March 15, 2010 By James Kimer

Khodorkovsky and the Legal Battlefield

Kim Zigfield (also known as La Russophobe) has a new blog post about Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta article and the Yukos ECHR case as being two fronts of a legal battle against Putinism, published on PajamasMedia:

Make no mistake: If the ECHR determines that Russia, a signatory to its treaty, violated basic international law when it stripped Khodorkovsky and his fellow shareholders of their property rights in YUKOS, it can order that property restored. And if the Kremlin won’t pay?  The ECHR can order the seizure of Russian assets throughout Europe, and there are plenty of them available for seizure.