Group Slams Russia Over 3 Yukos Arrests
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Europe's top human rights watchdog slammed Russian authorities Wednesday over their arrest of leading Yukos oil executives, saying their detention was nothing but an attempt to silence opposition.
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Yukos said its accounts had been seized by the state and that it could be forced to halt production in comments that stoked world oil prices and seemed to ring the death knell for Russia's troubled oil titan.
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Russia's liberal economy minister joined a growing backlash against the effective re-nationalization of the country's top oil exporter Yukos and argued that state energy companies should be privatized.
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Russian media commentators criticise Britain's request for the extradition of Alexander Litvinenko's alleged poisoner Andrei Lugovoi.
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The Kremlin attacks the UK's decision to expel four Russian diplomats as "groundless, inappropriate, unjustified".
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WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday criticised Msocow&#39;s move to take over the main asset of oil giant Yukos, saying the lack of transparency in the process could hurt Russia&#39;s standing in the world economy.
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An anti-whaling group is accusing the crew of a Japanese vessel of kidnapping two activists who climbed on board the ship to try to stop its whaling operations in Antarctic waters.
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The firm which controls embattled Russian oil giant Yukos says it will sue the government for $28.3bn.
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MOSCOW A top economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday slammed the state&#39;s takeover of oil giant Yukos&#39; main asset as the &quot;swindle of the year&quot;.
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A British cultural organization accused Russian authorities on Wednesday of harassing its staff and said it had temporarily closed its offices in St. Petersburg.
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Russian prosecutors continued their onslaught against the country&#39;s largest oil producer on Thursday, raiding the accounting division of Yukos and seizing documents.
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Fears of a management bailout at the embattled oil giant Yukos loomed large Thursday after the company&#39;s chief financial officer said he had delayed his return to Moscow indefinitely after Russian prosecutors summoned him for questioning.
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Analysts around the capital sought Monday to identify the mysterious group that bought a $9.3 billion majority stake in the Yuganskneftegaz oil fields in Siberia, the prime asset of the moribund Russian oil giant Yukos.
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In his harshest criticism of the Kremlin to date, jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky accused the Russian government of stealing his Yukos oil empire and warned in a letter published Tuesday that an ongoing crackdown on post-Soviet freedoms will ruin the country.
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Russian authorities piled up yet more pressure on the embattled Yukos oil giant, issuing a warrant against its chief lawyer and promising to increase its multi-billion-dollar tax bill.
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Yukos&#39; main shareholder has filed a legal complaint to prevent the Russian government selling off the oil giant&#39;s main production unit, reports say.
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russiaâs richest man until his arrest on fraud and tax evasion charges last year, from his Moscow prison cell today accused the Kremlin of stealing his Yukos oil empire by manipulating the law.