Will Russia Stay a Capitalist State?

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Why is Khodorkovsky under arrest? The billionaire businessman has been arrested on charges of fraud and tax evasion following eight separate investigations into the activities of Yukos, the oil company he controls. He now joins two other Yukos executives already in prison on related charges. President Putin insists the arrests reflect the normal functioning of the criminal justice system and that all three men will be released if innocent. But few doubt that Yukos is being singled out for political reasons; in particular, for Khodorkovsky's refusal to honour a deal made between him and Russia's other corporate oligarchs' and Putin that they would stay out of politics.

Why did Putin do this deal?

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