A conversation allegedly overheard from 3 miles away, through an eartrumpet held the wrong way round so as to diminish the volume:

“Well, Mr Schilling, how goes our PR strategy ???”

“Er. Ahem. We are … er … generating a much higher profile on the Internet, Mr Usmanov - in fact we have achieved unprecedented coverage about your activities …”

“Olga !!! Bring me my Makarov !!!”

If Mr Usmanov were employing Schillings Lawyers to generate attention for himself rather than to try and muzzle it, they would be performing very well indeed.

Here are a couple of graphs from the useful Blogpulse Service, which racks how much attention is being devoted to different topics on the blogs.

The first bulge is Alisher Usmanov buying part of Arsenal. The second bulge is the interest after Mr Usmanov used Schillings Lawyers to close down Craig Murray’s critical website.

“Alisher Usmanov” Blog Buzz

If you go to the Blogpulse Web Page for Alisher Usmanov for you can drill down to the particular search results for each data point.

“Schillings” Blog Buzz

You can see that Schillings have become the subject of interest after their threats of legal action to Craig Murray’s webhost Fasthosts. Link to drill down.

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