Sentence examples for yukos from inspiring English sources

Mr Kondaurov, a former spokesman for the KGB, worked for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who ran and largely owned Yukos.

Yukos alone pumps 2% of world output, more than Libya.

In a judgment against the Kremlin, a tribunal in the Hague ruled that the Russian state had sought to bankrupt Yukos, appropriate its assets and prevent its owner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, from entering politics.

Khodorkovsky, who was released in December after a surprise pardon, renounced his claims to Yukos assets during an earlier trial, and restated on Monday that he will not seek to benefit from the Hague court's ruling.

About 30,000 ex-employees of Yukos are expected to share in a $458m pension fund that will pay out once damages are collected.

"From beginning to end, the Yukos case has been an instance of unabashed plundering of a successful company by a mafia with links to the state".

Yukos was the largest oil company in Russia when, in 2003, Khodorkovsky was arrested at gunpoint on an airport runway in Siberia.

Yukos was passionate about the potential of Russia and understood that, despite many structural challenges, the country and its economy had huge promise.