{"id":2777,"date":"2004-12-23T20:45:16","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T00:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/12\/23\/pay-no-attention-to-the-perfectly-norm"},"modified":"2004-12-23T20:45:16","modified_gmt":"2004-12-24T00:45:16","slug":"pay-no-attention-to-the-perfectly-normal-man-behind-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/12\/23\/pay-no-attention-to-the-perfectly-normal-man-behind-the-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay No Attention to the Perfectly Normal Man Behind the Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4355'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Putin Defends Yukos Deal as &#8216;Perfectly Normal&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/ozzz.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"309\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<p>  President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia today strongly defended the purchase<br \/>\n  by a state-controlled company of the winner of Sunday&#8217;s auction for the largest<br \/>\n  subsidiary of the oil giant Yukos.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Today, the state, using absolutely legal, market mechanisms, is ensuring<br \/>\nits interests &#8211; I consider this perfectly normal,&quot; Mr. Putin told reporters<br \/>\nat a news conference in Moscow, referring to the purchase by Rosneft of the Baikal<br \/>\nFinans Group, which had widely been thought to be a shell company.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/23\/business\/23cnd-yuko.html?ex=1261544400&amp;en=674094892b8591d2&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland\">the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin Defends Yukos Deal as &#8216;Perfectly Normal&#8217; President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia today strongly defended the purchase by a state-controlled company of the winner of Sunday&#8217;s auction for the largest subsidiary of the oil giant Yukos. &quot;Today, the state, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/12\/23\/pay-no-attention-to-the-perfectly-normal-man-behind-the-curtain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}