The unexpectedly harsh 14-year sentence handed down to jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky last week may have finally laid to rest one common theory about Russia's politics.
CNN's Matthew Chance reports on a Moscow judge's justification for Mikhail Khodorkovsky's 14-year prison sentence.
A judge in Moscow sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of Russia's Yukos oil company, and his business partner to 14 years in prison on corruption charges Thursday.
CNN's Jill Dougherty looks at U.S. reaction to Mikhail Khodorkovsky's conviction.
Russia has hit back at criticism by western governments of the guilty verdict against former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on embezzlement charges. But diplomatic cables obtained by the website WikiLeaks suggest the United States has long regarded Khodorkovsky's trial as part of a broader assault on the rule of law in Russia.
A judge in Moscow has found former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner guilty of corruption charges, his lawyer said Monday.
The reading of the verdict in the corruption trial of former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been postponed until December 27, the judge's office said.
Russia's most famous prisoner, and once its richest citizen, says the latest corruption charges against him are designed to prevent his release from jail.
Any attempt to pardon Mikhail Khodorkovsky -- once Russia's richest man, now its most famous inmate -- must follow standard procedure, including an admission of guilt, the nation's president said Sunday.
A prominent Russian human rights lawyer says she and her children are ill after a suspicious substance was found in their car in France.
When the Kremlin came for billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil company, he fought back and found himself in a Siberian prison. When it came for billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev's oil company, he agreed to sell and went into hiding to avoid arrest.
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Exactly two years ago, I sat in a Moscow courtroom and watched one era in Russian capitalism end. Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky glumly sat in a cage and awaited the verdict he and everyone else in the courtroom knew was a foregone conclusion: a long Siberian prison sentence, and the dismemberment of Yukos, once Russia's biggest and most-respected firm.
After mounting one of the largest initial public offerings in history, Russian state-owned firm Rosneft's first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange should have been a thriller.
Imprisoned Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced he will run for a seat representing Moscow in Russia's State Duma, or lower house of parliament, his press center confirmed to CNN.
Imprisoned Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky has gone on a hunger strike to protest the treatment of his business partner, who is being held in solitary confinement, his lawyer Anton Drel told CNN.
A Russian court found oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev guilty of tax evasion and other serious crimes on Tuesday and sentenced each to nine years in prison, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.
Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been found guilty of an array of charges including fraud and tax evasion and sentenced to nine years in prison, minus time served.
Judges in the marathon trial of Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky adjourned after a fifth day of summing up Friday, as the reading of the verdict dragged on so long even his parents left the courtroom.
The Moscow court reading the verdict in the trial of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky indicated he could receive a lighter sentence than originally sought, according to news reports.
Judges in the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky say the Russian oil magnate committed crimes under all seven of charges he faces, including tax evasion, Russia's Interfax news agency reports.
Judges in the trial of Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky said on Monday he had committed tax evasion and other serious offences.
WESTERN OIL EXECUTIVES WERE watching closely as former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khordokovsky took it on the chin in his long-running trial for fraud and tax evasion. But they told themselves that what hap...
The Russian Prosecutor General's office says it plans to present new charges -- including one of money-laundering -- against former top managers of the Yukos oil company.
The decision to postpone the verdict in the trial of jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky could have been taken to spare President Vladimir Putin's embarrassment, defense lawyers have said.
Judges in Russia are preparing to announce the verdict in the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky -- the former head of Yukos oil and once the country's richest man.
The trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky -- the former head of Yukos oil and once Russia's richest man -- has adjourned, and judges will announce the verdict on April 27.
The sale of embattled Russian oil company Yukos to a little known bidder has been called a scandal by some observers and led to speculation the government may make a grab for its assets.
A little known company has bought the main production unit of embattled Russian oil company Yukos, paying 260.75 billion rubles, or $9.35 billion, at auction.
A representative of embattled Russian oil company Yukos said Wednesday the company has launched bankruptcy proceedings under U.S. law in a Houston court.
Embattled Russian oil giant Yukos has launched bankruptcy proceedings in a Houston, Texas court, the company has said.
Stretching his feet through the bars of his cage, Mikhail Khodorkovsky rarely looks up from the book he's reading on the history of authoritarianism in Russia. The former CEO of Russia's largest oi...
Russia's largest oil producer, fighting a battle over a huge back taxes bill, says it is unable to pay wages and that production is in imminent danger of stopping.
Russia's Justice Ministry has told Yukos that it must shut down oil production and that three of its subsidiaries cannot sell any assets, the troubled oil company says.
A Moscow court has issued an arrest warrant for Leonid Nevzlin, a key figure in the troubled Yukos Oil Company, accusing him of involvement in contract killings in 2002.
Top officials with embattled Russian oil giant Yukos have warned that the next three weeks will be critical if the company is to avoid bankruptcy.
Yukos oil company's appeal of a massive tax bill has been adjourned after the judge resigned from the case citing unspecified psychological pressure, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
Russia's richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky has returned under guard to court to reject all charges against him and the company he used to head, Yukos oil.
Russian oil giant Yukos will try to pay a $3.4 billion tax bill "in the next few days," a company lawyer said Tuesday, Russian media report.
Russian oil giant Yukos and its founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky are reportedly attempting to strike new deals to save the group from bankruptcy.
The crisis surrounding Yukos deepened Wednesday as a deadline loomed for the embattled Russian oil giant to pay off a multi-billion tax claim.
Embattled oil company Yukos said it is unable to meet a Wednesday midnight deadline to pay the Russian government a $3.4 billion back-tax bill and said bailiffs could begin taking control of its assets within hours.
Russia's biggest oil firm Yukos is staring financial ruin in the face after it failed to meet a $3.4 billion tax bill deadline.
As Russia's deputy finance minister indicated that the government and oil giant Yukos could reach an agreement to restructure a multi-billion-dollar tax bill for 2000, the Russian prosecutor general Tuesday said that the company may be forced to pay back taxes for other years, too.
Shares in Yukos have fallen after the troubled Russian oil conglomerate defaulted on a $1 billion loan and its offices were raided by police.
Battered shares in Russian oil conglomerate Yukos will come under fresh pressure when trading opens on Monday.
Russian special interior ministry officers have sealed offices in the headquarters of tax-troubled Yukos oil company, a company spokeswoman said.
Yukos says it will appeal a court ruling that upheld a potentially crushing $3.4 billion claim for back taxes against the oil giant.
Russia's finance minister says he hopes a deal can be reached on a $3.4 billion tax claim against Yukos that the oil giant fears could force it into bankruptcy.
A Moscow court has rejected an appeal by the Yukos oil company and approved a claim by tax authorities that the company pay outstanding taxes from 2000 totaling $3.4 billion.
The Russian government is not interested in bankrupting Yukos, President Vladimir Putin said, ahead of a crucial court hearing the oil giant says could force it to declare bankruptcy.
Lawyers for Russian billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky have won a delay in his trial on tax evasion and fraud charges.
The trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on tax evasion and fraud charges is set to start June 16 and will be combined with fellow Yukos stockholder Platon Lebedev's trial on similar charges, a Russian court has announced.
The following are profiles of Russia's so-called oligarchs, a group of businessmen who made their fortune following the fall of the Soviet Union.
The trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on tax evasion and fraud charges is set to start June 16th and will be combined with fellow Yukos stockholder Platon Lebedev's trial on similar charges, a Russian court announced Monday.
The top shareholders of Russia's Yukos Oil Company have offered their shares to win the freedom of former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.
Even by the rarified standards of London society, it was an extraordinary event. To introduce his Open Russia Foundation, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, then the 38-year-old chairman and principal owner of ...
Three years ago, at the annual conference of the high and mighty in the Swiss resort town of Davos, the so-called oligarchs of Russia gathered for what would be their last bash. For a time they pre...
The CEO and principal owner of Yukos, Russia's most profitable oil company, was sitting in his Moscow home on the evening of Sept. 11, thinking he was watching a disaster flick. "It took me a littl...
Until last year, Inkombank did business out of a crumbling former science institute on the outskirts of Moscow. Now its offices, in a lavishly renovated pre-Revolutionary mansion a stone's throw fr...
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