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To: LindyBill who wrote (14571)	10/31/2003 2:53:07 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793623

One has to remember that Khodorkovsky is one of the Oligarchs that raped Russia under Yeltsin. There was an unspoken compact between Putin and the Oligarchs - "I won't bust you up if you stay out of politics from now on." Khodorkovsky violated that, and got slapped down. The Yukos, Sibneft merger wasn't innocuous. The merger was essentially Khodorkovsky and one of Berezovsky's cronies giving themselves BILLIONS in cash, with Khodorkovsky actively and openly funding Putin's opposition parties. The guy stuck his neck out and it got hacked, bad. Yukos will now be added to the Russian State's growing monopoly of the oil and gas sector, which has funded the political and economic turnaround of Russia under Putin. The Yukos/Sibneft merger threatened the State income as well, because such a huge company (one of the world's largest oil/gas, next to only Exxon I believe) could bypass the distribution monopoly. Yukos, and Khodorkovsky, was a threat to Putin's Russia. Derek