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The international arbitration court in Stockholm may force Russia to pay compensation to foreign companies which suffered losses over the Yukos affair, a business daily said on Monday

The Amsterdam Court of Appeals has ruled that it would not recognize the 2007 sale of Yukos Finance BV, a Dutch corporation, by Russian court-appointed receiver Eduard Rebgun. As a result, $800 million in cash assets remains in limbo.

The prosecution has reduced by 131 million tons the volume of oil that former Yukos oil major CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev are charged with stealing, a RIA Novosti correspondent said on Monday

The Russian state-controlled oil company Rosneft has paid Yukos Capital 12.9 billion rubles ($400 mln) in overdue debt, a company spokesman said on Monday.

For a year, Russia’s most famous prisoner, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, sat in a glass cage in a dingy, third-floor courtroom and listened while prosecutors sought to prolong his time behind bars by charging that he embezzled billions of dollars worth of oil.

Thousands of miles (kilometers) from the Siberian jail where its founder is imprisoned, representatives of the ruined Russian oil giant Yukos and the Russian government will meet face to face for the first time at the European Court of Human Rights this week.