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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 16, 2004 Rich Smith	Coming to America (to Die) Russia's oil giant Yukos declares bankruptcy here, not there.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 Rich Smith	YUKOS' Hollow Victory The Russian company wins a legal skirmish. The trick will be to figure out how to legally require a sovereign nation like Russia to agree to international arbitration of an internal (albeit possibly illegal) tax claim against one of its own domestic companies.
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.
BusinessWeek October 10, 2005 Jason Bush	Underwriting Putin's Oil Lured by future fees, Western banks are funding the Kremlin's energy deals.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
BusinessWeek August 2, 2004	A New Blow To Investors In Russia Russian oil company Yukos is about to be financially destroyed
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 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 July 25, 2005 Jason Bush	What's Holding Back A Flood Of Russian Oil If Russia is pumping so much crude, why does oil cost $60 a barrel? One reason is that Russia's oil boom has been followed by a dramatic crunch.
The Motley Fool December 29, 2004 Rich Smith	Russians Invade West Virginia Major Soviet steelmaker continues U.S. buying spree.
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 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.
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 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.
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 April 30, 2007 Jason Bush	The Kremlin's Big Squeeze A BP venture is the latest target as Moscow muscles in on producers.
BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Reed & Bush	A Gusher For Big Oil Is Drying Up It's a new world for oil companies. Western giants used to have easy pickings in Russia. Now Moscow is taking a harder line.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Jason Bush	Getting Past Yukos At a time when oil prices are spiking and new fields are scarce, the global oil companies are looking hungrily at Russia despite the Putin vs. Yukos debacle.
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.
BusinessWeek October 11, 2004	Buying A Piece Of Russia ConocoPhillips bought a 7.59% stake in Russia's biggest oil company, and may up its stake to 20% within two or three years.
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 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.
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."
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?
BusinessWeek October 25, 2004 Jason Bush	The Great Russian Deal Bazaar Never mind Yukos. As equities soar, bankers flock to Moscow.
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 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 November 22, 2004 Jason Bush	Oil: What's Russia Really Sitting On? As more Russian oil becomes recoverable, reserve estimates are skyrocketing. Recently revised estimates pushed its total proven oil reserves to 69.1 billion barrels, up from 45 billion bbl. in 2001. And that may just scratch the surface of its real potential.
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Jason Bush	Murky Dealings In Russia's Oil Patch Why is the Kremlin going after giant Yukos just when it may be on the verge of a megadeal with Exxon?
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.
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 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.
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.
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Jason Bush	Putin's Russia: Is the Economy Next? There's no doubt the Russian President is trying to centralize all political power inside the Kremlin. Experts fear that he also may clamp down on free-market reforms.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2004 Rich Smith	ConocoPhillips Looks East The oil and gas company is rumored to be preparing a big investment in Russia's Lukoil.
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.
Geotimes April 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Majors Return to Russian Oil Fields There's a resurgence of interest among Western oil companies in Russia.
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.
BusinessWeek July 4, 2005	Is The Economic Boom Ending For Russia? Concerns are growing about Russia's economy.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2007 David Lee Smith	Russia's Latest Bad Habit The Russian government has returned to making select "acquisitions." BP is only the latest in a string of Western integrated companies that have initiated production projects in Russia, only to have their hosts begin to play hardball as time passed and energy prices rose.
The Motley Fool August 27, 2007 David Lee Smith	BP Dances With Bears Russia is likely to use its newfound energy muscle to boost its status and power in the world community. For smart investors, it likely means that BP becomes slightly less compelling as an energy investment.
BusinessWeek July 31, 2006 Jason Bush	Can Gazprom Keep the Gas On? Critics say that Russia's energy titan's erratic performance is more a result of poor management than political maneuvering. CEO Alexei Miller's promised progress.
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Jason Bush	In Russia, The Taxman Cometh -- Again And Again More companies in Russia are getting slammed by back-tax bills. As long as Putin cares more about political control than about Russia's investment climate, businesses will continue to wonder if they could be the next Yukos.
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.
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?