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Article: Bear's glow waning?(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 31, 2003
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Byline: Ariel Cohen, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Russia's ambition to become an alternative oil supplier to the United States instead of the unstable Middle East and Russian integration into the global economy are under threat. For the last month, YUKOS, the largest Russian oil company - fourth-largest in the world - has been under a relentless attack from the Kremlin. Its founder, 40-year-old Mikhail Khodorkovsky, together with other oil moguls, has championed the privately owned oil pipeline to the Arctic port of Murmansk, but now his deputies are under arrest in Moscow and his corporate headquarters raided by government goons.
If YUKOS goes under, ...