The most important court trial in modern Russian history has drawn to an end. It is widely believed that by finding former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev guilty of embezzlement, the judge has ruled on something much more important than the fate of two defendants.
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Note: Update record,27 December 2010 Last updated at 14:14 GMT