六、国别篇 The Game Goes on Even by the rarified st andards of london society, it was an extraordinary event. To introduce h is Open Russia Foun dation, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, then the 38-year-oldL165 chair man and pr incipal owner of Russia s second-largest oil firm, Yukos, had assem b led the cream of britain s power elite from BP CEO Joh n Browne to former foreign secretary Douglas Hurd. As the high-powered crowd sip ped champagne, Jacob Rothschild, a board member of the charity, hailed Khodorkovsky as a modern-day Andrew Carnegie, a J. P Morgan, even a John D. Rockefeller The young Russian was flattered. and who wouldn t be those were icons of robber baron capitalism who had bought respecta bility in America Two years later, Russia s richest man sits in a Mosc ow jail his Yukos shares ap parently frozen by Russia s state prosecut or Yukos says he is the victim of an illegal political cam paign waged by Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Khodorkovsky clearly provoked a power struggle, finan cing opp osition can didates and successfully lobbying against Putin s plan to hike oil taxes. Having built Yukos through takeovers