Tag Khodorkovsky

Sh*t continues to happen in Russia

Russian Markets Slide After Arrest of Yukos Oil Chief, says the NYT, while Putin bluntly refuses to meet with the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs to discuss Khodorkovsky’s arrest. Technically speaking, he shouldn’t have, but his refusal isn’t encouraging.…

The beginning of a disaster?

NYT: Police in Russia Seize Oil Tycoon. Actually, it is the FSB who arrested him, the successor to the KGB. WaPo: Russia Arrests Head of Largest Oil Co. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the CEO and majority owner of Russia’s largest (by market…