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Sent to Siberia: the oligarch who had it all - and lost it
Times Online ^
| October 29, 2005
| Jeremy Page
Posted on 10/31/2005 3:10:19 PM PST by sergey1973
An imprisoned oligarch will not allow his spirit to be broken by jail, reports our correspondent
ONE man is a former Soviet dissident who spent four years in the gulags and fifteen working as a bus driver before becoming an Orthodox priest. The other is a former Communist youth activist who became the richest man in post-Soviet Russia before he fell foul of the Kremlin and was thrown in jail.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: eurasia; khodorkovsky; kremlin; orthodoxy; putin; religion; russia; russianopposition; yukos
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10/31/2005 3:12:49 PM PST
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sergey1973
(Russian American Political Blogger, Arm Chair Strategist)
To: Salvation; NYer
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10/31/2005 3:14:28 PM PST
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sergey1973
(Russian American Political Blogger, Arm Chair Strategist)
To: sergey1973
More gulaging by the Putin autocrats!
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10/31/2005 3:59:34 PM PST
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Thunder90
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10/31/2005 4:44:14 PM PST
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Ciexyz
(Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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