Putin only needed to jail one oligarch (Khodorkovsky) in order to intimidate all the rest.

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Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, who pre-empted the verdict by calling Mr Khodorkovsky a thief who belonged in jail, thought Russians would swallow it.

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