Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Constantin Stere, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Nemtsov, Eduard Limonov, Viacheslav Datsik, Yuri Budanov, John Bellingham, Svetlana Bakhmina, Grigory Pasko, Alexey Pichugin, Sergei Mavrodi, Vladimir Kumarin, Alexander Koptsev, Valentin Danilov, Kamel Rabat Bouralha. Excerpt: Constantin G. Stere or Constantin Sterea (Romanian; Russian: , Konstantin Yegorovich Stere or, Konstantin Georgiyevich Stere; also known under his pen name rc leanu; June 1, 1865 - June 26, 1936) was a Romanian writer, jurist, politician, ideologue of the Poporanist trend, and, in March 1906, co-founder (together with Garabet Ibr ileanu and Paul Bujor - the latter was afterwards replaced by the physician Ioan Cantacuzino) of the literary magazine Via a Romaneasc . One of the central figures of the Bessarabian intelligentsia at the time, Stere was a key actor during the Union of Bessarabia with Romania in 1918, and is associated with its legacy. Constantin Stere was professor of Administrative and Constitutional law at the University of Ia i, serving as its rector between 1913 and 1916. He is also remembered for his partly autobiographical novel In preajma revolu iei (literal translation: "On the Eve of the Revolution" - in reference to the Russian Revolution of 1917). He was born in Horodi te, Soroca County, to a family of boyar origins from Ciripc u, Bessarabia - which was part of the Russian Empire at the time. Stere was one of the three sons of an ethnic Romanian couple of Russian citizens: Gheorghe or Iorgu Stere (known as Yegor Stepanovich Stere, in Russian), a landowner whose family was originally from Boto ani County in the Romanian part of Moldavia, and Pulcheria ( ), a member of the impoverished gentry in...