A Russian court rejected Tuesday an appeal from the embattled oil giant of Yukos against an earlier ruling that it should pay 97.2 billion Rubles Lrb 3.3 billion us dollars Rrb in back taxes for 2007 but decided to lower the tax demand by 97 million Rubles Lrb 3.7 million dollars Rrb.
Court orders Yukos to pay 3.3 billion dollars in back tax.