Khodorkovsky: US Won't Help Yukos

A US bankruptcy judge on Thursday issued a temporary injunction prohibiting the forced auction sale of Yukos' main production subsidiary Yuganskneftegaz.

However, Moscow Court of Arbitration official called US Court?s issue a "nonsense of no legal consequence,? and Russian analysts suppose that the auction nevertheless will probably go ahead.

"Russia does not have any accords with the United States that would allow one side even theoretically to influence such processes on the territory of the other," said an unnamed official with the Moscow Court.

Former Yukos head, jailed Mikhail Khodorkovsky, said Thursday that the bankruptcy filing in the US will not help Yukos shareholders and he is "grieved by this turn of events."