The Rise and Fall of YUKOS

摘要

When in December 1995 a young and aspiring Moscow banker acquired Russia's second-largest oil company at the time, his name hardly rang a bell in the heartland of the country's oil patch, let alone beyond its borders. However, for reasons both good and not very good, eight years later Mikhail Khodorkovsky became known not only as the man who built a world-class oil firm, but also as Russia's most vocal critic of the regime that put him behind bars.