Watching The World: Bring on the clowns

04/06/2009
The international oil and gas industry—as well as Russia’s—is watching with incredulity as prosecutors bring a new case against former OAO Yukos Chief Executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky.Can it really be happening again? You bet it can, and with all of the cloak-and-dagger stuff you’d expect from a country run by Vladimir Putin, a former KGB spy, and his entourage—or should one say henchmen? In any case, Khordorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, former head of international financial organization Menatep, suddenly found themselves under way from their Siberian prison and heading back to face the new charges in Moscow.The charges, which are about as labyrinthine as one can...

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