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...Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko cooled expectations, saying that liberalization "doesn't mean the removal of limits." Shortly afterward, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref promised that all restrictions would be lifted. Who's right? "I'd rather give credence to Khristenko's stance as more realistic," says Mikhail Zadornov, former Finance...
...many murder mysteries, the killing of the Russian oil giant Yukos - which began last fall with the arrest of its CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and could climax at any time with the firm's bankruptcy or forced sale of assets - is being committed in public but was plotted in private. The hammer blows that are bringing down the firm have been delivered in plain sight: Khodorkovsky's ongoing trial for alleged fraud, tax evasion and embezzlement; the Russian government's demand for up to $6.8 billion in alleged unpaid corporate taxes; its simultaneous freezing of company assets, which makes that...
...MIKHAIL DELYAGIN, economist
...some or all of the pieces of Yukos at the state-run sale expected to follow Yukos' demise. "The appointment of Putin's closest and most secretive lieutenant as head of Rosneft is a sign that Putin has set out to take over the Russian oil industry," charges Economist Mikhail Delyagin, a former top aide to President Boris Yeltsin, now director of the Institute of Modernization, a Moscow-based think tank. Many oil magnates, officials and analysts believe a Rosneft takeover is the real motive for destroying Yukos. "Sechin's role in this is an open secret," says Duma deputy...
...Shades of Stalin? The detention of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former chief executive of the Russian oil company Yukos, on charges of embezzlement, theft and tax evasion has alarmed the international community [Nov. 10]. The shadow of Stalinist repression is getting longer, but this time it is being cast by Russian President Vladimir Putin. How will Russian economic growth be affected by the arrest of the oligarch who was working to open links with the West? So far, nothing has happened, because investors still think Russia is a good place to put their money. But time will tell if Khodorkovsky's arrest...