Russia Blog reported in July about the purchase of Sibneft by Gazprom. It happened on September 28th, 2005. Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich sold his assets, that he had appropriated in early 1990-s, for $13,1 billion. Now Roman can enjoy running his personal British Soccer Club and residing in London, UK. Russian taxpayers will cover the Kremlin decision to retire the young billionaire with the pension that he never earned.

While Mr. Abramovich is enjoying the happy side of Russian corruption and "democracy" Putin-style, Mr. Khodorkovsky was condemned to spend an additional 8 years in prison for building the most successful Russian business ever known and speaking out against his government.