According to the NY Times, the Putin government has raided Price Waterhouse's offices looking for incriminating papers around the Yukos affair. The government has apparently likened Yukos to Enron, which is a pretty smooth move. Russia is so opaque that noone will ever be able to assess how much sense this analogy makes, but enough Russians will buy it for it to stick.
Me, while being on record as to Khodorkovsky's lily-whiteness (i.e. not), think he's generally a more appealing figure than Putin. He gives a fuck about civil society, which is nice. He's certainly a lot cuter. It would be interesting to see how Putin does without strong oil revenues. Would they love him so then?
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Enronstvo i Yukosshchina
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Khodorovsky vs. Putin hands down to see whose enormous glandular prowess can be enhanced to perestroika levels of hugeness. ICBM's be damned, Khodorovsky's is in his pants.
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