Politics of the Yukos Affair

Law in Eastern Europe

Volumn 60, Issue , 2009, Pages 347-359

  Sharlet, Robert ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84940644846     PISSN: 0075823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004155343.i-368.115     Document Type: Review

References (52)

1. See D.E. Hoffman, The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia, New York 2002
2. M.I. Goldman, The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry, London 2003.
3. P. Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism, New York 2000
4. A. Jack, Inside Putin's Russia: Can There Be Reform Without Democracy, Oxford, UK 2004, 131-215.
5. The Khodorkovsky defense team maintains an elaborate web site which has tracked the proceedings in considerable detail on a daily basis. See: (hereinafter "Yukos We b Site").
6. Quoted in W. Thomson, "Putting Yukos in Perspective", 21 Post-Soviet Affairs 2005 No.2, 162.
7. See G.B. Smith, Reforming the Russian Legal System, Cambridge, UK 1996
8. R. Sharlet, "In Search of the Rule of Law", in S. White, Z. Gitelman, R. Sakwa, (eds.), Developments in Russian Politics, New York 2005, Ch.8
9. R. Sharlet and F. Feldbrugge, (eds.), Public Policy and Law in Russia: In Search of a Unified Legal and Political Space, in William B. Simons, (ed.), Law in Eastern Europe, No.55, Leiden, Boston 2005.
10. R.C. Tucker, The Soviet Political Mind, rev. ed., New York 1971, Ch.6.
11. R. Sharlet, "Stalinism and Soviet Legal Culture", in R.C. Tucker, (ed.), Stalinism, New York 1977, 155-79
12. R. Sharlet and P. Beirne, "In Search of Vyshinsky: The Paradox of Law and Terror" in P. Beirne, (ed.), Revolution in Law: Contributions to the Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-1938, Armonk, NY 1990, Ch.6.
13. See E. Fraenkel, The Dual State, London 1941. The author is indebted to the late Darrell P. Hammer for introducing him to Fraenkel's concept which he later applied to the study of Soviet law.
14. See R. Sharlet, "Putin and the Politics of Law in Russia", 17 Post-Soviet Affairs 2001 No.3, esp. 228-30.
15. See O. Kirchheimer, Political Justice: The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends, Princeton, NJ 1961, Ch.1, and Ch.3, secs.1 and 2.
16. On the modern version of the show trial, see K. L. Scheppele, "Show Case: The Terrorist Logics of the Spectacular Lawsuit", a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Assn., Pittsburgh, PA 2003.
17. A former Soviet prosecutor, Fridrikh Neznansky, developed the concept. See his The Prosecution of Economic Crimes in the USSR, 1954-1984, Falls Church, VA 1985, 32-37 (R. Sharlet, ed.).
18. For the latest addition to the vast literature on the subject, see E. Gilligan, Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969-2003, London 2004, Ch.1.
19. Guy Chazan, "Russian Trial Opens Messy Chapter", The Wall Street Journal 16 June 2004.
20. See "Putin Sacks a Bevy of Army Generals", 52 The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press 2000 No.31, 9.
21. See R. Sharlet, "Putin and the Politics of Law in Russia", 17 Post-Soviet Affairs 2001 No.3, 195-234
22. R. Sakwa, Putin: Russia's Choice, London 2004, 90-92 and 138-40.
23. See J. Kahn, Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia, Oxford, UK 2002, chs.5-9.
24. W. Thomson, "Putting Yukos in Perspective", 21 Post-Soviet Affairs 2005 No.2, 168-69.
25. P. Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin, New York 2000, 319.
26. M.I. Goldman in P. Desai, (ed.), "Roundtable on Russian Privatization", 15 Harriman Review 2004 No.1, 17.
27. M.I. Goldman, "Putin and the Oligarchs", 83 Foreign Affairs 2004 No.6, 33-44.
28. A. Jack, Inside Putin's Russia, Oxford, UK 2004, 213.
29. "Russian Oil: King Solomon's Pipes", The Economist 7 May 2005, 60.
30. "Special Report: The Khodorkovsky Case", The Economist 21 May 2005, 27.
31. Repeatedly during the Yukos affair, Russia drew criticism from the Council of Europe of which it is a member state. See Yukos Web Site, "The Case: Timeline of Events", 7 October 2004, 19 November 2004, 25 January 2005 and 16 May 2005. At a press conference in Washington, DC on 31 May 2005, President George Bush commented that it looked like Khodorkovsky "had been judged prior to having a fair trial".
32. Yukos Web Site, "The Case: Timeline of Events", 7 November 2003.
33. The New York Times on the Web (), 1 June 2005.
34. "Putin versus Khodorkovsky: 'Justice' Postponed", The Economist 30 April 2005.
35. "The Appeal of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev", Yukos Web Site, "The Trial: Trial Updates: Appeals", 29 September 2005, 2-3.
36. Mikhail Kasyanov, Yukos We bSite, "The Case: Timeline of Events", 19 May 2005.
37. For the Canadian lawyer Robert Amsterdam's expulsion, see "Khodorkovsky in European Appeal", BBC News: World Edition (), 23 September 2005.
38. Anthony Robinson in Prospect (UK), Johnson's Russia List 17 March 2005, #9093.
39. M. McFaul, N. Petrov and A. Ryabov, Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform, Washington, DC 2004, 297.
40. "Special Report: The Khodorkovsky Case", The Economist 21 May 2005, 27.
41. "Justice on Trial in Russia", The New York Times 19 April 2005, A20.
42. S. Kotkin, "What is to be done?", Financial Times 6 March 2004.
43. M.I. Goldman, "Putin and the Oligarchs', 83 Foreign Affairs 2004 No.6, 41.
44. "That Democracy is Not a Potato", RFE/RL Newsline, No.30, Part 1, 14 February 2005.
45. "Putin Denies Yukos Case is Politically Motivated", Interfax 21 November 2004.
46. "Yukos, Putin and the Oligarchs", The Economist 1 January 2005, 49.
47. A. Ostrovsky and K. Morrison, "Russia bars foreign-owned firms from key assets", Financial Times 10 February 2005.
48. Iu. Chaika, "Za edinoe pravovoe prostranstvo", Rossiiskaia iustitsiia 2004 No.2, 2.
49. V.G. Safonov, "Poniatie pravovogo nigilizma", Gosudarstvo i pravo 2004 No.12, 68.
50. A Putin aide stated in Izvestiia that a key aim of the Yukos affair was "to teach companies to pay their taxes", Johnson's Russia List 31 March 2005, #9108.
51. Except for the US and UK, Russia is the only major oil exporting country where the state does not hold a dominant position in the industry. See P. Lavelle, "What Does Putin Want?", 103 Current History 2004, 314.
52. See P.H. Solomon, Jr., "Threats of Judicial Counterreform in Putin's Russia", 13 Demokratizatsiya 2005 No.3, 325-345.