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To: TobagoJack who wrote (51533)	7/12/2004 11:55:30 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 74559

Yukos Gets $235 Mln Bill From Russian Bailiffs, Interfax Says July 12 (Bloomberg) -- OAO Yukos Oil Co. received a bill for 6.85 billion-ruble ($235 million) from Russian bailiffs, who are demanding Russia's biggest oil exporter pay for their services as they implement a court decision to force Yukos to pay its tax bill, Interfax reported. Bailiffs from the Justice Ministry's Moscow department are charging Yukos 7 percent of a 99.4 billion-ruble tax claim against that was Yukos upheld by a Moscow court this month, Interfax said. The bailiffs' bill can be appealed within 10 days, the news service said. Bailiffs came to Yukos on July 1 to deliver the court decision to the company and then froze the company's accounts. Yukos, which pumps more oil than Libya, the eighth-biggest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is fighting to survive just as it tries to boost output after oil prices rose to records. Yukos last week expressed concern bailiffs may disrupt the company's operations as they seek to enforce the tax bill. (Interfax 7/12 interfax.ru )

To: TobagoJack who wrote (51533)	7/18/2004 10:11:54 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 74559

Editor's Death Raises Questions About Change in Russia By C.J. CHIVERS Published: July 18, 2004 James Hill for The New York Times this story was reported by C. J. Chivers, Erin E. Arvedlund and Sophia Kishkovsky and written by Mr. Chivers. MOSCOW, July 17 - Paul Klebnikov, the editor of Forbes Russia, was dying. Shot four times after he left his office on the night of July 9, he was in an ambulance without an oxygen bottle, bound for a hospital where the elevator summoned to deliver him to surgery would stall. Before losing consciousness he told a fellow journalist that he did not know who had shot him, or why. Not long afterward, he was dead. Mr. Klebnikov had alighted in Moscow with a spirit of civic reform. His killing, freighted with the themes of a nation at a crossroads, raises a troubling question. As it continues its transition from post-Soviet disarray, how far and how fast can Russia really go? "The country can build skyscrapers and solve international conflicts and even win tennis tournaments," said Peter Klebnikov, one of Mr. Klebnikov's brothers. "But so long as it's considered completely normal to resolve disputes and kill a person who is interfering with the way you want to live, this country is ailing." Mr. Klebnikov's work - informed and sometimes brazen - inserted him squarely into the worlds of Russian business, crime, power and wealth. nytimes.com