22 December 2015, 11:53 GMT
THE HAGUE (Sputnik) — Russia filed several appeals against the arbitration court's 2014 ruling, including with the Hague District Court.
Yukos, which used to be controlled by former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was declared bankrupt by Moscow's Court of Arbitration in 2006. State-run Rosneft subsequently purchased about 80 percent of the company's assets.
Former Yukos managers claim that Russian authorities illegally forced the company out of business in order to obtain its assets. An international arbitration court ruled in 2014 that Russia must pay $50 billion in damages for expropriating the Yukos assets. In June, France and Belgium froze Russian government assets, including bank accounts.
Russian Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov said in December that Russia had appealed the Hague court's decision in the Yukos case in as many as eight counties.
