The Financial Times is carrying a story today on the situation of Vasily Alexanyan, the former Yukos general counsel who has been denied urgent medical care while in Russian custody. This blog first reported the story here and here.

Yukos official ‘could die in prison’ By Catherine Belton in Moscow, Financial Times Lawyers acting for a jailed senior Yukos official say their client could die in prison after Russian officials three times failed to act on a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that he receive immediate medical treatment at a specialised clinic.