Puffer, Sheila M.; McCarthy, Daniel J. - In: Journal of World Business 42 (2007) 1, pp. 1-13
In the fall of 2005, former chairman of Yukos Oil, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was sentenced to prison, after being found guilty of fraud and tax evasion. Many viewed the trial as the government's attempt to gain control of the energy sector which Putin had declared as strategically crucial to the...