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...Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan, won a case against Orbis in London’s High Court for alleged breaches of data protection laws over the same Steele dossier....
...His boss John Bingham was no mean thriller writer himself....
...But as we have seen with Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union and Deng Xiaoping in China, new autocratic leaders can upend established policies, especially when the economy is crying out for it....
...The John Robinson Youth Chess Trust helps to finance Sivanandan’s overseas tournaments, which have already included successes in Spain and Latvia....
...Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman has warned that moving too fast from gas to renewable energy would be “dangerous and irresponsible”, arguing that the recent energy crisis can be partly blamed on the...
...“He was very annoyed I spoke to Mikhail Gorbachev first.” Yet he eventually seemed to warm to him....
...Trouble in paradise Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson’s Puerto Rican property portfolio has weathered natural disasters and a global pandemic....
...John RussellHarrogate, North Yorkshire, UK...
...That includes the potential for a new round of global warming talks between John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua, the climate envoys for the world’s two biggest economies, who have previously pledged joint action...
...Berlusconi’s election as Italian prime minister in 1994 demonstrated a popular admiration for oligarchs — something foreseen, with trepidation, 200 years earlier by the American founding father John Adams...
...Singer Brandon Flowers wore a red suit with gold buttons when he performed with Elton John at Glastonbury last month (though his look did draw comparisons with Alan Partridge)....
...A Germany run by Hitler or a Russia run by Stalin is likely to act differently from when those countries were led by Angela Merkel or Mikhail Gorbachev....
...Read more on how Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven seek to free themselves from western sanctions....
...Monday 27 March, 4pm, Weston Lecture Theatre, £7-£12.50 The Russia ConundrumFormerly Russia’s richest man, London-based exile Mikhail Khordokovsky discusses life going from the Soviet era into Putin’s Russia...
...It was decisive in their victories over Napoleon and Nazi Germany, and in what Kyiv-born writer Mikhail Bulgakov called that “great and terrible year” of 1918, when “the snowstorm from the north howled and...
...Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s envoy to international organisations in Vienna, told state newswire RIA Novosti the delegation included about 15 IAEA nuclear security specialists and a UN logistics and security...
...“Today in Sevastopol our surface to air missiles worked again,” Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Russian-imposed governor of Sevastopol, the port city on the Crimean peninsula, said on his Telegram channel....
...And he achieved his goal when he arrested the richest oligarch in Russia, a man named Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the owner of Yukos, in late 2003, put him on trial and sent him to jail in 2004 for 10 years....
...Somewhere between “Gates, Bill” and “Gorbachev, Mikhail”, right? But no. He turns out to be elsewhere....
...John Browne, the former chief executive of BP, served as chair to L1’s energy unit for six years before stepping down last year....
...Of all Russia’s richest men, Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven are perhaps the best integrated in the west....
...Abolition of these Soviet-era manipulations was a rallying cry for the Moldovan (the Romanian word for “Moldavian”) nationalist movement that emerged in the era of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader...
...Malcolm Moore (@malcolmmoore) Editor, FT Edit • I love a good obituary and Quentin Peel’s portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev was an exemplar of the genre....
...How did Yudina escape the camps — and worse — that enveloped the literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin and the theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold, as well as so many of her close friends?...
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