Sentence examples for mikhail from inspiring English sources

Svetlana Bakhmina, imprisoned for her part in the "Yukos affair" that saw oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky being sent to a colony in the Russian Far East, was taken to Mordovia.

BP underestimated the power of Mikhail Fridman, one of its oligarch partners.

Three of the Bow Mariner's crew were killed and 18 others were missing.Putin's surpriseRussia's president, Vladimir Putin, found in Mikhail Fradkov a surprise choice to be his next prime minister.

In a judgment against the Kremlin, a tribunal in the Hague ruled that the Russian state had sought to bankrupt Yukos, appropriate its assets and prevent its owner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, from entering politics.

Jaruzelski preferred to emphasise his reformist credentials, claiming he had been the first Warsaw Pact leader to recognise the significance of Mikhail Gorbachev's ideas.

If the deal goes ahead, the students' new landlords will be Mikhail Fridman, Russia's second wealthiest man, worth an estimated £9.3bn; German Khan, said by Forbes magazine to be worth about £6bn; and Alexei Kuzmichev, with a fortune of about £4.5bn.

Peston's hair has acquired its own Twitter account and attracted approving commentary in Fleet Street's fashion pages (in this paper, Imogen Fox described his new look as "Mikhail Baryshnikov circa White Nights meets the autumn/winter 2015 Raf Simons catwalk") and comparisons with everyone from Hugh Grant to Tim Burgess of the Charlatans.

Aleksandr Petrovsky Mikhail Baryshnikov in the Rag & Bone campaign equals the perfect excuse to revisit the SATC character.

A group of Russian MPs have formally requested prosecutors to investigate former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for treason over the breakup of the Soviet Union, a lawmaker said on Thursday.

Many Soviet leaders responsible for the "miracle of 1990" – like the former Soviet ambassador to Bonn, Valentin Falin – have complained bitterly that Mikhail Gorbachev naively trusted the west and gave away so much for so little.

For its astonishing debut season, the troupe fielded a full 85 dancers who presented three classical revivals, with 15 ballets by 11 living choreographers including Mikhail Fokine (from the Ballets Russes), Antony Tudor (from Britain's Ballet Rambert) and American Agnes de Mille.