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4 days ago · The following is a list of Jews born in the territory of the former Russian Empire. It is geographically defined, so it also includes people born after the dissolution of the Russian Empire in 1922 and its successor the Soviet Union in 1991. A few years before the Holocaust, the Jewish population of the Soviet Union (excluding Western Ukraine ...
16 hours ago · At the post-summit press conference, Berlusconi defended Russia’s attacks on Chechnya and the imprisonment of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, obviously against the official position of the European Union. The institutional revisions introduced with the Treaty of Lisbon aimed to avoid such situations.
5 days ago · While other privatized Russian oil companies -- including Roman Abramovich's Sibneft and Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Yukos -- fell back into government hands, Alekperov's Lukoil has remained independent.
1 day ago · e. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988 ...
2 days ago · Chrystia Freeland. Christina Alexandra Freeland PC MP (born August 2, 1968) is a Canadian politician serving as the tenth and current deputy prime minister of Canada since 2019 and the minister of finance since 2020. A member of the Liberal Party, Freeland represents the Toronto riding of University—Rosedale in the House of Commons.
4 days ago · The revelations, made by several news outlets including the Dossier Centre, a group of activists close to businessman and political opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky, based on a leak by an insider are yet another blow for Kozak, coming from his own ranks.
16 hours ago · Ngân hàng Menatep của tài phiệt Mikhail Khodorkovsky sở hữu 78% cổ phần của Công ty dầu khí Yukos (trị giá 5 tỉ USD) với chỉ 310 triệu USD, trong khi Boris Berezovsky bắt tay với ông Roman Abramovich có được Công ty dầu mỏ Sibneft trị giá 3 tỉ USD với giá chỉ 100 triệu USD.
