As if Vladimir Putin didn’t have enough to worry about,
an international tribunal has now ordered him to pay $50 billion in damages to the former owners of OAO Yukos, saying that his courts illegally expropriated them.
The ruling is one of the biggest ever against a sovereign state and threatens to inflame tensions between Russia and Europe still further, coming at a time when the Ukraine crisis and the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 have already driven relations to their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.
*This compensation will come from the state budget.
http://fortune.com/2014/07/28/new-he...rs-50-billion/
