The looting of Russia

By David E. Kaplan and Christian Caryl

WASHINGTON, August 3, 1998 — "Can you take a look at this?" asked Joe Davidson's supervisor at the FBI, handing him a file. Davidson cracked

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"… f court records. With special access to investigators in San Francisco and Moscow, the magazine has pieced together the details of one of the grandest schem …"

"… elf with poise. The tall young Russian had arrived only months before from Moscow, boasting of connections to high-ranking officials and wielding an apparen …"

"… foreign businessmen, and set up a series of moneymaking ventures with the Moscow police department. One business, an export company that sent gas masks to …"

"… ffices in Antwerp — center of the international diamond trade — and in Moscow, where the Russians controlled one quarter of the world’s diamond produc …"

Overview: The tobacco lobby goes global

By Ricardo Sandoval Palos

The tobacco lobby goes global

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"… ts, has uncovered a long list of aggressive industry lobbying tactics from Moscow to Mexico City. Among the items in the industry’s tool kit: political ca …"

"… By 2012 – four years after signing the WHO’s tobacco control pact – Moscow promises it will have new limits on the industry. Getting there, however, …"

Angola-gate case goes on without ‘extraordinary operator’

By Peter Newbatt Smith

That was then . . . One chapter of the Center’s 2002 report Making a Killing: The Business of War was devoted to Arcadi Gaydamak, whom we de

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"… oomberg. In addition to his many other commercial interests, he acquired a Moscow newspaper and soccer and basketball teams in Jerusalem. In 2007, he founde …"

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Ex-DHS watchdog: Random searches, more cameras needed to protect mass transit

By John Solomon

The Homeland Security Department’s former chief watchdog says the government needs to do more to protect mass transit in the United States f

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"… States from the sort of terror attacks that occurred earlier this week on Moscow’s subway system.Clark Kent Ervin, who served as the department’s first …"

"… hat, despite the occasional foreign incidents (London, Madrid, Mumbai, now Moscow again), we’ve not focused nearly as much money and attention on mass tra …"

After Moscow bombings, U.S. subways still vulnerable to terrorism

By John Solomon

A sarin gas attack on Japan's subway system in 1995. A foiled subway terror plot in New York City. Attacks on underground trains in London i

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"… acks on underground trains in London in 2005. The twin suicide bombings in Moscow.Terrorists have repeatedly made underground transit systems a target of th …"

"… ess threats that have been known for years.The bombings early today of two Moscow commuter trains, killing more than three dozen, may add urgency to a probl …"

Exporting an epidemic

By Jim Morris

Human toll reaches millions as asbestos industry expands worldwide

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"… do Huertas in Bogota, Murali Krishnan in New Delhi, Roman Shleynov in Moscow, and Marcelo Soares in Sao Paulo contributed to this report. …"

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Elk Hills: Private or public?

By Josey Ballenger, Nathaniel Heller and Knut Royce

WASHINGTON, October 27, 2000 — The political decision to sell the Elk Hills oil reserve was made from high in the Clinton administration nea

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"… these objectives.So on December 19, 1994, while O’Leary was on a trip to Moscow, her deputy, William H. White, announced at a news conference – with Cli …"

Cheney led Halliburton to feast at federal trough

By Knut Royce and Nathaniel Heller

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2000 — Under the guidance of Richard Cheney, a get-the-government-out-of-my-face conservative, Halliburton Company ove

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"… count said that the bank checked with both the CIA and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and concluded that there was “no evidence to support the allegations” …"

"… ”Reached by telephone, Alexander Tolchinskiy, an officer of Alfa Bank in Moscow, described as “nonsense” the reports that Alfa or its bosses had been …"

"… Russian crime organizations, notably the notorious Solntsevo mob family in Moscow. The Russian-American specialist on business practices in Russia, who has …"

"… hment.By February of 1998, however, following meetings at Alfas offices in Moscow, Paly agreed to divest his stake in Tyumen Oil to Alfa. One month later, A …"

Party machines, lobbyists and special interests: Part four

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2000 — Throughout his political career, Bill Bradley has defined himself by what he is not. ...

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"… began eating and talking together regularly. In 1989, they took a trip to Moscow together. Cohen defines his role with Bradley as expressing to Bradley his …"

The day democracy died in Russia

MOSCOW, April 17, 2001 — So, it has happened. The so-called "tough plan" developed by the Kremlin's top secret analytical group has been put

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