OIL TYCOON SLAMS PUTIN FROM SLAMMER
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December 29, 2004 -- A tale of oil billions, a politically-charged power struggle and a jailed tycoon is turning into a modern-day &quot;The Count of Monte Cristo&quot; - Russian-style.
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President Vladimir Putin took a war of words with London to new heights Tuesday, angrily dismissing British demands for the extradition of the sole suspect in the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko as a relic of British "colonial thinking."
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MOSCOW  - Russian prosecutors continued their onslaught against the country's largest oil producer on Thursday, raiding the accounting division of Yukos and seizing documents.
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Russian prosecutors have continued their onslaught against the country&#39;s largest oil producer, raiding the accounting division of Yukos and seizing documents.
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President Vladimir Putin accused the West of indulging terrorists on Friday, just hours after a Chechen warlord claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly attacks in Russia and threatened more.
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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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Vladimir Putin criticises central and local government officials over contentious reforms of Russia's benefits system.
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Exiled tycoon charged on basis of interview he gave to the Guardian calling for violent revolution in Russia.
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The economic adviser to Russian President Putin tells a newspaper that chasing Yukos for tax bills was a "serious mistake".
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Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the United States on Friday, accusing it of a double-standard in fighting terrorism and questioning whether any election
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Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin indirectly criticises President Putin's decision to increase his powers.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to go after other oil companies the way he has hammered Yukos, a top Kremlin official has said.
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YUKOS' foreign investors accused Russia  on Friday of attempting to steal the oil giant's key unit  Yugansk and threatened to sue after Moscow set a Dec. 19 fire  sale of its assets, sending the stock collapsing by 25 percent.
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Chelsea football club&#39;s owner, Roman Abramovich, has been hit with a Â£400m tax bill relating to his Russian oil company Sibneft, according to local reports, raising fears that he could be the next oligarch targeted by President Vladimir Putin in the
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Thursday strongly defended the takeover by state oil firm  Rosneft of stricken oil major YUKOS's key production unit,  Yuganskneftegaz, calling it a legitimate business deal.
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President Vladimir V. Putin on Thursday strongly defended Russia&#39;s takeover of the main subsidiary of the Yukos oil company by a state oil company.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin told tycoons not to worry about more rigorous tax probes after repeated investigations into Yukos brought the country's number one oil giant to its knees and sparked worries of a state re-nationalization campaign.