← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Walter Yannis
Thread ID: 5800 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2003-03-25
2003-03-25 11:50 | User Profile
This just appeared on [url=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030325/ap_on_re_eu/britain_russia_berezovsky&cid=716&ncid=716]Yahoo![/url] 25 March 2003.
This is more evidence proving the ethnic nature of the power struggle in Russia. After the USSR fell apart powerful Jews like Gusinsky, Berezovsky and Abramovich looted Russia while millions of Russians went without their salaries and pensions. Putin exiled these three, and put a number of others in jail, most recently Mavrodi of the MMM pyramid scheme. He (legally) seized Gusinsky's anti-Russian propaganda machine NTV and turned it over to GAZPROM, and installed a White Russian Christian as general director. He installed a Russian of German decent Alexei Miller as head of Gazprom.
It appears that he succussfully put down Berezovsky's Chechen rebellion (the pipeline goes through Chechnya) and got a referendum through, but time will tell on that one. Now Putin moves in for the kill on the architect of the great looting of Russia in the 1990's - perhaps the greatest theft in the history of humanity.
Madrussian pointed out last year that "all the right things are happening in Russia" and this goes to proving that point.
Go Vladimir!!!!
Walter
By MICHAEL McDONOUGH, Associated Press Writer
LONDON - British police said Tuesday they have arrested Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky at the request of Russian authorities who are investigating him for alleged fraud.
An extradition request charges that Berezovsky defrauded the administration of Russia's Samara region while director of a company called LogoVaz between Jan. 1 1994 and Dec. 31 1995.
The Metropolitan Police said officers arrested Berezovsky in London early Monday. A LogoVaz associate, Yuli Dubov, was also arrested Monday, police said.
Berezovsky and Dubov were released on bail, pending an appearance at Bow Street Magistrates Court on April 2, police said.
"Both were charged on the extradition warrant issued by Bow Street Magistrates' Court following a request for assistance from Russian Authorities investigating allegations of a fraud," said a statement from the Metropolitan Police.
"The charge alleges that between Jan. 1, 1994, and Dec. 31, 1995, they defrauded the Administration of Samara Region of 60 billion rubles whilst being directors of Logovaz," it added.
In December 1995, 60 billion rubles was worth some $13 million.
A Moscow court last October issued an arrest warrant for Berezovsky, Dubov and another associate in connection with the theft of cars from Russia's largest carmaker AvtoVaz.
LogoVaz was the official dealer for AvtoVaz and later functioned as the holding company for a range of Berezovsky investments. Dubov was general director of LogoVaz.
Berezovsky, an influential member of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin's circle, was emblematic of the politically connected group of so-called oligarchs who amassed huge wealth after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
However, Putin's government targeted Berezovsky in its anti-corruption campaign, and the tycoon became a bitter critic of the Russian leader. Berezovsky says the efforts to prosecute him are motivated by his criticism, and have forced his self-imposed exile in Britain.
2003-03-25 16:35 | User Profile
**Berezovsky and Dubov were released on bail, pending an appearance at Bow Street Magistrates Court on April 2, police said. **
That move insures that he'll never see the inside of a jail cell and was a pretty dumb thing to do, as Berezovsky's got "flight risk" written all over him in huge red letters. I more than half-expect him to show up in Tel Aviv within a week, being embraced heartily by the lovely Sharon.
Hey, if Israel's economy is really that bad, who wouldn't offer a fellow tribe member with billions of dollars (who's been unjustly persecuted, of course) sanctuary from the anti-Semites of Russia? For a price, naturally.
2003-03-25 16:58 | User Profile
Such slime as Berezovsky used to cry "For Stalin!" before being shot after the show trials.
2003-03-25 20:38 | User Profile
I'll never understand why the lampposts of Moscow and St. Pete's were not appropriately decorated with revolution "decorations" following the fall.
There must have been other factors at work that I am unaware of.
2003-03-25 20:43 | User Profile
Any way to tell Russian Jew names from Russian White names? Same for Poland, if anyone has helpful hints.
2003-03-25 20:47 | User Profile
This enemy of ethnic Russians deserves the same fate as Trotsky.
2003-03-25 21:24 | User Profile
Originally posted by Hugh Lincoln@Mar 25 2003, 13:43 ** Any way to tell Russian Jew names from Russian White names? Same for Poland, if anyone has helpful hints. **
Their original German names: Edelman, Bronstein etc.
"Russified" names which are either translated or endings changed: Rubin, Rubinchik, Zolotarev (from Gold), Subbotin (from Sabbath), Shabat etc.
Anything ending with -sky or -itz, -ic, -ich, -chik is suspect, because many Jews came from Poland, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries where those are common, but which are not as common in Russia.
Some made-up names suggesgting intelligence (Naumov) or nobleness.
In terms of first names, Jews in the Soviet Union used a specific subset of common names: Alexander, Michael, Vladimir, Yakov, Lev for males and Anna, Sonya for females.