At least one person is defending Putin’s actions against Yukos and its former president, Mikhail Khodor­kovsky, but it was this that caught my eye (emphasis mine): Russian oligarchs were taking control of the entire Russian economy. These people had a strangle hold on every aspect of Russia and were basically out of reach of the […]

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The Russian tax authority has accused Price­wa­ter­house­C­oopers of providing “false audits” to the former oil giant Yukos. I’m sure we’ll find out sooner or later whether these accusa­tions have any merit, but for the time being any government insti­tution in Russia is most definitely not getting the benefit of my doubt. Putin and his regime are […]

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