At the same time, state funding has been ramped up for Rossiya Segodnya, a global news agency built on the remains of the liquidated RIA Novosti.
In response, Crimea's chief prosecutor, Natalia Poklonskaya, said last week that members of the Mejlis were suspected of "extremist activity" and that the council could be "liquidated".
PGGM, a big Dutch pension fund, has liquidated its holdings in five Israeli banks (though the Netherlands' largest has affirmed its investments).
Zambian Airways was liquidated in 2009 but the government refuses to let foreign airlines use Lusaka as a hub, in the unlikely event that the airline will one day fly again.
After Borders was liquidated in 2011, medium-sized booksellers such as Books A Million (from Alabama) and Half Price Books (a Texan chain) have together increased employment by 4.1%, to 49,150.Mr Makhija has studied the fastest-growing mid-sized firms, to see what they were doing differently.
Steelworkers and coalminers have to face grim economic reality and see their companies liquidated; bankers, it seems, do not.
They will also be expected to prepare "living wills", setting out how they could be liquidated in the event of failure".There's a real risk we end up so laden with capital that we can't waddle and fart at the same time," says a Wall Street grandee.
But this was a symbolic gesture, since all were tiny and only 25 of those have actualy been liquidated.
It could now be liquidated, broken up or sold.Second, it raised fears that the state of Spanish banks was even worse than previously thought.
Given the panic that gripped private purse-strings last year, it is more likely that GM would have been liquidated, sending a cascade of destruction through the supply chain on which its rivals, too, depended.
So, for example, banks will have to mark their securities to the prices Lehman receives as it is liquidated.
