Time running out for yukos to find a way to pay its US3.4-bil tax bill

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A time bomb began ticking at Yukos as a deadline expired midnight July 7 for Russia's biggest oil producer voluntarily to pay a crippling US3.4-bil tax arrears bill.Bailiffs "could arrive any minute,or perhaps they will not come today at all",said Hugo Erikssen,head of Yukos' international information department.