The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) finds the sentence "too lenient", while the reform party Yabloko views it as an act of public intimidation.
"The Yukos culprits are never to leave jail," LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, currently in Belarussian capital Minsk, said.
True to his trademark off-hand verbiage, he described people involved in the Yukos case as "swindling scoundrels and machinating financiers." "They have pumped huge money out of their country," said Zhirinovsky as he spoke up for the harshest possible action on them.
The suspects will be sentenced for life if only judicial investigation on the controversial petroleum giant goes on, he said.
Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky, on the contrary, views the sentence as an "act of intimidation".
"The court proceedings explicitly showed that Russian justice was an instrument not of the law but of getting political ends and redistributing property. It proved there was no independent judiciary in Russia," he said.
Just as Zhirinovsky, Yavlinsky is determined to demand the case reconsidered. His purpose is contrary to the Liberal Democratic leader's - he wants to demonstrate that the case was a frame-up, with a biased and politically engaged court.
"The violated procedure, the atmosphere of illegality the prosecution had created, the selective application of laws, the bias and spirit of personal revenge. All that has fully undermined confidence in the court of law for a just and substantiated verdict," the Yabloko leader said.
