考虑到把尤科斯的资产转给国内私营企业主（即垄断财阀）存在明显的政治障碍，而转给外国投资者又涉及法律及国家声誉问题，对尤科斯资产的国有化或许仅仅反映出：除了政府并没有其它买主。
Even the nationalization of Yukos’s assets may reflect little more than the absence of alternative buyers, given the obvious political obstacle passing those assets on to other domestic private-sector players (i.e., oligarchs), and the legal and reputational barriers to foreign investors.