The problem with using online translation programs, or relying on someone else's translation is they usually are incorrect. This section:
"Let's distract for a short while from Vladimir Putin's conversation with Spanish journalists and we shall be transferred to the near future. We shall imagine a following picture: there is a judicial session. The judge (we shall assume,) says Kolesnikov: « Will invite in a hall of witness Putin Vladimir Vladimirovicha ». Putin enters. (we shall lower formalities with bringing the oath.) the lawyer of the claimant (we shall assume, Schmidt) asks Putin: « Tell, Vladimir Vladimirovich, you remember, how gave interview to the Spanish journalists before your visit to Spain in February, 2006? » « Yes, — Putin answers, — I remember ». « Here before me the stenogram of that interview, — Schmidt, — in it on a question continues, company " Bajkalfinansgrup " which subsequently has bought on auction of the action « Yuganskneftegaz » what for has been created, you have answered the following. I quote under the stenogram: « … that claims to those who has then got this property, have practically come to naught ». Whether correctly I have understood your answer, Vladimir Vladimirovich? You have admitted then, that company " Bajkalfinansgrup ", firm a something ephemeral, have been created with criminal intentions to hide from justice of true originators of capture of the another's property, to throw consequence off the scent and to deduce from under impact of the present purchaser of " Yuganskneftegaz » — state company " Rosneft ". That is you knew about a preparing crime and have not prevented it? Or you were the initiator of this swindle?"
Is actually a satrical peice - trying to predict what would happen if Putin was forced to testify in court (and honestly) about Yuganskneftegaz".
To state that Putin admitted to creating a fake firm "Baikalfinansgrup" is inaccurate and misleading. Also, if you post materials from ej.ru you have to provide a link to the story on their website, or they will sue you (it's in the fine print).
Having said that, if the Russian press isn't free, how does ej.ru survive? ;)
What kind of weekly this is, only internet newspaper? If not how many people can read them, more than Moscow and St Petersburg?