Vasily Aleksanian former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyer, is seen in a Moscow court during preliminary hearings for his trial on embezzlement, money-laundering and tax evasion in Moscow, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008. Aleksanian is the latest executive from Yukos to go on trial in the continuing criminal prosecution of officials from the company that was once Russia's largest oil producer. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

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