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| A Major Breakthrough In Our War On Trees We interrupt your blog to briefly note how damn proud we are that not one but two regular Russia! contributors, Daria Vaisman and Boris Kachka, have landed major book deals... within days of each other. Let’s dive under the jump and meet them properly. Lawyer: Kremlin's Goal Is To Keep Khodorkovsky Jailed Indefinitely Yesterday, Mikhail Khodorkovsky – the oil tycoon who has found his empire stripped bare and himself in Siberia after developing a hint of a political ambition in 2003 – returned to Moscow for the first time in years. The occasion was not joyous: there are new charges in the case. Khodorkovsky is now more than halfway into his ludicrous nine-year sentence; are the authorities planning a display of magnanimity or a show trial to keep him locked up into the 2020s? For once, we actually picked up the phone and asked someone: Robert Amsterdam, the world-renowned lawyer who represented Khodorkovsky in the original trial. Here's his take. | The Professional
It’s early fall, and political operative Howard Wolfson, late of the Hillary Clinton campaign, is doing his job: debating former Bush strategist Karl Rove on Fox News. It is his job in the most literal of senses. Since July, Wolfson has been working as a paid Fox News contributor, which makes him the most prominent Democrat ever placed on the conservative channel’s payroll. The topic is the ways in which Sarah Palin and Joe Biden can screw up the vice-presidential debate. Anti-Putin, But Pro-What?
President Dmitry Medvedev's inauguration in Moscow last May took place amid the kind of red-and-gold, purely Slavic opulence rarely glimpsed outside of the Russian Tea Room. Except one detail. |
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