A Putin ally is apparently manipulating Russian laws to weaken a competitor cell company which just happens to be run by a Jewish businessman. Russia is reverting to form.

This is sickingly reminscent of the Nazis' practice of using German laws to strip Jewish businessmen of their assets. The Yukos businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky was also Jewish and he is in prison as his company is taken over by Putin allies. Other Jewish Yukos executives have fled abroad. They join previous Jewish emigres also forced out of their large companies and out of the country. (Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky).

Ed Lasky  12 9 04