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.
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...
Paolo Scaroni of Eni said that the company had no plans to sell their acquired stake in Gazprom Neft. We suggested that they may have been goaded into doing some “asset laundering” – becoming the first foreign company to bu...
The following statement was delivered in court today by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Some media coverage can be read here. To the Khamovnichesky District Court of the city of Moscow To Federal Judge V.N. Danilkin From M.B. Khodorkovsky STATEMENT I ...
During the Tuesday hearings at the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Moscow, we are expecting for the defendant to make a few major announcements of urgent importance to the news media following this case. I will share the complete statement...
File this one under foregone conclusions, but a new transparency, anti-corruption push from the Russian president has revealed that he is actually paid less than his subordinate, the prime minister. Is this scandalous? Not really ̷...
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