THE HAGUE, APRIL 24^th, 2024 – Eighteen Russian state-owned Benelux trademarks, including those for the iconic vodka brands Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya, will be the subject of an auction on Monday June 17^th, 2024 in The Netherlands. The trademarks were seized by the former Yukos majority shareholders to enforce partially their more than $60 billion damages claim against the Russian Federation for the illegal, politically motivated expropriation of the Russian oil giant in 2003.