Vladimir Putin Set To Be Russia’s Next President – The Boss Again

The return of Vladimir Putin The once and future president It may bring clarity over who is in charge, but it will still be bad for Russia Oct  2011   IT WAS hardly a surprise when Vladimir Putin told his United Russia party conference on September 24th that he would run for the presidency next…

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Khodorkovsky Message from Prison

Mikhail Khodorkovsky sits in a defendant’s cage in a Moscow courtroom in this June 16, 2004 file photo. In a lengthy interview published in this week’s issue of SPIEGEL, he argues: “I was not a rober baron in the past, just as I’m not a martyr today.” SPIEGEL interview, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, 47, the former Russian…