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Moscow court issues arrest warrant for New York Yukos lawyer
A district court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for Yukos lawyer Pavel Ivlev on charges of embezzlement, tax evasion and money laundering. Ivlev, a New York-based lawyer for the firm ALM Feldmans , worked for Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Kho (More) |
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Former Yukos manager gets 14-year prison sentence for embezzlement
Alexei Kurtsin, former manager at Yukos-Moskva - the financial and management center for Russian oil company Yukos , was convicted on Thursday of embezzling and laundering funds and sentenced to 14 years in maximum-security prison. Kurtsin's se (More) |
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Russian prison officials denying access to Khodorkovsky lawyers
Prison officials at Russia's Krasnokamensk penitentiary, which is holding jailed oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky [advocacy profile; JURIST news archive], is deliberately hampering the work of his defense lawyers, according to a statement Tue (More) |
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Khodorkovsky promises to keep fighting Kremlin from prison
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky [MosNews profile; JURIST news archive] issued a statement on his defense website Thursday criticizing the Russian government and vowing to keep his case in the news: hoping that Khodorkovsky will soon (More) |
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Russian human rights activists demand Khodorkovsky transfer from Siberia
A Russian NGO said Monday that a group of Russian human rights activists have urged Russian ombudsman Vladimir Lukin to work to secure the transfer of jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky [MosNews profile; JURIST news archive] and his bus (More) |
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Khodorkovsky lawyers cleared of ethics charges
The Moscow Bar Association reported Friday that it had found no evidence to disbar three lawyers on the defense team of jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky . On September 23 the Russian Prosecutor General's office requested that eight (More) |
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West ignoring Russian rule of law breakdown, expelled Khodorkovsky lawyer says
Robert Amsterdam , international defense counsel for jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky , says that Western governments are turning a blind eye to the deteriorating rule of law in Russia exemplified by his client's prosecution and re (More) |
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A Wake-up Call: Khodorkovsky and the Rule of Law in Russia
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for Russian billionaire and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, recently imprisoned for tax fraud after a long and politically-controversial trial, says his client' (More) |
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Khodorkovsky, associate sent to remote prisons for jail terms
Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive] and his business partner Platon Lebedev have reportedly been sent to remote prisons in Siberia and the far north of the country to serve eight-year sentences afte (More) |
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Lebedev lawyers ask for client location, documents on possible charges
Lawyers for Platon Lebedev, business partner of jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky , said Thursday that they have asked the Russian General Prosecutor's Office for information on the whereabouts of their client and have also requeste (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
