11 posts tagged “russia”
Attempting to control the distribution of relief from one sovereign nation to another should be called by its name: racketeering. Russians are good at it.
LaRussophobe reports:
Yukos was crushed by claims for tens of billions in back taxes, but Mr. Putin hasn't finished with Mr. Khodorkovsky yet. Yukos' former auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, is also now being sued by the Russian government for allegedly being party to tax evasion. The accounting firm recently withdrew its Yukos audits for the past 10 years.
Why are American companies dealing with this police state ?
A friend of mine is traveling in Russia on business and it turns out
foreigners have to report to the police upon arrival to the hotel and
surrender their passport for the duration of their stay. What that means is
that travelers to Russia are the whimsy of the corrupt Russian authorities
who may choose to not let the person out of the country for one bogus reason
or another.
Argghhh... We've got to stop doing business with them.
...you remember that George Bush line about Vladimir Putin?
I looked the man in the eye ... I was able to get a sense of his soul.
I stumble idly today over an earlier remark by a president-in-waiting that might almost have been the inspiration of Mr Bush's:And who said that? According to Mark Shields, Richard Nixon said that in 1968 when he announced Spiro Agnew as his running mate.There is a mysticism about men. You look into their eyes, and you can see their soul, and you have to be able to sense it.
LaRussophobe reports:
By an extremely narrow margin, the International Olympic Committee has voted to hold the 2014 Olympic games in the Russian city of Sochi.
This is as much of a fiasco as hosting Olympic games in China. Russia is not a country to engage in any reasonable dialogue. How can America participate in those games when Russia has declared us the enemy number one ? What's next ? Olympic games in Tehran ?
