George Soros, billionaire speculator and philanthropist, was in
a bad mood when he addressed the US Russian Investment Conference in
Boston last month. On November 6, "40 hooded goons" raided the
Moscow office of his Open Russia philanthropic venture, and took away
boxes of files.
The attack, Soros said, was the result of a dispute with the
office's landlord, Kantemir Karamzin, over rent. But what really
irritated the great man was the fact that these raids have occurred
"with impunity". This, combined with the arrest at gun-point
of oil tycoon Mikhail Khordorkovsky, leads Soros to believe Russia is
heading for a dictatorship.
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