Personalities
GEORGE Soros
- Hungarian-born Financial magnate
- Founder of the New York-based Soros Foundation (renamed in the
the Open Society Institute)
- Soros opened its Belgrade office in 1991
- It has distributed
millions in humanitarian aid, organized cultural exchanges and
seminars, and provided Serbian students with scholarships to
foreign universities.
- Soros also has supported ethnic Albanian independent newspapers
in the southern Kosovo province
- has become the major backer of a proposal to
legalise marijuana for medical purposes that has become a cause in
California. Polls have found a majority of Californians support the
initiative which will be decided in a vote next month. Mr Soros, who has
donated hundreds of millions to shore up democracy in the former Soviet bloc
has pumped £225,000 into the campaign.
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Soros
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