Oil tycoon Mikhail
Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev are found guilty of corruption charges. The
trial, which began in March 2009, was the second for the two men. They are accused
of stealing billions of dollars' worth of oil from Yukos production
subsidiaries from 1998 to 2003.
In his final address to the court, Khodorkovsky made a last
impassioned appeal. "For me, as for anybody, it
is hard to live in jail, and I do not want to die there. But if I have
to, I will not hesitate. The things I believe in are worth dying for,"
he said. Read more here.
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