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Article: History Doesn't Stop When Armies Cease Firing.(Politics&Opinions)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2003
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Byline: Richard Brookhiser
The story, like many that come out of Russia, is murky. Government agents arrested Mikhail Khodorovsky, Russia's richest man and the chairman of Yukos Oil Company, the world's fourth-largest energy firm. They also froze 44 percent of Yukos' assets. Prosecutors accuse Mr. Khodorovsky of, among other things, evading $1 billion dollars in taxes (he is worth $8 billion). The big question on the table: What does the arrest show about the attitude of President Vladimir Putin to free enterprise? Is he planning to renationalize big Russian industries? (He says he is not.)
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