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Yukos shareholders sue Russia for $100 billion

January 3, 2008

Disgruntled Yukos shareholders are to push for international arbitration. They claim the Russian government acted illegally, and owes them up to $100 billion

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Interview with Khodorkovsky’s cellmate

March 9, 2007

Robert Amsterdam posts an interview with one of the men who has shared a cell with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Here’s a snippet from the author’s introduction:
They wouldn’t put just anybody in the same cell as THIS jailbird. No, they would place a “brood hen” – a specially trained prisoner-informant. The “brood hen’s” job is to [...]

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Khodorkovsky releases statement

February 7, 2007

Mikhail Khodorkovsky has released a statement from jail on the new charges of embezzlement that he now faces.  Essentially, Siberia’s most famous jailbird seems to have decided that he has nothing left to play with but his martyr card:
My task in the upcoming process is to demonstrate by my own example that current Russia is [...]

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Khodorkovsky faces more charges

February 6, 2007

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev were charged yesterday with the additional offence of embezzlement of $25 billion.
I’ll say that again – embezzlement of $25 billion.
Now, how on earth does a man who, at the hight of his riches was worth a mere $15 billion, manage to steal that kind of money? To [...]

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“Khodorkovksy content with choice of prison”

October 25, 2005

“Khodorkovsky content with choice of prison” reads the interfax.ru headline.
Khodorkovsky posted a statement on his official website on Tuesday to “thank” the authorities for sending him “to a land of political prisoners, convicts and the Decembrists [participants in the 1825 uprising in Imperial Russia].”
Somehow, I don’t think the wonderful facilities are the reason for [...]

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Khodorkovsky sent to prison in Siberia, plans to complete PhD

October 24, 2005

Following his sentencing, ex-Yukos boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been sent to a jail in Siberia – YaG-14/10 to be precise, which is near Chita. His co-defendant, Platon Lebedev has been sent to a prison in the Arctic region of Yamalo-Nenets, 2,000 km north of Moscow.
There is some concern about the legality of these [...]

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State Duma Seat #201

October 5, 2005

Now that Mikhail Khodorkovsky is no longer eligible to stand for Russian Duma Seat #201, it looks like the race is wide open. Which means, of course, that candidates are popping out of the woodwork left, right, and centre (not to mention a few other interesting locations):
Renowned satirist Viktor Shenderovich [...]

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Khodorkovsky roundup

September 15, 2005

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Yukos boss and now full-time jailbird, has been pretty busy over the past couple of weeks.  Yesterday saw the beginning of an appeal against his conviction for tax fraud and, predictably, the day ended in farce. 
Cast your minds back to the original trial, earlier this year, and you’ll remember the [...]

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Khodorkovsky eats like a king

August 25, 2005

The Federal Prison Service, in perhaps the most blatantly stupid comment ever, have claimed that Mikhail Khodorkovsky is most definitely not on hunger strike.  In fact, if the prison authorities are to be believed, Khodorkovsky is eating like a king:
Prison authorities denied on Wednesday that jailed former Yukos CEO
Mikhail Khodorkovsky had gone on a hunger [...]

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Khodorkovsky on dry hunger strike

August 23, 2005

News is beginning to break that Mikhail Khodorkovsky is on a dry hunger strike – he is refusing all food and water – in support of his jailed colleague Platon Lebedev.  Lebedev, who is thought to be ill, was placed into solitary confinement last week after allegedly refusing to take his daily walk.
The BBC quotes [...]

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Khodorkovsky to run for Duma? We still don’t know

August 23, 2005

After a quiet week, another hint comes from the Khodorkovsky camp that he might run for a seat in the Duma:
MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sentenced to nine years in prison for tax evasion and fraud, is contemplating running for parliament, his defense lawyer Yuri Schmidt said Tuesday.
Schmidt said [...]

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More on Khodorkovsky “will he won’t he?”

August 11, 2005

Lyndon has been writing more about Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and the speculation over whether he will – indeed, whether he can – run for a seat on the State Duma.  Lyndon’s opinion is that he won’t be allowed to run, but hopes that he does:

If they [the authorities] use clumsy enough methods (and based on the [...]

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Khodorkovsky to stand for election?

August 10, 2005

Jailed Yukos boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky has announced that he is considering standing for election to the State Duma in an upcoming by-election.
"I  am absolutely confident that they will not allow me to run. But if I receive  letters from people whose opinions are important for me, I will agree,  even  being  aware of the fact [...]

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Happy Birthday Mikhail…

June 24, 2005

As there will be no Amnesty International letter-writing campaign to secure Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s release, his supporters have decided to start their own campaign to mark Khodorkovsky’s 42nd birthday on Sunday (his second in prison).  A website has been set up where you can write a birthday greeting for Khodorkovsky, and they promise that all messages [...]

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Khodorkovsky & Lebedev sentenced to nine years

May 31, 2005

Two weeks was all it took for a Russian court to say what we had known they would say all along – that Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev are guilty. 
They’ve been sentenced to nine years each, only slightly less than the 10 year sentences that the prosecution had requested.  The third defendant, Andrei Krainov [...]

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