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The In Crowd

Jul 16 2008

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Car dealership
Former Yukos building
Inna Khodorkovsky
Oil refinery at night
Brightly lit building
Yacht festival
Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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The Mighty, Fallen
Amsterdam's client Mikhail Khodorkovsky, listening to the reading of his guilty verdict in May 2005. The former C.E.O. of Yukos was once the richest man in Russia.
New Money
High-end car dealerships in Moscow, which is awash in oligarch cash.
Out of Commission
A former Yukos building, in a Moscow suburb.
Jail Visit
Inna Khodorkovsky, on her way to visit her husband in jail in 2005.
Crude, Refined
A Yukos oil refinery, part of a sprawling complex that once made Russia the planet's biggest crude producer.
The New Russia
An advertisement for pricey jewelry on one of the capital's main shopping streets reaches out to Russia's newly rich.
The Yachting Life
A yacht festival near Moscow's Gorky Park signals the arrival of the entrepreneurial class to the formerly communist country.
Before the Trouble
Putin and Khodorkovsky in 2002.

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