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WATCHING THE WORLD: Putin’s oil grab

01/01/2007
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not good for his country’s oil industry. If you doubt that, consider some of the stories that have been emerging from his-and we use that term advisedly-country over the past several months.We have, of course, been following reports of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed head of the bankrupt oil major OAO Yukos. Not content to throw him behind bars on trumped up charges, Putin’s government has proceeded to harass the former oil mogul even in his jail cell.Last April, Khodorkovsky spent several weeks in isolation after he was slashed in the face by a fellow inmate while sleeping. That was after he had been placed in solitary confinement three ti...
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