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...twice been locked in solitary confinement, once for being in possession of a copy of camp regulations published in a newspaper, and once for having a cup of tea with Alexander Kuchma, 22, occupant of the neighboring bed in his 100-person barrack. These charges, says Khodorkovsky lawyer Yuri Schmidt, enable the authorities to deny the prisoner a more lenient regime and eventual parole. (Indeed, state prosecutors still threaten to press money laundering charges that could add another decade to Khodorkovsky's prison term.) But on Wednesday, a Krasnokamensk court ruled his first lockdown unlawful, and his lawyers are appealing...
...days of protests against the reelection of Alexander Lukashenko as President of Belarus, police early Friday morning arrested hundreds in an improvised tent camp in downtown Minsk, installed there as a token of popular protest against an election widely described as fraudulent and unrecognized by the U.S. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich discussed the overnight crackdown in a phone interview with Professor Alexander Kozulin, a presidential candidate from the opposition Social-Democratic Hramada party and one of the two top opposition leaders in Belarus...
...people's minds," says Vasily Doroshchuk, head of Caravan Records, one of the country's leading record labels. But these achievements have been undermined by food and fuel shortages, and soaring inflation. "Some 40% [of voters] are still undecided how they will vote," says the incumbent ou Prime Minister Yuri Yekhanurov. "Most of them are our supporters, but they're now at a loss, because they expected too much too fast, which simply couldn't happen." He predicts that "the Rada will end up split the same way as society." Those fault lines deepened last autumn, when Yushchenko and Tymoshenko...
...trade in 250,000 air miles and $2,000 to get weightless on a Russian Ilyushin 76 cargo plane used for space training, 11 km above the earth. In 2004, eight people redeemed air miles with Space Adventures for these types of flights at the formerly top-secret Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City outside Moscow...
...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder weightless on a Russian Ilyushin 76 cargo plane used for space training, 11 km above the earth. In 2004, eight people redeemed air miles with Space Adventures for these types of flights at the formerly top-secret Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City outside Moscow; that's a giant leap from 2003, when only three people redeemed. Space Adventures' first client was American businessman Dennis Tito, who paid $20 million of his own money to go to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft...