Welcome to the Yukos Library

Learn more about the history and groundbreaking legal cases surrounding the Yukos Affair.

Yukos went from a struggling and unprofitable state-owned company in 1995 to an internationally respected success story only five years later.

However, Yukos’ success and independence attracted the attention of the Russian authorities, who decided to reassert control over the now-strategic asset. This was achieved not through nationalisation, but by simple expropriation.

It is widely acknowledged that the expropriation campaign carried out by the Russian authorities involved bogus tax reassessments, a rigged auction of shares, and sham bankruptcy proceedings.

The Yukos Library documents historic and often ground-breaking legal cases surrounding the Yukos Affair, including the current case before the European Court of Human Rights.

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