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He has no KGB background and, within the Kremlin, has steered largely clear of the Yukos affair.

In Russia Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once boss of the Yukos oil company and avowed enemy of Vladimir Putin, went on trial for a second time.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Yukos's ex-boss, stayed in Russia (whereas Mr Berezovsky fled) and is now in a Siberian labour camp.

To shore up Yuganskneftegaz, its main production unit, Yukos arranged for a loan from one of its offshore affiliates, Yukos Capital.

The authorities raided its offices and accused it of tax evasion and of collusion with the former management of Yukos to conceal profits.

This decision was soon overturned but it gave Yukos Capital a chance to take its case to a Dutch court which also ordered Rosneft to pay up.

After Yukos's dismemberment, we advised investors not to buy Rosneft's shares when it was allowed to list on the London Stock Exchange.

The pursuit of Yukos also transferred a mainstay of the economy from what had become an efficient private business to opaque state control.

If it finds in Yukos's favour, the shareholders could seek enforcement in any court in Europe.

Consider Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of YUKOS oil company until he fell out of favor with Putin.

Despite Russia's protests that Yukos no longer exists, the court accepted the case; a judgment is pending.

Russian troops remain in part of Georgia; Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Yukos boss, is still in jail.

When Rosneft refused, Yukos Capital asked the courts in Britain, Ireland and the state of New York to oblige it.

Yukos's main shareholder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arrested, Yukos was dismantled and its assets were swallowed by Rosneft.

Yukos's remaining assets seem likely to be redistributed in another fake auction.

After nearly 18 months of deliberations, the court decided that the attack on Yukos was not politically motivated.

Earlier this month an English court froze Rosneft's local assets in a case brought by Yukos Capital, an offshore affiliate of Yukos.

By reviewing Yukos' development history, its important development strategies are unscrambled .

Like anybody connected with Yukos, PWC had been under enormous pressure.

As forlorn minority shareholders in Yukos can attest, western investors would also benefit from property rights and decent courts in Russia.

Mr Khodorkovsky was accused, among other things, of selling Yukos's oil through offshore trading companies to minimise taxation.

Rosneft may face lawsuits from assorted Yukos shareholders, something the planned London listing may make easier.

PWC now argues that Yukos's managers must have lied about related-party transactions via trading companies.

The Yukos case showed that the courts have become part of the Kremlin machinery.

The second sham trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former boss of the Yukos oil company, makes a mockery of judicial independence.

Yukos's disgruntled former shareholders are pursuing Russia through international courts with claims for nearly $100 billion.

They said they don't see signs of a major shift in the way Russian courts approach the Yukos case.

The ruling was a rare win in Russian court for former shareholders of OAO Yukos.

Remarkably, a commercial arbitration court in Moscow ruled in Yukos's favour, telling Rosneft to repay the loan.

In addition to mugging Yukos, it has often intimidated its neighbours with threats to cut off their oil or gas supplies.

Yukos, formed in 1993 and once Russia's largest oil company, started a tradition of supplying fellowships at the local universities.

Garcia is one of the accused Yukos case, fled to Spain in 2006.

He explains how Yukos and Russia's oil industry functioned, but he goes beyond business matters.

Yukos's former shareholders are suing the Russian government in international courts for roughly $100 billion.

Some Yukos executives still at liberty were, according to one rumour, tipped off by Litvinenko about plots laid against them.

This week Mr Putin launched another tirade against the former Yukos oil boss.

Shell's capitulation and the Yukos case exemplify the state's ever-increasing role in the energy industry.

Mr Kondaurov, a former spokesman for the KGB, worked for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who ran and largely owned Yukos.

Even more alarming for the Kremlin is that Yukos's former management has brought a case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

And in Russia, a series of actions resulted in state-owned Rosneft gaining control of reserves held by Yukos.

Had Mr Khodorkovsky stolen all the oil, how could Yukos have recorded a big profit and underpaid tax?

Russia's embattled head of Yukos Oil, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, went to jail on charges of fraud and forgery and saw his fortune plunge.

But it is the first time that Rosneft has been materially affected by its controversial acquisition of Yukos's assets.

The Yukos case changed the logic of corruption.

The decision came as Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former owner of Yukos, marked his first 1, 000 days behind bars.

They are now on trial in Moscow for new Yukos-related charges that could lead to sentences of 15 years or more apiece if they're convicted.

In 2003 Exxon considered buying a large stake in Yukos, then Russia's largest oil firm.

This allowed prosecutors to build their case that he and Mr Khodorkovsky had embezzled 350m tonnes of oil from Yukos between 1998 and 2003.

He has been careful to distance himself from the Yukos affair.

At one point in 2009 the group faced a bill as big as $4 billion, reminiscent of Russia's treatment of the Yukos oil company.

He is charged with embezzling Yukos's oil.

But his reign was disfigured by incidents such as ransacking Yukos.

Many date it to the attack on Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, that began three years ago this month;