Bob Amsterdam – Defense Attorney for Mikhail Khodorkovsky

President Dmitri A. Medvedev ordered Russia’s prosecutor general on Monday to verify the legality of the conviction of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky.

President Dmitri A. Medvedev ordered Russia’s prosecutor general on Monday to verify the legality of the conviction of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky.

A close circle of friends, relatives, associates, colleagues from the security services and longtime advisers have grown fabulously wealthy during Vladimir V. Putin’s 12 years as Russia’s paramount leader.

Vasily G. Aleksanyan, a Yukos executive and lawyer who was swept up in the politically tinged prosecution of the Yukos oil empire, died at his home in Moscow on Monday, news outlets reported.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia had violated the rights of Yukos Oil representatives to a fair trial, but failed to find evidence that Russian authorities had intentionally misused legal proceedings to bankrupt and dismantle the company.

What Putin & Friends want, Putin & Friends get. Just look at the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.

From his prison cell, Mikhail Khodorkovsky replies to questions sent from the West.

Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, once head of a Russian oil company, responded to written questions from four European newspapers.

The Kremlin’s continued persecution of the Russian tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky is connected to the damaged investment climate in the country.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky has become, in the Putin era, a courageous dissident standing up to an authoritarian regime.