France has seized $700 million in Russian state assets at the initiative of former Yukos shareholders, according to the American Lawyer magazine citing a law firm representing former owners of the company broken up by the Russian government.
Politico: France seizes $1 billion in Russian state assets
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the recently freed former head of the Russian oil company Yukos, sits during the presentation of the German version of his book \"My Fellow Prisoners\" (Meine Mitgefangenen) at the Literaturhaus in Berlin, June 12, 2014.
