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Watching The World: Khodorkovsky case

07/27/2009
By Eric Watkins
The oil and gas industry now and then suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. In Russia, that outrageous fortune has taken the shape of the country’s political leaders—including its president and prime minister.What else can one think when the trial of former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his colleague Platon Lebedev is described as “a politically motivated case of selective arrest and prosecution that serves as a test of the rule of law and independence of the judicial system of Russia.”Those are the words of US Sens. Roger F. Wicker (R-Miss.) and Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) in a resolution they introduced on June 18 that was then referred to the...
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