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The Asia Sentinel
April 16, 2018
According to reports, Katsyv is also said to be a business associate of his former boss, Vladimir Yakunin, a former president of Russian Railways and a confidant of Vladimir Putin. In any case, it is believed that the money was then moved on to several FBME depositors and transferees including Tredwell,Ãâà...
Open Democracy
April 9, 2018
And unlike the actors playing leaders from the past (two Stalins, Trotsky, Bukharin) as well as such powerful figures of today as businessman and Former President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, ex-president of the Russian Football Union Vyacheslav Koloskov and Yevgeny Giner, head of theÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 7, 2018
The list of pilgrims, includes the delegation of the Foundation of Saint Andrew the First-Called led by Vladimir Yakunin, the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the foundation, and Bishop Irinarkh of Krasnogorsk, who would be the first Russians to get the Holy Fire from Jerusalem and later in the day bring itÃâà...
The Economist (blog)
March 22, 2018
I was fascinated to visit a business school that offered a course on how to join the regular economy—that is, how to transform yourself from a gangster into a legitimate business person. I was even more fascinated to visit the head of the Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, in the biggest office I have seen inÃâà...
Quartz
July 25, 2017
Vladimir Yakunin eventually left Russian Railways shortly after Andrey applied for British citizenship, which has since been granted. Reports at the time suggested Putin saw the application as a betrayal, apparently spurring Yakunin's ouster. Levchenko, Yakunin's spokesman, said in his email that thisÃâà...
Express.co.uk
December 31, 1999
Mr Yakunin, the former President of Russian Railways, said he was “very much concerned” with the current situation in Syria after Russia's ambassador to Lebanon, Alexander Zasypkinhad, warned Russia would shoot down US rockets and “even the sources that launched the missiles”. He said: “If we areÃâà...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
Putin confidant and former president of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin said the world may be standing "on the border of real hot war". Questioned on Syria, by BBC Newsnight's Evan Davis, Mr Yakunin said "we are living in a world of information fakes". 12 Apr 2018. Share this with Facebook Ãâ÷ Share this with TwitterÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
Vladimir Yakunin, who climbed from being an intelligence officer in the KGB to the CEO of Russian Railways, reveals that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been “in thrall to some phobia” about Russia due to a painful experience in her childhood. In his memoirs “The Treacherous Path: An Insider'sÃâà...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
Former Putin confidant on what Assad is thinking. Vladimir Yakunin, a former Putin confidant, questioned whether chemical weapons were used by Syrian government forces in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta. Picture: Vladimir Yakunin. Credit: Getty ImagesÃâà...
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