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WATCHING THE WORLD: Khodorkovsky’s independence

07/07/2008
Last week, just as millions of Americans—many of them in the oil and gas industry—were preparing for their July 4 Independence Day celebrations, the Russian government announced new charges against former OAO Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his associate Platon Lebedev.As you may recall, Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003 when his jet was stormed by armed police on a runway in Siberia, and he is now serving an 8-year sentence in eastern Russia.Speculation has it that former Russian President Vladimir Putin used Khodorkovsky’s arrest and jailing as part of an effort to reassert state control over his country’s lucrative energy sector.The “new” charges a...
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