme that never took place. The Czechs want him in connection with separate allegations that he defrauded...