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14 • REKLAMA MIAMI • NO. 2 (202) • FEBRUARY • 2012 News
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FROM RUSSIA WITH NEWS
The pilot died
The pilot of a UTair flight from
Bangkok to the Siberian city of
Novosibirsk died of sudden heart failure
three hours after takeoff, and the plane
was landed successfully by the co-pilot,
Life News reported Friday. A doctor on
board the Boing 757 attempted to revive
the pilot, 44-year-old Sergei Golyev,
but was unsuccessful. A spokesperson
for Tolmachyovo airport in Novosibirsk
told Life News that Golyev was flying
as a passenger on the overnight flight,
not as one of the plane’s pilots. An
investigator said the doctor’s attempts
to save Golyev’s life took place in the
pilot’s cabin.The co-pilot decided to
make an emergency landing in China to
get medical assistance for Golyev, but the
afflicted pilot died before the plane made
its descent, the Life News report said.
The plane then continued to its original
destination, landing Friday morning. No
one on board the flight was injured
The killer may be a woman
New DNA evidence uncovered in the
investigation into the slaying of the crusading
journalist Anna Politkovskaya suggests that the
killer might be a woman, a lawyer in the case
said Thursday. A re-examination of the gun
recovered from the crime scene revealed traces
of female DNA on the weapon, Murad Musayev, a
defense lawyer for suspects in the 2006 killing,
told Interfax. Politkovskaya was gunned down
in her apartment building on Oct. 7, 2006, after
years of writing critical reports about human
rights abuse in Chechnya. The prosecution
has insisted that Rustam Makhmudov, who
hails from Chechnya, was the killer. He was
arrested last year after spending five years in
hiding abroad. Three other men, including
two of Makhmudov’s brothers, were tried for
the murder, but were acquitted in 2009. The
Supreme Court later overturned the ruling and
has sent the case back to be investigated again.
Putin will never step
down from power
One of the most popular slogans during the
December protests in Moscow and other cities
was «Putin is a thief!» — and, as Putin himself
reminded us in his 2010 televised call-in show,
«A thief should sit in jail». This may be one of
the main reasons Putin will never step down
from power. Ever.According to The New Times
Oct. 31 cover story, «Russia, Inc.: How Putin
and Co. Divided Up the Country», Putin and his
inner circle control from 10 percent to 15 percent
of the country’s gross domestic product (from
$140 billion to $200 billion) through inside
deals. Andrei Illarionov, former economic adviser
to then-President Putin from 2000 to 2005,
described Putin’s «Russia, Inc». as «a corporatist
state model». U.S. diplomats put it a little less
diplomatically in cables that WikiLeaks published
a year ago, describing Russia as «a virtual mafia
state» with Putin as the «alpha dog» sitting at the
top of this structure. The best, and perhaps only,
guarantee of securing immunity for Putin — and
dozens of his friends and colleagues who have
become millionaires and billionaires over the
past 10 years through their Kremlin-connected
businesses — against possible corruption and
other criminal charges is to remain in power.
“Pussy Riot” held a concert
All-female rock group Pussy Riot held an
unsanctioned concert Friday on Red Square at
which they performed a song with the chorus
«Rebellion in Russia», the group said on its
LiveJournal page. Photographs posted on the
group’s blog page show its members dressed
in brightly colored dresses and stockings
standing on the outside wall of Lobnoye
Mesto, a centuries-old platform across from
the Kremlin on which tsars’ decrees were once
read.The group said they performed a song that
began with the lyric «A column that has risen
up in rebellion is moving toward the Kremlin».
Another lyric in the song echoed a chant from
last month’s demonstrations protesting the
State Duma elections: «We exist». The half of
the group’s singers were in police custody
London trial has ended
After four months of acid testimony, the
London trial between Boris Berezovsky and
Roman Abramovich has ended, with a ruling
expected in late March or early April.The High
Court trial wrapped up Thursday. Berezovsky
claimed in his lawsuit that Abramovich tricked
him into selling stakes in aluminum assets
and oil firm Sibneft at a firesale price, causing
a loss of about $6.8 billion.Abramovich said
he shelled out $2 billion to Berezovsky for
political leverage and physical protection
and said Berezovsky wasn’t a Sibneft owner.
Meanwhile, Berezovsky, who lives in London,
has launched a lawsuit against the family of
Badri Patarkatsishvili, his onetime business
partner who died in Britain in 2008, The Times
of London reported Saturday. In the case, which
is set to go to full trial in October, Berezovsky
claims that he owns half of the late Georgian’s
assets «under a handshake agreement that the
two men made in 1995», The Times reported.
The Times said the assets, which include gold
mines, oil prospects and casinos, could be worth
more than $3 billion.
Troubles in the air
Moscow-bound Boeing 737 operated by the
Donavia airline was forced to execute a terrifying
emergency landing in Rostov-on-Don on Monday
after the cabin lost pressure, causing some
passengers to pass out and others to get bloody
noses, Interfax reported».The on-board alarm
was triggered. The crew made the decision to
land the plane urgently». The abortive flight left
Rostov-on-Don at 2 p.m. Moscow time but made
an about-turn just 20 minutes later after the crew
was alerted to a technical problem in the cabin.
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