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| | Boris Berezovsky: biography and encyclopedia article |
 | | He was the most famous of the 1990s (1990s: The decade from 1990 to 1999) Russian oligarch (Russian oligarch: business oligarch, a synonym of "business magnate", describes wealthy people that significantly... | | | Putin's government has successfully pressured Berezovsky to sell many of his business holdings and has attempted to prosecute Berezovsky on fraud (fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person) and political corruption (political corruption: in broad terms, political corruption is the misuse of public office for private gain.... | | | Berezovsky started in business in 1989 under perestroika (perestroika: An economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy) by buying and reselling automobiles from state manufacturer AutoVAZ (AutoVAZ: avtovaz () is a russian automobile... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/boris_berezovsky
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| | Viktor Chernomyrdin: biography and encyclopedia article |
| | He is also a Russian business oligarch (business oligarch: business oligarch, a synonym of "business magnate", describes wealthy people that significantly... | | | Since 2001, he has been Russia's ambassador to Ukraine (Ukraine: A republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century). |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/viktor_chernomyrdin
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Russia's biggest auto maker, Avtovaz -- linked to its most famous business oligarch, Boris Berezovsky -- is currently under investigation for allegedly avoiding paying tax by registering 280,000 vehicles under one number -- and thereby paying tax for only one vehicle. | | | Public-opinion polls in post-Communist countries show that the general public, as well as the domestic and foreign business community, overwhelmingly believe that official corruption is widespread -- and that many of those polled have had direct experience of it. | | | Once registered, the business can be inspected by 26 different government bodies that can impose fines for violating the many muddled business laws. |
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http://www.rferl.org/features/2000/09/F.RU.000901130409.asp
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| | Business magnate - |
| | Business oligarchs, for business magnates of Russia and Ukraine | | | In Russia and some other post-Soviet countries, the term "business oligarch" became popular. | | | A business magnate, sometimes referred to as a mogul or a tycoon, is a person who controls a large portion of a particular industry and whose wealth derives primarily from said control. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Business_magnate
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| | Article - The Right Shouldn`t Keep Silent - News From Russia |
| | In terms of the relationship between business and the authorities, big oligarch business believed it had established a relationship with state authorities through the Russian Union of Manufacturers and Entrepreneurs. | | | Business thought that its relationship with the authorities would be a substitute for everything else. | | | It is necessary to develop business and encourage initiative, and then an opportunity to play a more prominent role in geopolitical terms will emerge. |
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http://www.gateway2russia.com/st/art_137618.php
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| | Oligarchs - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Rusal, formed in 2000, is 75 per cent-owned by oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who is also one of three members on Russia's APEC advisory business council. | | | Russia: Oligarch's Case A Sign Of The Times | | | Perhaps the closest Serbian equivalent of the Russian oligarchs is Bogoljub Karic, 50, whose media holdings center on the popular BK Television channel and the Mobtel mobile-telephone company. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=189874
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| | RIA Novosti - World - Russian oligarch poised to sell business assets |
| | RIA Novosti - World - Russian oligarch poised to sell business assets | | | The oligarch said the sale would be carried out after his assets were audited, which could take anywhere from several months to half a year. | | | Berezovsky refused to specify the list of business structures he intended to sell or their approximate value, calling it a commercial secret. |
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http://en.rian.ru/world/20060217/43610168.html
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| | Welcome to Access PBN: Ukraine Election Boosts Pro-Business Factions |
| | Julia Tymoshenko, a democratic opposition leader and ardent Kuchma critic who openly opposes the oligarch business barons around him, placed fourth in the poll with 24 seats. | | | Bolstered by a strong showing in the polls, the Yushchenko camp is wary of being used once again as a fig leaf masking the dubious business practices of pro-Kuchma allies. | | | Many hope he will take the next step in uniting Julia Tymoshenko with independently elected deputies and coalescing with the business community to form a powerful democratic bloc that challenges the ruling regime. |
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http://www.imakenews.com/accesspbn/e_article000065941.cfm
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| | Business magnate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Russia and some other post-Soviet countries, the term "business oligarch" became popular. | | | A business magnate, sometimes referred to as a mogul or a tycoon, is a person who controls a large portion of a particular industry and whose wealth derives primarily from said control. | | | Examples of well-known business magnates include newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst of the Hearst Corporation, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie of US Steel. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_magnate
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| | IlimPulpnf_int.doc |
| | Fleishman-Hillard decided the best way for Ilim Pulp to fend off this oligarch was for the company to gain the attention and support of government and business leaders in Russia and the West, by garnering coverage in credible and influential Western publications. | | | While the company is not out of the woods yet, it has managed to hold the oligarch at bay and credits Western PR with helping do so while it pursues normal, civilized business channels to resolve this dispute. | | | Now imagine that these men claim to be backed by a court ruling that they say authorized a change in your companys ownership, the outcome of a trial held without your companys knowledge and instigated by a mysteriously unreachable man claiming to be a minority shareholder. |
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http://www.fleishman.com/overview/reputation/prweek/IlimPulpnf_int.doc
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| | Pravda.RU:Khodorkovsky already in court |
| | In Russia, the interest in the process is limited - the population is mostly indifferent, and some have antipathy to the oligarch, while business and political circles are alarmed. | | | Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oligarch and former Yukos CEO, is charged with fraud and tax evasion. | | | These are far from all the questions that are often asked in the business community. |
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http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2004/05/31/54216_.html
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| | BBC NEWS Business Khodorkovsky: an oligarch undone |
| | Mikhail Khodorkovsky's problem is that becoming one of the oligarch class can be a murky business. | | | After running a computer import business under the wing of the Communist Party's youth movement in the 1980s and starting Menatep bank in 1987, he used the proceeds to buy up state assets. | | | Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky recently suffered the ultimate indignity in the world of the super-wealthy. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4482203.stm
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| | BBC NEWS Business Khodorkovsky: an oligarch undone |
| | Mikhail Khodorkovsky's problem is that becoming one of the oligarch class can be a murky business. | | | Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky recently suffered the ultimate indignity in the world of the super-wealthy. | | | After running a computer import business under the wing of the Communist Party's youth movement in the 1980s and starting Menatep bank in 1987, he used the proceeds to buy up state assets. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4482203.stm
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| | BBC NEWS Business Ukraine fears the rise of new oligarchs |
| | "We have a sense that the power of the oligarchs has been reduced, in terms of privileged access, influence on public policy, and non transparency in business," says the World Bank's Ukraine director Paul Bermingham. | | | Prime Minister Tymoshenko is described as a former oligarch | | | Some investors fear that Ukraine may follow Russia in jailing oligarch opponents like Mikhail Khodorkovsky who headed the Yukos oil company and was convicted on tax and fraud charges. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/business/4114342.stm
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| | EU Presents Russia an Ultimatum - Pravda.Ru |
| | Yet, the actual leader of the Russian business group, oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is not honored by the Russian authorities at the moment. | | | Oligarchic media outlets believe that all these companies have unleashed a war against Yukos and CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky. | | | There is a very powerful business lobby in Russia which does not allow foreign capital into the national economy. |
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http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/89/356/11058_Trade.html
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| | Forbes.com: WRAPUP 1-Kremlin aide said to quit in latest YUKOS twist |
| | However, it is necessary to get rid of the Yeltsin-era elite which created the conditions for oligarch-dominated business and a corrupt bureaucracy," Liliya Shevtsova, an analyst at Carnegie Endowment think-tank said on Ekho Moskvy radio. | | | It also sends a message to Russia's other "oligarchs" -- most of whom made their fortunes in the early post-Soviet days under Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin-- not to meddle in political affairs in the upcoming election season when analysts expect to see the ruling elite easily keep its grip on power. | | | For big business, this (Voloshin's resignation) means one thing -- pack your bags," Dmitry Oreshkin, of the Merkator think-tank, said. |
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http://www.forbes.com/home/newswire/2003/10/29/rtr1126662.html
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| | EurasiaNet Civil Society - Uzbekistan: Another Opposition Leader Given Harsh Sentence |
| | A 49-year-old oil and cotton oligarch with business interests in Uzbekistan and the West, Umarov has headed the Sunshine Uzbekistan since it was formed in April 2005 -- in the wake of a revolution in neighboring Kyrgyzstan and one month before the bloody crackdown of a demonstration in Andijon. | | | Some observers have said Umarov joined the opposition because his business was directly threatened by Gulnara Karimova and the president’s other cronies who have been increasing their control over various sectors of the Uzbek economy. | | | Most of them have grown up in the United States, where Umarov moved his family some years ago as his business expanded and part of it was transferred abroad. |
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http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/civilsociety/pp030606.shtml
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| | Forbes.com: The Oligarch Who Came in from the Cold |
| | If your business gets some benefit from cheap energy, send a note of thanks to Russian oligarch Khodorkovsky. | | | Even if he is Russia's richest man, with an estimated net worth of $3.7 billion, and controls the country's second-largest oil company, his business is still dwarfed by the Saudi Aramcos, ExxonMobils and Royal Dutch/Shells of the world. | | | Not long ago Mikhail Khodorkovsky was vilified in the West as a crony capitalist who stiffed foreign business partners. |
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http://www.forbesimg.com/forbes/2002/0318/110.html
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| | Business oligarch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In actuality, post-Soviet business oligarchs are relatives or close associates of government officials or even government officials themselves who achieved vast wealth by acquiring state assets very cheaply (or for free) during the privatization process controlled by the Yeltsin government. | | | Business oligarch, a synonym of "business magnate", describes wealthy people that significantly influence the life of a state. | | | In the Putin era, the remaining oligarchs have come under fire for various alleged and real illegal activities, particularly the underpayment of taxes in the businesses they acquired. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_oligarch
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| | Vladivostok News business page |
| | Should the business be sold, it could help stabilize the somewhat rickety FESCO, investors told the Zolotoi Rog business weekly. | | | The well-known oligarch Aleksandr Smolensky, head of the Soyuz banking group, will visit Vladivostok on a one-day trip, bank officials said. | | | The Far Eastern Shipping Company is considering selling its 25 percent stake in PivoIndustria Primorya, saying there is no return from the business at this time. |
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http://vlad.tribnet.com/1999/ISS196/business.html
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| | NCSJ - Khodorkovsky "Take Down" |
| | Most oligarchs give money to various parties, he says; in fact, he claims to have cleared his contributions with the Kremlin, albeit with the friendly reformers with whom he is associated. | | | They are suspicious of America and the West, wary of big business and democracy and seeking to reassert government control over the economy and societyand they are increasingly exerting their power. | | | In time, the oligarch runs into trouble with the vertical power, as the Kremlin and its ministries are known in Russia. |
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http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/111003Newsweek.shtml
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| | RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2003/10/30 :: Rumours of resignation push Kremlin towards crisis |
| | However, it is necessary to get rid of the Yeltsin-era elite which created the conditions for oligarch-dominated business and a corrupt bureaucracy," Liliya Shevtsova, an analyst at Carnegie Endowment think-tank said on Ekho Moskvy radio. | | | The independent business newspaper, Vedomosti, reported it had been told by two independent sources that President Vladimir Putin had signed a letter accepting Mr Voloshin's resignation on Tuesday evening. | | | For big business this [Voloshin's resignation] means 'pack your bags'," said Dmitry Oreshkin of the Merkator think-tank. |
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http://www.rusnet.nl/news/2003/10/30/commentary02.shtml
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| | Fascism Galore |
| | They admire robber barons and bemoan the arrest and imprisonment of such ruthless and unsavory leaders of enterprise as Michail B. Khodorkovsky, the Russian business oligarch and founder of the Yukos oil company who was awarded public property in rigged auctions for pennies on the dollar. | | | The business mate of the political-economic alliance seems to form the worst sort of relationships on foreign soil; relationships that have too often resulted in domestic embarrassments and shame, if not more violent repercussions. | | | Congressman Cox has had his main financial support from big business, lawyers and accountants. |
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http://fascismgalore.blogspot.com
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| | Rinat Akhmetov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Rinat L. Akhmetov (Ukrainian: Ринат ЛеонідовичАхметов) is the richest Ukrainian business oligarch of Tatar descent. | | | Akhmetov was summoned by police to appear for questioning on 15 July 2005, but failed to appear, stating he was out of the country for holidays and business. | | | Rinat Akhmetov is considered to be an informal business and political leader of Ukraine's Donbas region. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Rinat_Akhmetov
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| | Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Tax inspectors tightly monitor Russian Internet community |
| | Another oligarch, Michael Khodorkovsky, the head of Russian oil giant Yukos, even rolled out an Internet strategy for his company that entails the construction of a countrywide Internet Protocol-based intranet, a training project involving thousands of people and the introduction of a paperless office. | | | Businesses and government are in a pitched battle over taxes. | | | FLake was effectively closed for two business days, while the inspectors tried to nail Valiev for not paying all his taxes. |
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| | The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com |
| | While criticizing the oligarch's business dealings and claims of political persecution, the court said his media empire had been subject to "questionable circumstances and peculiarities." | | | The blows are undermining the Media-Most empire of oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky, which has been a consistent critic of Kremlin corruption and Russia's wars in Chechnya, and which Russian prosecutors say has debts up to $800 million. | | | A sizable chunk of that is owed to the state-connected gas monopoly Gazprom, which called in its debt by taking control over the media outlets, appointing new management teams, and forcing many journalists to resign or renegotiate their contracts. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/04/20/fp7s1-csm.shtml
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| | Bush Family Business Financed By Israeli Oligarch's Ill-Gotten Gains |
| | Bush Family Business Financed By Israeli Oligarch's Ill-Gotten Gains | | | "The 'oligarchs' are a tiny group of entrepreneurs who exploited the disintegration of the Soviet system to loot the treasures of the state and to amass plunder amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars. | | | Berezovsky was one of the chief oligarchs in Russia who acquired massive wealth by taking control of the Soviet Union's state assets after the fall of communism. |
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http://www.rense.com/general68/finan.htm
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| | Government portal :: News |
| | As he noted, the matter is not about the figure of the entry barrier but about the principle: if the State agree to live in the conditions, when a successful business - oligarch project through PR technologies brings unknown political force to the political arena. | | | After all, not clan or oligarch interests, but the interests of the society must be presented in the Parliament, Oleksandr Zinchenko noted. | | | As he noted, the President, as a leading politician, has proposed a thesis, which must be discussed both in the society and the Verkhovna Rada. |
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http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en/publish/printable_article?art_id=20647956
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| | NPR : Russia Business Crackdown and U.S. Foreign Policy |
| | Day to Day, November 4, 2003 · NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to columnist Ann Applebaum of The Washington Post about the Russian government crackdown on oil business oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and what this means for U.S. foreign policy. | | | NPR : Russia Business Crackdown and U.S. Foreign Policy |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1491748
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| | BW Online October 20, 2003 Murky Dealings In Russia's Oil Patch |
| | The surprise was that he actually had a head for the oil business. | | | Calculate the value and tangible impact VoIP can have on your business. | | | How the saga is resolved could determine whether ExxonMobil makes one of the biggest oil deals of the year, whether Moscow really wants to open the country up further to foreign investment, and whether Putin and the Kremlin will end their war on Russia's most powerful oligarch. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_42/b3854081_mz054.htm
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