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You can't take his life, or the lives of his loved ones, because those are all well protected by the state.
The only thing Putin values that could be taken from him by others is his reputation as a world leader.
I'm not saying this is what happened, but if I were Jane Tennyson assigned to solve this case, I would take this into consideration.
There is at least one man in Russia who hates him that much, and he used to be the head of Yukos Oil but now thanks to Putin he's just another prisoner in one of the worst labor camps in Russia.
Khodorkovsky wants to run for President, but he won't get out in time for the 2008 election, and maybe not 2012.
He appealed own sentence, but the appeal was turned down in March. That must have made him feel quite desperate.
Most Americans think of Khodorkovsky as a law-abiding businessman screwed over by Putin.
However, the security chief of Yukos Oil, Aleksey Pichugin, is now serving 20 years for murdering a couple in 2002, and for the attempted murder of a government official and the manager of another big business.
