Vladimir Gusinsky, whose holding company owns a vigorously anti-Putin television channel, NTV, is under regular police interrogation, partly over taxes.
Öcalan is a tyrannical leader whose hold over his followers is hard for outsiders, including myself, to comprehend.
Meeting halls are adorned with black-and-white pictures of party leaders, men whose hold on Congress was once indisputable.
The powerful Wallenberg family, whose holding company, Investor, owns 5percentt of Ericsson and holds 38percentt of its voting rights, also had a hand in selecting Mr. Svanberg.
The winner among this year's big spenders: Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, whose holding company paid north of $16 million for a property that overlooks the Nantucket harbor.
Among the largest contributors was Dallas businessman Harold Simmons, who gave the group $5m in November and whose holding company, Contran Corp, donated an additional $2m.
The company is controlled by Mr. Wygod, whose holding company, the HLTH Corporation, owns almost all of WebMD's Class B voting shares.
What happens in Cairo is being meticulously scrutinised in neighbouring states with leaders whose hold on power might be as brittle as Mr Mubarak's.
REUTERS Fed Tells MetLifefe to Wait on Dividend Increase | MetLife, the life insurer whose holding company operates as a bank, was told by the Federal Reserve that it could not raise its dividend or repurchase shares until after regulatory tests next year.
This was when he was lieutenant governor and the top man was Eliot Spitzer, the self-proclaimed steamroller, whose hold on power seemed as secure at the time as an investment with the Madoffs.
