this is mikhail korda kovski. he s russia s richest man. believed to be worth 15 billion. listed as one of the ten most powerful billionaires in the world by forbes. but that same year he got himself arrested. the richest man in russia, one of the richest men in the world is behind bars tonight. mikhail khodorkovsky was arrested when one of his jets stopped in siberia today. he s accused of fraud and tax evasion. he s considered a political opponent of russian president vladimir putin. as a political opponent of vladimir putin, mikhail khodorkovsky decided to put his money to work for what he wanted in this country, put his money to work against the man who had him arrested on that siberian tarmac. he decided to use his vast fortune to fund and lead an opposition to try to topple
soviets a western where everybody studied who figure out who really held power and what the soviets were going to do next. that s now vestigial art. you don t have to do criminology under putin, it doesn t matter. nobody matters, it s just him. that s worth keeping in mind as the obama administration runs out of time to strike back at russia and putin before obama leaves office. it s also worth keeping in mind as a private business moves into the white house and starts conducting its business on the letterhead of the united states of america. steve call is here tonight. we ve got a big show. stay with us. walked around the shelter, no intention of adopting. he was the very last kennel in the very last row. emaciated. he was skin and bones. usually what you see in neglected dogs. it was one of those complete, meant-to-be moments. i totally fell in love with him. (avo) through the subaru share the love event,
long list. there was just boris yeltsin, then the next guy he pick to go after him, his prime minister, to whom he handed over power after he surprisingly stepped down on y2k, his prime minister was that sad-faced little devil, vladimir putin. vladimir putin had been prime minister under yeltsin from 99 to 2000, then on y2k yeltsin poofed, vladimir putin became president. to 2008, then went back to being prime minister, and he s been president since then and will run for re-election as president in 2018. this is russia s post this is it. this is russia s post soviet leadership. it has been 25 years, but that s all you have to remember. yeltsin for a hot minute and it ended weird and now putin forever. that s it. but it s interesting. putin very clearly learned from some of yeltsin s experience. he decided that he didn t need
conferences, the end of the year one is usually the good one. it s usually long. he usually takes questions on everything and anything. but both of those things are going to happen tomorrow. that interview on nbr where he talks about what we re going to do to russia over this election thing and that press conference where he will take questions from the press corps at the white house. expect the president to be making a ton of news tomorrow. much more ahead. stay with us. e the same eyes. same nose. same toughness. and since he s had moderate alzheimer s disease, the same never quit attitude. that s why i asked his doctor about once-a-day namzaric. (avo) namzaric is approved for moderate to severe alzheimer s disease in patients who are taking donepezil. it may improve cognition and overall function, and may slow the worsening of symptoms for a while. namzaric does not change the underlying disease progression. don t take if allergic to memantine, donepezil, piperidine or any of the in
oil and natural resource exploration, does the idea of a major american energy company send pg its top official undermine the sanctions you think in any way? look, again, we communicated our policy on russia to the u.s. business community in multiple forms. ultimately each company s leadership needs to make its own decision. most companies recognize that attending this forum sends a poor message out there about the acceptability of russia s actions. most of the companies, most of them do, exxon doesn t. the ceo of exxon, our secretary of state in waiting, he went to st. petersburg. he told the state department, screw you, we re going to make money. it s going to hurt you?