Today in Moscow, the judge apparently found the former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty in his second trial, according to the reports by Russian news agencies. However, the judge, Victor Danilkin, requested all media to leave the court room before the verdict has been formally announced.

A special edition of Russia! will hit bookstores on Dec. 1. Its cover story is the seizure of the Lenta retail chain by the U.S. fund TPG Capital and VTB, a major Russian bank.