LONDON, August 6 (RIA Novosti's Alexander Smotrov) - In today's session, the Moscow Arbitration Court considered a suit of the controversial Yukos petroleum mammoth, and qualified as illegal a move on which bailiffs had arrested the Yukos block of Yuganskneftegas shares.
The hopeful verdict, however, had no influence on the London stock exchange. Yukos deposited stock rates remained the same, 16.30, Greenwich mean time-19.30, Moscow time-as half an hour before, when the verdict had not been announced yet. It is now US$15.10-90 cents below yesterday's closing time.
Russian-based exchanges had closed before the Moscow verdict became public, and so could offer no response.
