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Between 1984 and 1987, Okhotin says—during which time he and his family were still living in Russia—his father, Vladimir Okhotin, was detained by Soviet authorities for his activities as a Baptist minister, which were seen as “libel against the state...
...years after Vladimir Okhotin’s release, the family emigrated to the United States, in hopes of escaping the persecution which had followed them in their homeland...
STACY SCHIFF, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her biography Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), is writing a book about Franklin's years in Paris
...connection with the Lebedev case, but many believe his problems are political, not criminal. He is helping fund opposition parties in the December elections for the Duma, or lower house of parliament. This has broken an unwritten rule in Russia: oligarchs are either pro-Kremlin or rigorously apolitical. President Vladimir Putin has in the past crushed businessmen who crossed him. This time, though, he may be attacking one of the world's largest oil companies. And that could impact both the stock market and Russia's image among investors...
...year, held to draw up a response to Israel's siege of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound, the Italian Prime Minister had other things on his mind. "I have a solution to the vision of Europe," said Berlusconi, who had just returned from Moscow after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We must make Russia a member of the E.U." The foreign ministers in the room were flabbergasted, according to a diplomat who was there, not only because Berlusconi was ignoring the issue at hand, but because he didn't seem to know that Russia wouldn't qualify...