The Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a revolutionary Che Gevara, politicians Winston Churchill and Bill Clinton, writers Somerset Maugham and Mark Twain, the actor and the political figure Arnold Schwarzenegger – these names are well-known and these figures are best known to the world for their political, social, literary and other achievements. Moreover, the abovementioned people highly esteem cigar smoking and, thus, they come as people who own the greatest number of tools and accessories so requisite for this leisurely process and among others there are cigar lighters.
In the light of a variety and availability of glass items, glass ware is still appreciated by plenty people, especially when it comes to cut glass. The cut glass produces a long, lingering and musical tune when you put your finger at the cut-glass edge. So, in Japan the craftsmen make unique musical instruments. A crystal violin, completely transparent, is estimated for fifty thousand USD. Crystal glass tableware is not so much expensive though it is able to produce the charming, unique and so brittle music providing it is properly cared.
Wealthy persons are mostly known for their fortune only. However, despite they make billions, these people possess some personal features that attract people when estimating them. While Warren shovels up money, he has to do with quite conflicting image he created: he is known to be the proved miser and at the same time he privately donates huge amounts for charity purposes.
The arm dealing
is a strange occupation to deal with. The scheme of business activity is too
complicated. On the one hand, the marketing and market laws exist and act forever,
when it is world known that the advertisement is the tool to promote the goods,
and the more people know about businessmen and services, the higher is the
potential profit. On the other hand, the arm dealing in our conditions is associated
with half-legal and at times illegal proceedings, in fact, which are pregnant
with the difficulties with the judicial authorities of individual countries
either with the international justice.
Viktor Bout retired from the Army in
1992 and changed the residence for the BelgiancityOstende.
He mainly preferred to deal business
in Africa when jointly with his elder brother Sergey,
he started with buying up old aviation equipment though well maintained for a
song which were in abundance in different African countries. The question is
that throughout the previous twenty years the Soviet Union
supplied the black continent with various equipment, including the aircraft
technique, and fittings to support the friendly political regimes.
After the collapse
of the Soviet Union, the huge amount of Russian pilots left Africa.
The African pilots were rare and the aircraft appeared to be the useless scrap
metal, indeed. Therefore, the proposal offered by Bout to purchase the scrap
metal for something valuable was too attractive. As a result, Viktor and his
brother Sergey founded one of the largest private air fleet in the world with
the aircraft ranging from 50 to 60 by various sources. Such an unprecedented
vehicle treasure and the acquaintances in the army force system facilitated the
status of Bout and he acquired the challenge to become the largest armament
dealer in the market of Africa, Middle East and Central
Asia. And he did not fail to miss this opportunity – the most
weapon supplied by Bout to his customers arrived from the military storehouses
of the former Soviet republics. When the republics acquired the independence,
the first years were uncontrollable, and the military authority found the way
to provide their families with something to survive. Consequently, by the sources
of the intelligent services of the USA, Angola, Congo,
Liberia, Sierra Leone, as well as in Afghanistan and the Philippines from the early 90s till
the recent times. Meanwhile, his business was legally protected when he smartly
justified the huge amount of aircraft by various business transactions. Thus,
in the early 90s he arranged the flower supply to the countries of the Persian
Gulf from the Southern Africa. Yet, by the latest
data it is known that fresh gladiolus bought for 4 USD per flower were sold to
the Arab sheikhs by Bout for 100 USD. And since 1997 the Bout legalized his
business in the other direction and he proceeded to transport frozen meat from
the South Africa to Nigeria.
and UN Special Commissions, Viktor Bout was the one to supply weapon to
Though, we
sure that all secrets will be revealed eventually and in the end of the
previous century Bout had to leave Belgium when the local authorities
got concerned in his financial transactions. He settled in the Arab Emirates
then. Afterwards, in the year 2002, he was mention in the UN report on the illegal
arm dealing as one of the key party at fault in escalation of tension in
various hot points of the world. In the year 2005 the USA authorities
caused the financial assets of Bout frozen in the American borders in view of
his activity. By the way, the movie «Armament baron» was shot by Hollywood
studios on the arm dealer from the Soviet Union.
The script version mentioned the biography facts concerning Viktor Bout, and
Nicolas Cage starred in the movie.
Eventually,
on March 6 of 2008 Viktor Bout was arrested by the Thai authorities in Bangkok by inquiries of USA and Interpol. Bout was stated to
be arrested in place when the secret agents negotiated with but as the
representatives of one of the radical groups from Columbia to purchase the missile of «earth-air»
class. The Thai government refused to judge Bout in their territory by their laws,
since he did not do anything illegal Thailand. In May 2008 the USA government addressed to Thailand with the enquiry of Bout extradition to
the jurisdiction of America.
Though, as a result of some negligence in document execution and intervention
of Russia
with the question of the legal protection of the Russian citizen, the
extradition matter was postponed. Finally in August 2009 the criminal court of Bangkok rejected the enquiry of the American government to
deliver Bout since the USA
failed to provide solid evidences to prove that the activity of the Russian
citizen was illegal. Nevertheless, Viktor Bout did not manage to get free since Columbia appealed to
prison him. They declared that the Columbian organization involved in the matter
is the terrorist group but not political. Bout’s attorneys protested against
this declaration justifying that Columbian government was not eligible to get
involved in judicial proceeding of other countries. In the meantime, Viktor Bout
is still imprisoned.
Lingerie for women was just the plain underwear until the 20th century when it became the mean self-expression, as the subject of esthetic admiration. A piece of lingerie seen in between the women wear looked quite shocking to be shame and no one thought of designing luxury items based on lingerie, leaving alone works of art. Today every woman dreams of having a pair, or even more, of luxury and high quality lingerie to associate with sexuality, sensibility and attraction with male.
Today the knitwear is presented in so many styles and
it is so popular that no single autumn and spring collections can do without
hosiery. Knit
women's coats are offered in classic, sporty, romantic, vintage, casual and
ethnic styles. The demand for knit coats
grows in line with the more increasing range of color and texture of woolen
yarn as merino wool, angora, alpaca, Kashmir. Globally known brands launch knit
coats for women in their latest collections and most celebrities today appear
wearing knitwear for many occasions and that's hard to picture that some time
back it was something different.
First established in 1980, the brand by Carolina Herrera is one of the well-known fashion brands; collections by Carolina Herrera make a conquest for the public love and demand due to elegance and delicacy of the fashion wear models. The collections were successful, though Carolina Herrera opened its perfume line first in 1988 presenting Carolina Herrera for Women. Carolina Herrera 212 is known to be the bestseller first launched in 1997, and today this fragrance takes its niche among the most recognized perfumes of the world.
First established in 1860, Chopard is one of the reputed watch and jewelry houses producing incredibly beautiful, fascinating jewelry items and watches of dream. The house also launched a number of celebrated fragrances as Casmir, Wish, Madness and Infiniment. Despite the long and solid history of the brand, it appeared only recently in the market of fragrances with the first fragrance Chopard launched only in 1992. Six years later, in 1996, the Chopard House presented its Mira-Bai, the fragrance which is still in favor among women keen on oriental scents. Mira-Bai shows no intentions to compete with such a fashion-setter in the sphere of oriental compositions as Guerlain Shalimar, though the fragrance by Chopard takes its niche among the classic perfumes in the market of oriental perfume.
