Two Fugitives (Oil Businessmen) From Russia at Bush Event

[truthpusher]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/international/europe/06russia.html

Two Fugitives From Russia at Bush Event
By ERIN E. ARVEDLUND

Published: February 6, 2005

MOSCOW, Feb. 5 - Two Russian businessmen wanted by Russia's government were among the thousands of guests attending a high-profile prayer breakfast with President Bush on Thursday.

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The attendance of the two, Mikhail Brudno and Vladimir Dubov, was reported by local Russian news media on Friday and by The Washington Post on Saturday.

As part of a broad attack on the Russian oil giant Yukos and its founder, the billionaire businessman Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the Russian authorities last year began investigating and arresting some of his closest business associates. Mr. Khodorkovsky was arrested in October 2003 and remains in jail and on trial.

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Mr. Krause said the invitation to the prayer breakfast and the granting of visas to the two men was a deliberate signal from the United States government to Russia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/international/europe/06russia.html

[Kimber Scott]

1. All the oil men gotta stick together. nt

[alittlelark]

2. Nauseating

:puke:

[Zynx]

3. Did they try the soup?

:evilgrin:

[Old Mouse]

6. LOL!

[VegasWolf]

4. Oil is thicker than blood. n/t

[tkmorris]

5. Too damned funny

Democratic activists and other people not considered to be friendly enough to Bush are literally banned from attending his speeches but fugitive Russian oil execs are welcome guests?

Someone really needs to draw this parallel on the talk show circuit.

[catzies]

7. Does Poppy know them too? He was in Moscow not long before

the whole Yukos thing began to go down.

Poppy gets to do a lot of stuff under the radar and only rarely appears in events for public consumption, like the plea for tsunami relief he did with Clinton.

Who, by the way, doesn't look well. :(