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Yukos case reaches Strasbourg, after five years

Published: 30 January, 2009, 02:24


Former Yukos CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky (AFP Photo  / Tatyana Makeyeva)

Five years after proceedings began, the case of failed Russian oil giant Yukos has finally reached the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

 
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