{"id":2071,"date":"2007-09-24T00:59:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/09\/alisher_usmanov\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T00:59:33","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T00:59:33","slug":"alisher_usmanov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/alisher_usmanov\/","title":{"rendered":"Alisher Usmanov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello lawyers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schillings.co.uk\/\">Schillings<\/a>! (I&#8217;m pretty sure, there&#8217;s nothing illegal, libellous, or defamatory on this page, but be sure to let me know if you think otherwise! Send me a comment.  You and your client have certainly done us all a favour by drawing attention to the man).<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve no idea if they&#8217;ll read this or not, but it seems that they&#8217;re having <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/newmedia\/story\/0,,2174406,00.html?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=4\">enormous fun<\/a> at the moment busily shutting down the websites and blogs of people who don&#8217;t like new Arsenal shareholder <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alisher_Usmanov\">Alisher Usmanov<\/a>.<br \/>\nHave I mentioned that I thoroughly recommend Craig Murray&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/002106.html\">Murder in Samarkand<\/a>?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve just pulled my copy off the bookshelf and Usmanov is referred to on pages 56, 207, 283 and 366. He used to be Prime Minister of Uzbekistan.<br \/>\nThis is the man who wants a blocking share of Arsenal, so aside from anything else, he&#8217;s someone I&#8217;m very interested in, as every Arsenal fan should be.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s loads about this elsewhere at the moment, and I&#8217;d start <a href=\"http:\/\/arseblog.com\/WP\/2007\/09\/21\/arsenal-usmanov-and-websites-arsecast-45\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickyog.net\/2007\/09\/20\/public-service-announcement\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nNB. At time of writing, both <a href=\"www.craigmurray.co.uk\">Craig Murray&#8217;s<\/a> and <a href=\"www.boris-johnson.com\">Boris Johnson&#8217;s<\/a> websites are still down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello lawyers at Schillings! (I&#8217;m pretty sure, there&#8217;s nothing illegal, libellous, or defamatory on this page, but be sure to let me know if you think otherwise! Send me a comment. You and your client have certainly done us all a favour by drawing attention to the man). I&#8217;ve no idea if they&#8217;ll read this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}