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| | TIME Europe Magazine: Too Close for Comfort -- Dec. 08, 2003 |
 | | Putin's nervousness is strange, because his popularity has skyrocketed to 82% since the October arrest of oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky the Russian public loves it when a billionaire gets his comeuppance. |
 | | They are delighted too by the assault on Khodorkovsky's company, Yukos last week Sibneft, another major Russian oil firm, announced that its merger with Yukos was on hold. |
 | | Because the Yukos affair has destroyed the balance of power between the associates of former President Boris Yeltsin known as the Family and the siloviki, the law- enforcement and security officials who are close to Putin. |
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