When the state unraveled Yukos, officials insisted it was a single such case rather than a trend. But it soon became obvious that Yukos was not a single case, that this concerns the entire economy. [...] Yukos was a campaign, which is intensifying weekly. Andrey Illarionov
Skipping to the final awards of 2014, the Arbitral Tribunal sitting in The Hague concluded that “Russian courts bent to the will of Russian executive authorities to bankrupt Yukos, assign its assets to a State-controlled company.” Source: Internet
Any effort to legitimize Rosneft's assets, however, could meet opposition from Yukos shareholders, still smarting from the loss of the production unit and the jailing of the company's founder, Mikhail B. Khodorkovksy. Source: Internet
Yukos was declared bankrupt in August 2006 and its assets were nationalized by stateowned companies Rosneft and Gazprom. Source: Internet
The story starts in Moscow in the late 1980s, when Khodorkovsky sets up Menatep Bank, through which he buys Apatit fertiliser company at auction in 1994 and then the failing oil giant Yukos for $350m, with Menatep assuming $2 billion in debt. Source: Internet
Putin told Sharon that the recent arrest of the Yukos oil company’s top manager — a prominent Jew — was not motivated by Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s ethnic background. Source: Internet