For quite some time we have carefully followed lawyer Boris Kuznetsov’s clash with Russia’s FSB as an emblematic case of the Kremlin’s war on lawyers and the independence of the judiciary. Since being granted political asylum in the United States, Kuznetsov continues to fight his case and point to the damaging impact on the justice system of having lawyers and judges afraid for their jobs in sensitive cases. There is a very interesting new article about this in U.S. News and World Report by Alistair Gee, which also makes mention of my experience and that of other Yukos lawyers. A few extracts follow after the jump.