Topic: Yukos Oil Company
MOSCOW (Reuters) - If Vladimir Putin remains Russia's paramount leader, hopes for reform will be extinguished and Russia's brightest people will emigrate in droves, former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky told Reuters from jail.Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, was arrested in ...
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights said on Tuesday it had found no proof that Russia's jailing of former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on fraud and tax evasion charges was politically motivated.The Strasbourg-based court said, however, that ...
Russia has celebrated the alliance of Rosneft with BP as a historic breakthrough in its economic relations with the West but the deal remains shadowed by the break-up of its former top oil firm Yukos.Rosneft gained its status as Russia's ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors Friday demanded that jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky be imprisoned for an additional six years if convicted in a politically charged second trial.Supporters have cast both trials as part of a Kremlin-driven campaign of revenge for ...
January 6: Venezuelan Minister of Energy and Mines Rafael Ramrez announces that the Venezuelan government plans to split state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PdVSA) into two separate entities as part of a large-scale restructuring of the company, most of ...
A court dropped criminal charges Thursday against an ailing former Yukos oil company executive, an apparent show of leniency in an epic legal saga seen as a symbol of Russia's flawed judiciary."The criminal case is to be closed" against Vasily ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A former Russian minister testified on Monday in the trial of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, becoming the first top Kremlin ally to appear in the case which is seen as a test of promised judicial reforms.Kremlin critics dismissed ...
Russia's largest oil company Rosneft said Thursday it had signed an agreement with US oil giant Chevron to explore for oil in the Black Sea."Chevron will finance initial exploration activities, including seismic surveys and exploration drilling," Rosneft said, without providing ...
Former Russian prime minister: embezzlement charges against imprisoned tycoon are absurdA former Russian prime minister turned fierce Kremlin critic came to the defense of an imprisoned tycoon on Monday, telling a Moscow court that prosecutors' new charges of massive crude oil embezzlement ...
<div id="subtitle">Russia's jailed oil tycoon Khodorkovsky says no proof he stole oil, in courtroom defense</div><div><p>Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's jailed former oil tycoon, testified for five hours in a packed courtroom on Wednesday, saying that none ...