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| Sunday, 15-Jan-2012 00:18 |
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Different Statistics of Inflatable Tent
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Normally there are two types of inflatable tent , smaller and larger. Smaller tents have no stands and they remain attached to the ground. Smaller tents are light weighted and easy to carry from one place to another place. The most important thing is these are very useful to carry in long distance. On the other hand larger tents are used for displaying manufactured product in any trade show or business promotion.
At the same time, advertising flag really interesting to use as it has a variety. This can attract people with its colorful demonstration. And this is the now most of the reputed advisers utilize advertising flag for their product promotion. Actually the larger advertising flag can be set up beside the road side, campaigning, fair, or in demonstrating some exhibition. And the main thing is they can be set up with few minutes. In fact advertising flag are getting more popularity because of easy set up and several facilities.
Normally these are made with highest quality materials. These are made with 100% polyester. These are water, fire and ultra violent resistant. These advertising flag can also be used in any party or festival. So you have absolute freedom to choose your advertising flag. If you want to arrange a small party you can show them as attractive product. At the same time you can advertise your product through it.
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| Tuesday, 9-Nov-2010 08:19 |
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Pearl Jewelry - The Story of Pearl Hunters
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As long as pearl jewelry have been known to people, they have been a highly sought commodity for their beauty. It's only in recent times however that the industry has taken the hunt for the perfect pearl to a whole different level. Today, the shiny orbs that we see on in display in jewelry stores have actually almost always been grown in farms.
That's a far cry from the dangerous extraction and collection methods used before the invention of modern technology. In the past, not more than 100 years ago, the only way to retrieve pearls was by diving in lakes, floods and the ocean to pick them up, one at the time. The unfortunate divers who'se job it was to do this, were often poor and lured by the relative large sums they could get. The diver would sometimes have to dive as deep as 100 feet on one single breath of air. In order to preserve air and to stay submerged the longest, the divers would hold on to heavy stones on the way down.
Naturally, this dangerous activity was reserved for the desperate or the powerless - in many cases slaves or extremely poor peasents. Today, this method is all but obsolete in most places of the world. The cheaper cultured pearls have become popular and are many times the only pearls available to the consumer.
There are however still a few isolated areas that practice this old art of pearl diving. Some of the finest natural pearl speciments come from the gulf of Bahrain. Here, divers still risk their health to retrieve what are considered the top of the crop in the world. In fact, Bahrain wants no part of the sale of cultured pearls, banned from trade. Bahrain is one of the few places on earth that does an active job in trying to preserve the natural habitat and waters from pollution.
It's an interesting story and one that continues to fascinate buyers around the world. Somehow, the beauty of the pearl grows when it's been retrieved from the depth of the ocean.
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| Tuesday, 9-Nov-2010 08:14 |
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Buying Pearl Jewelry Without Being Ripped Off
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Buying pearl jewelry can be fun, exciting and confusing. Whether you're considering a gift of pearl jewelry for someone special or as a treat for yourself, take some time to learn the terms used in the industry. Here's some information to help you get the best quality pearl jewelry for your money, whether you're shopping in a traditional brick and mortar store or online.
Pearls
Natural or real pearls are made by oysters and other mollusks. Cultured pearls also are grown by mollusks, but with human intervention; that is, an irritant introduced into the shells causes a pearl to grow. Imitation pearls are man-made with glass, plastic, or organic materials.
Because natural pearls are very rare, most pearls used in jewelry are either cultured or imitation pearls. Cultured pearls, because they are made by oysters or mollusks, usually are more expensive than imitation pears. A cultured pearl's value is largely based on its size, usually stated in millimeters, and the quality of its nacre coating, which give it luster. Jewelers should tell your if the pearls are cultured or imitation. Some black, bronze, gold, purple, blue and orange pearls, whether natural or cultured, occur that way in nature; some, however, are dyed through various processes. Jewelers should tell you whether the colored pearls are naturally colored, dyed or irradiated.
Clams, oysters, mussels and many other mollusks with limy shells are known to produce pearls. But very few kinds yield gem pearls of jeweler's quality. The pearl is an abnormal growth of mother-of-pearl, or nacre, imbedded in the soft bodies of these shellfish. It is built up, layer upon layer, in the same way as nacre is added to the lining of the growing shell and always has the same color and luster. For example, over the country, hundreds of good-sized pearls are found each year in the oysters we eat. Unfortunately these have no commercial value regardless of whether they have been cooked or not because they are dull opaque white or purple like the shell of the parent oyster. In recent times almost all pearls of gem quality come from the oriental pearl oyster which has a bright shimmering translucent nacre.
A pearl starts growing when some irritating foreign substance such as a sand grain, bit of mud, parasite or other object becomes lodged in the shell-producing gland called the mantle. Pearls formed in the soft flesh where nacre can be added on all sides are most likely to be spherical and the most highly prized. By far the great majority are flattened or variously distorted and have little value. Size, color, luster and freedom from flaws are other essential qualities. Unlike other gems, such as diamonds, pearls have an average life of only about 50 years. In time the small amount of water in a pearl's make-up is lost and its surface cracks. Because they are mostly lime, necklaces which are worn often are injured by the acid secretions of the human skin.
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| Monday, 16-Nov-2009 02:59 |
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MOSCOW - The Faberge Easter eggs, which Viktor Vekselberg has bought from Forbes in New York and is bringing back to Russia as his peace offering to the Kremlin, may also come in useful as pacifiers, now that Vekselberg has gone to war again with fellow aluminium oligarch, Oleg Deripaska.
After appearing to agree to a no-raiding pledge a year ago, Siberian Ural Aluminum (SUAL), owned by Vekselberg, and Russian Aluminum (Rusal), owned by Deripaska, have clashed anew. This time the fight -- similar to the last one in late 2002 -- is over shareholding control of the aluminium sector's tidbits, the Volkhov aluminium smelter and the Pikalevo alumina refinery.
Maxim Titov, spokesman for pearl jewelry SUAL, said that recently Rusal had outbid SUAL for a 14 percent state owned shareholding in OAO Metallurg, a Russian company which owns Volkhov and Pikalevo. Titov acknowledged there is a conflict between SUAL and Rusal over the 14 percent share sale, but he declined to cultured pearl say at what price Deripaska had bested Vekselberg for the shares.
The unexpected share raid is embarrassing for Vekselberg because, without the shares, he cannot claim that SUAL has 100 percentownership of its assets, and without that credibility, he cannot go to the international markets with his plea to investors to cash him out of SUAL. Who would give Vekselberg a billion dollars for assets he doesn't control tightly enough to prevent his most deadly rival from capturing?
The answer to this question has been so troublesome that Chris Norval, head of Vekselberg's foreign flotation venture SUAL International, has made himself unavailable to answer questions for a year now. Behind the scenes, he has commissioned South African mining consultants, SRK, to do a new inventory of SUAL assets, as if to freshen them up, after financial advisor Fleming Family & Partners, has spent an unsuccessful year trying to market them.
Titov has also confirmed that a shareholder meeting called in St. Petersburg a few days ago, failed to proceed, because of the conflict between the two groups. Rusal is seeking a seat on the board of Metallurg. SUAL blocked the shareholders from meeting on a technicality.
The Volkhov smelter, in the Leningrad region, is the oldest, and smallest, of Russia's primary aluminium producers. It was first constructed in 1932, but it has been upgraded as recently as 1999, and has annual output capacity of 50,000 tons per annum. Production in 2003 was 22,600 tons. That figure is just 3 percentof SUAL's metal production for the year.
It is even more minuscule compared to biwa pearl Rusal's production numbers -- just 0.9 percent
The Pikalevo refinery, also in the Leningrad region, was started at the same time. But operations were postponed because of the German invasion until 1959. It is the smallest of Russia's refineries, and last year turned out 249,130 tons of alumina, the vital raw material for producing aluminium metal. Pikalevo alumina comprised 12 percent of SUAL's output. To freshwater pearl necklace Rusal, however, which is starved for alumina produced in Russia, Pikalevo represents almost one-quarter of what Rusal is able to produce for itself.
With local partners, SUAL owns about 80 percent of the shares in the two production units. It has been aiming to consolidate full control of the units, and make them wholly-owned subsidiaries of the SUAL group. The Rusal acquisition badly frustrates that plan. It also puts potential pressure on SUAL to make its alumina available to Rusal at prices that are more attractive than the imports Rusal is also obliged to depend on.
Deripaska has made raids against Vekselberg before, less for raw material gains, and more to sabotage SUAL's corporate consolidation plans, and greenmail Vekselberg into paying a high price to be left alone.
In January 2003 SUAL declared victory over Rusal, following a three-month long contest over a 32 percent shareholding in the Nadvoitsk smelter. Alexei Goncharov told me at the time that SUAL had reached an agreement to buy the shareholding, which Rusal had acquired from two Nadvoitsk directors in October of 2002. He confirmed that the fight over Nadvoitsk had been a bitter one.
In November of 2002, Gulzhan Moldazhanova claimed Rusal wanted to buy into Nadvoitsk in order to have a source of aluminium close to consumers in the remote northwestern wastes of Karelia. Moldazhanova was at the time Rusal's director for corporate development. Nowadays she manages Rusal's cashflow and corporate lending programme from a seat at Basic Element, Deripaska's holding company. In the weeks that followed her remarks, Rusal spokesman Yevgeny Ivanov attacked SUAL in the press for withholding aluminium claimed by Rusal as shareholder; SUAL denied the charge, and criticized Rusal's media tactics.
Nadvoitsk produces just 76,000 tons of aluminum.
SUAL hinted at the time that Deripaska's raid was a violation of a gentleman's agreement between Vekselberg and Deripaska that neither man would attack each other's aluminium business. Deripaska, the Vekselberg group suggested, was no gentleman. But neither group has ever admitted how much the raid cost Deripaska, nor how much Vekselberg paid to akoya pearl pearl beads make it go away.
Asked if SUAL plans to buy out the Rusal stake in Volkhov and Pikalevo, Titov says he cannot "comment on how this situation will be solved." Rusal's Moscow office refused to say anything.
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| Monday, 16-Nov-2009 02:58 |
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MOSCOW - Alternative results of the
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MOSCOW - Alternative results of the Duma elections to those the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation asserts are accurate have appeared, Izvestia reports. This information pearl jewelry has been obtained from the results of Communist Party of the Russian freshwater pearl Federation (KPRF) observers.
Over the last year, the Communists have been preparing an alternative vote-count system by party observers. Immediately before the elections, observers from the Union of Right Forces (SPS) and Yabloko joined them. The principle is the following: After the end of the poll, representatives of the biwa pearl parties registered the data and instantly sent it to the federal center.
According to freshwater pearl jewelry the observers’ results the elections results are the following: United Russia 33.28 percent, KPRF 12.65 percent, Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 11.36 percent, Motherland 10.75 percent, Yabloko 5.97 percent, SPS 5.11 percent and akoya pearl Against All pearl jewelry wholesale Parties 5.27 percent.
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| Monday, 16-Nov-2009 02:57 |
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MOSCOW — Despite a recent Russian Government authorization to release its production, sales, and mining data in carats, ALROSA, the state-controlled diamond miner, has refused, saying it will only issue the hitherto classified information to bankers and investors. The move, which appears to fly in the face of government transparency policy, as well promises ALROSA issued last year to naughty castles Eurobond buyers, protects the company from recent criticism that its diamond valuation data violate the international Kimberley Process rules.
President Vladimir Putin signed an order on March 3, lifting state secrecy designations from data on carats of ALROSA's mine production, reserves, mine recovery rates, export quotas, sales, domestic consumption, and company stocks. Exempt from this order, and still secret, are data on the carat volume and value of the state diamond stockpiles managed by Gokhran, an agency of the Finance Ministry. Recently, a Finance Ministry note was issued implementing the presidential decree.
However, Andrei Gusenkov, spokesman for ALROSA, told The Russia Journal: "The finance ministry's note offers a legal possibility to akoya pearl publish data. But it's not an obligation. At the moment, Alrosa has no plans to publish information on reserves as well as on production and sales in carats."
In the past, when ALROSA sought export secured loans from international banks, the company arranged for carat data on its mines to be made available. This was done indirectly through estimates prepared by a Belgian geologist, Luc Rombouts. Last October, when ALROSA's Luxembourg affiliate offered Eurobonds to investors, the company provided letters from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Finance Ministry in Moscow. These certified that ALROSA's diamond reserves were enough "to enable ALROSA to extract over the next 25 years…[at] an annual average volume of diamonds at least as great as that extracted during 2003." The average carat size and quality of the rough was also certified as "not materially lower" than diamonds produced in 2003. Watch the adverb, because the company neither disclosed the carat volume, nor the average carat value of its stones.
But it did give investors the impression this was its unwitting duty, imposed by the government's secrecy regulations. According to the October 2004 Circular, the regulations were about to change, and ALROSA only too happy to go along. Referring to last year's amendments of the state secrecy law – which paved the way for the March 3 presidential decree – ALROSA declared: "we believe that this liberalisation trend will create certain opportunities for our business. Based on discussions with officials of the Government of Russia, we believe that the Government of Russia will implement further diamond market liberalization reforms, and we intend to pursue additional opportunities resulting from such market reforms…"
Now that the government officials, with whom ALROSA had been speaking, have told the company it can release carat data, how could the company, whose board is chaired by the Minister of Finance, fail to freshwater pearl necklace comply. According to Gusenkov, "the policy of ALROSA is determined by its shareholders indeed." On the other hand, "ALROSA doesn't have any particular decisions from its owners regarding the data declassification."
As for how long ALROSA intends to keep the wraps on, Gusenkov said: "we did not give any prognosis in terms of time. And why should we?"
But if ALROSA wants to borrow money, or sell bonds, the wraps will be partially lifted, Gusenkov concedes. He told The Russia Journal. "It's possible that we would provide these data to certain investors within the framework of certain projects, but at the moment there is no need for that." Watch the adjective this time – if "certain" investors, who, and if not others, why?
International bankers and bond-buying institutions have little professional competence to analyze carat values, or to biwa pearl follow the chain of carat valuations from the mine-head to the point of sale. For years now, those who are expert in these matters, and whose livelihood depends on it, principally Russia's diamond buyers and manufacturers, have been vocally critical of ALROSA's pricing practices. They accuse the company's management of transfer pricing to move cash through subsidiaries offshore; of over-pricing for domestic buyers of the same stones exported for less; and of favouritism in the allocation of best-quality stones to polishers, leading to inflated profit margins for ALROSA's affiliated manufacturing plants, as well as kickbacks.
Critics of the concealment from within ALROSA, as well as government officials, have been trying to put a stop to these practices for several months. The campaign has led to bitter feeling between the so-called federals, supporting transparency and reorganization, and the so-called Yakuts, representing the Sakha region where most of ALROSA's mines are located, and where the company has been run since its beginnings. A showdown is expected within months between President Vladimir Putin and the president of Sakha, Vyacheslav Shtirov.
In the meantime, signaling that the pearl jewelry federals believe ALROSA's information policy is causing international problems, a report issued in Moscow by the Civil Research Organization (CRC) recently identified millions of dollars in discrepancies between different sources of company data. According to round pearl CRC, there is an uncomfortable conclusion: current data "do not reflect the real state of affairs, and can be the basis for serious claims from other members of the Kimberley Process."
The Kimberley Process is the international effort to stop illicit diamond trafficking and criminality associated with diamond mining, especially in Africa. Russia is the standing chairman of the Kimberley Process this year, and Finance Ministry officials are responsible for the day to day enforcement of the rules. If ALROSA is to be taken at its word, however, it is seeking to operate outside the rules.
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| Monday, 16-Nov-2009 02:56 |
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Mir in January to start its countdown
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian mission control said on Saturday that preparations for the aged Mir space station's return to Earth were proceeding according to schedule and all systems were in order.
The 15-year-old orbiter, the largest man-made object to akoya pearl jewelry plummet from orbit, will fall around March 21-22 and fragments that do not burn up as it goes through the Earth's atmosphere will plunge into the Pacific Ocean around March 22.
"The programme of work planned for pearl jewelry March 16 has been completed," a spokesman said on a recorded message at mission control in Korolyov, just outside Moscow. "On the basis of the results of telemetric data the complex is hermetically sealed...there is enough energy on board to ensure the computers are working, as well as the radio control of its orbit," the spokesman said.
On Friday, specialists gave the all-clear to steering systems on the Progress cargo ship, which docked with Mir in January to start its countdown to destruction and will help guide the station down if other controls fail. Mission control said that Mir, once the pride of the Soviet space programme, was orbiting at an average altitude of 233.5 km (145 miles) on Saturday, down 2.5 km
(1.6 miles) in 24 hours.
The plunge toward Earth is due to biwa pearl begin when the craft falls to 220 km (137 miles), which is expected around March 21-22.
Engineers will initiate the process by firing jets to brake the craft in three bursts over 24 hours and steer it towards its landing zone in an elliptical orbit 160-220 km (99-137 miles) above Earth.
Mission control has said experts also tested the central onboard computer on Mir and all of its steering systems.
About 1,500 fragments - up to cultured akoya pearl 40 tonnes of debris - may reach Earth, some at speeds high enough to smash through two metres (six feet) of concrete. Mir is expected to fly over Japan and Australia on its final orbit before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Chile, away from major air and sea routes.
Designed to operate for just three years, Mir has survived for 15, despite mishaps including a collision and a akoya pearl fire.
Engineers also briefly lost control of the station in December when its batteries went dead.
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| Monday, 16-Nov-2009 02:52 |
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The delegation head, Robert Strauss
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Tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky's arrest is turning into a watershed for President Vladimir Putin, with observers saying that the president’s response after his return from Europe could determine the future shape of his presidency.
And although most agree that Gusinsky's arrest Tuesday afternoon was an act of political vengeance that bore no relationship to the legal case cited against him, speculation is centering on who pearl jewelry orchestrated the arrest and how Putin will react when he arrives in Moscow on June 17.
"Now, [Putin] has a real chance to gemstone necklace become president in fact and not just in name," said Oleg Kiselyov, chairman of the board of directors of Impeksbank and one of 17 executives who wrote to Putin expressing their concern at Gusinsky's detention.
"Everything depends on Putin. If he doesn't make use of the situation to prove his independence and show his commitment to the interests of the voters – he was voted in after all, not appointed – then it will be a wasted opportunity."
Kiselyov said, in theory, Putin could demonstrate that he was equally distant from all of the oligarchs by allowing the conflict with Gusinsky to be resolved legally – by simultaneously allowing the prosecutor general to proceed with the case, while removing members of "the Family" from the Kremlin.
Firing members of the Family – a group of political and business insiders that reportedly dominates the nation's affairs, and includes Presidential Administration chief Alexander Voloshin – would demonstrate Putin's independence, Kiselyov said.
• ‘Old Oligarchy’
Kiselyov said he didn't see Gusinsky – chief of Media-MOST, which controls some of Russia’s most liberal media outlets: NTV Television, radio Echo Moscow and the Segodnya newspaper – as a symbol of corruption, but rather as a symbol of the self-made man.
"I don’t think [Gusinsky] was chosen as a symbol of the fight against corruption or even as a symbol of the opposition media, as everyone is fearing, but as a symbol of the old oligarchy," Kiselyov said. "My version of events is that the new oligarchy is trying to gain legitimacy. At the moment, they are kept at equal distance, like the old oligarchs."
The old oligarchy referred to constitutes the original seven businessmen – including Gusinsky, Vladimir Potanin and Boris Berezovsky – who grew fabulously wealthy under the "loans for shares" privatization in the early years of the Yeltsin administration. The new oligarchy reportedly consists of figures like Roman Abramovich and the CEO of MDM Bank, Alexander Mamut, who acquired their influence in Yeltsin's later years. The status of Berezovsky in this new group remains unclear.
Along with Kiselyov, among 17 signatories to blister pearl the letter to Putin protesting Gusinsky's detention were the chief of the national electricity grid RAO UES, Anatoly Chubais; and Alfa Bank president and reputed Kremlin bagman, Pyotr Aven. Conspicuous in their absence, however, were Abramovich and Berezovsky, who, though now State Duma deputies, are believed to continue to exercise influence inside the Kremlin through the Family, and particularly the agency of Voloshin.
Still, doubt was cast on Voloshin's involvement in the affair by Kiselyov's colleague, Aven, who said he spoke to the head of the Presidential Administration shortly after news of Gusinsky's arrest broke.
"I did call Voloshin," Aven told The Russia Journal shortly after the press conference called by the 17 executives. "[Voloshin's] reaction was not really clear. But he certainly didn't sanction the decision. It was the prosecutor's office, definitely the prosecutor's office. It seemed the Presidential Administration really did not know what was going on."
Voloshin's boss, Putin, who was in Spain on the first leg of a weeklong swing through Europe when the magnate's arrest was announced, quickly found his agenda overshadowed as journalists and foreign representatives continually raised the issue of Gusinsky's arrest.
Putin was initially hesitant in his responses, telling reporters he knew nothing of Gusinsky's arrest in advance but promising to biwa pearl look into the issue. The following day, though, when asked what he had discovered, the president glibly said that he had been unable to reach the prosecutor.
"Last night, I tried to find the prosecutor general. He is not in Moscow. Where is he? I do not know. But this will not be passed aside," Putin said at a press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Anzar in Madrid.
However, by Thursday, then in Berlin meeting with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Putin was describing the tycoon's arrest and incarceration in Moscow's notorious 18th-century Butyrskaya prison as "excessive."
"It would have been possible to insist he not leave the country, but I can't prevent it," Putin said of the prosecutor general's decision to jail the magnate rather than request he remain in Russia. "It should have been possible to handle this without an arrest." The president also denied the affair was anything other than a legal matter.
The Russian media and representatives of foreign countries were not as sanguine, focusing – unlike Putin – on the fact that Gusinsky heads Russia's only private and relatively independent media organization.
• Not a ‘vacuum’
In an interview with NTV broadcast in Moscow on Thursday, U.S. First Assistant Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said his country’s administration "did not see Gusinsky's arrest in a vacuum isolated from other events."
Talbott described "a pattern," which included the raid on Media-MOST's headquarters in May, the concerns expressed by Russian political figures who saw political motives behind the actions and, additionally, an attempt to pressure the free press.
Talbott quoted Putin as having told U.S. President Bill Clinton that Russia had "no future if it applied pressure on a civic society and the free press."
"Now we are seeing a tension between events and words," Talbott said of Gusinsky's arrest. "We hope this tension will subside so that pearl jewelry wholesale events confirm the words we heard."
• CEO trip canceled
Meanwhile, a delegation of U.S. CEOs canceled a trip to Russia designed to assess investment opportunities in the country in response to the Gusinsky case, the New York Times reported.
The delegation head, Robert Strauss, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, said he knew Gusinsky personally and that he considered it inappropriate to promote commercial investment in Russia when a media-magnate well known for criticizing the president had been jailed. Strauss said the imprisonment brought up "political and juridical questions about Russia"
Media-MOST journalists were even more forthright in their interpretation of events.
Dmitry Pinsker, political correspondent for the respected Itogi magazine, said it was definitely possible to see Gusinsky's arrest as a threat to freedom of speech. He echoed Talbott's comments that the process began before Gusinsky's detention.
"You can start the countdown from the moment Voloshin called MOST a 'systemic opposition,'" Pinsker said. "I know that back then, there was already discussion of finding some way to close this shop down. But they don’t have the resolve to just close the company."
Pinsker said there was an attempt to akoya pearl silence the company through any means possible, while still keeping a semblance of respect for freedom of speech the whole time.
• Not against speech ‘in their favor’
"They have nothing against freedom of speech, so long as it’s speech in their favor," Pinsker said of the Kremlin. "I think there is now a serious threat to the existence of a solid and independent business, [one] not financially dependent on the authorities." He also said that he found it impossible to believe Putin was caught unaware.
"I don’t believe that the president knew anything about what happened. I don’t imagine how he could have been unable to get in touch with the prosecutor general," he said.
UES chief Chubais, however, said he did believe Putin was unaware of the magnate's impending arrest, saying that from his own experience in government, he understood that decisions like Gusinsky's detention could be taken without the head of state's knowledge. Chubais cited a lengthy conversation he had with cultured freshwater pearl the president Tuesday morning, during which, he said, Putin had given no hint of what was about to happen.
"So, I think it is possible that the decision was taken at a lower level, following the ‘hey, I’ll help out my boss’ scenario," Chubais said. But he cautioned that Putin needed to make a decisive response quickly.
"For the moment, the authorities’ line is 'we don’t know, we’re sorting things out.’ Well, sort things out then and take a stand."
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