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Khodorkovsky announces bid for Russian parliament seat
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky [JURIST news archive, defense website], who is serving a nine-year prison sentence on fraud charges, officially announced his intention Wednesday to run for a Russian parliamentary seat . The election f (More) |
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Khodorkovsky ends prison hunger strike
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky [JURIST news archive; defense website] has ended his four-day hunger strike , his lawyer announced Friday. Khodorkovsky began the protest after his business partner and co-defendant Platon Lebedev was (More) |
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Russian prison official denies Khodorkovsky hunger strike
The director of Russia's federal penal service has denied reports made on Tuesday that Mikhail Khodorkovsky [JURIST news archive; defense website], the former CEO of oil company Yukos , has gone on a hunger strike to protest the move of his bus (More) |
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Khodorkovsky begins prison hunger strike
Jailed Russian oil tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky [JURIST news archives, defense website], announced in a statement Tuesday that he will go on a hunger strike in support of his jailed business partner, Platon Lebedev. Lebedev was placed in an isolati (More) |
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Khodorkovsky may run for Russian parliament from jail
Mikhail Khodorkovsky [JURIST news archives, trial website], the former head of Russian oil company Yukos who is currently serving a 9-year prison sentence for fraud and tax evasion, plans to run for the State Duma , the lower house of the Russian Pa (More) |
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Russian jail denies retribution against Khodorkovsky
Russian Federal Prisons Service director Yuri Kalinin said Wednesday that the transfer of former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to a larger cell with more inmates was "normal prison procedure" and not a form of punishment. Lawyers for Kh (More) |
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Russia demands extradition of former Yukos executive
Russia has demanded the extradition from the United States of Leonid Nevzlin [2003 Forbes profile], a former Yukos executive and majority shareholder accused of ordering murders. Nevzlin now lives in exile in Israel, but was in the US Wednesday to (More) |
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UPDATE ~ No new charges filed against Khodorkovsky
Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced Thursday after a meeting with prosecutors in Moscow that no new charges had been filed against the former Yukos CEO. Earlier, local media had reported that new money laundering charges were going to be ann (More) |
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Khodorkovsky to be charged with money laundering
Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky [JURIST news archive, Khodorovsky defense website] will face new charges of money laundering Thursday along with his partner Platon Lebedev. Lawyers for Khodorovsky say they have no idea what specific charges wi (More) |
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Khodorkovsky lawyers appeal conviction
Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky , former CEO of Russian oil firm Yukos , appealed his conviction on tax evasion and fraud charges Thursday to the Moscow City Court. Khodorkovsky was sentenced to nine years in prison on May 31 after a marathon twe (More) |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying
On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Learn more about the Rosenberg trial.
