His successor, Rupiah Banda, has since disbanded much of the nation's anticorruption apparatus.
Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003, spent years in jail, and his oil company Yukos was disbanded, much of it snapped up by Rosneft.
The newsboys' union didn't disband so much as it simply ceased to be.
Disbanding the much reviled troika, or at least overhauling its crisis management strategy, will not be easy.
(Sinagra) ROBERT POLLARD, RICHARD DAVIES (Thursday) The prolific recording maven Robert Pollard may have disbanded his much beloved band, Guided by Voices, but he continues to record and perform with undeterred gusto.
Following the Romanian Revolution, due to shortage of funds, many units were disbanded and much equipment was phased out.
While the depleted Liverpool Irish disbanded in August, much of its strength having been transferred to other units as reinforcements, the 5th King's survived as a reduced cadre.
I reply that I regret much: the disbanding of the Iraqi army; a de-Ba'athification programme that became a sectarian purge of Iraq's Sunnis; the torture of Abu Ghraib; and a failure to impose security that allowed murderous sectarian gangs to kill tens of thousands.
Washington also has been unhappy with al-Maliki's reluctance to comply with its repeated demands to disband Shiite militias blamed for much of Iraq's sectarian bloodletting.
"This would not, could not have happened if Indonesian authorities had taken steps much earlier to disband the militias in West Timor and prosecute them for known acts of violence," said Joe Saunders, deputy Asia director at the New York-based HumaNew York-based.
