Two years ago, Mr. Khodorkovsky orchestrated a series of flagrant corporate abuses of minority shareholders unparalleled in the short history of modern Russian capitalism.
It was quite a performance, particularly for a man who two years earlier orchestrated a series of flagrant corporate abuses of minority shareholders unparalleled in the short history of modern Russian capitalism, setting what one Moscow brokerage firm called a benchmark for unacceptable behavior.
Human-rights activists say its government has conducted or tolerated countless abuses of minorities, including malicious textbooks (one describes Muslims, Christians and Parsis as "foreigners") and an attempted survey of minority groups (ruled unconstitutional).
He also raised an issue that has led to criticism of the opposition leader – her reluctance to address the abuse of minority Rohingya Muslims.
State Democrats, who were no slouches at gerrymandering when they held the majority, are preparing court challenges to the remapping as an abuse of minority voting rights.
When Mr Wenger sought to question the company's strategy at one of its recent annual meetings, his microphone was switched off.Minorities lose outThe abuse of minority shareholders remains endemic in many European countries.
"It's the latest example of abuse of minority shareholders by CANTV and by Verizon, which is pulling the strings of the operation," Paul Hanrahan, president of AES Americas, said yesterday in a telephone interview from Caracas.
"The holders of the 48% of the firm that did not accept Olivetti's offer in May did not want Tecnost shares then, and they do not want them now," complains an analyst at a Milanese securities house.As if the abuse of minority shareholders and the scheming of company managers were not enough to conjure up memories of the bad old days, the Italian government has now waded in.
In addition to limited recruitment of Black women in clinical trials, researchers have found that a history of medical abuse of minority populations in the U.S. contributes to lower participation rates.
Opponents claim the ordinance, which will lapse unless it is passed this session, infringes human rights and will lead to abuse of minorities.
A state of emergency has been declared for the entire city of Baltimore as whole neighbourhoods were engulfed in rioting and destruction of property, plunging one more major American metropolis into civil turmoil over allegations of persistent police abuse of minorities.
