Grigory Pasko: The Five Year Prison Plan

By Grigory Pasko | Published: October 26, 2008

Five-year plan in prison On 25 October of the year 2003 Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. On 27 October of the year 2005 the press-center of the lawyers of Mikhail Khodorkovsky issued a statement from Mikhail Khodorkovsky (in Russian and English). […]

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On the Karinna Moskalenko Situation

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: October 25, 2008

I have been receiving questions from several friends, colleagues, and a few reporters regarding the situation of Karinna Moskalenko. As many of you recall, Karinna discovered what looked like mercury pellets in her car on Sunday, Oct. 12. That week she and her children fell ill. Karinna was worried they may have been poisoned. She […]

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WSJ: Putin’s Prisoner

By James Kimer | Published:

From the Wall Street Journal editorial page: Putin’s Prisoner Khodorkovsky dared entertain political ambition. Five years to the day after his arrest and incarceration in a Siberian prison camp, former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky might have a rueful reason to smile. The ruble is at a two-year low, the Russian stock market is down 70% […]

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Letter to the Telegraph: Democracy in Singapore

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Robert Amsterdam has a letter published in today’s Telegraph on the Singapore case. Democracy in Singapore Sir – This week, the Singaporean opposition party leader Dr Chee Soon Juan and 17 others are standing trial on unlawful assembly charges, which are likely to result in punitive prison sentences. These charges are unconstitutional, given the right […]

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Gazprom’s Failure to Pay for a Theft

By James Kimer | Published: October 24, 2008

RA is quoted by the AmLaw Daily blog with regard to the break up of the TNK-BP and Gazprom deal to acquire a share in the Kovykta field. “It’s apparent that BP made a vast miscalculation in dealing with the Kremlin,” says Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Peroff, a frequent Kremlin critic and follower of […]

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Singapore’s Hero of Free Speech

By Robert Amsterdam | Published:

As noted, the Singaporean opposition leader Dr. Chee Soon Juan is appearing before court this week to fight preposterously trumped up charges of having participated in a protest without a permit – only the latest in a series of ruinous lawsuits and legal actions aimed at depriving him and his political party of their constitutionally […]

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Something We Would Never Hear from Putin

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The headlines are awash today with the dramatic quotes from the former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan, who in simple and unequivocal language directly assumed some responsibility for the current financial crisis: “I made a mistake.” It takes a big man to admit he is wrong, and I think it is commendable to see […]

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Oleg Kozlovsky in New York

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Last night I attended the Human Rights First 30th annual award dinner in New York City, where I had the opportunity to meet with the admirable Russian civil society leader Oleg Kozlovsky – a brave young man who is well known to my regular readers. As previously reported here, Kozlovsky was in town to receive […]

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Indict Stalin

By Robert Amsterdam | Published:

It would be immeasurably beneficial to Russia’s future, painful though it may be, if they could ever get around to doing something like this.

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Putin’s Reality Check

By James Kimer | Published:

It was another rough day for Russian markets, as the RTS slumped 14 percent to 549.43 and the Micex down to to 513.62, which is the tenth consecutive weekly decline. Our devaluation prediction from Sunday did not pan out, but it certainly feels close. Anders Aslund explains why in the St. Petersburg Times: Putin is […]

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