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Khodorkovsky: out sooner, but still fighting

Dec 20, 2012 3:04pm by Isabel Gorst
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Former Yukos oil company chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky stands in the defendant's glass cage in a Moscow courtroom on November 2, 2010. Mikhail Khodorkovsky could walk free in 2014 following a decision by a Moscow court to reduce the tycoon’s jail sentence by two years. But Russia’s most famous prisoner is not going to kowtow to the authorities and thank the judiciary for any favours. As far as he’s concerned the charges against him are trumped up and he should not be in jail at all.

At the end of a lengthy appeals process, a Moscow court upheld the guilty verdict handed down at the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2010, but reduced the sentence by two years citing amendments to Russian law. Continue reading »

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Russia: Pussy Riot and the investor

Aug 17, 2012 5:28pm by Stefan Wagstyl
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On the face of it, there would appear to be little reason why foreign investors should worry much about Russia’s Pussy Riot court case.

So what if three young female punks have been jailed for two years, as they were on Friday, for hooliganism after a noisy performance in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral? After all, there are many western countries where such a provocative public display would also result in prosecution.

But that is to misunderstand Russia. In fact, the case should give even the most hard-headed international business people pause for thought. Continue reading »

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