Russia President Medvedev admits jailed lawyer was beaten to death
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in pre-trial was the result of criminal acts, differing from the previous explanation that had blamed prison doctors. Medvedev was presented...
Russia panel finds no proof of undue pressure on Khodorkovsky judge
The Russian Investigative Committee said Tuesday there is no evidence of undue pressure by superiors on the judge that sentenced former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky . One of Khodorkovsky's main...
Khodorkovsky reissues parole request after court refused it for insufficient documentation
Former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Tuesday reissued an appeal for release on parole that was returned to him due to insufficient documentation. Khodorkovsky has served half of a 13-year...
ECHR finds insufficient proof Khodorkovsky prosecution was politically motivated
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday found that former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky did not prove his prosecution for tax evasion and fraud were politically motivated...
Russia appeals court upholds Khodorkovsky conviction, reduces sentence
The Moscow City Court on Tuesday upheld the second fraud convictions of former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon...
Lawyer for former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Tuesday appealed his December conviction and requested that an Investigative Committee open a probe against Judge Viktor...
Russian Judge Viktor Danilkin, who convicted former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky of money-laundering and embezzlement in December, did not write the verdict and was coerced into reading it [interview text,...
Political motivations drove guilty verdict of second Khodorkovsky case
Olga Khvostunova : "On the last days of December 2010 the guilty verdict in the second case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oil tycoon, was announced at the Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow. For the second time...
Russia presidential rights council to examine Khodorkovsky verdict
Russia's Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights will look into the verdicts handed down against former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev . During a recent...
Russia former deputy PM sentenced to 15 days in jail over New Year's rally
Liberal Russian political activist and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov was sentenced Sunday to 15 days in jail for his part in an unauthorized protest march in Moscow on December 31. Nemtsov,...
