A Russian's Plea to Back America

BW online ^ | 3/14/03

[knak]

Billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky says working with the U.S. is his country's best economic hope, and he's pushing Putin to support BIf any Russian business magnate personifies the country's efforts to forge closer political and economic ties with the U.S., it's billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the 39-year-old chairman of Moscow-based Yukos, Russia's second-largest oil company. A frequent visitor to Houston and Washington, Khodorkovsky has hired top American executives to help him manage Yukos and views the U.S. as a crucial source of technology and knowhow for post-Soviet Russia's emerging capitalist economy. He also sees the U.S. as a vital market for Russia's oil and other exports.

[knak]

first paragraph should read:
Billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky says working with the U.S. is his country's best economic hope, and he's pushing Putin to support Bush.

[mattdono]

Bump for later reading.

[struwwelpeter]

Interesting. But I think the die has already been cast, and attitudes are now hardening into a generation of ill-will and mistrust.

Russia has always been her own worst enemy. Zhal'

[TheSpottedOwl]

Smart man. No wonder he's a billionare.

[George W. Bush]

Pro-American business factions may yet turn Russia around in the next week. It's almost certain that Germany will split off from France and return to pro-American policy in less than 2 years but not much hope that it will happen this spring.