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Back to the Uncertain Future for Mikhail Khodorkovsky

December 18, 2015 JRL Russia List Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, YUKOS, Khodorkovsky

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Dmitry Elovsky, Mikhail Fishman – December 17, 2015) The mob-style execution of Vladimir Petukhov, mayor of the Siberian oil capital Nefteyugansk, one summer morning in 1998 was not an unusual occurrence for the “wild 90s” era of Russian business. But it has returned to the spotlight as part of the reanimated prosecution of former Yukos […]

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Leave a comment Assassinations, Business, Courts, Government, Khodorkovsky, Law, Oil, Oligarchs, Politics, Slider, Vladimir Petukhov, YUKOS

And now … a murder rap for Khodorkovsky?

July 3, 2015 JRL Russia List Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Oil, Gas, Energy, YUKOS, Khodorkovsky

(Business New Europe – bne.eu – MOSCOW BLOG: Ben Aris in Moscow – July 2, 2015) On June 30, the spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, made a shocking allegation. He accused the former head of Yukos oil major Mikhail Khodorkovsky of ordering the 1998 murder of Vladimir Petukhov, the mayor of Nefteyugansk, and several other crimes. The announcement […]