Two Fugitives (Oil Businessmen) From Russia at Bush Event [View All]

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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