- MOSCOW (Reuters) - Men in
battle-fatigues raided the Moscow city centre headquarters of Russian Police
Take All Docs From Soros' Moscow HQ benefactor George Soros taking away
all its documents in the climax to a long- running commercial dispute,
radio Ekho Moskvy said on Friday.
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- Yekaterina Geniyeva, president of Soros' Moscow-based
Open Society Institute, told the radio station the attackers identified
themselves as working for Sektor-1 company, which says it owns the building
in the city centre.
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- "The most terrifying thing was that they took away
all our documents. We do not know where," she said, adding that the
foundation did not recognise Sektor-1's ownership rights over the building.
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- She said she did not think there was any direct link
between the incident and the arrest of oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
which some fear may herald a state crackdown on big business. But she said
there might be "some connection".
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- Geniyeva said the men broke a pane of glass and ushered
out the guards and foundation employees in their raid late on Thursday.
Police did not interfere.
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- Kantemir Karamzin, head of Sektor-1, told Ekho Moskvy
the foundation had to leave the building as it had failed to pay the rent
in full.
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- Soros poured millions of dollars through his private
foundations into philanthropic works in Eastern Europe after the collapse
of the Soviet Union, but has said he was now planning to scale down his
presence in the region.
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