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...Here he profiles six leaders he has known — Lee Kuan Yew, Konrad Adenauer, Richard Nixon, Charles de Gaulle, Margaret Thatcher and Anwar Sadat — and draws general lessons about the character and intellect...
...Ryan Cornelius, 68, has been imprisoned in the Gulf’s commercial capital for 14 years after being arrested in 2008 along with three other people, including his former business partner Charles Ridley....
...The intervention comes three days ahead of an EU summit where leaders will be asked by new European Council president Charles Michel to iron their big differences over the budget....
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...On Thursday Mr Browder condemned the verdict against his former lawyer....
...One UK shareholder activist, Bill Browder, discovered in 2005 how difficult it is to reveal the ultimate beneficiaries of the shares....
...Charles Hendry, a Conservative energy minister from 2010 to 2012, urged David Cameron this month to take a cautious approach to events in Ukraine....
...Mr Browder is being sued for libel in the UK by a Russian policeman....
...“Anyone offering the Russian Interior Ministry support, or in any way processing their request in relation to Mr Browder, will become part and parcel of Vladimir Putin’s political vendetta against Mr Browder...
...In 2005 Mr Browder tried to sue in Russian courts to cancel the treasury shares....
...Formal charges against Mr Browder would be filed in a matter of days, Mr Alexandrov said....
...However, this trial will not examine those accusations, Mr Browder said....
...Along with Boris Fyodorov, former finance minister and Gazprom board member, Mr Browder demanded an independent audit....
...“Directorate K is up to their eyeballs in murky dealings,” said William Browder, head of Hermitage Capital, who claims his company was targeted by directorate and interior ministry officers in a 2007 fraud...
...William Browder, head of Hermitage Capital, said he welcomed the report, but added: “Everybody knows that Sergei Magnitsky was falsely accused, arrested, and killed by the interior ministry....
...Bill Browder, chairman of Hermitage Capital, and himself an activist shareholder who was expelled from Russia in 2005, says of the Navalny charges: “This is their standard operating procedure....
...The campaign is the latest effort by Mr Browder, who has been denied a visa to return to Russia, to secure justice for Mr Magnitsky....
...Bill Browder, the chief executive, says the ministry has tried to “blacken Sergei’s name” on the anniversary of his death....
...Its legal problems began with Mr Browder’s expulsion and culminated in the arrest of its lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, in 2008 followed by his death in 2009....
...Hermitage Capital Management, an investment fund run by the US-born Bill Browder, has obtained only one document that shows direct FSB involvement in the Magnitsky case....
...“We welcome the FMA’s interest in this case,” said Bill Browder, Hermitage chief executive, adding that the company’s Austrian law firm would provide documentary evidence from its New York subpoena “showing...
...Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage, and his lawyers have for years sought to keep their battle in the public eye and the push for an Austrian investigation can be seen as another attempt to give...
...Hermitage’s owner, Bill Browder, was banned from entering Russia in 2005 after alleging corruption at big Russian companies....
...“Mr Bagmet has a direct connection to the case in which our lawyers have been persecuted,” said Bill Browder, head of Hermitage Capital....
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