Cracks are showing in the kremlin

摘要

The seemingly never-ending saga of the Yukos affair-the long-running feud between President Vladimir V.Putin and the Yukos oil giant of imprisoned oligarch Mikhail B.Khodorkovsky-looked as if it had reached a denouement in December,when the Kremlin confiscated Yugansk-neftegaz,Yukos' main production subsidiary,and folded it into state oil company Rosneft.But as one battle fades from the headlines,a new one has taken its place,this time inside the walls of the Kremlin itself:the battle for the spoils.