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Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Burma, Robert Amsterdam, Rule of Law, International Law, Democracy, Iran, Due Process, Detainees, Aung San Suu Kyi, Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Human Rights, Courts, Political Prisoners, Justice, Asia, Yevgeny Zhovtis, China, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News
Robert Amsterdam

It's a crime against reality for us to carry on pretending that countries like Kazakhstan can hold fair trials.

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Russia Huffs and Puffs as the House Comes Down

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Robert Amsterdam, Kremlin, United States, Joe Biden, Cold War, Ukraine, Russia Georgia War, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Yukos, Natalia Estemirova, Viktor Yuschenko, Chechnya, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Farc, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News
Robert Amsterdam

By creating manageable confrontations with Europe, the U.S, and former Soviet states, the Kremlin is attempting to govern outwardly, diminishing pressures for greater domestic accountability.

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Russia's Rule of Law an Issue of Security

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Silvio Berlusconi, Robert Amsterdam, G8, Vladimir Putin, Italy, Iran, United States, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, China, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News
Robert Amsterdam

Washington showed up, laid its cards on the table, and treated Russia very seriously. Now the ball is in Kremlin's court to do the same.

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The Kremlin, the Oligarch, and 'The Thaw'

Brian Whitmore | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian Oligarchs, World News
Brian Whitmore

In a trial that begins today, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev are facing new charges of embezzling and laundering more than $20 billion.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky Trial Seen As Test For Medvedev

Themoscowtimes.com | By Nickolaus van Twickel | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian Economy, Russia Judicial System, Yukos, Platon Lebedev, President Dmitry Medvedev, Economic Crisis in Russia, World News

The second trial of former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which kicks off with preliminary hearings Tuesday, offers a test case of President Dmitry ...

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Double Jeopardy: Putin's Vengeful Miscarriage of Justice

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Yukos Oil, State Department Human Rights Report, Nato, Platon Lebedev, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

The trumped-up case against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is all too illustrative of the decay of democracy, due process, the rule of law and human rights that has occurred in Putin's Russia.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Anti-Putin Oil Tycoon, Gets New Trial

AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

Read More: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Yukos, Yukos Oil, Khodorkovsky Trial, Kremlin, The Kremlin, Platon Lebedev, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia, World News

MOSCOW — Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been transferred from his Siberian prison to Moscow for a new trial, a court official and l...

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