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Kremlin Foe Denied Bid for Parole

Oil tycoon, Putin opponent remains in Siberian prison

By the Associated Press

Posted Aug 22, 2008 10:40 AM CDT

(AP) – A Russian court has rejected Mikhail Khodorkovsky's request for parole on Friday, ordering the jailed oil tycoon to serve out the remainder of his sentence in a ruling his lawyer called politically motivated. Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos oil company and once Russia's richest...   Read full story »

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