A feature article from Agence France-Presse: Hidden from view, jailed Putin foe braces for trial Valerie Leroux Fri, 31 Aug 2007 In this sleepy city thousands of kilometres from Moscow a small band of activists and lawyers tries to keep alive supp...
The following is a press release from the Mikhail Khodorkovsky defense team: U.S. Magistrate agrees to Khodorkovsky request for discovery of Chevron — LONDON, August 31 – Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former CEO of Yukos, have announced ...
Remember how the Washington Post recently butted heads with the Russian Federation some weeks ago? Remember all those critical editorials over the past few years? Well it seems that the Kremlin got tired of all the negative press, and decided to s...
Here, available for the first time for the public, is a certified English-language translation of last week’s landmark ruling from the Swiss Federal Tribunal refusing mutual legal assistance on the grounds of human rights and political perse...
Breaking news from the Financial Times – Robert Amsterdam is quoted in the article: Khodorkovsky defence seeks Chevron subpoena By Catherine Belton in Moscow Defence lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky have filed suit in a US district court to ...
When I think back on my meetings and conversations with Anna Politkovskaya before my expulsion from Russia, I recall always being impressed by her stalwart resolve. Indeed, her fearlessness was well documented – including several interviews during...
From a new comment from analyst Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform: The trouble is that Europeans and Russians mean completely different things when they talk about reciprocity. The EU wants a mutually agreed legal framework to faci...
Sacha Kumaria, a senior adviser to the Center for Energy Studies at Cambridge University, has a very interesting column in the Wall Street Journal today which predicts a dark future for independent oil companies (IOCs) such as Exxon Mobil, Royal D...
From the Wall Street Journal editorial on Russia’s claim that the murder of Anna Politkovskaya was ordered from abroad by an opponent of the government: To be sure, Ms. Politkovskaya’s writing had made her enemies in far-flung places, ...
Tomorrow the FT will be running an article about a confidential working paper making its way around the European Commission which could attach a “reciprocity clause” for foreign investors, meaning that they will not be allowed to purch...
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