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RUSSIA: Political Tussle Looms Over Private R&D Center
Vladimir Pokrovsky and Andrey Allakhverdov
MOSCOW--When Russia's leading oil company, Yukos, opened the country's first private academic research institute in Moscow last month, the head of Yukos was in jail, and Yukos's business plans were uncertain.