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...relying more and more on the pitchman techniques of Madison Avenue to win Western hearts and minds, particularly those in Europe caught uneasily between the two superpowers. Once invisible Soviet officials now stage on-the-record press briefings for Western reporters. The courtly spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Vladimir Lomeiko, laces his commentary with quotes from George Bernard Shaw and deftly cuts off other Kremlin officials when they begin to bluster...
...arrived in Geneva, Arbatov & Co. mingled with journalists and appeared on the three U.S. television networks and CNN to offer official wisdom on topics ranging from ICBMs to Soviet Jews. "In the West the Soviet Union's situation is not known or is known incorrectly," explained Foreign Ministry Spokesman Vladimir Lomeiko. "There are two reasons for this. We do not explain our position well enough, and certain circles misrepresent our purposes...
Since President Vladimir Putin came to power, the Russian economy has staged a dramatic comeback after its near collapse in 1998. But along with red tape and corruption, companies face government meddling, primarily in the form of a highly unpredictable tax-enforcement policy. The most battered victim is Yukos, the former Russian oil giant that is in its death throes after being hit with multibillion-dollar back-tax claims that its erstwhile owners say were part of a Kremlin campaign against them. A Moscow court last month sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Yukos chief executive and a major shareholder...
...oligarch as state industries were privatized after the collapse of the Soviet Union; on charges including tax evasion and fraud; in Moscow. The conviction ended a long trial that critics claimed was part of a politically motivated campaign by the Kremlin to deter the billionaire from financing opposition to Vladimir Putin and discourage independent business. Khodorkovsky, whose now-dwindled fortune was once estimated at $15 billion, was sentenced to nine years in prison, which will remove him from the scene well past Russia's 2008 national election...
...that he’s 71, Nabokov, the only son of literary legend Vladimir, is being filmed for Russian television. The crew wants to shoot one of his race cars, perhaps a boat, and to ask him more than 30 questions composed in advance...