Rice Cites Yukos In Moscow Talks VILNIUS, Lithuania, April 20 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday she "pretty pointedly" told Russian officials that the outcome of the criminal case against former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky would affect prospects for business investment in Russia. Russian Oil Tycoon's Trial Ends MOSCOW, April 11 -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned Russian oil tycoon, made an impassioned speech on the last day of his politically tinged trial here Monday, blaming a "criminal bureaucracy" for jailing him and defiantly refusing to ask the court for leniency. In Store Warming Up to Packaging The end of communism was a messy affair, and Russians are still cleaning up after it. When price controls were dropped early in 1992, introducing elements of capitalism and consumer culture, a cold wind was blowing. Before you knew it, plastic grocery bags were hanging from the trees, aluminum soda bottles were crunching under foot and empty juice boxes were clogging the gutters.
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