The following interview with Robert Amsterdam on the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky was published on Monday on page six of El País, Spain’s largest national daily newspaper. Interview: Robert Amsterdam, international legal counsel to Mikhail ...
From today’s Washington Post: Defense lawyers and legal experts call the case against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev absurd. Although the men were convicted of tax fraud related to the profits of their oil company, Yukos, they are now charged R...
Cathy Young published this opinion piece about the attack on Lev Ponomarev last week, and today it is being carried by the International Herald Tribune. Ponomarev, 67, was assaulted by three men outside his apartment building in Moscow and suffere...
The New York Times has a story today about how how the protesting student movement of Moldova is using social media to get their message out. Check out this feed for updates.
‘We are not only strengthening the energy security of our countries but also of the entire European continent’, said Vladimir Putin on the energy deals agreed between Italy and Russia, including Gazprom buying back a 20% share in Italy...
During the Italian business mission to Russia, Italian defense enterprise Finmeccanica bought 25% of jet-maker Sukhoi’s civil aviation unit. Russia’s corporate debt stood at $423 billion on April 1, showing a drop of $30 billion....
TODAY: Response to North Korea should be measured, says Lavrov; Swiss authorities investigate Viktor Vekselberg; Sibir Energy launches lawsuit; Khodorkovsky urges Kremlin to keep promise on judiciary; local activism just a PR stunt? ‘Hasty c...
As the reports roll in of the bullets and bloodshed on the streets of Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, increasing scrutiny will begin to be applied to Russia’s interventionist position in the country’s politics, which some say could f...
From the Moscow Times: Khodorkovsky said Tuesday that he has been “deprived of my right to know what I am being accused of,” saying investigators wrote the charges in an unclear form. Prosecutor Valery Lakhtin disagreed. “We know...
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