Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Can Enlightenment Come to Russia?

Katrina Lantos Swett | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Sergei Magnitsky, Russia, Khodorkovsky Trial, Russia Justice, Russia Reform, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Russia Protests, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Video, World News

There is renewed hope that Mikhail Khodorkovsky may one day breathe the air of freedom. And yet, the bizarre posthumous trial of Sergei Magnitsky, is a chilling reminder that the Russian winter is by no means over.

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Putin Behind Bars

Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Putin Jail, Vladimir Putin Jail, Video, Khodorkovsky Trial, Vladimir Putin Video, Khodorkovsky-Trial, Putin Video, Vladimir Putin Jail Video, Vladimir Putin, Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News

"Only three hours ago, we received new information about the former Prime Minister, who has been taken under escort to Hamovnichesky Court..." The ...

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The Cinema of Liberty: The Top 10 Pro-Freedom Films of 2011

Govindini Murty | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: The Artist, Hugo Martin Scorsese, Zhao Liang, The Way Back, Peter Weir, The Lady, Aung San Suu Kyi, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Help, Midnight in Paris, Jafar-Panahi-This-Is-Not-a-Film, The Red Chapel, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, 5 Days of War, Luc Besson, Jafar Panahi, Battle: Los Angeles, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Werner Herzog, Woody Allen, Lee Tamahori, The Devil's Double, Michael Bay, Jonathan-Liebesman, Michelle Yeoh, Mads Brugger, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Tate Taylor, Shia LaBeouf, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Best Films of 2011, Culture News

It is greatly worthwhile to celebrate the notable movies of 2011 that took the risk of advocating for democratic freedom, the political principle that makes so much film artistry possible.

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Bogus Crimes? Khodorkovsky Case At Crossroads, As Russian Politics Heats Up

Worldcrunch | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News

The criminal case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former head oil giant Yukos, is again stirring Russia's legal and political establishment. The P...

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Putin Challenger Vows To Pardon Jailed Russian Tycoon

AP | By NATALIYA VASILYEVA | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Mikhail Prokhorov Billionaire, Putin Challenger, Mikhail Khodorkovsky Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky Jail, Mikhail Prokhorov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky Pardon, Vladimir Putin, Russia Protests, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia Elections, World News

MOSCOW -- The Russian billionaire who plans to challenge Vladimir Putin in Russia's presidential election said Thursday that his first move if elected...

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A Prison Call For Reform In Russia From Kremlin Foe Khodorkovsky

Worldcrunch | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News

Serving a 13-year sentence for fraud, Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a symbol for Russians seeking real democratic reforms. In this open letter from his pris...

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Ex-Con Says He Was Forced To Attack Jailed Russian Tycoon

AP | By MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Russia, Alexander Kuchma, Mikhail Khodorkovsky Prison Attack, Alexander Kuchma Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News

MOSCOW -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky's former cellmate told a Russian online publication Monday that prison authorities forced him through beatings and tort...

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Judge Read Khodorkovsky Verdict Against His Will, Assistant Says

AP | LYNN BERRY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Khodorkovsky Verdict, Vladimir Putin, Khodorokovsky Trial, Human Rights, Viktor Danilkin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Natalya Vasilyeva, Business News

MOSCOW — The judge who convicted oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky did not write the verdict and read it against his will in the Moscow courtroom,...

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Media McDonalds: The Mental Starvation of Americans Fat on Junk Food News & Media

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Ray Kroc, Roger Ailes, Wall Street Journal, Steve Martin, Mcdonalds, Laurent Gbagbo, Sean Hannity, Szeto Wah, Snooki, Punch Brothers, Wsj, Rupert Murdoch, New York Times, Fox News, Joe Bonamassa, Youtube, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, David Letterman, First Amendment, Anderson Cooper, Freedom of the Press, Net Neutrality, Internet, Pbs, Npr, Cbs, CBS News, Abc, Nbc, Cnn, Media News

OPINION - Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and Fox TV is to the media business what Ray Kroc, McDonalds founder, was to the restaurant biz: A purveyo...

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Khodorkovsky Case

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Political Cartoons, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Politics News

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Bradley Manning: Political Prisoner?

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Classified Information, Andrei Sakharov, Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, David Remnick, Elena Bonner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Politics News

Given the disclosures that appear in Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars, the administration's highly selective approach to leaking and the treatment of Bradley Manning leaves little doubt that Manning is a political prisoner.

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Khodorkovsky Gives Moving Speech Lamenting Fate Of Russia And Criticizing Putin During Sham Trial

The New York Times | JOE NOCERA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Yukos Oil, Putin, Khodorkovsky-Trial, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News

I wish I had enough space to reprint in its entirety Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky's closing statement, as his latest sham trial in Russia came to an end ea...

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Imagine That! Putin Might Not Be So Pure After All.

Matvey Ganapolskiy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Russia, Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, Russian-Opposition, Marina Salye, Anatoly Sobchak, Dmitry Medvedev, Oil, Gazprom, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Gennady Timchenko, Surgutneftegas, Gunvor, World News

The opposition has legitimate grounds for suspicion: If Putin is so indifferent to worldly possessions, why is practically every key economic post filled by one of his pals?

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Ukrainology and Russia's Pyrric Victory

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 02.11.2010

Read More: Russia, John McCain, Viktor Yanukovych, Yushchenko, Robert Amsterdam, Kremlin, Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Ukraine Election, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Kiev, Sergei Storchak, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Nina Khrushcheva, World News

Russian political groups have just gained a tremendous amount of expertise in financing and managing election campaigns. This developed skill may one day be brought to use closer to home.

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Putin's Big Lie About Khodorkovsky

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Russia, Law, Sergei Magnitsky, Vladislav Surkov, Robert Amsterdam, Rule of Law, Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Business, Dmitry Medvedev, Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Blood Libel, World News

Blood libel is Putin's Big Lie, and it is the ultimate mendacious recourse that the Kremlin falls back upon in times of desperation.

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Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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

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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Mikhail Khodorkovsky Trial Seen As Test For Medvedev

Themoscowtimes.com | By Nickolaus van Twickel | Posted 05.25.2011

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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The Kremlin, the Oligarch, and 'The Thaw'

Brian Whitmore | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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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Double Jeopardy: Putin's Vengeful Miscarriage of Justice

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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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