"We are talking about billions of dollars ... under different lawsuits. I think the amount of some claims may be equal to Yukos case,” the minister said. As reported, The Hague Court ordered Russia to pay $50 billion for seizing the assets of an oil giant Yukos previously controlled by mogul Mikhail Khodorkovsky who was jailed in 2005 by Russian authorities for eight years, and pardoned by president Vladimir Putin in December 2013.