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“We started as robber barons, but you have to understand…” “As long as the tax regime is unjust, I will try to find a way round it”. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on December 18, 2001.

By David R. Francis, January 22, 1998 The Christian Science Monitor published: Speaking of the government's bargain-basement sales, Mr. Soros told the Second US-Russian Investment Symposium put on by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass., that, "The assets of the state were stolen. It was quite repulsive. I didn't want to have anything to do with it."

The Guardian, December 15, 2001 published: “The chief executive of the oil group Yukos is one of a handful of oligarchs or robber barons, according to their critics, who have gained greatly in the transition from communism to capitalism”.

By Timothy L. O'Brien, The New York Times, Nov. 5, 2003, published: ''The think tanks were all joking about who wanted to take money to fund the Mikhail Khodorkovsky chair of good corporate governance,'' Ms. Hill said. ''There were still questions about his business dealings and whether he really made the transition from being a robber baron and now wore a white hat.''

"The baron-robber in a white hat". $1 million for "the efforts of the USA focused on Russia". $500 thousand on "analysts". The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on November 5, 2001.

Khodorkovsky greased some palms in Washington and from “the tough guy” of the robber privatization turned to “a respectable corporate citizen”. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on September 24, 2002.

Trying to find traces of shares of the company “Apatit” in Yukos archive. The robber baron flew to a closed business party with participation of the head of the CIA. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on July 11, 2003.

Double-bottom audit. “The conclusion of “PriceWaterhouseCoopers” was knowingly false, hiding the circumstance of Yukos tax evasion”. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on December 19, 2006.

The website Prigovor.ru has found out that the finance swindler from the company Yukos has hired two well-known British filmmakers and has paid them 1 million British pounds for creating a yet another “documentary” anti-Russian gore.