Vladimir Gusinsky, a media tycoon on bail in Spain and under heavy fire from the Kremlin, has given money to improve conditions at one of Moscow's worst prisons, where he spent a few uncomfortable nights last summer.
You wouldn't think Britain was one of the Western world's worst economic laggards by looking at the latest sales figures from Tesco , the supermarket giant that gets about half its revenues from the United Kingdom.
He said at the trial the company's failure to abide by safety rules was "one of the worst examples of sustained industrial negligence in a high risk industry I have ever seen".