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...Following the ruling in The Hague, former Yukos shareholders embarked on legal action in London in an effort to seize assets tied to the Russian state in the UK, but the action was put on hold while a parallel...
...Gideon RachmanSo to conclude, Bill, you’ve been an incredibly successful and dogged campaigner on Magnitsky Acts, particularly even as an investor. What are your goals now?...
...disillusioned individual who “had one illusion — France”....
...Just as Putin was trying to increase the tax take from business, Khodorkovsky launched a campaign to lower his Yukos oil company’s tax bill....
...“My wages are only going up a little bit,” said Ms Shimomura, who works for an insurance company in Tokyo....
...Rosneft now controls most of Yukos’ assets. Not everyone in Russia’s investment community considers Sistema to be the victim....
...individual or group for the court to say that the authorities had an obligation to protect their lives....
...“Special economic zones are one tool to advance overall regulatory reform,” said Yuko Kawamoto, professor of finance at Waseda Business School, and an adviser on several government panels....
...Individuals close to Mr Putin are already rumoured to be eyeing particular assets....
...This involves trying to track how targeted individuals restructure their assets to avoid sanctions and to add newly discovered beneficiaries to its sanctions lists....
...He was previously vice-chairman of Russian oil giant Yukos. Back to beyondbrics...
...Sebastian Masuda, a visual artist and self-described “ambassador for cute”, says that kawaii represents a “small universe of individual design”....
...Yuko Kawamoto, of Waseda University, says the view on postal privatisation lies in how you interpret the lives of Mr Yoda and other postmasters....
...Four other Yukos majority shareholders and an employee pension fund will also benefit....
...Though Russia signed but never ratified the treaty, and later pulled out, an interim arbitration ruling in 2009 found Russia was bound by it during the Yukos affair....
...(Bloomberg) Yukos ruling adds to Russia isolation as further sanctions loom: The Kremlin came under intense pressure on Monday after an international tribunal ordered Russia to pay $50bn damages to former...
...But the ability of an individual successfully to defend his or her rights in a court of law — even against the predations of a government or ruling party — was the most precious freedom of all....
...Like other Russian companies and individuals that have suffered under US and EU sanctions it now feels it is owed further due....
...From 2001 on – and especially after the Yukos affair began – an analogy to early fascist Spain is closer: “To my friends, everything; to my enemies, the law.” The fork in the road is obvious....
...The affair has conjured memories of Rosneft’s takeover of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Yukos oil group close to a decade ago....
...“Our support is not an act of charity,” the group said in a statement posted on Navalny’s blog....
...At the privately funded museum, an educational charitable trust, visitors will be able to see 400 cars and motorcycles or “virtually respray” a Mini....
...sized enterprises, is also an impeding factor....
...“Often it is a gift or an heirloom, and the client knows very little about its history or its value,” says Yuko Shimizu, director of customer service. Some walk-ins end in revelations....
...“I think we need to just work and get an effective result.”...
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