The US authorities will not allow Deripaska into the country. Maybe this has something to do with the revelations today by Keith Dovkants in the Evening Standard. The story claims that another Russian businessman, Mikhail Gutseriev, has been forced to flee Russia and seek sanctuary in Britain after being hounded by the Kremlin to sell his oil firm to Deripaska. Weeks after fleeing Moscow to escape charges that he says were trumped up, his son Chingis was killed in a mysterious car crash. Dovkants writes: The Gutseriev affair was known about in business circles in London
Wednesday, 22nd October 2008
Sleep with dogs, you get fleas...
5:00pm
As more becomes known about Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch at the centre of the current political convulsions, it becomes ever clearer that both Labour and the Tories are irreparably compromised by the association of their senior politicians with this man.
...A presumption too far
11:23am
While all attention has been on the apparent stitch-up over not debating abortion when the Fertilisation and Embryology Bill arrives at the Commons today, a far more disturbing piece of government legerdemain has gone totally unremarked. When this Bill made its first appearance in the Lords, the controversy it then generated centred largely on its provision to allow animal/human embryos to be cloned for research purposes. Repellent as this is in itself, what happened subsequently was even worse. After the Bill passed through the Lords, the government quietly amended it to allow tissue to be taken for such cloning purposes without the informed consent of the individual concerned if that individual is, for example, mentally incapable or has died. It will 'presume' consent -- where none has been given. Such 'presumed consent' is no consent at all. So...
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
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