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The Motley Fool December 16, 2004 Rich Smith	Coming to America (to Die) Russia's oil giant Yukos declares bankruptcy here, not there.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2004 Rich Smith	YUKOS Cored The Russian oil giant is stripped of a key production asset. It was a heretofore unknown company called BaikalFinansGroup that placed the winning (and only) $9.3 billion bid for Yuganskneftegaz.
The Motley Fool December 23, 2004 Rich Smith	Russian Shell Game Someone's playing "hide the oil company." Investors in Russia this week can be forgiven for thinking they're playing against the house in a rigged game of chance. Because they are. And it is.
BusinessWeek August 2, 2004	A New Blow To Investors In Russia Russian oil company Yukos is about to be financially destroyed
The Motley Fool July 9, 2004 Bill Mann	YUKOS' Slippery Situation The world's fourth-largest oil company teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. Is it all for governmental revenge?
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Jason Bush	The Bigger Gazprom Grows, the Further Russia Backslides Yugansk, the main production subsidiary of the troubled Russian oil company Yukos, looks almost certain to be acquired by Gazprom, Russia's giant state-dominated gas concern. If the deal goes through, serious market reform is endangered.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2004 Bill Mann	YUKOS: From Dismal to Worse The Russian government claims it doesn't want to take down YUKOS, but that's what it's doing.
BusinessWeek October 11, 2004 Jason Bush	The Yank Caught in Yukos' Nightmare The job of rescuing the Russian oil giant has fallen to an American who arrived in Moscow just over a year ago. Now, CEO Steven Theede has a thankless job: Trying to hold the company together.
BusinessWeek June 14, 2004	Yukos' Troubles Hit Russia's Market Russia's stock market has nosedived amid growing fears that Yukos, Russia's largest oil company by market capitalization, is on the brink of bankruptcy.
The Motley Fool December 22, 2004 Bill Mann	Deconstructing YUKOS Consider what happened with YUKOS. It's important to consider a country's political stability and property rights when you invest overseas. Just remember, your rights may not be protected.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2005 Bill Mann	International Superstar Stocks: A Cautionary Tale International investors beware -- some countries place corporate power grabs over shareholder rights.
The Motley Fool December 29, 2004 Rich Smith	Russians Invade West Virginia Major Soviet steelmaker continues U.S. buying spree.
The Motley Fool December 31, 2004 Rich Smith	VimpelCom Calls in the Cavalry Investors in the Russian telecom should be reassured by the nine-fold reduction in their company's tax assessment. It's strong evidence that their company, at least, does have some friends in the Kremlin.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2004 Rich Smith	Death and Taxes in Russia Fateful words. Over the past month, Russia's tax police have been very busy, "discovering" huge arrears in taxes owed for fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Total tax demands on YUKOS now stand at roughly $25 billion.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2004 Rich Smith	YUKOS' American Brain Drain The company is in the midst of a full-scale exodus of top officers, including both of YUKOS' American-citizen managers -- the chief financial officer and the chief executive -- despite neither one being under any official indictment.
The Motley Fool July 1, 2005 Rich Smith	Russia's Taxing Quarter It looks like 29% of revenues go directly to the state treasury before pre-tax profits are even calculated. While that may not make Lukoil or its investors very happy, it makes Russian oil analysts' jobs a whole lot easier.
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 Jason Bush	The Kinks In Russia's Oil Pipeline If Yukos is dismembered, the surviving private companies are bound to think twice before investing. Global oil markets -- and Russia -- would suffer as a result.
BusinessWeek October 10, 2005 Jason Bush	Underwriting Putin's Oil Lured by future fees, Western banks are funding the Kremlin's energy deals.
BusinessWeek April 23, 2007 Jason Bush	Business In Russia Just Got Riskier Former Yukos auditor PwC could face criminal charges in a politically tinged case.
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004	Total Makes A Move In Russia's Oil Patch French oil giant Total has bought about 25% of Novatek, Russia's largest independent gas producer, for an estimated price of $1 billion.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	A Gazprom Date Putin takes another step forward in bringing more of Russia's energy assets under government control. From the looks of it, Gazprom is getting a good deal. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 David Lee Smith	Bigger Than LUKOIL? Watch for the emergence of a new Russian state oil company that could make some waves. The new company would be larger than publicly traded energy giants such as ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, and BP.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004	Stepping Up The Pressure On Yukos A Moscow court ruled on June 29 that oil company Yukos must pay $3.4 billion in back taxes and fines.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2005 Rich Smith	Russia's Sistema Ain't YUKOS The parent company of the largest Russian cellular provider has a lot going for it as it goes public. So, is it a buy?
The Motley Fool September 15, 2004 Rich Smith	Russia Combines Oil and Gas Gazprom and Rosneft will merge and trade freely, but rather than being tempted to buy into the rapidly appreciating Gazprom, investors should consider sitting this oil rush out.
Geotimes April 2004 Naomi Lubick	Russian Oil Rumbles With the recent arrest of a Russian oil "oligarch" and the disruption of a merger between two of the country's largest oil companies, the seeming shift in the Russian government's attitude toward its oil companies may herald future change in how the western oil industry does business there.
The Motley Fool March 3, 2005 Bill Mann	Russian Taxes: The Python Squeezes After YUKOS came a slew of tax bills at other Russian companies. Investors ponder: Will equilibrium come soon?
The Motley Fool October 18, 2004 Rich Smith	Russia Names Its Price YUKOS provides a real-life example of expropriation by taxation.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2004 Rich Smith	Russian Market in Gulag Investors have been punishing such fine companies as telecoms Mobile Telesystems, VimpelCom, and dairy king Wimm-Bill-Dann for the sins of the oil barons who run Russia's oil and gas sector.
BusinessWeek May 30, 2005 Jason Bush	The Coming Out Of Corporate Russia In Russia, the IPOs are finally flowing, and foreigners are lapping them up.
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Jason Bush in Moscow	Russia's Stock Market Is Full of Gas With prices up and fear of Kremlin meddling in business fading, investors are pouring into Russian stocks. Will it last?
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004	Yukos: The Moment Of Reckoning Tax and loan bills for Russia's second-largest oil company are now past due. How will Putin choose to wield his ax?
The Motley Fool September 13, 2004 Rich Smith	Russian Bear Gains Weight Despite a spate of bad news, Russia's economy continues to grow. By buying into some gold-standard U.S. companies, an investor can partake of Russia's growth while considerably limiting the risk of suffering a "YUKOS."
The Motley Fool May 12, 2009 Ivan Martchev	Russia Will Always Be Cheap Russia remains a country with a lot of potential unlikely to be completely realized, because of the nature of its political environment.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2007 Vitaliy Katsenelson	Russia: We Don't Need the West Anymore Did the Russian government muscle Shell out of Sakhalin? Here is a look at the $7.5 billion sale and the long-term implications if Russia disregards Western investment.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2005 Rich Smith	Russia's Gas Giant Gets Collective President Putin's vision of the "dictatorship of law" is taking shape step by step -- in the form of natural gas giant Gazprom. Energy, telecom, banking, media: slowly but surely, Gazprom is controlling more and more elements of the Russian economy.
The Motley Fool January 4, 2005 Rich Smith	Alcoa Grabs Russian Fabs Antimonopoly approval secured, Alcoa will move forward with acquisition of RUSAL's controlling share packets in two Russian aluminum fabrication facilities
BusinessWeek October 25, 2004 Jason Bush	The Great Russian Deal Bazaar Never mind Yukos. As equities soar, bankers flock to Moscow.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003	Ups And Downs For Russia's Yukos Investors in Russian oil giant Yukos were cheered on Nov. 3, when imprisoned Chief Executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky resigned and news leaked that Simon Kukes, a well-known Russian-American oil man, would take his place. But Yukos' troubles aren't over.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2011 David Lee Smith	Troubles in Russia Won't Batter BP BP's TNK-BP partnership could again be hammered by its deal with Rosneft.
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 J. Bush & W. Zellner	Russia: So Much For The Oil Giants' Next Frontier For global oil companies desperate to replace their dwindling reserves, Russia is increasingly tipped as the next frontier.
BusinessWeek May 31, 2004 Kranz & Bush	When Powers Collide: Putin vs. Khodorkovsky Many in Moscow say the real reason for the Kremlin's attack was the tycoon's campaign last summer to stymie all efforts to raise taxes on the oil industry, which was raking in billions of extra profits as the price of crude rose.
The Motley Fool September 11, 2007 Rich Smith	Gazprom Outsources Altruism Although having negotiated a production sharing agreement with the Russian government guaranteeing Exxon the right to sell to whom it chose, at the best price on offer, the Kremlin and Gazprom are not standing by that arrangement.
BusinessWeek April 10, 2006 Jason Bush	Rosneft: A Deal Both Tempting And Troubling Russian oil giant Rosneft has vast reserves, but its controversial past has investors wary.
The Motley Fool March 26, 2008 David Lee Smith	Russia's At It Again Western companies doing business in Russia must deal with government interference. Last week, Russian police visited the offices of TNK-BP, a joint venture between U.K.-based oil giant BP and a pair of Russian companies.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Gazprom's Gas Trap Investors beware -- No sooner had Russia emancipated Gazprom's shares than its regulators began seeking to rein the shares back in.
Knowledge@Wharton	Yukos and the Wild, Wild East: Can Putin Win the Showdown? Wharton faculty and others offer different interpretations of the reasons for Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's jailing and the potential fallout for Russian businesses and foreign investors.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2005 Rich Smith	Investing in Russia? Try Funds Reuters says Russia's on sale. But how do you buy? Go with one of these Morningstar-rated funds: ING Funds Russia... Third Millennium Russia...
The Motley Fool December 30, 2005 Rich Smith	Free Gas After years of speculation, Russian President Vladimir Putin finally signed a law allowing, for the first time ever, foreign investors to buy as many shares of Gazprom as they like. Chances are, they'll like to buy a lot. Here's why.
BusinessWeek March 21, 2005 Jason Bush	Cracks In The Kremlin A messy battle over the control of oil assets is the latest sign that Putin's administration is in disarray.