Sobesednik interview with the mother of Svetlana Bakhmina

Robert Amsterdam for The Wall Street Journal

Five years ago Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested and convicted. Eckart von Klaeden, Foreign Policy Spokesman for the CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag, takes a stand on constitutional development in Russia.

Kommersant follows the 31-year-old ex-taxman’s career

Media report a Russian court denied a parole appeal by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Robert Amsterdam in National Post warns about investing in Russia

Media report a Russian court on Friday rejected an appeal for parole by Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Article in Frankfurter Rundschau on MBK, including his interview

Mikhail Khodorkovsky told a parole hearing in a Siberian court on Thursday that he does not plan to return to the oil industry where he made his fortune.

Vedomosti daily investigates key Yukos bidder

Khodorkovsky’s mother Marina and the lawyers Yury Schmidt and Yelena Liptser answer questions posed by The New Times.

Media report reasons not to invest in Russia are growing. Some investors even drawing comparisons to market situation of a few years ago surrounding Yukos

Media report analysts not inclined to draw parallels between MechelL, Yukos

Media reoirt, Rosneft, the country's most indebted oil company, said that it had raised a $2.85 billion export-backed loan and put aside cash to start repaying $7.3 billion of debts ahead of schedule.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky applied for parole on Wednesday in a bid to challenge President Dmitry Medvedev to follow through on promises to build an independent judiciary, his lawyers said.

The last board chairman of Yukos names those who destroyed Russia’s biggest oil company and tells Novaya gazeta how they went about it

Izbrannoye investigates the matter.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky responded yesterday to the charges issued against him on June 30 by the Prosecutor General's Office Investigation Committee. Essentially, these are the same charges that were formulated in February 2007 in the second Yukos case, alleging oil theft and money-laundering.

Russian prosecutors have brought new charges against the jailed former oil businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, his legal team said.

Authorities on Monday filed new preliminary charges against the man who founded Russia's Yukos oil company, his lawyers said.

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