MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's top court on Wednesday ruled that a 2003 decision to arrest the business partner of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was illegal, paving the way for a wider legal challenge to the politically charged case.
In a rare Russian legal victory for the owners of what was once one of the country's biggest industrial empires, the Supreme Court overturned a decision from July 2003 to issue an arrest warrant for business partner Platon Lebedev.
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